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NJ Olympic Gold Medalist Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone Coming To Bergen County NJ Olympic Gold Medalist Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone Coming To Bergen County
NJ Olympic Gold Medalist Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone Coming To Bergen County Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, a Middlesex County track star who won two gold medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics, is returning home to tell her story. McLaughlin-Levrone, who grew up in Dunellen and attended Union Catholic High School, is signing copies of her new book "Far Beyond Gold: Running from Fear to Faith," at Books and Greetings on Wednesday, Jan. 31 at Books and Greetings in Northvale at 6 p.m. In the book, McLaughlin-Levrone talks about how she used her belief in God to overcome battles with perfectionism and anxiety to win the gold medal in the 400 meter hurdles and the 4 x 400 mete…

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by Sam Barron
Police & Fire
NJ Attorney, Son Charged With Ripping Off Hundreds Of Immigrants In Bronx NJ Attorney, Son Charged With Ripping Off Hundreds Of Immigrants In Bronx
NJ Attorney, Son Charged With Ripping Off Hundreds Of Immigrants In Bronx Homeland Security agents smashed an operation run by a New Jersey father and son who for years fooled hundreds of immigrants living in the Bronx into paying thousands of dollars for services that only got many of them deported, authorities said. Instead of legitimately fast-tracking their clients’ bids for legal U.S. residency, attorney Kofi Amankwaa and his son, Kofi Jr., filed false petitions to the federal government claiming that the immigrants’ children had abused them, authorities said. All this did, they said, was put the applicants on immigration officials’ radar, leading to green c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
WINNER: Jersey Cash 5 Lottery Player Wins $621K At Convenience Store WINNER: Jersey Cash 5 Lottery Player Wins $621K At Convenience Store
Winner: Jersey Cash 5 Lottery Player Wins $621K At Convenience Store One lucky Lottery ticket matched all five numbers drawn winning the $621,347 Jersey Cash 5 jackpot from the Sunday, Jan. 21, drawing.  The winning numbers were: 01, 06, 09, 18 and 37 and the XTRA number was: 02.  The retailer will receive a bonus check for $2,000 for the winning ticket sold.  The winning ticket was sold at Pantry 1 Food Mart (ABP B1 LLC,) at 692 Livingston Ave., North Brunswick in Middlesex County.

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by Jon Craig
Weather
Here's Who Got The Most Snow In NJ From Latest Winter Storm Here's Who Got The Most Snow In NJ From Latest Winter Storm
Here's Who Got The Most Snow In NJ From Latest Winter Storm The National Weather Service has released snow totals from the latest winter storm. In New Jersey, the most amount of snow from the Friday, Jan. 19 storm appears to have fallen in Hopewell Township (Cumberland County) and Mount Royal (Gloucester County), where 6.5 inches of snow were reported. Atlantic County: Dorothy, a section of Weymouth, got 6.4 inches, the most amount of snow across Atlantic County. Six inches fell in Atlantic City, 5.6 in Mullica Township, 5.5 in Mays Landing, and on average, between 2 and 6 inches across the county. Burlington County: Medford Township…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
WINNERS: 3 Powerball Players Take Home $50K WINNERS: 3 Powerball Players Take Home $50K
Winners: 3 Powerball Players Take Home $50K There were three Powerball winners in the Wednesday, Jan. 17 drawing, New Jersey Lottery officials said. They all were in Middlesex County. The winning Powerball numbers were 18, 22, 43, 61 and 65 and the Powerball was 02. The Powerplay was 4x. The winning tickets were sold at: Quick Chek #25, 6 Egan Ave. in Fords; Wawa #989, 1886 Englishtown Road in Old Bridge, and: Wawa #8386, 555 New Durham Road in Piscataway.

