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Hackensack, NJ

Police & Fire

Woman Killed By Train In Hackensack, NJ Transit Says A woman was struck and killed by a train Thursday morning, Aug. 7 in Hackensack, NJ Transit officials said. Just before 10 a.m., Pascack Valley Line Train 1651, which left Hoboken at 9:34 a.m.and was scheduled to arrive at New Bridge Landing at 10:01 a.m., struck the trespasser Sussex Street and Railroad Ave near Essex Street Station in Hackensack, a spokesperson for the agency said. There were no other injuries to the approximately five customers and crew on board. Service was suspended in both directions but has since resumed. New Jersey Transit Police are leading the investigation.

by Cecilia Levine

08/07/2025

Arlington, MA

News

Pierogi Politics: Alan Dershowitz Booed Out Of Martha’s Vineyard Farmer's Market Alan Dershowitz came for pierogis. Instead, he was publicly shamed and booed off the lot. The 86-year-old lawyer, who defended Donald Trump and is a prominent advocate for Israel, says he was denied service from a pierogi vendor and heckled at the West Tisbury Farmers Market on Martha’s Vineyard two weeks in a row. Wearing a shirt he says he bought at that same market 35 years ago, Dershowitz detailed the saga in a YouTube video, calling it an act of political discrimination that escalated into a protest on Wednesday, Aug. 6, at the Good Pierogi booth. Dershowitz speaks about the ev…

by Cecilia Levine

08/06/2025

Lancaster, PA

News

Boxed Baby Boy Buried In Backyard After Dangerous Abortion; Grandma Waives Hearing: DA A Lancaster County woman accused of endangering her teen daughter with an unsupervised, late-term abortion and then helping to bury the baby boy’s body has waived her preliminary hearing, prosecutors said on Wednesday, Aug. 6. Shannon Noelle Jones, 50, of East Donegal Township, will face trial in county court on charges of Endangering the Welfare of Children, Corruption of Minors, and Conspiracy to Conceal the Death of a Child. Jones allegedly purchased abortion medication online for her then-17-year-old daughter despite knowing the girl was too far along in her pregnancy to qualify for a l…

by Jillian Pikora

08/06/2025

East Hampton, NY

News

Autopsy Of NYC Fashion Designer Found Aboard Yacht Completed As Mystery Lingers A preliminary autopsy has been completed for Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra, the Manhattan fashion designer found dead aboard a yacht in the Hamptons. The exam did not show evidence of violence, Suffolk County Police revealed Wednesday, Aug. 6. Her final cause of death is pending further examination. Nolan-O’Slatarra, 33, was found unresponsive aboard a vessel moored at the Montauk Yacht Club early Tuesday, Aug. 5, as Daily Voice reported. Good Samaritans attempted CPR, but she was pronounced dead at the scene. The Suffolk County Medical Examiner’s Office is working to determine her cause and man…

by Michael Mashburn

08/06/2025

Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ

News

Motorcycling National Guardsman, 23, Threatens Bicyclists With Gun In Bergen County: Cops A 23-year-old National Guardsman has been charged in a road rage incident that ended with him allegedly threatening to shoot two bicyclists near a popular walking and biking trail in Bergen County, authorities confirmed with Daily Voice. Michael Maniscalco, of Saddle Brook, was on a motorcycle near Main and Essex streets at Route 80 in town on Friday, Aug. 1, when he encountered a 44-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman stopped at a red light (right next to Saddle River County Park), Capt. Giuseppe Califano said. Some sort of confrontation broke out, at which point Maniscalco stood up on hi…

by Cecilia Levine

08/06/2025

Pascack Valley, NJ

Police & Fire

Nearly 3-Hour SWAT Standoff Ends Peacefully At Bergen County Home: Police A 37-year-old Bergen County man who locked himself inside a house was safely taken to the hospital after a nearly three-hour standoff on Tuesday, Aug. 5, authorities said. Park Ridge police responded to the West Park Avenue home around 5:07 p.m. for a welfare check, where a family member was locked out, according to Park Ridge Police Chief Joseph Rampolla. The situation was deemed a “person in crisis” (PIC), and the man inside refused to communicate with anyone, Rampolla said. Officers contacted the Bergen County Regional SWAT Emergency Services Unit along with the Crisis Negotiation Team,…

by Cecilia Levine

08/06/2025

Rutherford, NJ

Police & Fire

Raging Patron At NJ Strip Club Robs, Beats Security Guard: Police A 33-year-old man caused a scene at a Bergen County strip club, beat up a security guard, and stole his jewelry before being tackled and cuffed by police, authorities said. Carlstadt Police Officers Moustafa Abdulla and Julio Perez-Tavera were called to Stiletto’s on Paterson Plank Road Sunday, Aug. 3, for a reported dispute, Detective Sgt. Mark Wong said. When officers arrived, they saw Indrit Lamcaj yelling at security guards, with "blood on his hands," Wong said. One of the guards had "blood on his mouth and face," the officer noted. Lamcaj ignored repeated police commands to calm down,…

by Cecilia Levine

08/06/2025

North Bergen-Guttenberg, NJ

Police & Fire

Serial Public Masturbator Caught Again On NJ Bench, Police Say A 63-year-old man with a history of lewd acts was caught masturbating on a bench in Guttenberg, exactly one year after a similar incident in Hackensack, authorities said. Officers responded to an apartment complex near John F. Kennedy Boulevard East and 71st Street around 10:25 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 5, for a report of a man publicly pleasuring himself, the Guttenberg Police Department said in a news release. The man was identified as Mark R. Schmitt, 63, of Hackensack. Police said he gave officers a fake name when questioned. Once they confirmed his identity, they discovered he had an active…

by Cecilia Levine

08/06/2025

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