Paterson

Two different shootings blocks away and hours apart resulted in a deadly outcome, Ken Buffa reports.

At least four people are dead and three others are hospitalized with gunshot wounds after a late-night shooting in Paterson, New Jersey, the city’s mayor said Wednesday. Two people were pronounced dead at the scene, near Harrison and Carroll streets Tuesday night. Two others died at the hospital. The investigation is ongoing, but Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh says it’s possible...

U.S. Marshals were involved in standoff with a murder suspect on Hamilton Street Wednesday morning in Paterson, New Jersey. Though police tell News 4 New York the standoff has since ended. No other information was immediately available. It’s not clear if that suspect was involved in Tuesday’s shooting that left at least four dead and others injured, but Mayor Andre...

The overnight attack may have been gang retaliation, the mayor says.

A Passaic County judge issued a temporary injunction Tuesday to keep Paterson Councilman-elect Alex Mendez from taking office, just days after Mendez was hit with election fraud charges. Mendez has refused all calls, from the governor down, to step aside and said the “politically powerful” were trying to interfere with the will of Hispanic voters. The injunction is intended to…

A Passaic Ounty judge’s injunction will stop Alex Mendez from taking office, saying the voter fraud allegations have undermined public trust in elections.

Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh responded to a tweet from President Donald Trump sent late Sunday night where the president used the city’s recent voter fraud allegations to argue against vote-by-mail elections. “The last thing Paterson needs is for Donald Trump to tweet about us. It goes to show how much this last election was compromised,” Sayegh said Monday. Trump...

The mayor of Paterson fired back after President Trump used the city alleged voter fraud claims as an example against mail-in elections David Ushery reports.

One day after New Jersey’s governor called for him to step aside, Paterson Councilman-elect Alex Mendez said the “politically powerful” were trying to interfere with the will of Hispanic voters. In a statement Saturday, Mendez said the criminal charges alleging he had engaged in voter fraud “…are just desperate attempts to suppress the Hispanic vote in Paterson.” In his...

A Paterson, New Jersey, councilman and a councilman-elect in the same city, along with two other men, face voting fraud charges in connection with the May 12 special election, the state attorney general’s office said Thursday. Councilmember Michael Jackson, who serves as the council’s vice president, and councilman-elect Alex Mendez were among the four charged with criminal conduct involving mail-in ballots...

One day after New Jersey’s governor called for him to step aside, Paterson Councilman-elect Alex Mendez said the “politically powerful” were trying to interfere with the will of Hispanic voters.

The governor said that Alex Mendez and Michael Jackson refusing to step down “undermines the public’s sacred trust in democracy”; both council members have said they will plead not guilty

Both Paterson City Council Vice President Michael Jackson and council member-elect Alex Mendez have said they are going to fight the charges, and do not plan on stepping down from their positions. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

Two of the defendants had just won elections for city council, but now have been charged in an alleged fraud scheme that, if convicted, could land them behind bars for years. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

A day after a councilman formally contested the results of his race, a judge ordered another race that was decided by just one vote must undergo a second recount

A Paterson City Council race previously decided by a single vote has resulted in a tie after a judge ordered a second recount

A day after a councilman formally contested the results of his race, a judge ordered another race that was decided by just one vote must undergo a second recount

The call comes amid an investigation into possible voter fraud, though one campaign called a suit over the election “contrived.”

Firefighters were on the scene of a devastating fire in Paterson, New Jersey, Sunday evening.

A councilman-elect’s campaign alleges that a police sergeant assigned directly to the mayor’s office was “visiting homes” about the election controversy, with video showing him present as police ask a woman in Spanish if anyone had improperly approached her about how to cast her vote-by-mail ballot