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COVID-19: NY To Unveil 'Vax, Scratch' Lottery Tickets With Prizes As High As $5M COVID-19: NY To Unveil 'Vax, Scratch' Lottery Tickets With Prizes As High As $5M
Covid-19: NY To Unveil 'Vax, Scratch' Lottery Tickets With Prizes As High As $5M Feeling lucky? New Yorkers are being offered an extra incentive to go get the COVID-19 vaccine at select locations. Between Monday, May 24, and Friday, May 28, state residents who get vaccinated at 10 sites will be provided free lottery scratch-off tickets to anyone 18 and older. The tickets, sold by retailers across the state for $20 each, have a grand prize of $5 million. Anyone receiving a vaccine will be getting the one-dose Johnson & Johnson shot, which will not require them to return to get a second dose. Sites participating in the scratch-off lottery ticket giveaway include:…

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Man Sentenced For Killing Westchester Father Of Three Near Elementary School Man Sentenced For Killing Westchester Father Of Three Near Elementary School
Man Sentenced For Killing Westchester Father Of Three Near Elementary School A Westchester man may spend the rest of his life behind bars after being convicted of murdering a father of three “execution-style” during a shooting in front of an elementary school. Dwayne Reid, 48, of Larchmont, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon last month, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark announced. On May 21, 2014, it was determined at trial that Reid shot Yonkers resident Lamont Smith, 45, three times outside the Edenwald public housing complex near P.S. 112, killing him. Cla…

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