Lodi News

The signs seen in December at Temple Beth El synagogue, in Hackensack , were not good - swastikas, white-supremacist symbols and an accusation that Jews caused the 9/11 terrorist attacks were spray-painted on the building.

On a clear, dry day, the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook, with its gentle and quiet southbound flow, may not seem like the sort of body of water likely to rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars in property damage.

A car crashed into another car on Woodside Avenue and Washington Place in Hasbrouck Heights before crashing into a Lodi home, killing the driver.

Be thankful for moonlight. Street lamps on Routes 21, 4 and 17 have been dimmer than the brains that pushed the economy into recession.

In top county news this week: Ramapo College will hold a remembrance ceremony next Monday for a student, Jacob Halle, who passed away Wednesday after sustaining critical injuries from a car accident two days earlier on Route 202 near the college in Mahwah.

Comedians Eric McMahon, second left, and Melvin George II, at right, headlined the second annual Mount Hebron Middle School "Comedy Night" on Friday.

HASBROUCK HEIGHTS - A 68-year-old borough man died Friday after the car he was driving struck another car before crossing the border into Lodi and hitting the side of a house, police said.

Police were continuing to investigate a fatal accident that took place Friday afternoon on the border of Lodi and Hasbrouck Heights.

Prosecutors said the 19-year-old Lodi man accused of arsons at synagogues in Rutherford and Paramus confessed to the crimes, WABC-TV reported Tuesday .

Anthony Graziano, 19, of Lodi, admitted to the setting fire to a Paramus synagogue in addition to the Rutherford firebombing.

Paul Goldenberg, director of the Secure Communities Network, addresses a meeting of law enforcement and Jewish community leaders in Whippany on Jan.

A 23-year-old Lodi man arrested after he tackled Hoboken woman into a Jeep during a fight in a parking garage early Saturday morning, according to police.

The 19-year-old Lodi man accused of two arson attacks on local synagogues will face a judge Tuesday morning on additional charges that he planned a third attack on a Jewish facility in Paramus .

The 19-year-old man charged in attacks on two northern New Jersey synagogues allegedly planned to attack another nearby synagogue.

Pine Belt Arena was the site of the New Jersey State Police graduation ceremony for Class 151.

"I don't see why people have to target people for their religion," George Featherstone of Paramus said.

A loner who broke from obscurity to commit a violent crime - that's the description provided by law enforcement officials of the 19-year-old Lodi man they've accused of firebombing a North Jersey synagogue and other violent bias crimes.

Synagogues within 10 miles of the Lodi home of an accused firebomber will be checked by police dog teams forA accelerants and flammables,A Bergen County Prosecutor A John L. Molinelli said.

The swastikas have been washed from the brick-and-stone walls of Temple Beth El on Summit Avenue in Hackensack .

This undated photo of Anthony Graziano was released by the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, Tuesday, Jan.