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One of the last remaining stadiums where Negro League games were held in a racially segregated U.S., Hinchliffe Stadium has sat in disrepair for two decades. But a new project to restore the historic site broke ground on Wednesday. NBC New York’s Pat Battle reports.

New Jersey’s largest school districts – including Newark, Jersey City, and Paterson – have often blamed systemic inequities for their decisions to remain all-remote or postpone hybrid learning. But when compared to Lakewood, which has had in-person learning since September, those differences don’t really exist.

Classrooms in Lakewood, NJ have been packed with students five days a week since September. Classrooms in Paterson, NJ have been shuttered the whole time. So what’s behind the drastic difference in how the two school systems approach education in a pandemic? Chris Glorioso reports.

Just days after being told children would return to in-person classes starting in May, the Paterson school board reversed that decision — leaving students and parents alike confused and frustrated. NBC New York’s Pat Battle reports.

The mayor of Paterson announced his plan to get vaccines to residents there who are unable to leave their homes. NBC New York’s Phil Lipof reports.

Universal basic income is coming to a city in New Jersey but only for select residents, for now. Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh on Thursday announced the launch of a pilot program called Guaranteed Income where 110 people will be given $400 in cash payments each month for one year regardless of their employment status. Sayegh said similar programs have been…

Paterson officials say 110 residents who applied to the program will be randomly selected to receive monthly $400 cash payments for one year.

Increased vaccinations are one of the keys to reopening all schools, and Paterson school leaders revealed their plan to get the shot to staff members by partnering with local hospitals.. NBC New York’s Pat Battle reports.

The indictments handed up last month charge Mendez and Jackson with multiple counts including election fraud, unauthorized possession of ballots and falsifying or tampering with public records

An indictment charges a New Jersey school bus company with failing to conduct criminal background checks or drug tests, and using unsafe buses

Nearly a year into the global health crisis, a New Jersey factory can churn out millions of N-95s a month — but now there’s barely been a trickle of orders from governments that were so desperate before

More American companies are selling N95 masks now than ever before – but they’re just not selling. Chris Glorioso looks into why that is.

State and county prosecutors say they are investigating an allegation that police officers in New Jersey assaulted a man “without provocation” in December. Officials said Monday that the public integrity and accountability office of the New Jersey attorney general’s office will be investigating along with Passaic County prosecutors. Officials said the case concerns allegations of assault by Paterson officers...

State and county prosecutors say they are investigating an allegation that police officers in New Jersey assaulted a man “without provocation” in December. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

While millions of other vaccine-seekers in the region try to arrange appointments online or over the phone, sometimes landing slots that are months away, Paterson’s clinic at International High School is first-come, first-served

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is warning vaccine sites across New York not to schedule appointments more than a week out, calling the long-anticipated rollout — the expected savior of the pandemic — a “week-to-week” operation for lack of supply. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff and Ray Villeda reports.

The demand is high and the supply is low for vaccinations. Paterson’s mayor is calling for more supply from the federal government to meet the demand.

Joe Louis Clark, whose toughness and dedication to the students at a troubled high school in New Jersey landed him on the cover of TIME magazine and inspired the 1989 movie “Lean on Me,” has died at the age of 89, his family said

Joe Clark, well renowned school principal that inspired the song ‘Lean on Me,’ dies at 82.