Passaic News

Name of Product: Jaloma Pacifiers Units: About 700 Importer: Gromex Inc., of Passaic, N.J. Hazard: The pacifier mouth guard and the ventilation holes are too small and fail to meet federal safety standards.

Not one, but two bodies were found in the Passaic River on Sunday. Discovered in Clifton: the body of a two-year-old girl, which turned out to have been stolen from a grave in Connecticut .

A New Jersey neurologist who admitted fondling four female patients has been sentenced to five years' probation and a one-year suspended jail term.

A body found in a New Jersey river this week belonged to a 2-year-old girl whose remains were apparently stolen from a grave in Connecticut, police said today.

Authorities have discovered five bodies in the Passaic River thus far this year.

Levittown - The body of a woman who appeared to be around the same age as the northern New Jersey mother missing since last week has been pulled from the Passaic River.NorthJersey.com reports that divers from the Bergen County Police Department recovered the body about 8 p.m. Sunday from the river in Elmwood Park.

In a surprise announcement Borough Administrator Anthony Iacono will be leaving Paramus to become the Business Administrator for the City of Passaic, the 15th largest community in the State of New Jersey.

A proposed Orthodox synagogue in the city's Rosemawr section that's drawn strong opposition from neighbors has hit a snag.

The backroom wrangling on EnCap ain't over. "We're studying it," Gov. Jon Corzine said of a reform bill on the subject that passed overwhelmingly in the legislature a week ago.

Not wanting to get in trouble with her boss, police said Perla Baeza, 37, of Paterson, made up a story that she had been kidnapped and robbed by an armed Hispanic man to explain why she was late getting to work.

For five years, immigrant day laborer Leo Chamale wired money twice a month from New Jersey to his family in Guatemala.

The Rutgers offensive line for 2010 and beyond is taking shape. The Scarlet Knights gained a commitment from the third offensive line prospect for the '10 recruiting class Sunday, when Passaic High School rising senior Jorge Vicioso pledged his intentions to play at Rutgers, according to both StateofRutgers.com and ScarletNation.com. Rutgers' 2010 ...

WHAT'S NEW: A federal bankruptcy judge Thursday approved annual compensation of $400,000 for the new president and chief executive officer of St.

" Legislation sponsored by Assemblymen Gary Schaer and Fred Scalera to help preserve open space throughout the 36th Legislative District has been approved by an Assembly panel.

PASSAIC a ' The city has settled a lawsuit filed by a fire department veteran who alleged he was passed over for promotion, in part, because he refused to pay $10,000 in cash to former Mayor Samuel Rivera.

Looking to ease demands on a training fund for emergency medical technicians from which $4 million is being taken to balance the state budget, state lawmakers are moving to extend EMT certifications from three years to five.

President Obama's plan for health care reform would give consumers more choices for medical care, U.S. Rep.

Forecasters said parts of northern New Jersey could get soaked today. The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch for Passaic, Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Union, Sussex, Morris, Somerset and Middlesex counties.

Mexican food distributors, the city's economic "backbone," are reeling, being forced to trim workforce and cut production in the face of a sharp decline in consumer spending.

Along with revenge, another reason James Zarate helped his older brother beat and stab a Randolph girl to death in 2005 was because his sibling told him he didn't have the nerve to kill someone, a witness testified today in Zarate's murder trial.