Passaic News

Wallington is a town of residential neighborhoods dotted with businesses such as Krakovia Manor banquet hall and Chefsky's Polish Home Cooking.

The mild winter hasn't been great for ski resorts or businesses that plow snow, but it's had one unexpected benefit: North Jersey residents are suffering less from the flu, experts say.

Citing his teaching experience and unique qualifications, the members of the Passaic County Education Association today endorsed Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr.

A 25-year-old Prospect Park man with a history of alcohol abuse was sentenced Friday to four years in state prison for a drunken driving accident that killed a Passaic resident.

After nine years as a fugitive, Artemio Tepale was sentenced Friday to just three years in prison for the gang-related street shooting of an 18-year-old man on Passaic 's Howe Avenue on Oct.

CLIFTON - A Passaic man is accused of leading police on a high-speed chase that ended after he stumbled out of his moving car and tried to run away early Friday morning, authorities said.

PASSAIC - The children's room of the city's main public library has been closed indefinitely following the collapse of a plaster ceiling in the 82-year-old building.

Affiliate Nexus Tax Legislation proposed by Sen. Paul A. Sarlo and Sen. Raymond J. Lesniak will cost New Jersey thousands of jobs and decrease tax revenue.

An assistant surgeon did not deviate from the accepted standards of care in treating a 23-year-old Clifton woman who died hours after what was supposed to be routine gall bladder surgery, a Superior Court jury found Wednesday.

As it unfolded, my first summer out of high school seemed longer than any other I'd known.

A Bloods street gang member was found guilty Tuesday of arming and ordering a 15-year-old newcomer to the gang to rob and fatally shoot a man in Passaic as the victim sat in his car.

The brother of a man on trial in the killing of a Lakewood police officer has been arrested after allegedly threatening to go on a shooting rampage at a high school if the suspect is convicted.

PATERSON - Passaic sheriff's officers conducting a traffic stop arrested a man who escaped from a halfway house and later arrested his friend on outstanding warrants when she came to pick up the car, authorities said.

Police are trying to determine what happened to a man found critically wounded in his apartment after someone stabbed him five times, authorities said.

The NETS are leaving New Jersey after this season to move to Brooklyn, but they want to thank their local fans with some special events.

IT'S NOT a good time to be a woman in America. Or at least a woman without means.

WALLINGTON - A burglar broke into a Main Avenue gas station early Friday morning, taking off with a safe, police said.

Christian Acevedo, 30, of Passaic , was arrested and charged with criminal sexual contact, resisting arrest and obstruction of justice on Jan.

CLIFTON - An 88-year-old Major Street resident found an unknown man in her basement on Jan.

For over three generations, La Fede has been a symbol of fine Italian ingredients in the kitchen.