Multiple local rescues and shelters in Paterson, New Jersey teamed up with Animal Control to rescue 120 cats and kittens from a three-story home. Commenting on the large-scale rescue, John DeCando, ...

PATERSON, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) --A cat named Lucky is recovering at an animal shelter after he was rescued from a tree high above Paterson's Great Falls in northern New Jersey. Animal control officer ...

TRAVELERS REST – There are two types of people in this world – those who make holes in one and those who don't. Dan DeCando is a member of the former club. And then some. What has unfolded for DeCando ...

PATERSON, New Jersey (WABC) -- A young girl in New Jersey battling health issues was surprised with her very own dog on Monday and it was a wish come true. It all started with a letter from her family ...

PATERSON — You know your city has troubles when a worker's own union president says he can't figure out why the city is paying that employee more than $140,000 in "stand-by" pay he isn't actually owed ...

PATERSON – A city police officer has filed a lawsuit alleging he was transferred from a lucrative position in the traffic unit because he filed complaints accusing his lieutenant of falsifying time ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Two pit bulls that were saved from a dogfighting ring were stolen from the Paterson, N.J. city animal shelter overnight. Thieves cut holes in the shelter's fence and in the ...

Seven sheep escaped a New Jersey slaughterhouse and will now get a new chance at life at an animal sanctuary. The sheep were spotted wandering the streets of Paterson — New Jersey’s third largest city ...

Editor's note: This article is part of a series titled "Above and Beyond" featuring North Jersey's hometown heroes who have gone above and beyond to save lives. John DeCando's phones ring nonstop ...

being unloaded from a truck at the slaughterhouse in Paterson, the city’s animal control officer John DeCando said. The chase briefly transformed the gritty streets of New Jersey’s third largest city ...