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Winners: Seven NJ Mega Millions Lottery Players Take Home $10,000+
Seven Mega Millions lottery players matched four of the five white balls and the Mega Ball drawn winning the $10,000 third-tier prize.
One of those tickets was purchased with the Megaplier option, multiplying the prize to $30,000.
Those tickets were sold at the following locations:
Monmouth County ($30,000): PJ’s Car Wash, 2000 Route 35 and Allaire Rd., Spring Lake Heights;
Camden County ($10,000): Shop Rite of Berlin #531, Route 73 and Minck Ave., West Berlin;
Hudson County ($10,000): Quick Chek #095, 260 Broadway #280, Bayonne;
Mercer County ($10,000): Michael’s Deli, 52 Eas…
Woman Gave False Report In Deadly NJ Hit-Run Crash: Prosecutor
The driver who struck and killed a pedestrian earlier this year was arrested, as was a woman who lied about the incident to police, authorities in Central Jersey said.
Raulito Peralta, 22, of Highland Park, struck and killed New Brunswick's Treasa M. Daye-Fennie while she was crossing a street in Franklin Township last February, Acting Somerset County Prosecutor Annmarie Taggart said.
Estrella Caballero-Cruz, 21, of Highland Park, was charged with providing a false report to police.
Daye-Fennie was crossing Somerset Street near High Street around 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 22, wh…
Newark 'Boss Baby' Brain-Damaged After Mysterious Seizure, Mom Says
One minute, 3-year-old Alayah Butler was running around a pumpkin patch laughing. The next, the Newark girl was having a seizure — and then in cardiac arrest.
Doctors aren't sure what caused the Oct. 7, 2021 seizure or heart attack, which left little Alayah brain-damaged and wheelchair-bound. To make matters worse, her mom Leah Butler, lost her job and is caring for her around the clock.
More than $4,300 had been raised on a GoFundMe for the family as of Saturday, April 2, as Butler recently lost her job, and has been home caring for her daughter.
Alayah and a pastor praying for her.Le…
Rutgers Student, Beloved Medical Assistant Dies After Leukemia Battle, 22
Rutgers University student and beloved medical assistant Christine Michelle Starozytnyk died on Friday, March 11 after battling leukemia. She was 22.
Born in New Brunswick, Starozytnyk grew up in South Bound Brook, where she survived childhood leukemia, her obituary says.
Starozytnyk was a Somerset Pediatric Group medical assistant and Rutgers University student, her memorial says.
Starozytnyk was remembered as caring, generous, humble, and “unimaginably kind.”
"[She] brought a light with her that couldn’t shine brighter,” reads her memorial.
Meanwhile, nearly $4,500 had been raised as o…
