As Bergen County law-enforcement officials continued their investigation of an elementary school principal accused of molesting pupils, Elmwood Park educators began scheduling counseling sessions for children and meetings with parents.
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A man who was freed on bail after his arrest on drug charges in Little Ferry last week has been rearrested on a more serious charge of operating a drug facility.
North Bergen police Tuesday charged a Plainfield youth and issued a warrant for the arrest of a 27-year-old Jersey City man in connection with a fatal collision that police now say was the result of drag racing.
A dispute between a Bloomfield coach and a Clifton football player boiled over Saturday into a melee between players at a game between the freshman teams from the two communities high schools, according to witnesses.
The director of the Bergen County Police and Fire Academy, injured in an accident last week when he lost control of his van and was broadsided by a truck, remained in critical condition at The Valley Hospital Wednesday, a hospital spokeswoman said.
A borough police officer was injured Monday evening when a suspect he was chasing allegedly slammed the door of a house on his elbow, police said. Anthony Masucci of San Francisco was charged with aggravated assault, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct, and was released on $6,000 bail, said Cliffside Park Detective Sgt. Donald Umland.
Englewood Cliffs police have arrested a Queens, N.Y., couple they suspect of belonging to a group of Soviet emigres who steal designer sunglasses in the United States to sell on Russian black markets.
A man suffered multiple trauma after he was struck by a Hackensack police car as he crossed Essex Street in the city early Saturday.
Saying he was fleeing an attacker, the driver of a pickup truck drove the wrong way struck a police car that was answering an emergency call.