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Winners: Jersey Cash 5 Lottery Players Split $703K Jackpot
Three Jersey Cash 5 tickets worth more than $703,000 were sold across New Jersey over the weekend.
The tickets from the Friday, June 2 drawing matched all five numbers drawn splitting the Jersey Cash 5 jackpot of $703,887, lottery officials said.
Each ticket is worth $234,629.
The winning numbers were: 06, 10, 19, 25, and 43. The XTRA number was: 02.
The lucky tickets were sold at:
Burlington County: Quick Stop Food Store, 99 JFK Way, Willingboro
Cape May County: US Food, 780 Rt. 47, Cape May Court House
Passaic County: The Greeting Place, 1221 Van Houten Ave., Cli…
Noriega Nominated For NJ Supreme Court
Michael Noriega, a Union County resident, has been nominated to be the newest justice on the New Jersey Supreme Court.
Gov. Phil Murphy formally announced Noriega's nomination on Monday, May 15. Noriega, who was born in Weehawken, will be replacing Justice Barry Albin, who reached the mandatory retirement age. Noriega, who was raised in Union City and lives in Fanwood, is Murphy's fourth appointment to the bench.
Noriega, 45, is a partner at Bramnick, Rodriguez, Grabas, Arnold, and Mangan, based in Clifton, working as a defense and immigration attorney. Noriega also spent five years as…
Winners: Mega Millions Lottery Players Split $30K
There were two third-tier prizewinning tickets sold for the Tuesday, May 2, Mega Millions. drawing.
The tickets matched four of the five white balls and the Gold Mega Ball drawn winning the $10,000 prize.
One of those tickets was purchased with the Megaplier option, multiplying the prize to $20,000.
Those tickets were purchased at the following locations:
Passaic County ($20,000): Galaxy Food Mart, 126 Broad St., Clifton; and,
Monmouth County ($10,000): Vingo Wine & Spirits, 444 Ocean Blvd. North, Long Branch.
The winning numbers for the Tuesday, May 2, drawing were: 03, …
Irate Owner Flips Out, Attacks 68-Year-Old Clifton Parking Enforcement Officer, Police Charge
A senior parking enforcer from Clifton was OK following an assault by an irate driver from Sussex County, authorities said.
A 68-year-old parking enforcement officer with the city of Clifton had written a summons for a vehicle illegally parked on Madison Avenue when he was assaulted by the owner, police said.
An irate Dimitrios K. Rezitis, 37, of Montague, "stepped on the officer's shoes, placed him in a bear hug, and threatened to kill the officer and his family," Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said.
"The suspect then ripped the ticket book from the officer and removed all four copies of th…
Devil-Masked Visitor Pranks Supervisor, Triggers Scare At Major Testing Lab In Elmwood Park
UPDATE: A Westchester County resident who works at one of the largest clinical testing labs in the U.S. triggered a large emergency response Friday when she walked into the Bergen County building wearing a devil mask, handed a supervisor a jar of salsa with her name on it and left without saying a word, authorities said.
Ray Greenwald, 27, of Ardsley, NY, and the supervisor at BioReference Laboratories just off Route 80 in Elmwood didn't know one another and apparently had never met before, Police Chief Michael Foligno said.
However, Greenwald, who works in another building, told police sh…
Silent Clown-Masked Visitor Leaves Suspicious Item At Major Testing Lab In Elmwood Park
UPDATE: A Westchester County resident who works at one of the largest clinical testing labs in the U.S. triggered a large emergency response Friday when she walked into the Bergen County building wearing a devil mask, handed a supervisor a jar of salsa with her name on it and left without saying a word, authorities said.
Ray Greenwald, 27, of Ardsley, NY, and the supervisor at BioReference Laboratories just off Route 80 in Elmwood didn't know one another and apparently had never met before, Police Chief Michael Foligno said.
However, Greenwald, who works in another building, told police sh…
SEE Anything? Armed Invaders Duct Tape 73-Year-Old Clifton Grandma's Mouth, Wrists, Ankles
A 73-year-old Clifton woman working on an arts and crafts project was thrown to the floor and had her mouth, wrist and ankles bound in her own duct tape by two home invaders, one of whom was armed, authorities said.
Officers responding to a noontime call of a home invasion in progress on Linden Avenue found the robbers gone and the victim on the living-room floor on Sunday, March 26, Clifton Police Lt. Robert Bracken said.
"Her mouth, wrist and ankles had been bound in duct tape," the lieutenant said.
The officers freed the victim, who told them she originally thought nothing of sound…
