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Hundreds of people gathered outside Paterson City Hall on Tuesday night to demand justice and safer streets after a 12-year-old girl was fatally shot by a stray bullet while riding her scooter.
Genesis Rincon was struck around 8:40 p.m. Saturday while riding her scooter on Rosa Parks Boulevard with two friends, police said.
A 12-year-old girl who was gunned down while riding a scooter with friends was on life support, on Sunday night.
One man allegedly kidnapped two women in Pennsylvania, tried to burn down a car dealership in New Jersey, and rammed Port Authority police vehicles in New York City.
Prosecutors on Tuesday said 325 people, including more than 280 alleged users and 40 dealers, were snared during the eight-week operation that targeted Paterson-based drug operations.
Winter may be long gone, but its effects still lingered in parts of New Jersey as June began – and drivers were feeling the pain.
Three young boys in Paterson, New Jersey have been charged with attacking and severely injuring a cat that later died.
Police are not sure if the burglars knew they were targeting Jose "Joey" Torres or whether the election night heist was just a coincidence.
A building owner and employee were charged Monday, after prosecutors alleged the sprinklers were cut in a Paterson, N.J. building where a fire burned for five days in February.
The driver and front-seat passenger were killed and two others were rushed to the hospital, police said. One passenger was in critical condition and another was in serious condition, on Saturday.
Authorities are investigating a fatal blaze in Carlstadt, and in Paterson a fire destroyed three buildings and left a dozen people homeless.
Police say they discovered a dog-fighting ring at a Paterson, N.J. while they carried out a drug raid at the residence.
Dozens of emergency responders came to the rescue of the pop who was named 'clover' by firefighters. On Sunday, 4-year-old Clover met her forever family the DiFalcos of Little Falls.
Flames ripped violently through the roof of a house in Paterson, N.J. Monday evening, as an extra-alarm fire raged.
Bobby Singletary, of Paterson, N.J., was sentenced to seven years in prison, including five years of parole ineligibility, Attorney General John J. Hoffman's office said.
The fire, which left more than three dozen people homeless, appears to have started on the ground level of an apartment building.
Buildings were destroyed, and dozens of people were evacuated, as one extra-alarm fire in Paterson, N.J. turned into four different fires thanks to whipping winds.
Workers at the center called the police, who said they recovered 48 envelopes of heroin in the boy's jacket.
Dozens of firefighters battled a multi-alarm blaze that engulfed two abandoned buildings in Paterson that apparently were being occupied by several squatters.
Authorities have identified the 13-year-old boy who was killed when a 115-pound bull mastiff dog attacked him and another youth in northern New Jersey.
A 13-year-old boy was killed, and another teen was injured, in an attack by a dog Saturday in Paterson, N.J.
More snow moved into the region on Saturday and many residents have had enough.
The Paterson, N.J. school district set aside five days and have already used four. The district could opt to add school days at the end of June or take away some of the scheduled days off in April if they go over five snow days.
There have been reports that chemicals may be stored inside of the building which is located just across the street from a number of houses.
Super Bowl XLVIII was just about 48 hours away Friday afternoon, and one Denver Bronco from New Jersey claimed he will start his own victory parade if his team wins the game.
