Prospect Park News

The mother and the attorney of a youth allegedly assaulted by the Prospect Park Police Chief last year wants answers from the mayor and council.

Paterson Schools Superintendent Donnie Evans said the district will open two to three additional alternative schools in coming weeks for intensive discipline and instruction for disruptive students.

Two three-year council seats, both now held by Democrats. THE CANDIDATES: REPUBLICANS John Block Jr., 78, of Morrissee Avenue is a longtime presence in Haledon.

Includes Glen Rock in Bergen County and Haledon, Hawthorne, North Haledon, Paterson, Prospect Park and Totowa in Passaic County.

Thomas F.X. Magura 66, of North 8th Street, is an ex-councilman, a member of the Prospect Park Board of Education and a lifelong resident of the borough.

A local man wasn't so lucky as he was arrested on charges of taking lottery tickets.

The president of the Board of Education attempted to dismiss rumors that the board awarded a bonus to the superintendent earlier this month.

Daly: The 'Hay Fields,' the 'Jug Milk' & the 'big kids' Friday, October 2, 2009 DALY, MIKE Glen Rock Gazette Editor's Note: This column, reprinted from last year, was a first-place winner in the New Jersey Press Association's 2008 Better Newspaper Contest.

A heroic taxi driver had a gun pointed to his head, but later chased down the woman who robbed him near Bartel Pritchard Square on Sept.

Police arrested a Prospect Park teenager for allegedly setting a fire in his mother's garage on Aug.

You could call it North Jersey's leading layaway economic indicator. At the Kmart store on Hamburg Turnpike in Wayne, the room where big-ticket layaway purchases such as flat-screen TVs are stored is relatively bare.

"The intersection of Fifth Avenue and Union Street is the unofficial town square of Park Slope, a bustling baby factory where expensive puppies idle beside a store that sells $28 Brooklyn T-Shirts and a wine shop called Red, White & Bubbly." Fifth Avenue and Union Street is also the intersection where, in 1973, Raphi Allini, an eighteen-year old ...

City police and firefighters rescued nine people from five vehicles this morning along a flooded section of Broadway Avenue.

Thousands of Michael Jackson fans danced the rain away in a Brooklyn park on Saturday at a party hosted by filmmaker Spike Lee, marking what would have been the 51st birthday of the late pop star.

Michael Jackson's 51st birthday bash will be held this Saturday. Jackson told the New York Daily News his son, who died June 25, is due to be interred the morning of Aug.

On what would have been Michael Jackson 's 51st birthday, we continue to celebrate his music.

GIANT A parks worker with Godzilla in 1999. Q. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden used to have a huge resident snapping turtle named Godzilla.

You don't need to be a history buff to appreciate the historical aspects of this sprawling Victorian at 69 Macculloch Ave.

A Passaic County sheriff's officer has been charged with twice leaving the scene of an accident - while driving to work without a license in an unregistered vehicle, police said.

The Blockbuster Video on Fifth Avenue was busted on July 30. A thief ran into the building, which is at 15th Street at about 8 pm, and ran off with 49 DVDs, worth $1,225. Surveillance cameras caught the whole thing - suitable for an episode of "Law & Order." Movin' out Someone stole thousands of dollars in pricey gadgets from a woman who just moved ...