A driver later charged with a DWI sped away when an officer went to pull the vehicle over, and then crashed into a pole, police said.
A fire that significantly damaged a Fair Lawn home forced the residents to move into a hotel for the night, officials said.
A NJ woman has been charged with nearly two dozen counts of animal cruelty after the pets were found in unlivable conditions.
An armed home invasion that occurred just after 9 a.m. in Fair Lawn left a person injured, the prosecutor's office said.
An Elmwood Park woman faces up to 20 years in state prison, if convicted of multiple drug-related offenses.
A traffic stop turned pursuit ended after the car crashed into a slew of vehicles and the driver discarded a stolen handgun, police said.
A fire that destroyed a car in Fair Lawn impinged on a nearby home, authorities said.
The quick response of police saved an apparently suicidal 15-year-old girl who nearly fell to her death from a 40-foot bridge, cops said.
A man accused of driving while intoxicated was found with a handgun loaded with a high-capacity magazine in Wallington, police said.
After a months-long investigation, police have arrested three people in connection with a knifepoint robbery in Saddle Brook, police said.
Following a two-month-long investigation, police identified two suspects in an armed carjacking and a motor vehicle burglary in mid-June.
A Paterson man has been charged in connection with a sex assault at gunpoint at the Great Falls in 2021, authorities said.
A tractor trailer falls off the side of the overpass, flips and bursts into flames, killing the driver, police said.
A motor vehicle crash in Fair Lawn has prompted commuting delays in the area Thursday morning, authorities said. Here's the latest.
In what authorities said appeared to be a "serious and unfortunate accident," a child was hit by a car on Spring Valley Road, police said.
An NJ man hired an Uber driver to bring an Indiana minor across state lines back to the Garden State for sex, federal authorities said.
A fire started in the hallway between Barnes & Noble and The Cheesecake Factory, and was mostly put out by the sprinkler system.
An infant suffered apparent second-degree burns at a Garfield residence and was airlifted to St. Barnabas Hospital in New York.
A single-car crash on 17th Street in Fair Lawn left the driver and three passengers injured.
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Millions of illegally-purchased cancer drugs went through a Bergen doctor's office on their way to be sold, federal officials said.
Officers arrested people on shoplifting, drug possession, driving while intoxicated, and other charges from April 26-May 10, police said.
A registered offender from England came to Bergen County to have sex with girls under 13 and paid undercover agents $1,200, officials said.
When the state troopers arrived, they found the victim had been hit by a bat.
The crash was at the corner of River Road and Bergen Avenue, Fair Lawn police said Monday.
The 19th annual remembrance ceremony for Officer Mary Ann Collura will be Sunday, April 17 at 1 p.m., Fair Lawn police said.
A CT-based chemical company contaminated groundwater at its former Bergen County manufacturing site, a lawsuit filed by the state claims.
The crash is still under investigation after a motorist lost control on the Garden State Parkway, authorities said.
The federal employee allegedly viewed child pornography on his work-issued computer, authorities said.
Fair Lawn police reported three arrests from March 16-23, 2022 in a report emailed to Patch.
Fair Lawn Police are cracking down on distracted driving during the month of April as part of the state's "UDrive. UText. UPay" campaign.
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Fair Lawn Police got a report that a vehicle was stopped in the roadway, and the people inside appeared to be asleep.
Officials are investigating a homicide in Lodi, after a Passaic County man was shot dead Monday afternoon.
A Saddle Brook officer was given a four-month suspension for policy and procedure violations.
Eight Bergen County agencies reported officers had been fired, demoted or suspended 5 or more days in 2021. Fair Lawn was not one of them.