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New Jersey lottery player wins $50,000 playing scratch-off game. Here's where
A trip to the convenience store resulted in a $50,000 payday for one lucky New Jersey lottery player. The New Jersey Lottery announced on social media that someone in Ocean County recently won a top prize on a $50,000 Loaded scratch-Off ticket. The winning ticket was purchased at the QuickChek on Route 70 in Brick. ...
Nearly 200 businesses on NJ’s list of cheating employers
⚫ A list created in September now has 178 entries. ⚫ State officials say the entries are cheating tax and benefit laws. ⚫ 10 businesses added to the list owe close to $1 million. New Jersey's list of bad employers keeps expanding. For the month of July, the New Jersey...
NJ trails legal cannabis states when it comes to this missing piece
TRENTON — Over two years since recreational use sales launched, New Jersey is nearly alone as a state to legalize marijuana while not allowing any home cultivation, in any case. As of August 2024, there were 24 states that have legalized recreational cannabis. Personal cultivation was also allowed in...
How Crooks Stole $5000 Worth of Booze From Ventnor, NJ Store
Here's some cautionary information for South Jersey business owners about a new twist crooks are using to rip stores off by using stolen credit cards. Ventnor Liquor Store Loses $5000 to Credit Card Fraud. Monday night, three guys went into White Star Liquors on Ventnor Avenue and spent some time...
NJ hospital’s NICU gets bedside cameras for parents
Every hospital in New Jersey that has a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit needs to find a way to do what Inspira Medical Center in Vineland is doing. They are in the process of setting up bedside cameras linked to the Internet so parents can see their babies whenever they want.
ATEC/NFCA announce Spring High School Regional Coaching Staffs of the Year
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Eight programs were honored by their peers as 2023-24 ATEC/NFCA High School Spring Regional Coaching Staffs of the Year, the Association announced on Friday afternoon. Competing in the Spring of 2024, Delta High School (Alaska), Providence High School (Calif.), Antioch High School (Ill.), Calvary Baptist Academy...
Another Huge Shark Was Sighted Near Beachgoers In New Jersey
I know, another shark in the water? The next thing we'll be talking about is a bird landing in a tree. But here's the thing, it's not very often that sharks get this close to people in water, and the video is both amazing and shocking. Shark Sightings Have Become...
Love thy neighbor, unless they cheat on NJ water restrictions
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection hasn’t issued statewide mandatory water restrictions yet, but conditions are abnormally dry in almost half the state. Which means many towns on their own are already setting rules and restrictions for water use. Pennsville for example has put all residents and businesses...
Whale sightings unusually high for NJ. What’s the cause?
Viking Yacht Company, out of Burlington County, took to Facebook days ago to share about “unusually high numbers” of North Atlantic Right Whales around the region. Sightings have been identified in the New York Bight from the Block Canyon to the Hudson Canyon, according to the Asbury Park Press.
Poet Robert Pinsky — Springsteen’s ‘voice of the Jersey Shore’ — is naming names
Robert Pinsky heard music in the names of different New Jersey towns called out by the train conductor as he traveled to and from his native Long Branch. "Little Silver, Hazlet, Perth Amboy, Rahway and Secaucus were stops on the New York and Long Branch Railroad. I don't know much about those places. But the consonants and vowels of their names, chanted by old-school conductors on the way to Penn Station, made a familiar, seductive music," Pinsky wrote in his 2022 memoir Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet.
Cancer Support Community NJ needs statewide support
Requesting support from businesses and individuals to expand services offered to all people affected by cancer. Cancer Support Community NJ at Gilda’s Club, a statewide foundation dedicated to providing free support services for individuals and families affected by cancer, announces today an urgent need for donations to help sustain critical free services, as demand surges across the state.
Public Pre-K Options in South Jersey
Preschool is the launchpad for the next decade of your child’s academic experience, so finding the right school is important. In preschool, kids usually learn academic subjects such as basic math and writing, but they also learn how to sit at a desk, raise their hands and work with peers. But preschool hasn’t always been affordable for New Jersey families.
3 winners (and 2 losers) for the NY Giants in preseason win over Detroit
The preseason may not mean a lot to plenty of people, but don't tell that to the NY Giants and head man Brian Daboll. In the opener against the Lions, the G-Men were able to post a 14-3 victory, with some positives being showcased on both sides of the ball.
Two new boating laws in NJ you absolutely need to know about
New Jersey loves passing laws as much as it loves pizza and bagels. If you’re having some fun in the water this summer, there’s a couple of new rules you need to know about. These two new boating regulations just began with the 2024 season and come from New Jersey State Police’s Maritime Services Bureau.
Top N.J. doctor needed to say thanks. So he teamed with the Giants to save lives.
Matthew Letizia got the worst news of his life in 2019 when his father was diagnosed with leukemia. As the medical director for more than a dozen police, fire and emergency medical services agencies in New Jersey, Letizia has saved countless lives. And his goal was to keep his father alive for as long as he could.
NJ man admits to stealing plane and committing other crimes, cops say
CORBIN CITY — How did a small plane end up in the field of a South Jersey nursery?. State Police Sgt. Jeffrey Lebron said troopers stopped a man who had walked out of the woods on Route 50 near Main Street around 8:55 a.m. Wednesday. The man told police he had crashed his plane in a field but refused to identify himself and was arrested for obstruction.
Olympian Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone the pride of her N.J. high school
SCOTCH PLAINS, N.J. - New Jersey native Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone won gold at the Paris Olympics. She's the pride of Union Catholic High School in Scotch Plains, and is honored in the school's "Tradition Meets Tomorrow" hallway. "This is set up in honor of Sydney and all of her accomplishments," Sister Percylee Hart, the school's principal, said. "So our challenge now is to update it. What a wonderful challenge to have." There are a lot of accomplishments. McLaughlin-Levrone is now a three-time gold medal winner, after Thursday's win in the women's 400-meter hurdles, when she broke her own previous world record. It was the...
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