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Sunday Night Gusty Winds, Then Watchful Eye on Snowstorm Monday Night Into Tuesday
15/01/2024

Sunday Night Gusty Winds, Then Watchful Eye on Snowstorm Monday Night Into Tuesday

HACKENSACK, NJ - Gusty winds Sunday night are the beginning of another week of weather events for the area. The city has put out an advisory, this time for west winds of 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 45 mph up until 10 p.m. Sunday night, January 14. Northeast New Jersey, portions of southern Connect...

Winter Made Itself Known This Weekend, And Will Remind Nutley Residents All Week
15/01/2024

Winter Made Itself Known This Weekend, And Will Remind Nutley Residents All Week

NEW YORK, NY - According to the National Weather Service (NWS), the region will be at or below freezing all week, plus there's a strong chance of snow. After a windy Sunday, residents will wake up Monday to partly sunny skies and a high near 30. By nightfall, temperatures will drop into the 20s. The...

Retired North Arlington Police Chief Joseph Zadroga dies aged 76
14/01/2024

Retired North Arlington Police Chief Joseph Zadroga dies aged 76

The retired Chief of Police of the North Arlington Police Department, whose son was one of the first victims of illness caused by the terror attacks...

'Honeymooners' Star Joyce Randolph Who Played Trixie Dead at 99
14/01/2024

'Honeymooners' Star Joyce Randolph Who Played Trixie Dead at 99

Joyce Randolph, who played Trixie Norton on "The Honeymooners," has died ... TMZ has learned.

A wintry week of weather for NJ: 3 snow chances, frigid temps
14/01/2024

A wintry week of weather for NJ: 3 snow chances, frigid temps

The "dead of winter" is here. Mid to late January is, on average, New Jersey's coldest period of the year. Normal high temperatures do not even...

N.J. weather: Snow forecast maps issued for latest winter storm. Snow squall alert today.
14/01/2024

N.J. weather: Snow forecast maps issued for latest winter storm. Snow squall alert today.

Most of New Jersey can expect 1 to 3 inches of snow starting late Monday into Tuesday from a winter storm after colder sweeps into the...

Buffalo Bills vs Pittsburgh Steelers playoff game postponed until Monday by NFL with stadium battered by snow and wind
14/01/2024

Buffalo Bills vs Pittsburgh Steelers playoff game postponed until Monday by NFL with stadium battered by snow and wind

THE Steelers-Bills playoff game has been postponed due to extreme weather. New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that the Steelers and Bills have to wait out the winter storm rolling through Buffalo before they can face off. The game, initially scheduled for 1 pm ET on Sunday, will now take...

Police Investigating Stolen Car and Dog in Mount Vernon
14/01/2024

Police Investigating Stolen Car and Dog in Mount Vernon

You know it happens to everyone, nobody is immune to them and everyone has at least a few every year. By "them" I mean bad days...

2 NYPD officers hurt in crash with pickup truck
14/01/2024

2 NYPD officers hurt in crash with pickup truck

NEW YORK -- Two NYPD officers were hurt in a crash in Queens on Saturday. It happened in Astoria at 36th Street and 30th Avenue at around 1:30 a.m. The officers were heading to an emergency when their car was hit by a pickup truck, according to investigators. The officers and driver of the pickup tr...

AOC still thinks $174,000 isn't enough money for members of Congress: 'I know it's kind of a contrarian position'
14/01/2024

AOC still thinks $174,000 isn't enough money for members of Congress: 'I know it's kind of a contrarian position'

"I've been saying this for some time," Ocasio-Cortez told BI this week, saying a pay bump is needed "if we want working class people" in Congress.

Tree topples onto New Jersey group home for young adults with disabilities
14/01/2024

Tree topples onto New Jersey group home for young adults with disabilities

A massive tree toppled onto the back of a house Saturday on 360 Larch Ave. in Bogota.

2½ Years A Fugitive: Accused Killer From Jersey City Captured In South Carolina
13/01/2024

2½ Years A Fugitive: Accused Killer From Jersey City Captured In South Carolina

Tybear Miles, a 28-year-old ex-con, remained held in the Spartanburg County Detention Center pending extradition to New Jersey to face murder and illegal weapons possession charges in the June 5, 2021 shooting death of Ahmad McPherson in Jersey City. Spartanburg police, working with the U.S. Marshal...

Actor Jason Patric's brother Jordan Miller dies after being hit by bus
13/01/2024

Actor Jason Patric's brother Jordan Miller dies after being hit by bus

Hollywood star Jason Patric's brother, Jordan Miller, died at the age of 56, Fort Lee Police Department in New Jersey confirmed with Fox News...

Prominent Staten Island doc accused of leaving scene after crash that hurt man, girl, 6: Sources
13/01/2024

Prominent Staten Island doc accused of leaving scene after crash that hurt man, girl, 6: Sources

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A prominent Staten Island doctor stands accused in a hit-and-run crash...

Rats under blanket: NYC subway video shows rodents scurry from under person's blanket
13/01/2024

Rats under blanket: NYC subway video shows rodents scurry from under person's blanket

NEW YORK CITY - Shocking video from a New York City subway showed what appeared to be over a dozen rats scurrying away from underneath a...

NYPD officer reunites with 2 retired officers who saved her as a child in Harlem
13/01/2024

NYPD officer reunites with 2 retired officers who saved her as a child in Harlem

It was back on July 25, 1996 at the intersection of E. 116th Street and Park Avenue - Ocasio and Claudio, who were on patrol noticed something odd - a car leaking fluid.

