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Jerry DeMarco

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jdemarco@dailyvoice.com

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Born in Newark and raised in Hudson County, Jerry DeMarco is a 38-year veteran of the news industry and a renowned breaking news reporter. He has covered local, county and state police, as well as the FBI, ATF and other federal agencies.

DeMarco joined Daily Voice in 2015 after six years running Cliffview Pilot, one of the nation's few independent breaking news sites. As an independent publisher, he helped establish Local Independent Online News, a national trade organization.

Prior to launching his own site, DeMarco served as a reporter for the Bergen Record, Stamford Advocate, Rockland Journal News, News Tribune, and Trenton Times.

DeMarco has won national recognition for his investigative work, including Clarion, Heywood Broun and Deadline Club awards. He's changed public policy and managed several major projects -- including one that helped put a corrupt public official in federal prison and another that forced a sitting New Jersey attorney general from office for her participation in a Bergen County traffic stop involving her boyfriend.

DeMarco regularly lectures at a graduate course in media relations at Fairleigh Dickinson University and previously was an adjunct professor at Lehman College in the Bronx. 

He has a Bachelor's Degree in English from St. Peter's University in Jersey City.

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Police & Fire
Franklin Lakes Fire Quickly KO'd Franklin Lakes Fire Quickly KO'd
Franklin Lakes Fire Quickly KO'd Firefighters quickly doused a Monday morning house fire in Franklin Lakes. The two-alarm blaze broke out around 9 a.m. in the 200 block of Mabelann Avenue. It was knocked down within 20 minutes, keeping much of the damage to the exterior of the 2½-story home. No injuries were immediately reported.

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Police & Fire
No Pets Inside, No Injuries Reported In Fire At Animal Hospital In Fairfield No Pets Inside, No Injuries Reported In Fire At Animal Hospital In Fairfield
No Pets Inside, No Injuries Reported In Fire At Animal Hospital In Fairfield No pets were in the Animal Hospital of Fairifeld when a destructive fire broke out Saturday night, responders said. Staff made it out before the three-alarm blaze tore through the Fairfield Road building, which isn't a boarding facility. The fire broke out shortly after 9 p.m. and immediately went to two alarms, the Fairfield Volunteer Fire Department said. Flames blew through the roof as firefighters conducted a "surround and drown," the department said. The scene was cleared at 11:50 p.m. Colleagues from Cedar Grove, Lincoln Park, Bloomfield, North Caldwell, West Caldwell, Pine Brook a…

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Police & Fire
SWAT Team Searches For Suspect After Woman Is Stabbed At Little Ferry Hotel SWAT Team Searches For Suspect After Woman Is Stabbed At Little Ferry Hotel
SWAT Team Searches For Suspect After Woman Is Stabbed At Little Ferry Hotel UPDATE: A SWAT team was summoned to a Little Ferry motel after a woman reported being stabbed and robbed Saturday afternoon. Police were searching for a suspect. A friend picked her up and took the woman to St. Mary's Hospital in Passaic after the incident at the Capri Inn (now the Rodeway Inn Capri) on Bergen Turnpike just off Route 46, Capt. James Walters told Daily Voice. She was stabbed three times -- on her left arm, right hand and left upper back, Klein said, adding that the injuries weren't life-threatening. Police, believing her assailant was still in the hotel, summoned a Bergen …

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Police & Fire
Bergenfield High School Student, 15, Charged In Attack That Ripped Classmate's Earlobe Open Bergenfield High School Student, 15, Charged In Attack That Ripped Classmate's Earlobe Open
Bergenfield High School Student, 15, Charged In Attack That Ripped Classmate's Earlobe Open A 15-year-old Bergenfield High School student ripped a classmate's earlobe open during an attack, borough police said. Detective Lt. William Duran said police issued a delinquency complaint charging the girl with aggravated assault after determining the severity of the victim's injury, which her mother said required 25 stitches to close. The girl also needed plastic surgery after being "viciously attacked" at school by her fellow sophomore on Nov. 19, the mom said. "Her ear was ripped in half, and by the grace of God was able to be stitched back together," she said. The investigation tha…

