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Jackpot: Scratch Ticket Worth $643K Sold At Jersey Shore Wawa
A lucky lottery player won $643,000 on a scratch ticket in Cape May County, officials said.
The $1,000,000 Diamond Spectacular ticket was purchased at the Wawa on West Spruce Avenue in North Wildwood, the New Jersey Lottery said in a news release on Monday, July 22.
The game has sold three tickets that won $1,000,000 in its history. Those were purchased in Colonia, Elmwood Park, and Springfield.
More than seven million tickets have been printed for the game.
Winners: Mega Millions Lottery Players Take Home $10K
There were two third-tier prizewinning tickets sold for the Friday, Dec. 23, Mega Millions lottery drawing.
They matched four of the five white balls and the Gold Mega Ball drawn winning the $10,000 prize.
Those tickets were purchased at the following locations:
Middlesex County: Colonia Deli & Grill, 440 Lake Ave., Colonia; and,
Morris County: Krauszer’s, 45 North Warren St., Dover.The winning numbers for the Friday, Dec. 23, drawing were: 15, 21, 32, 38, and 62. The Gold Mega Ball was 08, and the Megaplier Multiplier was 04.
7-Eleven Selling These 18 New Jersey Locations
7-Eleven Inc. is looking to sell or lease 73 of its stores, 18 of which are in New Jersey.
NRC Realty & Capital Advisors LLC is helping with the process, having posted a list of all of the sites along with a bid deadline of Tuesday, Nov. 1.
Some of the stores are some of the 3,800 Speedway stores that 7-Eleven purchased in May 2021.
The New Jersey stores touting for sale signs are:
Colonia, Saint Georges Avenue
Scotch Plains, Park Avenue
Newark, Broad Street
Newark, Market Street
Newark, Ferry Street
Butler, Route 23
Elmwood Park, Broadway
Holmdel, Route 35
Hackettstown, Main Street…
Bella Giacobbe, Daughter Of NJ Town's Mayor, Dies At 22
Anabella "Bella" Marie Giacobbe, the 22-year-old daughter of Rahway Mayor Raymond Giacobbe Jr. and school board member Laura Giacobbe, died on Sept. 24.
Bella was an honor roll student at Union Catholic High School, where she played volleyball, lacrosse, and track and field, her obituary says. She graduated from Rutgers University last May with a degree in psychology.
Bella had recently started as a volleyball coach at St. Thomas Aquinas and had aspirations of becoming a teacher due to her love for children, according to her obituary.
Bella apparently died after a medical procedure, acco…
Police: Drunk Man, 43, Charged For Back-To-Back Assaults, Terroristic Threats In Morris County
A Middlesex County man was intoxicated when he committed back-to-back assaults and made terroristic threats at a Morris County gas station, police said.
Michael Nilsen, 43, was seen banging on car windows at QuickChek on South Jefferson Road in Hanover on August 25, Police Chief Mark Roddy said in a release.
Nilsen, of Colonia, was found to be intoxicated, police said.
A follow-up investigation led to his arrest with charges for two counts of aggravated assault, resisting arrest, terroristic threats, hindering, criminal mischief, obstruction and disorderly conduct, police said.
Nilsen was…
NJ Man, 27, Killed By Drunk Driver In New Hampshire Crash
A New Jersey man was ejected from a Jeep and killed by a drunk driver in New Hampshire Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.
Sue Sargent, 66, was behind the wheel of a 2020 Subaru Outback on Route 95 south in Seabrook, NH when she drifted toward the left, crossed into the next lane and sideswiped a 2019 Toyota Sienna driven by Shannon Geoghegan, 50, just before 12:10 p.m., state police said.
Sargent, of Eliot, ME, then continued drifting toward the left and through the center median before crossing into the southbound lanes and crashing into a 2016 Jeep Wrangler driven by Joseph Hoffman, 29,…
