A winning New Jersey Lottery ticket was sold in Morris County.A ticket matching four of the five white balls and the Powerball for the Saturday, Feb. 27 drawing was sold at Quick Chek on Parsippany Road in Parsippany, lottery officials said.The winning numbers were: 02, 28, 31, 44, and 52. The Red Power Ball was 18, and the Multiplier number was 03.The ...

A firefighter was injured while battling a stubborn blaze that ravaged a barn in Morris County over the weekend.The fire broke out in Long Valley around 12:30 p.m. Saturday, according to a Facebook post from Schooley’s Mountain Fire Co.The fire was knocked down within two-and-a-half hours with help from the Washington Township Fire Department and the Long Valley First Aid Squad, the ...

A portion of Route 206 was shut down following a fatal crash in Sussex County Friday afternoon, reports say.A car under-rode a tractor-trailer and became entrapped near 435 Rt. 206 in Andover around 2:30 p.m., according to initial and unconfirmed reports.At least one person was killed in the crash, the report said.The roadway was shut down and detoured from Paterson Avenue in Newton to ...

Police found hundreds of bags of heroin and crack cocaine after stopping a couple in Warren County earlier this month, authorities said.Vincent Noel, 55, and Colleen Coghlan, 33, were pulled over for several violations on Feb. 16, Phillipsburg Police said.A subsequent search of the vehicle turned up 700 bags of heroin and 129 bags of crack cocaine, as well as a quantity of Suboxone and ...

Acting Hunterdon County Prosecutor Michael J. Williams has issued a warning after a woman lost $1,500 in a phone scam that targeted numerous residents throughout the county in just one day.“Numerous” scam calls were received from county residents throughout the day on Thursday, Feb. 25, Williams said.The scammers claimed to be from the county sheriff’s office and demanded payment to ...

Four former law enforcement officials with the Morris County Sheriff’s Office will avoid jailtime and instead face probation after sharing and dealing cocaine and Oxycodone between each other.Dominick Andico, Robert Busold, Albert Wyman and Nicholas Ricciotti took plea deals permanently banning them from holding public employment and requiring them to forfeit their badges, ...

Police arrested a man they say shot a woman twice in the back during an attempted Lehigh Valley homicide last December.Terell Gailyard is accused of firing a handgun that struck the victim in the back twice during an argument in Bethlehem on Dec. 29, police said.He was arrested on a warrant Thursday evening following an investigation by police in Bethlehem and Allentown, the agencies ...

The deaths of a 35-year-old Morris County mom and her 11-year-old son have been ruled accidental, authorities said Tuesday.The bodies of Warda Syed and Uzair Ahmed were recovered from the Upper Pond section of Grace Lord Park in Boonton on Feb. 23.Police were called to the scene for reports of an unattended 6-year-old -- later identified as Syed’s child, who was unharmed, ...

Support is surging for a Morris County father and his daughter who was hospitalized with burns after a devastating house fire.The Florham Park home of Bill Guerriero and his daughter, Allison, was ravaged by a fire on Feb. 21.While Bill was uninjured in the blaze, Allison is recovering from severe burns in a local hospital’s burn unit and will be there for “quite awhile,” according ...

The 35-year-old Morris County mother found drowned with her 11-year-old son in a Boonton pond had suffered a trio of recent tragedies, reports say.The body of Warda Syed and her son, Uzair Ahmed, were recovered from the Upper Pond section of Grace Lord Park in Boonton around 6:40 p.m. Tuesday, Acting Morris County Prosecutor Robert J. Carroll said in a release with ...