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Watervliet, NY

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NY Parents Charged After 9-Year-Old Girl Dies From Chronic Constipation Two upstate New York parents are facing child endangerment charges following the death of their 9-year-old daughter. Jennifer Singleton, 37, and Harold Warner, 33, were arrested Tuesday, Aug. 5, days after emergency crews found the child unresponsive inside their Watervliet home, New York State Police said. The 9-year-old was pronounced dead at Samaritan Hospital on Saturday, Aug. 2, as Daily Voice reported. A preliminary autopsy conducted Monday, Aug. 4, found that the child died due to chronic constipation, according to police. The manner of death was listed as natural causes. Final res…

by Michael Mashburn

08/05/2025

North Bergen-Guttenberg, NJ

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NJ Detective Arrested In Sprawling Narcotics Investigation: Prosecutor A 46-year-old detective in the North Bergen Police Department was arrested on Monday, Aug. 4, as part of a narcotics investigation that has ensnared other members of law enforcement throughout Hudson County, authorities said. Christopher Orellana is charged with conspiracy to possess cocaine, Acting Hudson County Prosecutor Wayne Mello said. He was arrested at the North Bergen Police Department, Mello said. Last week, six people, including three Town of West New York employees, were arrested as part of the investigation and charged with possession of cocaine, authorities said. T…

by Sam Barron

08/05/2025

Hackensack, NJ

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USGS Confirms 2.7 Magnitude Earthquake In Bergen County A 2.7 magnitude earthquake was confirmed in Bergen County on Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 5, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The tremor struck at 12:11 p.m. EST about 2 kilometers southwest of Hillsdale, at a depth of 12.4 kilometers, according to the USGS. According to the USGS, residents across dozens of towns in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and even as far as Massachusetts and Vermont reported feeling the quake. Most responses came from North Jersey and the lower Hudson Valley, including Fair Lawn, Ridgewood, Montvale, Paramus, Westwood, and multiple neighborhoods in t…

by Cecilia Levine

08/05/2025

Washington Township-Long Valley, NJ

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Animal Hospital Sets Up Memorial For Vet With 'Rockstar Smile' After Double Murder-Suicide A memorial has been set up outside a New Jersey animal hospital for Lauren Semanchik, a veterinarian who was fatally shot in a double murder-suicide in Washington Township over the weekend. Semanchik, 33, was killed along with her new boyfriend, 29-year-old firefighter Tyler Webb, by her ex-boyfriend Ricardo Santos, a New Jersey State Police trooper, authorities said. Santos then turned the gun on himself in his vehicle in Johnson Park in Piscataway, officials confirmed. ALSO SEE: NJ Trooper Followed Ex From Work, Lurked In Woods Before Double Murder Suicide: Prosecutor Semanchik work…

by Cecilia Levine

08/05/2025

Hyde Park, NY

Police & Fire

Man, 26, Found Dead In Van At Residential Facility For Developmental Disabilities In Dutchess Authorities are investigating the death of a 26-year-old man who was found unresponsive in a transportation van parked at a residential facility in Dutchess County. The incident occurred on Monday, August 4, around 2 p.m., when troopers were dispatched to New Horizons Resources Inc. at 201 Cream St. in the Town of Hyde Park, New York State Police announced on Tuesday, Aug. 5. Upon arrival, officers found the man, a resident of the facility, deceased in a van owned by New Horizons. The van was parked on the property at the time he was found. The State Police Bureau of Criminal I…

by Ben Crnic

08/05/2025

Point Pleasant, NJ

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CDC Flags 40-State COVID Growth As Omicron Offshoot Variant Drives Summer Spike Fueled by a fast-growing new variant, COVID-19 infections are regaining ground just as summer travel peaks. New CDC transmission estimates released Friday, Aug. 1 show the effective reproduction number, or Rt, above one in 40 states, meaning overall US infections are again expanding. In 28 states the agency assigns its highest confidence category — “growing” — while another 12 fall into the “likely growing” bucket. No state is currently classified as declining, and nine are holding steady. For more info, view the CDC's interactive map here, and click on a specific state. Nationally, the R…

by Joe Lombardi

08/05/2025

White Plains, NY

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Former NBA Player's Pregnant Wife Attacked By Shark: 'Worst Day Of My Life' A beach outing turned harrowing for sportscaster Eleonora Boi, the pregnant wife of former NBA forward and ex-New York Knick Danilo Gallinari, when she was bitten by a shark only yards from the shoreline. The incident happened late last week in Puerto Rico, near a beach in Carolina, just east of San Juan. “I never thought I’d be attacked by a shark, especially near the shore on a super-crowded beach,” Boi wrote in an Instagram post dated Friday, Aug. 1, calling it “the worst day of my life.” She added a sardonic score line —“Little mermaid from Sardinia 1, baby tiburón de Puerto…

by Joe Lombardi

08/05/2025

Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ

Police & Fire

'We Were Just F—ing,' Assault Suspect Tells NJ Cops After Leaving Woman With Collapsed Lung: PD A woman was left with severe injuries and a collapsed lung after a violent assault inside a Bergen County apartment, police said. The incident happened just after midnight on Friday, Aug. 1, at the Meridia Apartments, located at 110 Bergen Turnpike in Little Ferry, according to Little Ferry Police Chief James Walters. Officers responded to a report of a physical dispute after a caller reported hearing screaming and seeing a man throwing punches through a window of unit 447, Walter said. When officers arrived, they were met by a resident who provided a video showing a man “throwing multiple…

by Cecilia Levine

08/04/2025

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