A winning Jersey Cash 5 ticket was sold in Morris County.A ticket matching all five numbers for Wednesday’s drawing was sold at Dover Liquors on West Blackwell Street in Dover.The winning numbers were: 02, 04, 28, 30, and 40. The XTRA number was 02.The lucky winner will take home a prize of $549,629.

The moment officers rescued a man trapped in his vehicle after a rollover accident in Hopatcong was captured in an action-packed video.Officers were called to the area of Nariticong Avenue and Beacon Road for a smoking vehicle that had been involved in a rollover accident, trapping the driver on Wednesday, August 12, authorities said in a release.Despite the heavy smoke coming from the ...

Three members of the Mansfield Township Police Department have been recognized with Meritorious Service Awards after they saved a man with schizophrenia who was holding a knife to his throat.Officer Michael Citarelli, Officer Thomas Hill and Detective Michael Camerata were called to a local residence where a 31-year-old man who suffers from schizophrenia was having a psychological ...

First responders were performing CPR on a worker who was struck by a tree Thursday morning in Morris Township, authorities said.The man was struck around 10:40 a.m. at a home on Craig Road, reports say.This is a developing story. Check back for more.

A Florida woman who returned nearly $1,800 worth of stolen Walmart merchandise at stores in New Jersey and New York was caught by Mansfield Township Police through surveillance footage of her rental car from Philadelphia, authorities said. Dominique K. Butler, 22, of Tampa and a friend stole $1,789.24 worth of Walmart merchandise and returned items for cash at stores throughout New ...

A Hunterdon County man was sentenced to seven years in state prison including five of parole ineligibility for distributing child pornography, state officials said.John M. Rudy, 57, of Flemington, was found guilty of several charges involving the possession, storage and distribution of child pornography on Jan. 14, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Tuesday.Rudy will be subject to ...

Boonton Township police worked alongside the Morris County Sheriff Department’s K-9 unit to arrest a man believed to be connected to a string of burglaries that began in May, authorities said.Eric Logan, 35, of Boonton, was arrested Monday, August 3 following the execution of a search warrant at his residence, which turned up proceeds from several burglaries, township police said in a ...

A Phillipsburg woman had smoked K2 spice just half an hour before driving erratically with her three-year-old toddler in the car Tuesday night, authorities charged.Brittany Hicks, 26, was pulled over for driving erratically near the intersection of Route 517 and Main Street in Hackettstown just after 10 p.m., authorities said in a release.Hicks — who police say had smoked the synthetic ...

A Warren County woman contacted her boyfriend after she slammed into a tree, prompting him to arrive at the scene and remove the license plates from the vehicle before fleeing, authorities charged.Amber R. Sagan, 21, of Great Meadows, crossed the center line when driving on Jackson Valley Road and slammed into a tree on Saturday, August 2, Mansfield Township police said in a ...

A Newark woman who repeatedly called 9-1-1 dispatchers and verbally abused them was charged with causing a false public alarm, authorities said.Tahisha M. Bakr, 45, placed numerous calls to dispatchers in Mansfield Township on July 12, after having been previously warned not to call 9-1-1 for non-emergency purposes, police said.Despite being instructed to file a police report, Bakr ...