Passaic News

Legislation Assembly Democrats Gabriela Mosquera, Patrick J. Diegnan Jr., Majority Leader Lou Greenwald, Annette Quijano and Thomas Giblin sponsored to encourage property tax savings in school districts was released Monday by an Assembly committee.

Wagner, Stender, Vainieri Huttle, Quijano, Mosquera, Lampitt, Jasey & Watson Coleman Two-Bill Package Would Restore Funding for Women's Health Centers & Expand Medicaid Coverage A two-bill package sponsored by Assembly Democrats to boost funding for women's health care in the FY 2014 budget was advanced by an Assembly panel on Monday.

Legislation sponsored by Assembly Democrats Reed Gusciora and Connie Wagner to allow the creation of craft distilleries in New Jersey was released Monday by the Assembly Budget Committee.

The 19-year-old had graduated from the Rubino Academy this month and had been accepted into cosmetology school.

The Township Council promised two organizers of the Northern New Jersey Veterans Memorial Cemetery Tuesday it would complete work on a resolution of support at its next meeting.

Rapp's Boat Yard in Kearny is one of the last on the Passaic River because few pleasure boats sail the polluted waterway.

Last night, the young city man who was shot in the head and chest on Passaic Street early Thursday was being prepped to have his organs removed for donation.

Restaurant and food establishment inspections published in The Record include only the establishment's name and the evaluation it received.

A New Jersey plaintiff lawyer's lapses in a wrongful death product-liability suit against Ford Motor Co., culminating in his complete disappearance, has lawyers at his former firm struggling to pick up the pieces.

Legislation sponsored by Assembly Democrats Cleopatra Tucker, Troy Singleton, Timothy Eustace, Pamela Lampitt, Lou Greenwald and John Wisniewski that would allow nonresident military spouses to seek temporary licensure from certain professional and occupations licensing boards upon moving to New Jersey was released Thursday by a Senate panel.

Legislation sponsored by Assembly Democrats Wayne DeAngelo, Craig Coughlin, Celeste Riley and Connie Wagner to create a commission tasked with studying and making recommendations to the governor and the Legislature on how to best facilitate the successful transition of veterans into higher education has been signed into law.

If you think the weather in New Jersey seems to be more extreme than it used to be, you are right.

Cars waiting at Erskine Road and Skyline Drive, where Ringwood's first traffic signal now controls the flow of vehicles.

Fort Lee - The torrent of angry emails objecting to Fort Lee's decision to commemorate comfort women has not stopped, but the borough, last week, saw support emerge from a powerful source: the New Jersey Legislature.

An Assembly panel on Thursday approved legislation sponsored by Assembly members Tim Eustace, Herb Conaway, Jr., M.D., Reed Gusciora and John Burzichelli that would ban the controversial practice known as "conversion therapy" for minors in New Jersey.

Chad Taylor, of the band Live, discussing plans last month for a 10-story building that will be built in downtown Allentown and host his business, United Fiber and Data.

New Jersey is ready for the second day this week of heavy rains, flooding and high winds as a line of storms heads east.

The township recently granted candidates for elected office permission to host and appear on public access television shows on channel 77. The Town Council approved the change at a meeting last week.

Members of the Bergen County SWAT team search on Somerset Street for a Passaic man who fled police on June 5 in Garfield.SWAT members go house to house looking for the suspect.

A measure sponsored by Assembly Democrats Tim Eustace and Connie Wagner calling on NJ Transit to rescind the fare increase on the Main, Bergen County and Pascack Valley commuter rail lines was released Monday by an Assembly panel.