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The construction project at the core of the FBI’s fraud investigation into the city’s handling of an $180,000 federal grant went through what Paterson officials have described as unusual changes before it was completed.

In Passaic County, the election pits Democratic incumbent Democrat Bernice Toledo of Prospect Park against Terri Reicher, the Republican challenger from Pompton Lakes.

It was only a few hours after a jury in Newark had convicted two allies of Governor Christie in the Bridgegate scandal. But there would be no cheering in Fort Lee, no chest thumping. “No joy,” said Sokolich. “Just relief.”

“It’s gotta send a message about corruption and misconduct,” Edward Flaim, a lifelong Fort Lee resident, said.

An emaciated dog that was thrown from a car in Paterson on Saturday has died, officials said Friday.

A police sergeant was shot and killed and a second one was wounded Friday in a gunfight on a street with an armed man who had broken into his estranged wife’s home, officials said.

The anonymous fliers depict 5th District Democratic candidate Josh Gottheimer as a devil who is owned by “big media.”

The Bergen County Sheriff’s Office contacted Project Lifesaver after receiving an emergency call about a missing boy at about 5 p.m., said Anthony Cureton, a spokesman for the office.

The victims as well as a suspect, now in custody, were being treated at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick for their injuries.

A man from Morris County who sat on the jury trying the George Washington Bridge lane closure case on Friday described the tears and emotional arguments that took place during the 21 hours that the jury deliberated over the past week.