Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Police & Fire
Self-Published 'Inspirational' Wyckoff Author Charged With Torching Former Home Self-Published 'Inspirational' Wyckoff Author Charged With Torching Former Home
Self-Published 'Inspirational' Wyckoff Author Charged With Torching Former Home A self-published Wyckoff author who wrote about suffering from depression and schizophrenia was charged with trying to burn down her former home. Carolyn M. Kaetz, 54, “admitted to Detective Sgt. Kevin Kasak that she started the fire” at her former residence at 115 Huntington Court in March, destroying it, Lt. Joseph Soto said. She was charged with one count of aggravated arson and sent to the Bergen County Jail after police said she confessed last month – only to be released by a judge hours later under New Jersey’s 2017 bail reform law pending a court hearing. Kaetz, who previously worke…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mount Pleasant, NY
News
Missing: Alert Issued For 60-Year-Old Area Man Missing: Alert Issued For 60-Year-Old Area Man
Missing: Alert Issued For 60-Year-Old Area Man Have you seen him? An alert is in effect for a missing area vulnerable adult with schizophrenia who may be in need of medical attention.  George Bingham is a 60-year-old from Nanuet who was last seen wearing an olive green jacket on April 3. He is 5-foot-6, 175 pounds, bald, with brown eyes, has no teeth, walks with a limp, and may travel to New York City. Anyone with information on his whereabouts should call the NYS Missing Persons Clearinghouse at 1-800-346-3543. You can share this story on Facebook by clicking on the Facebook icon below. Check back to Daily Voice for updates.

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by Daily Voice
Fort Lee, NJ
Police & Fire
Port Authority Police At WTC Reunite Non-Verbal Missing Man With Family Port Authority Police At WTC Reunite Non-Verbal Missing Man With Family
Port Authority Police At WTC Reunite Non-Verbal Missing Man With Family A missing Bronx man who couldn't speak and wasn't carrying identification seemed confused as he wandered around the 9/11 memorial in lower Manhattan before dawn Thursday. Port Authority officers assigned to the World Trade Center handed him a pen -- on which the man wrote an address that ended up reuniting him with his family. Loved ones and others distributed fliers and police had issued alerts in the search for 21-year-old Tanvir Hossain. Hossain, who's non-verbal and has schizophrenia, was last seen on Sunday. The officers who found him flashed his photo to the NYPD's 52nd Precinct. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahopac, NY
Lifestyle
Scientists Continue Hunt For Improved Diagnosis And Treatment Of Epilepsy Scientists Continue Hunt For Improved Diagnosis And Treatment Of Epilepsy
Scientists Continue Hunt For Improved Diagnosis And Treatment Of Epilepsy PUTNAM COUNTY, N.Y. -- The first known reports of epilepsy, which is characterized by seizures due to intense electrical activity in the brain, appeared in Assyrian writings around 2000 B.C. Ancient Greek medical texts reference the first neurosurgical procedure as being performed to quiet brain seizures. Mythological tales of demonic possession and lycanthropy – people convulsing into werewolves in the full moon’s light – are partially rooted in what was then a lack of understanding of brain disorders like schizophrenia and epilepsy. Epilepsy often leaves its victims in convulsions, foamin…

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