Christie Comes to Fair Lawn and More in Top County News

Welcome to "Around The County," a weekly column that highlights stories in Bergen County Patch communities. This week, heavy rains caused evacuations in Westwood, a physics professor at FDU in Teaneck was accused of running a prostitution website, two people were stabbed in Paramus, police officers have been disciplined for keeping teens in a van in Fort Lee overnight after a party bust, Governor Christie came to Fair Lawn, officials addressed bear sightings in Franklin Lakes and more. Check out our list of some of the top stories on Patch sites this week:

• A physics professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Metropolitan Campus in Teaneck is accused of , provided descriptions of undercover officers and even hosted videos offering legal advice on what to do if arrested, authorities said.
  
  
• Two people were stabbed at a Burlington Road party in Paramus early Sunday morning, police said. , and both were sent to Hackensack University Medical Center for injuries that were not life-threatening, according to police.
  
  
• Fort Lee officials say that in freezing temperatures, without food, water or bathroom facilities for more than 14 hours after a house party bust.
  
  
• Westwood residents . The flooding also closed a significant portion of Broadway.
  
  
• With pension and health benefits reform fresh on the minds of teachers and other attendees at a packed Fair Lawn Community Center, .
  
  
• Heavy fog obscuring sight appears to be the reason early Thursday morning, violently shooting the small vehicle 70 feet down a sleepy East Ridgewood Avenue in Ridgewood.
  
  
• Mayor Frank Bivona reassured Franklin Lakes residents that the borough is handling local bears as well as they can at the meeting of the mayor and council Tuesday night. Two residents came to the meeting to express their , near Oakland.
  
  
• to be placed at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church on Center Street in New Milford.
  
  
• Under a proposed Solicitor's Ordinance, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and local politicians in River Edge would be as part of a scout project, sell cookies or campaign.
  
  
• The Veterans of Foreign Wars family brought together the family of one of their own members, Joseph Calacione, last week to in Hasbrouck Heights with a special ceremony.
  
  
• As a child growing up in Pompton Lakes, a young Kevin Haslam heard about a football camp at Mahwah high school, run by head coach Jeff Remo. Intrigued by the idea, and wanting to play football as he got older, Haslam decided to try it out. Fast-forward to 2011, Haslam, a graduate of both Mahwah High School and Rutgers University, is now an offensive lineman for the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars. .
  
  
• Sympathies are pouring in for a prominent and beloved neurosurgeon and his wife from Franklin Lakes who were . Viswanathan Rajaraman, M.D. and his wife, Mary J. Sundaram were returning home from their daughter's graduation at Georgetown University.
  
  
• Wyckoff's currently filming in Georgia according to a report in Variety.com. Bowden's role is described as playing the girlfriend of Chris Klein's character Oz.