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News
NJ Among States Most Affected By Salmonella Scare At Schools, Hospitals, Hotels NJ Among States Most Affected By Salmonella Scare At Schools, Hospitals, Hotels
NJ Among States Most Affected By Salmonella Scare At Schools, Hospitals, Hotels Cut fruit from a Middlesex County factory is the potential source of a salmonella outbreak concentrated in the Northeast, federal authorities said. New Jersey reported a dozen people sickened by Salmonella Javiana – second only behind Delaware (39) and Pennsylvania (34) of the nearly 100 total cases in 11 states. Neighboring New York State had four and Connecticut one. The "Famous Fruit Luau" made by Tailor Cut Produce of North Brunswick wasn’t sold in stores, the FDA and Centers for Disease Control said. The mix -- which includes honeydew melon, cantaloupe, pineapple, and grapes – was “s…

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Police & Fire
HEROES: Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Fought Flames Trying To Save Their HQ HEROES: Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Fought Flames Trying To Save Their HQ
Heroes: Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Fought Flames Trying To Save Their HQ Three Palisades Interstate Parkway police officers who were pulling New Year’s Day duty came running when they smelled smoke in their chief’s unoccupied office. They broke down the locked door and turned extinguishers on the blaze. But the heat and smoke from the quickly-spreading fire forced them out of the stone building, built as a private residence in the Alpine section of Palisades Interstate Park nearly a century ago, Lt. Jock Watkins Jr. said. By that time, a dispatcher had summoned firefighters and rushed to the second floor to retrieve a bicyclist who’d stopped to use the bathroo…

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Police & Fire
Lodi Serial Killer Confesses To 1960s Bergen Schoolgirl Murders Lodi Serial Killer Confesses To 1960s Bergen Schoolgirl Murders
Lodi Serial Killer Confesses To 1960s Bergen Schoolgirl Murders Decades-old murders ordinarily require DNA evidence to solve, but not with a notorious New Jersey serial killer who authorities said admitted slaying three teenage schoolgirls in Bergen County more than 50 years ago. “Dogged investigation and relentless interviews” by BCPO Chief of Detectives Robert Anzilotti and Detective Capt. James McMurrow over the course of nearly 15 years got the confessions from Richard Cottingham, said author Peter Vronsky, who’s writing a book about a slew of cold-case New Jersey female killings. SEE: New Jersey Girl Murders Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella c…

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Police & Fire
SEEN HIM? Suspect In Paterson Robbery Shooting Sought SEEN HIM? Suspect In Paterson Robbery Shooting Sought
Seen HIM? Suspect In Paterson Robbery Shooting Sought Authorities on Friday revealed that they’d arrested a Paterson man and a teenager back in November following a shooting during a robbery on a city street and were now looking for the public’s help finding a third defendant. Exactly who they believe pulled the trigger on Paterson Avenue on Nov. 18, shooting a 23-year-old victim in the stomach, wasn’t disclosed by Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald in a brief release. The assailants had pulled up in a black, four-door black that was found abandoned on West Broadway and Union Avenue, police said a…

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Police & Fire
Fire KO'd At Wayne Adhesives Company Fire KO'd At Wayne Adhesives Company
Fire KO'd At Wayne Adhesives Company Firefighters quickly doused a blaze that broke out Friday afternoon at a Wayne adhesive and sealant company. Pallets were reported burning around 2 p.m. at Royal Adhesives & Sealants on Burgless Place off Route 23. Firefighters responding to the two-alarm blaze knocked it down within 15 minutes. Plant managers told responders there were no hazards other than rubber burning. A hazardous materials unit was requested as a precaution. Royal Adhesives & Sealants says it manufacturers “high performance adhesives, sealants, encapsulants and polymer coatings.”

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News
ALERT: Toddler Food Found To Contain Egg, Wheat Recalled ALERT: Toddler Food Found To Contain Egg, Wheat Recalled
ALERT: Toddler Food Found To Contain Egg, Wheat Recalled A company that makes meals and snacks for toddlers is recalling a product that it says contains egg and wheat, federal authorities announced Friday. About 200 pounds of the Little Dish meal “FRESH FOOD FOR KIDS: Lentils & Beef with Vegetables for Toddlers,” with a best buy date of 1/10/20, was sold over the Internet and shipped to customers in Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C., the government said. The problem was discovered when the maker, Kettle Cuisine Midco, of Lynn, Mass, “received a complaint from a consumer who reported finding noodl…

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