Fort Lee News

FORT LEE a ' He's a pied piper, of sorts. When someone doesn't know where to bring an injured bird or cat, chances are they'll end up at Tom Piper's pet shop on Main Street.

Bridge traffic came to a stop. COURTESY: CLIFFVIEWPILOT.COM EXCLUSIVE : A New York State corrections officer jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge this morning after he crashed his car while being chased by Palisades Interstate Parkway Police, CLIFFVIEWPILOT.COM is reporting.

A man being chased by New Jersey cops, pulled over on the George Washington Bridge and jumped to his death.

Authorities arrested a self-employed Fort Lee carpenter on a forgery charge for altering his liability insurance, the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office said today.

The annual reenactment of Gen. George Washington and the Continental Army's retreat from Fort Lee will be held Saturday at noon.

A group of about 20 BP gas station operators have filed a suit accusing the oil company of backing out of contracts, reported The Record .

Theft charges have been filed against a Bergen County man who allegedly stole more than $128,000 from the cosmetology school where he worked.

A state grand jury indicted a Carlstadt man Friday on a charge of second-degree theft by deception for misusing $128,209 from a Fort Lee cosmetology school where he worked, the state Attorney General's Office said.

Weeks before Thanksgiving, approximately 20 members of the Fort Lee Rotary Club were getting ready to feed approximately 110 women and men in the kitchen of a new homeless shelter that opened Nov.

The borough's zoning board has approved a plan to build a 194-unit apartment building on Central Road.

The number of pedestrians killed on New Jersey streets has spiked 33 percent - from 91 deaths during the first nine months of 2008 to 121 through September this year, state figures show.

Largely written out of U.S. film history, cinema's first woman director - as well as producer and studio head - Alice Guy Blach enters the pantheon, or at least the Whitney Museum of American Art , with a three-month, 80-film retro.

A Manalapan postal carrier remained hospitalized Friday, one day after his delivery truck was involved in a collision with a car driven by a 17-year-old Manalapan resident.

Five months after he was sent to prison for his role in a macabre scheme to sell stolen body parts, a former Newark mortician was indicted today on new charges that could extend his time behind bars.

The District 38 Republican challengers are capitalizing on The Record's endorsement with thousands of robocalls.

North Jersey heads to the voting booths today to vote for governor, dozens of state Assembly seats, a statewide open-space referendum, and countless municipal and county contests.

The candidates running for two seats on the Borough Council either tout their experience or their newcomer status as reasons to elect them.

Four-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath bi-level in Franklin Lakes has first-floor master bedroom, eat-in kitchen, double vanity in bathroom, hardwood floors under tiles, patio, landscaped backyard with pond, attached, two-car garage.

" Ibtisam Ali, a computer science major at Kean University and a resident of Roselle Park, recently was awarded the 2009 Tri-State Arab American Association of Engineers and Architects Scholarship.

Two New Jersey ticket brokers sued by the state Attorney General have agreed to stop selling speculative tickets and to pay $5,000 each to settle the lawsuits.