Paterson News

A man being pursued on foot by two Paterson police officers escaped after exchanging gunfire with them early Friday.

Three Paterson men were shot in a city playground last night after a fight broke out with another group of men.

Two Paterson police officers fired more than a dozen rounds during an intense shootout this morning, officials said.

Oasis provides GED, English as a Second Language and computer classes, along with free hot lunches, a food pantry, after-school programs, a summer camp and referral services for low-income women and their children.

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.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson says it has reinstated a Morris County pastor who had been placed on leave because of an FBI investigation.

A Pocono Township man finally has been charged in the 2004 murder of another man he says he killed in self-defense, Pocono Township police said Tuesday.

A former Port Authority police recruit who trained and managed professional boxers in New Jersey was sentenced Monday to more than six years in federal prison for conspiring with a Passaic County Sheriff's officer to distribute 43 kilos of cocaine stolen from an evidence vault.

A Franklin Lakes man has been indicted by a Passaic County grand jury in connection with a car chase on the William Paterson University campus that ended with him being shot in the shoulder.

PATERSON a ' Fourteen people are back in their homes after firefighters put out an electrical fire at 578 E. 26th St.

Confess: You're obsessed with 'Housewives' Danielle Staub of Wayne, N.J., one the stars of Bravo's television series "Real Housewives of New Jersey," talks with reporters outside the Passaic County courthouse in Paterson, N.J., Wednesday.

This week, we speak with reality-television star Dina Manzo of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey," about Project Ladybug and her work to help children with cancer.

A northeastern Pennsylvania man who has acknowledged killing a man with a meat cleaver in 2004 is now charged with criminal homicide.

One of the "Real Housewives of New Jersey" says a desperate ex-boyfriend is looking to cash in on her limelight by trying to sell videos and pictures of her engaged in sex acts, and she plans to go to court to fight it.

Police arrested a city man Monday after his landlord allegedly discovered him ransacking his apartment.

The YM-YWHA of North Jersey will honor 28 members who have been with the Y for 50 or more years at a special event at 7 p.m. Wednesday, at the Y, One Pike Drive, Wayne.

Two quick-thinking police aides were able to thwart an assault today on a 16-year-old mother as she was on her way to drop off her 14-month-old son at day care before heading to school, police said.

When Paterson police officers organized a union in 1896 - the first Policemen's Benevolent Association in New Jersey - an officer worked a dramatically different job.

Diocese officials say a Roman Catholic church pastor in New Jersey, who also is a jail chaplain, has been placed on leave because of an FBI investigation.

Two former New Jersey elected officials arrested on corruption charges nearly two years ago in an FBI sting operation have been sentenced to federal prison terms.Former Passaic City Council member Marcellus Jackson received a 25-month sentence on Monday.