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I’m just a boy from backwoods Mississippi trying to find my way up north.
After graduating with a degree in journalism from the University of Mississippi, I got a master’s degree from Columbia University in New York.
Since then, I’ve held several jobs. I was a reporter at the Buffalo Bulletin in Buffalo, Wyoming. I also served as the editor of The Dundalk Eagle and The Avenue News in Eastern Baltimore County, Maryland.
Now, I live in Bergen County, New Jersey, and continue to follow my passion of covering local news.
Rep. Josh Gottheimer says he's seen "countless complaints" from parents who say they can't control the content getting to their kids.
"As an 85-year-old woman I have made myself and my kids proud, and that feels great," Ina Miller-Silverstein said.
The 18-year-old was found unresponsive but breathing, and taken to a local hospital where he is listed in critical condition, police said.
"...conditions may allow for elevated fire spread this afternoon if ignition occurs," the National Weather Service warned.
"I’m confident these men will grow every day through prayer and good works," Archdiocese vocations director Fr. Eugenio de la Rama said.
Hackensack's The Jefferson is officially opening this week, just weeks after Franklin Lakes saw a ribbon cut on similarly high-end rentals.
A Fort Lee restaurant stiffed 63 workers of wages, according to the U.S. Labor Department.
"It is due to this bravery, which we honor every day, that we are able to be the "Home of the Free", County Executive Jim Tedesco said.
"We are excited to share our newly restored (park) with the community," Teaneck Creek Conservancy executive director Kathleen Farley said.
A Morris County man was convicted on charges he had sexually assaulted a child in 2019 in Demarest, prosecutors said.
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Hackensack University Medical Center has created a program dedicated to assessing and reducing fall risk in older adults.
"Being a part of the design process allowed us to feel a sense of ownership and pride in our achievement," DNP student Joseph Scarano said.
The 16-year-old slashed the man with a multi-tool knife after a fight broke out at a Paramus gym, police said.
Ridgewood commuters can travel business class on the new "Bergen Bullet" from Boxcar.
The American Civil Liberties Union argues a proposed bill to dole out harsher punishments to fentanyl users would "fuel racial injustice."
The 5K was held in honor of the late Saddle River resident Susan Zabransky Hughes who died of cervical cancer in 2011.
"(These honorees) are all investing in a better, more well-rounded future," journalist Violeta Yas, who introduced them at a gala, said.
Officers from these Bergen law enforcement agencies were suspended, demoted and fired in "major disciplines" in 2022, a new analysis shows.
"These alleged lies are not just numbers on paper," said Bragg. "They hurt the financial wellbeing of hardworking construction workers."
