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A new lawsuit has been filed in the protracted battle over control of the Paterson Police Department.

Released body-camera footage shows police shooting Seabrooks​, as he was having a mental health crisis.

Police and Passaic County sheriff’s officers converged on a Paterson neighborhood after a man on the street was shot in the neck, apparently by someone in a nearby home, responders said.No arrests had been announced nor suspects identified…

A 62-year-old Paterson man was critically wounded and a 15-year-old juvenile injured in a broad-daylight shooting, authorities said.Officers who rushed to the area after hearing gunshots found both victims near the corner of 10th Avenue an…

Three teenagers and a 20-year-old man were wounded in a shooting at one of Paterson’s most dangerous street corners, authorities confirmed.Shots rang out at Godwin Avenue and Carroll Street shortly after 9:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, Passaic …

A 56-year-old Paterson man was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a child two decades ago, authorities said.The child was between five and seven years old when Edwin Chaparro sexually assaulted the victim at least twice at a res…

A triple shooting in Paterson involving two female victims – one from out of state -- was followed a few hours later by gunfire that wounded a city teenager, authorities said.Police responding to shots fired at New Plaza FoodMarket at the …

A man who was killed and a woman who was with him were shot by two Paterson ex-cons, one of whom recently served nearly a decade for slaying an aspiring rapper and the other who was tracked down in Virginia, authorities announced.Shaquan W…

A 35-year-old man confined to a wheelchair from a previous shooting was critically wounded by gunfire in Paterson, authorities confirmed.The victim was shot multiple times at the five corners where Park Avenue and East 22nd Street meet sho…

Authorities were trying to identify a man shot dead on a Paterson street corner.The victim was shot in the head and arm at the intersection of North Main and Arch streets around 9:45 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 29, they said.He was pronounced dead…