Student Faces Firehouse Sex Assault Charge, Chief For a Day in Top Teaneck News

Teaneck Valedictorian Reflects on the Last 4 Years

Patrick D’Onofrio found out he was valedictorian of Teaneck High School’s 2013 graduating class while comparing grade point averages among friends earlier this school year. Click to watch a video interview above. 

An Englewood man wanted for robbing and beating his girlfriend was captured by Teaneck police officers and the department's chief at a township 7-Eleven store Thursday, according to authorities.

A 26-year-old Teaneck man wanted for brutally stabbing another man two weeks ago at an Englewood Chinese restaurant was captured early Friday in New York City, police said.

Although he's not even 18, Thomas Caruso Jr. had already excelled to become his father's boss at the Teaneck Police Department.

Caruso, the son of Teaneck Police Officer Thomas Caruso, was sworn in Friday as the town's newest police "chief" as part of a countywide celebration to honor young people battling chronic health conditions.

Leonia’s volunteer firefighters are set to resume handling the borough’s emergency calls Thursday morning after officials temporarily shut down the department in response to an alleged sexual assault at the firehouse, an official said Wednesday.

An 18-year-old developmentally disabled student at a Teaneck school is accused of sexually assaulting a 3-year-old boy at the Leonia firehouse, according to authorities and published reports.

Teaneck’s West Englewood area will soon be home to a kosher Mexican restaurant called Burrito’lam, adding to the host of kosher options in the neighborhood.

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