Paterson News

It took an independent candidate for governor nearly $432,000 in taxpayer funds to get 1 percent of the vote in the 2005 election -- then nearly seven years to finally tell the state how he spent the funds.

In a large parking lot next to a vacant building, a disc jockey played old school music while volunteers passed out clothes and food.

According to the Paterson Police Cease Fire Unit, the 21-year-old victim was shot in the right buttock shortly after 4 a.m. Saturday morning near 16th Avenue and Rosa Parks Blvd.

The 22-year-old exited his vehicle onto East 26th Street between 9th and 10th avenues when a gunman approached and opened fire at about 2:15 a.m., authorities said.

At its fourth annual Beef Steak Dinner Fundraiser Wednesday night, The Paterson Great Falls Rotary Club honored nine athletes and sports greats from Paterson who have given back to the city in various ways.

For decades, law enforcement from Paterson's offspring cities, Woodland Park, Prospect Park and Elmwood Park have notoriously been branded as profilers of urban drivers entering their towns.

Beginning this Saturday, May 18, Paterson's rich art scene will be open for the public to visit the Great Falls Historic District, the National Historic Park, and various art exhibits in some of Paterson's untouched Mills.

A relative of a boy who disappeared in 1972 from an orphanage outing in Burlington County has come forward to help investigators solve the cold case.

Three Bernards Township residents were among the more than 70 people who made reports to 30 police departments within the last year or so that they were the victims of identity theft, prompting a statewide investigation that led to the arrest of 11 people earlier this month, authorities said.

FANWOOD, NJ The Carriage House Poetry Series will present distinguished poets Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Leslie Heywood reading their works onTuesday, May 21st at 8 pm in the Kuran Arts Center on Watson Road, off North Martine Avenue, adjacent to Fanwood Borough Hall.

A man was struck and killed by a NJ Transit train Tuesday night, Wayne Police reported.

Bass River Township, Burlington County, N.J. - The New Jersey State Police, in partnership with the Cook County, Illinois Sheriff's Office, and the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification have identified human remains that date back to a missing juvenile case from 1972.

It's natural for parents to react with horror when told their child cheated in school, but new research reveals the line between right and wrong in the classroom is often hazy for young children.

PATERSON - A city resident was arrested Tuesday afternoon and charged with selling crack cocaine and heroin after law enforcement authorities watched him make a drug sale, Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik said.

Bones that were found in a park in Burlington County in 2000 have been identified as those of a teenager who went missing during a camping trip with other children from a Paterson orphanage more than four decades ago, authorities said Tuesday.

Photo by Amy Paterson/New Jersey Herald - A halo around the sun is seen behind the Veteran's Memorial on the Newton Green.

An Elmwood Park man suspected of sexually assaulting two underage girls was arrested in Pennsylvania Sunday after being on the run for more than a week.

PATERSON Rosa Parks high school freshman Elizabeth Dronette had mixed feelings after seeing a documentary about a Holocaust survivor with dementia.

Paterson police are looking to toxicology testing by the State Medical Examiner's Office to determine how a Haskell man died last Friday morning at just 23 years of age.

PATERSON - City police confiscated more than $5,000 worth of drugs, arrested 23 people, impounded 28 vehicles and seized a stolen shotgun on Saturday during the deployment of the "Special Operations Unit,'' according to Police Director Glenn Brown.