A 25-year-old man was found fatally shot Friday afternoon on a Paterson street, according to a joint statement from the Paterson Police Department and the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office.

New Jersey's Attorney General assumed control of the Paterson Police Department in 2023 amid turmoil, criminal charges and protests.

The defense presented no witnesses at the trial, which lasted two weeks. According to published reports, it took the jury just two hours to convict Nova of kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, ...

Rosita Diaz, 57, was found unresponsive on a bench in a holding cell after being arrested on a drug charge two years ago.

Nonetheless, Torres was accused of making a public speech in February of 2022 stating that he was running for mayor of the ...

New Jersey’s attorney general exceeded his authority when he took operational control of the Paterson Police Department in March 2023 and local management of the 300-plus officer department in ...

A mother in Passaic County says her preteen daughter was viciously bullied on a near-daily basis by her peers at school for nearly four years. They lobbed racial slurs at the girl, calling her the ...

A New Jersey man convicted of aggravated manslaughter in the death of a Paterson 18-year-old was sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison. Tyheem Jones, 40, of Hawthorne, was sentenced by Passaic ...

The man accused of causing the fatal boat crash on Greenwood Lake in 2016 will finally get his day in court. Shawn Kelly, a former Paramus firefighter, is scheduled to go on trial in Passaic ...

Three Paterson police officers are accused of official misconduct for allegedly letting a New York Police Department captain off the hook after they responded to a domestic violence call in which ...

A Little Falls police officer who was seriously hurt Thursday after crashing his patrol vehicle into the side of a building had suffered a medical episode while driving, according to the township ...

Should companies that pollute New Jersey’s climate be made to pay for that pollution? A bill that would do just that, legislation that about half a dozen states are mulling now and Vermont first ...