Police & Fire Top Stories
By TAPINTO WEST ORANGE
July 19, 2024
WEST ORANGE, NJ -- Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II and West Orange Police Chief James P. Abbott have announced that authorities charged a teacher for an assault on an 11-year-old student at Mt. Carmel Guild Academy on Valley Way in West Orange. Smith is on the autism ...
WEST ORANGE, NJ -- The community continues to reel from the tragic loss of a grandmother and her grandsons in a house fire on Liberty Street at around 11 a.m. on Sunday, July 14. Police have identified the woman as Grace Drury, age 75. The children were 3 and 8 years old. No names were released as ...
WEST ORANGE, NJ -- A fire on Liberty Street in West Orange took the lives of two children, ages 3 and 7, and another person in their 70s. Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II, West Orange Police Chief James P. Abbott and West Orange Fire Chief Anthony Vecchio have announced that ...
WEST ORANGE, NJ – West Orange’s first female Hispanic officer, Karen Roach Mango, grew up in West Orange after her family emigrated from Peru in 1990. She was a substitute teacher in Orange before joining the police department in 2004. Mango offered a learning series called the Older Police ...
MILLBURN, NJ -- Mayor McCartney, aided by Fire Chief Vecchio, swore in eight Probationary Firefighters at the West Orange Township Council meeting on June 25. They are: Recruit Vincenzo Abbattista, Recruit Shai Bialer, Recruit Patrick Bolan, Recruit Shane Kistner, Recruit Raymond Larsen, Recruit ...
WEST ORANGE, NJ -- On Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at 9:21a.m., the West Orange Police Department (WOPD) responded to 83 Northfield Avenue on a report of a robbery at the Ascendia Bank. The WOPD reported that a masked male entered the bank and handed a note to the teller demanding a specified amount of ...
WEST ORANGE, NJ — During the June 10 town council meeting, members approved an ordinance to have a study done to determine if motorists are stopping at specific intersections with stop signs. The ordinance amends and supplements Chapter 7, Traffic subsection 7-20. Town Council President Bill ...
MILLBURN, NJ -- Police shot a bear in the Locust Grove region of South Mountain Reservation before noon on June 10. According to a statement by Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura, the bear had cornered a mother and daughter. Police reported that when they arrived, the bear charged at them.
WEST ORANGE, NJ -- According to the West Orange Fire Department (WOFD), the West Orange Police Department (WOPD) and the Fire Department were called to the strip mall at 492 Pleasant Valley Way (PVW) when a fire broke out in the basement of the A Cleaner dry cleaning service. The Fire Department ...