Brooklyn Dad Who Confronted Pro-Palestinian Protesters Says They Were Holding Him ‘Hostage’ by Not Letting Him Get Home
13/01/2024

Brooklyn Dad Who Confronted Pro-Palestinian Protesters Says They Were Holding Him ‘Hostage’ by Not Letting Him Get Home

‘I wish that I had not been captured on video in such an angry state and behaved in such a way, but I could not allow those people to impede my passage and, in essence, hold me hostage,’ said Kevin Rivera

Laundry is a top source of microplastic pollution – here's how to clean your clothes more sustainably
13/01/2024

Laundry is a top source of microplastic pollution – here's how to clean your clothes more sustainably

Your washing machine is polluting the ocean.

Actor Jason Patric's Brother Struck and Killed By Bus in New Jersey
13/01/2024

Actor Jason Patric's Brother Struck and Killed By Bus in New Jersey

Jason Patric's brother was struck and killed by a bus this week in New Jersey ... TMZ has confirmed.

Battered by storms, Long Island's south shore calls for federal sand replenishment
13/01/2024

Battered by storms, Long Island's south shore calls for federal sand replenishment

Long Island officials said the south shore is in desperate need of more sand to combat beach erosion from coastal flooding. They want help from the...

49-Year-Old Dies After Jumping From Bear Mountain Bridge In Stony Point
12/01/2024

49-Year-Old Dies After Jumping From Bear Mountain Bridge In Stony Point

A 49-year-old has died after jumping from the Bear Mountain Bridge in the Hudson Valley. The incident took place in Rockland County around 7:50 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 11 in Stony Point, said Trooper Steven Nevel of the New York State Police. An investigation revealed that the Englewood, New Jersey man...

Donald Trump's 'Three Embarrassing Losses' in a Day Mocked by Mary Trump
12/01/2024

Donald Trump's 'Three Embarrassing Losses' in a Day Mocked by Mary Trump

Trump's legal issues and the Biden impeachment inquiry were among the events on January 10 that were ridiculed by his...

N.J. local celebrity Miss Liberty USA, Sondra Fortunato, has died
12/01/2024

N.J. local celebrity Miss Liberty USA, Sondra Fortunato, has died

Sondra Fortunato would show up at Giants and Jets games as an outsize character called Miss Liberty USA....

N.J. weather: Flooding, rain, 60 mph gusts today. Forecasters track snow chance next week.
12/01/2024

N.J. weather: Flooding, rain, 60 mph gusts today. Forecasters track snow chance next week.

Heavy rain and winds that could gust to 60 mph are in the forecast to hit New Jersey Friday night into Saturday with the potential for...

Donald Trump Pulls White House Visitor Logs, Accuses Letitia James of Plotting With President Joe Biden to 'Illegally' P...
12/01/2024

Donald Trump Pulls White House Visitor Logs, Accuses Letitia James of Plotting With President Joe Biden to 'Illegally' Prosecute Him in Civil Fraud Trial

Donald Trump accused New York Attorney General Letitia James of colluding with President Joe Biden to "illegally" prosecute him in his ongoing civil fraud trial. On Thursday, January 11, the 77-year-old took to his Truth Social platform with screenshots of White House logs that showed three differen...

Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour fatally shot in New Jersey: officials
02/02/2023

Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour fatally shot in New Jersey: officials

SAYREVILLE, N.J. (PIX11) — Sayreville Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour was fatally shot in New Jersey Wednesday night, authorities said. Dwumfour, 30, was found with multiple gunshot wounds inside her car near Samuel Circle in Sayreville at around 7:22 p.m., according to the Middlesex County Prosecuto...

Meet Wall Street’s First Black Millionaire Who Turned Opportunity to Fortune
02/02/2023

Meet Wall Street’s First Black Millionaire Who Turned Opportunity to Fortune

After his iconic status reached its height in the mid-19th century, Jeremiah G. Hamilton left behind a blazing trail as Wall Street’s first and only Black...

Traffic diverted off Hutch after fuel spill from tractor carrying 42,000 pounds of fries
01/02/2023

Traffic diverted off Hutch after fuel spill from tractor carrying 42,000 pounds of fries

The southbound Hutchinson River Parkway has been closed to allow for cleanup of a fuel spill after a tractor trailer crashed into a bridge Wednesday morning. Westchester County police said a southbound tractor trailer crashed into the Mamaroneck Road Bridge around 6:50 a.m. The crash initially had c...

Federal Fort Lee Fentanyl Bust: Manhattan Man, 64, Could Get 10 Years Without Parole
01/02/2023

Federal Fort Lee Fentanyl Bust: Manhattan Man, 64, Could Get 10 Years Without Parole

A 64-year-old Manhattan man busted by federal Homeland Security agents for dealing nearly a pound of a drug mixture that contained fentanyl in Fort Lee took a guilty plea Tuesday rather than risk the outcome of a trial. U.S. District Judge Madeline Cox Arleo scheduled sentencing for June 21 after...

Hanover Park Regional High School District Recognized as NJ District of Character
01/02/2023

Hanover Park Regional High School District Recognized as NJ District of Character

EAST HANOVER, NJ - The Hanover Park Regional School District has been designated a New Jersey School District of Character by Character.org. Character.org is a national advocate and leader for character. They have designated 73 State-level Schools of Character and 2 Districts of Character for 2023 w...

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