Paterson News

PASSAIC - A homeless man was arrested Friday after he allegedly beat and robbed another man in a fast-food restaurant, authorities said.

PATERSON A group of Paterson children are learning a different way to see life through the lens of a camera.

According to Sheriff Richard Berdnik, each of the 11 women solicited an undercover detective for for sex while working in areas along Van Houten Street and Broadway.

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Paterson resident Cynthia Bascope was charged with selling counterfeit merchandise out of a former meat store on Crooks Avenue.

Some big names in the hob'art gallery world are participating in a new show titled "Joy-US," which runs this weekend for the 2013 Paterson Art Walk.

The 2013 Downtown Paterson Sidewalk Sale Days are slated to begin on June 1st and continue through the end of the summer .

A Paterson man who tried to hide drugs and hypodermic needles in a garbage can Thursday, according to Fair Lawn police.

A New Jersey ex-convict behind the wheel of a van that overturned on an Illinois freeway, killing five passengers returning from a California ministry gathering, had his driving privileges suspended last year for administrative reasons, motor vehicle records show.

PATERSON - Two 18-year-old women were robbed at gunpoint at 4:30 pm on Thursday while they were walking near the corner of Albion Avenue and Henry Street, according to police.

PATERSON - An illegal immigrant is being held on $50,000 bail after authorities discovered he fraudulently obtained a driver's license.

North American Partners in Anesthesia , a specialty anesthesia and perioperative management company has announced New Jersey Anesthesia Group has joined NAPA.

The city council and the director of the Department of Health and Human Services have yet to agree on how licenses should be distributed to applicants seeking to operate food-vending vehicles.

PATERSON - Gov. Chris Christie received the endorsement of the Democratic council president of Paterson today in a move that is likely to give Christie a small boost in a city where he received only 11 percent of the vote in 2009.

Jubilant residents of South Paterson, N.J. - aka "Little Ramallah" - raised a Palestinian flag at City Hall this weekend, reportedly the first time the flag has flown over an American city.

It sounds like something from a "CSI" episode, but it's not fiction. And though the story has no link to the area The Observer covers, you never know.

"When Paterson residents continue to be overburdened by exorbitant taxes, crime and gun violence, an influx of drugs and users in our communities, dilapidated schools and diminishing school funding, the Governor making a second visit to use Paterson as a platform for political posturing or finger-pointing is an insult.

PATERSON - Georgios Spyropoulos, the man accused in a plot to have the owner of the famed Tick Tock Diner tortured, robbed and killed last month, walked out of the Passaic County Jail this afternoon after posting bail, officials said.

On May 2 in Paterson, singer Jon Bon Jovi, center, stands next to Pamela Sanquini, left, whose son Matthew overdose at the age of 20, and Jill LaZare, right, whose daughter Brooke overdose at age 23, as they listen to Gov.

PATERSON - Arab-American leaders say a City Hall ceremony Sunday that honored Palestinian-Americans and raised their native flag was a sign of their growth in the area.