Abena Owusu, 18, of Paterson, on Wednesday, Sept. 10, after a cancer battle, according to those who knew her and her obituary on the Festa Memorial Funeral Home. Born in Livingston, Abena grew up in ...

PATERSON -- Seven men conspired to pass bad checks, costing two check-cashing businesses $260,000, according to a 29-count indictment. Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes announced the charges ...

Sean Scillieri was sentenced on Friday to 364 days in the Passaic County Jail for running a million-dollar check kiting scheme out of the family funeral home that supplied him with cash to buy drugs.