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Winner! Lotto Ticket Sold Online In NJ Nets Big Bucks
A Powerball ticket sold online matched four numbers and the red Powerball in the drawing held on Saturday, June 20, winning $50,000. The ticket was sold online via the Jackpocket app, which is based in Hewitt in Passaic County. The winning numbers were 18, 25, 31, 40, 57 and the...
15 Years Ago: Bob Dylan Gets Detained by the New Jersey Police
Bob Dylan once sang, "In Jersey anything's legal as long as you don't get caught." But he did get caught by the New Jersey police on July 23, 2009. Dylan was then on tour with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp, performing in minor-league baseball parks across America. On that day, they'd played a show in Lakewood, New Jersey, roughly an hour and a half's drive outside New York City.
Showers, storms threaten NYC area for days — and then heat returns
Storms are back in the forecast for the next few days, after a relatively quiet weather stretch for the tri-state area, and you'll want to keep the umbrella on hand for whatever pops up. A series of low-pressure systems will be moving through the area this week, keeping our weather...
Answering the big questions surrounding the Campanile vs. NJSIAA football transfer case
NJSIAA attorney Steve Goodell informed attorney Patrick J. Jennings that the state’s governing body for high school athletics will not retroactively punish any school found to have breached the transfer rule in a judge’s future ruling. This was one of the biggest requests in the July 10 hearing, when Jennings sought that Bergen...
NJ makes $95 million available to developers to build and improve healthy housing for state's Medicaid community
Safe, stable housing is a key determinant in someone’s health outcomes, and New Jersey has made funding available for developers to build affordable homes specifically for the most vulnerable residents.
Three New Jersey Breweries Win Awards For Best Brews In the United States
For years, I have been telling people that some of the best craft beer anywhere in the United States can be found in New Jersey. Just in Cape May County, there are 11 Craft Breweries and Hammonton has three of their own too. Earlier this year, 18 Craft Brewing Companies...
Wawa fan in NJ goes viral collecting every possible receipt number
There’s this old cliche of an answer for mountain climbers asked why they climbed a dangerous, treacherous mountain. Sometimes it’s just as simple as a challenge. Even if the challenge is one only you yourself understand. Maybe for a certain New Jersey guy collecting every Wawa order receipt number 0 through 999 was his mountain.
Six New Jersey lottery players won big playing Powerball, NJ Lottery games last week
Six lottery players in New Jersey won $10,000 or more last week playing Powerball and other New Jersey Lottery games. The New Jersey Lottery announced Monday its weekly winners. Here's a look at where these tickets were sold from July 15 to July 21:. $1,637,643, Jersey Cash 5, July 19:...
Listeria outbreak linked to deli meats hospitalizes dozens and kills one in NJ
The CDC has issued an alert over a multistate listeria outbreak it says may be linked to sliced deli meats. So far, there have been 28 hospitalizations in 12 states, most of them on the East Coast. ...
Test calling ISIS terrorists sparks trouble for NJ school superintendent
WAYNE — Parents are holding a school superintendent's feet to the fire after he apologized for a test question that called ISIS an Islamic terror group. The multiple choice question was part of a quiz in a seventh-grade class at Schuyler-Colfax Middle School in Wayne, according to the group Teaching While Muslim.
LBI offshore wind critics sound alarm after Massachusetts turbine breaks
A Long Beach Island-based group critical of offshore wind development is calling for a moratorium on additional New Jersey's wind projects following the failure of a turbine off the coast of Massachusetts this month. "Save LBI" called for the moratorium from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities on Monday, citing the impacts from a broken turbine at the Vineyard Wind project off Martha's Vineyard. After a blade broke off the turbine, beaches in the region were...
NJ Rocker is Now a Billionaire
How many people, described as blue-collar workers can say they also have a billion dollars in the bank?. I'm guessing that number would be quite small. However, they do exist. According to Forbes, we have one right here in New Jersey. Welcome to the Billioniares Club. Bruce Springsteen, The Boss,...
NJ Gov. Murphy met with Trump to wish him well after assassination attempt
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) met in-person with former President Trump on Saturday to wish him well in the aftermath of an assassination attempt that left Trump with an injured ear. The governor’s office confirmed to The Hill that Murphy and his wife reached out to Trump immediately after the shooting earlier this month…
N.J. gets $250M grant to add electric truck charging stations along I-95
The state Department of Environmental Protection on Monday received a $250 million federal grant to put toward a multi-state electric truck charging project along I-95. The grant will provide funding for the Clean Corridor Coalition, a initiative that aims to install charging stations for commercial and medium to heavy duty electric trucks along the interstate highway in New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware and Maryland.
Urgent call for reform: NJ disability ombudsman highlights abuse in state-run homes
A report released Monday delivered a stark portrayal of how New Jersey cares for its residents with developmental disabilities. Entitled "The Fierce Urgency of Now," its pages are filled with stories of systemic failures and personal tragedies faced by New Jerseyans who depend on the state’s help. Year after year disability ombudsman Paul Aronsohn...
NBA’s Sixers-to-New Jersey talk is ‘real,’ Gov. Murphy says: ‘Serious conversation’
New Jersey’s government is indeed courting the Philadelphia 76ers to move across the Delaware River to the Garden State, Gov. Phil Murphy confirmed Monday. ROI-NJ reported last week that state officials in Murphy’s administration are making a pitch to the ownership of the NBA franchise to move to Camden as talks to build a new arena in Philly have been bumpy.
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