A gas station attendant was dragged by a car when its driver fled. According to MyFoxNy, "Security camera video shows the employee holding onto the side of a Nissan Maxima, desperately trying to stop the driver. That is because the driver apparently had pumped $20 worth of gas and then drove off without paying." The incident occurred at a Fort Lee, NJ Lukoil station near the George Washington Bridge. more ›

Adam Kim and Kevin Jun, two of the five New Jersey teenagers left locked in a police van for 14 hours after a party raid, have had some issues trusting The System since the incident two weeks ago, and will be working out those issues with a lawsuit. Kim even says he has been left with a slight phobia of cars. "This situation was a complete failure of all acceptable police practices," Kim's attorney, Nancy Lucianna, told NorthJersey.com. "All they had to do was check the van and check the amount of cellphones left in headquarters." more ›

It's an adolescent rite of passage: one minute you're doing rips off a beer bong and pogoing to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones at a raging house party, the next minute you're getting loaded into a police van and left for dead somewhere in Fort Lee, New Jersey. We've all been there! But you never forget your first time: a group of five teenagers say they were rounded up after cops raided their house party at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, then locked inside a van outside police headquarters for 14 hours. more ›

A motorcyclist's fatal crash, during a police chase, near a NYC-bound lane to the George Washington Bridge early yesterday morning remains under investigation. Bergen County prosecutor John Molinelli says that Israel Curbelo, 39, crashed "near the bridge's toll plaza in Fort Lee around 4 a.m., after he struck a vehicle he was trying to illegally pass." Apparently Curbelo was being pursued by two police vehicles because he was driving erratically; according to Cliffview Pilot, at one point Curbelo drove across a residence's lawn during the four-minute chase and Molinelli also added, "Officers at the scene detected the odor of alcohol from Curbelo during resuscitative efforts, and a small amount of what is believed to be marijuana was found on [him]." more ›

It was NY parks commissioner Thomas P. F. Hoving who dubbed pigeons "rats with wings," a term that fourteen years later was popularized by Woody Allen in his 1980 flick “Stardust Memories.” So surely there's some blood on their hands in the war on the pigeon community in New York (only recently was a National Pigeon Day established to combat the haters). more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] Life is so unpredictable: One minute you're pulling out of a New Jersey gas station, the next minute you're diving off the George Washington Bridge to escape police after a high-speed chase. An unidentified man presumably fell to his death yesterday morning after trying to escape from cops who pulled him over for a "routine stop" while driving his 2005 Pontiac Grand Prix through Fort Lee. Police say the man was pulled over around 9:30 a.m. for failing to yield, and the vehicle "had law enforcement equipment inside." But within minutes he sped away toward the bridge, with the fuzz in hot pursuit. more ›