Paterson News

July 8, 2009 -- A mother in Paterson, New Jersey is accused of terrorizing her own daughter in a bizarre religious rite.

Share + Jul 8, 2009 10:09 pm US/Eastern Reporting Sean Hennessey PATERSON, N.J. A religious ritual turned into a suspected case of child abuse.

Three people are accused of cutting a child and making her watch animal sacrifices as part of a religious ritual in northern New Jersey.

A former Port Authority police recruit who trained and managed professional boxers 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 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.