PATERSON — Violent crime in Paterson has increased by 4.5% so far this year, even though the police department says there’s been a significant jump in the number of arrests. Aggravated assaults account for the rise in violent crime in the city, with the number of such reported incidents growing from 514 in the first […]
LODI — As Gemar Mills stood on the auditorium stage, in front of 85 students wearing caps and gowns, he thanked them. For Mills, this graduation was proof that his success as principal at Newark’s Malcolm X Shabazz High School was no fluke and he could build a school with a culture of achievement from […]
PATERSON — In city where many people complain about litter-strewn streets, officials on Tuesday celebrated the installation of the first of 90 new solar-powered trash receptacles — devices that cost $4,700 apiece. Shaped somewhat like mailboxes, the trash bins have solar panels on top of them to provide power for the compactors that are programmed […]
PATERSON — School 10 — among the worst academically in New Jersey — will give its students half days on Fridays starting in September so its teachers can get extra training. Cutting classroom time for children at the struggling school is designed to improve the lessons they get for the other four and a half […]
A 19-year-old from New Jersey has been arrested and charged in connection with a shooting in Paterson last October that left one man dead and two more wounded. Brayan Caraballo was detained in Pennsylvania and is awaiting extradition to New Jersey, the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office said in a press release Thursday. Caraballo is accused […]
All residents have been accounted for following a seven-alarm fire that broke out Sunday morning in Paterson, officials said. One man was initially believed to be missing in the aftermath of the blaze, but he was later found, Mayor Andre Sayegh announced. “I should say I’m encouraged to inform you that he is accounted for […]
A huge seven-alarm fire tore through a building in Paterson overnight Sunday. The fire was first reported shortly after midnight at Broadway near Straight Street. Flames and dark smoke could be seen coming out of the mixed-use residential and commercial building. Nearby fire departments Hawthorne and Prospect Park responded to the scene and reported the […]
PATERSON — Her lung disease took from E. Denise Peoples one of the joys of her life — singing. “It’s hard to sing when you can’t breathe,” she said. But Peoples — who grew up in Paterson — had a double lung transplant about 17 years ago. And this month, the 60-year-old sang the national […]
Libby’s, an iconic Paterson grill that closed in 2020, is teetering on the brink of destruction. State officials may still intervene to save it, as the New Jersey Historic Preservation Office has put the pending sale of the city-owned riverside property under review “to ensure preservation of the property’s significant historic features.” Paterson Mayor Andre […]
A 39-year-old Paterson man who authorities say was carrying two loaded guns allegedly sent his estranged wife videos of himself on Tuesday threatening a mass shooting at a New York City airport. “I am going to wait for the plane to leave, and that is when I am going to start shooting the airport up,” […]
PATERSON — Off-duty city police officers on Monday resumed providing emergency room security at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, officials said. That practice — which had been in place for well more than a decade — came to a halt in early February amid a dispute over delinquent payments from the hospital and a disagreement […]
PATERSON — In the arithmetic of law enforcement personnel, Paterson is trailing Newark, Jersey City and Trenton. The Silk City has 26.55 cops for every 10,000 people, compared with 33.34 per 10,000 in Newark, 30.63 per 10,000 in Jersey City and 27.33 per 10,000 in Trenton, based on a Paterson Press analysis of government payroll […]