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The Kennedy Knights freshmen football team received new cleats on Friday, equipment purchased with donations from alumni and local businesses, according to Councilman Michael Jackson.

Protesters ousted from private land where they tried to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline burned vehicles and built roadblocks along a North Dakota state highway where they faced off Friday with authorities.

Immaculate Heart Academy students got a crash course in safe driving during a recent visit by award-winning New Jersey Manufacturers (NJM) Insurance Group.

Authorities recovered 21 kilograms of heroin — estimated to be worth more than $1 million — and charged two men, including a Palisades Park resident, with drug distribution following a raid Friday at several locations, law enforcement officials said.

Chris Christie may be one of the great truth twisters of New Jersey politics, a man whose self-protective bellowing seems to know no bounds or volume.

It took the Ramapo Valley Railroad Club more than two decades’ worth of members (and tens of thousands of work hours) to erect and refine the 1,000-square-foot display, news that the 17-member club is being evicted from its home at the Washington Elm VFW Post 192 means it must all be cut down. And quickly.

A doctor with a practice in Bergenfield has pleaded guilty to one count of criminal sexual contact after eight female patients and employees accused him of inappropriately touching them.

Four Ridgefield Park men, including an alleged gang member, were charged with weapons and narcotics offenses related to the alleged distribution of marijuana from a Grove Street home where they resided, authorities said Friday in a release.

“If we don’t get significant rainfall over the next four to eight weeks we’ll have to consider going to a drought emergency,” Bob Martin, the state Department of Environmental Protection commissioner, told the Record in an interview.

Detective Nancy Petra-Stafyleras of the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office told jurors in Superior Court in Paterson that Jhymiere Moore, Jeffrey Ellerbee and Marshae Anthony belong to a gang known as “SOICY,” a group that is based in the area near 10th Avenue and East 28th Street.