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Three new Fair Lawn police officers sworn in
SHOUT OUTS: Three Fair Lawn natives are the newest additions to the borough police department. Tiller Uriarte, 38, is a 1997 graduate of Union Hill High School in Union City who began his law...
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Hackensack firefighters make Narcan save
Hackensack firefighters made a Narcan save on Friday. Members of Rescue 1 responded to the 300 block of Main Street and found a unresponsive 31-year-old overdose victim, Fire Capt. Justin Derevyanik...
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Regino of Westwood sworn as 2016 president of Bergen County Police Chiefs...
Westwood Police Chief Frank Regino was installed Saturday night as this year’s president of the Bergen County Police Chiefs Association during a dinner attended by several hundred people at the...
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Wyckoff PBA renames scholarship for Detective Sgt. Michael Musto
SHOUT OUT: Wyckoff PBA Local 261 announced Monday that it has renamed its annual educational scholarship after Detective Sgt. Michael Musto, who died this past October. The local each year offers two...
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Rutherford fire chief helps rescue GWB suicide jumper
“My legs are broken,” a woman who jumped from the George Washington Bridge in a failed suicide told Scott Koen of Rutherford before he helped pluck her from the Hudson River on Tuesday. Koen — whose...
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Colleagues seek help for Allendale firefighter burned out of Mahwah condo
Allendale Firefighter Stephen Brown had been living in his Mahwah condo only three weeks before a Feb. 2 fire destroyed it and all its contents. Now friends and colleagues are rushing to his aid. The...
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Timing, training help Garfield police officer save boy, 5, choking on quarter
SHOUT OUT: Garfield Police Officer Francisco Sanchez knew he didn’t have much time when he found a 5-year-old boy choking on a quarter Saturday afternoon. “I pulled up and they are putting him into the...
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Lodi police hiring
Lodi police are hiring full-time lateral transfers. Officers who are with another Civil Service Commission town and have PTC certification, and who have 1 year of service after graduation or more were...
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Bogota police revive heroin overdose victim, 46
A pair of Bogota police officers revived a 46-year-old heroin addict who’d overdosed in a bathroom. Sgt. Geoffrey Cole and Officer Walter Kumka found the victim shirtless in his River Road bathroom — a...
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Bogota police captain says helping displaced family ‘good example’ for children
Bogota Police Capt. James Sepp wasn’t about to leave a displaced family of five homeless after they awoke during the weekend’s Arctic blast to frozen pipes and the smell of gas. “We had no plan,”...
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