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by Jon Craig
Police & Fire
JERSEY FRESH: Majority Of 109 New Port Authority Police Officers Hail From NJ JERSEY FRESH: Majority Of 109 New Port Authority Police Officers Hail From NJ
Jersey Fresh: Majority Of 109 New Port Authority Police Officers Hail From NJ More than 100 cadets officially became Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police officers with a joyous graduation ceremony in Middlesex County that followed a somber remembrance in lower Manhattan. The 109 graduates of the 122nd Port Authority Police Academy class push the total workforce of the bi-state agency past 2,000 in all. And a majority of those boots come from New Jersey. The Garden State produced 59 of the new officers and New York 50, officials said following the class' graduation at St. Joseph's High School in Metuchen on Thursday, Jan. 4. It's a slim margin but a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lifestyle
Meet NJ 'Slipper Slap Master' Who Choreographed TikTok's Latest Viral Dance Meet NJ 'Slipper Slap Master' Who Choreographed TikTok's Latest Viral Dance
Meet NJ 'Slipper Slap Master' Who Choreographed TikTok's Latest Viral Dance We're one week into 2024 and Joseph Lepinski, a Middlesex County resident, has already launched the year's newest TikTok dance craze. Lepinski, a.k.a. JerseyyJoe has been going viral on TikTok with his new dance, the Cha Cha. Lepinski, the master of the Slipper Slap, has racked up more than 26 million videos of his new dance.  Lepinski produces his dance videos  while studying physical education at Montclair State University and launching his own clothing brand. @jerseyyjoe DO THE CHA CHA 😂🔥🔥 ( DC: ME ) #jerseyyjoe #jersey #trend #viral #fyp ♬ original sound - On The Rad…

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by Sam Barron
News
WINNERS! Two North Jersey Powerball Players Score $50K WINNERS! Two North Jersey Powerball Players Score $50K
Winners! Two North Jersey Powerball Players Score $50K Two North Jersey Powerball players, one in Middlesex County and one in Union County, had a lucrative ending to 2023. Their tickets matched four of the five numbers, plus the Powerball, in the drawing held on Saturday, Dec. 30, winning $50,000. The tickets were sold at Fiesta Pilipino Restaurant and Grocery in Colonia and Seabra Foods in Hillside. The winning numbers were 10, 11, 26, 27, 34, and the Powerball was 7.

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by Sam Barron
Police & Fire
Five Injured In 3-Car Crash On Garden State Parkway: Police Five Injured In 3-Car Crash On Garden State Parkway: Police
Five Injured In 3-Car Crash On Garden State Parkway: Police Five people suffered minor injuries in a three-car crash on the Garden State Parkway in Middlesex County Tuesday morning, Jan. 2,  state police said. At 8:05 a.m., troopers responded to the parkway northbound in Sayreville at milepost 124.9 for a crash between a Toyota minivan, Toyota passenger vehicle and Acura SUV, police said.  The accident remains under investigation, state police said.

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by Sam Barron
Police & Fire
Woman Killed In Crash Was Analyst For NJ Governor's Office: Murphy Woman Killed In Crash Was Analyst For NJ Governor's Office: Murphy
Louisa Bradlow Carman Killed In Route 1 Crash The 25-year-old Princeton resident killed in a car crash on New Year's Day, in Middlesex County has been identified as a former state worker. Louisa Bradlow Carman worked as a policy analyst in the state's Office of Health Care Affordability and Transparency, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said. She was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:56 a.m., following the crash at Route 1 and College Road in Plainsboro, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone said. A graduate of Swarthmore Office, Carman previously served as an intern in Gov. Phil Murphy's office. Murphy paid tribute to…

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by Sam Barron
Police & Fire
New Year's Crash Kills 25-Year-Old New Jersey Woman New Year's Crash Kills 25-Year-Old New Jersey Woman
Louisa Bradlow Carman Killed In Route 1 Crash A 25-year-old woman died in a New Year's crash in Middlesex County, authorities said. Louisa Bradlow Carman, of Princeton, was pronounced dead at the scene of the 1:56 a.m. crash at Route 1 and College Road in Plainsboro on Monday, Jan. 1, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone said. No further details were released.

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
40 Families Displaced In 2 Fires At Same North Brunswick Complex In 24 Hours 40 Families Displaced In 2 Fires At Same North Brunswick Complex In 24 Hours
Colony Oaks Apartment Fires Two multi-alarm fires in less than 24 hours displaced 40 families at the same North Brunswick apartment complex, sending one firefighter to the hospital, officials confirmed. On Friday, Dec. 29, a fire displaced 20 families and pets at the Colony Oaks Apartment on Petunia Avenue were displaced by a multi-alarm blaze. Just before 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 30, another fire broke out, leaving an additional 20 families without a home, according to Deputy Emergency Management Coordinator Marrissa Heyman. Eleven towns and nearly 60 firefighters responded to the second fire, she said. One firefighter…

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by Cecilia Levine