$1K A Week For Life: North Jersey Lotto Player Wins Big $1K A Week For Life: North Jersey Lotto Player Wins Big
$1K A Week For Life: North Jersey Lotto Player Wins Big A lottery player in Fair Lawn  is going to reap the rewards of hitting the jackpot for the rest of their life. One New Jersey Lottery Cash4Life ticket matched the five white balls in the drawing on Thursday, June 8, winning $1,000 a week for life. The winning ticket was sold at a 7-Eleven in Fair Lawn. The winning numbers were: 38, 46, 49, 50 and 59. The Cash Ball was: 02. 
$2M Lottery Jackpot Split Between Hudson, Mercer County Players $2M Lottery Jackpot Split Between Hudson, Mercer County Players
$2M Lottery Jackpot Split Between Hudson, Mercer County Players It was the perfect way to kick off the long weekend for three New Jersey lottery players. Three lucky tickets, two sold in Hudson County and one in Mercer County matched all five numbers in the $2 million Jersey Cash 5 jackpot on Friday, May 26. Each winner will receive $696,440.  The tickets were sold at $.99 Cent Global on Central Avenue in Jersey City and a 7-Eleven on Princeton Highstown Road in Princeton Junction. The winning numbers were: 02, 05, 06, 10, and 19 and the XTRA number was: 02. 
DEAD END: Elmwood Park Police Capture Fleeing Driver After 7-Eleven Car Theft DEAD END: Elmwood Park Police Capture Fleeing Driver After 7-Eleven Car Theft
Dead END: Elmwood Park Police Capture Fleeing Driver After 7-Eleven Car Theft A Bronx man was captured by Elmwood Park police moments after he swiped a sedan from outside a local 7-Eleven early Wednesday, authorities said. Officers responding to the victim’s call spotted the 2016 Chrysler 200 turning off Broadway onto Mola Boulevard shortly before 1 a.m. May 17, Elmwood Park Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Jeffrey Ciman, 48, initially refused to stop but eventually pulled over and was taken into custody on dead-ended Iozia Terrace, the chief said. The sedan was returned to the victim, Foligno said. Ciman, meanwhile, was brought to headquarters, where the chief s…
WINNER: NJ Mega Millions Lottery Player Takes Home $10K From 7-Eleven WINNER: NJ Mega Millions Lottery Player Takes Home $10K From 7-Eleven
Winner: NJ Mega Millions Lottery Player Takes Home $10K From 7-Eleven There was one third-tier prizewinning ticket sold for the Tuesday, March 28, drawing that matched four of the five white balls and the Gold Mega Ball. The prize is worth $10,000.  That ticket was purchased at 7-Eleven #10957, 900 Arena Dr., Trenton in Mercer County. The winning numbers for the Tuesday, March 28, drawing were: 02, 03, 18, 32 and 68. The Gold Mega Ball was 24, and the Megaplier Multiplier was 04. The Mega Millions jackpot rolls to $355 million. 
SEE ANYTHING? 7-Eleven Near GWB Robbed At Gunpoint SEE ANYTHING? 7-Eleven Near GWB Robbed At Gunpoint
SEE Anything? 7-Eleven Near GWB Robbed At Gunpoint A robber pointed a handgun at a 7-Eleven clerk in Fort Lee as an accomplice shoved a bag forward and ordered it filled with cash, authorities said. The robbers entered the Whiteman Park Plaza convenience store on Lemoine Avenue near the George Washington Bridge shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 25, Police Capt. Edward Young said. They left with what was reported as roughly $835 in cash, the lieutenant said. The victim, who wasn't injured, described both men as white and wearing dark clothing with masks, he said. ANYONE who might have seen something or has security camera footage or inf…
Video Shows Fatal Morris Motel Shootout With Fugitive Wanted For Wounding Bergen Woman Video Shows Fatal Morris Motel Shootout With Fugitive Wanted For Wounding Bergen Woman
Video Shows Fatal Morris Motel Shootout With Fugitive Wanted For Wounding Bergen Woman A soundless TV is on in his Route 46 motel room when a tactical team bursts in and an ex-con being sought for shooting a New Milford woman in Elmwood Park raises a silver revolver. Several shots are fired by shield-wielding members of Morris County's emergency response team, and James Allandale instantly falls to the floor. He's pronounced dead less than 10 minutes later. The scene at the Knights Inn in Pinebook this past New Year's Eve is captured in a pair of body-camera videos released by state authorities as part of a mandated review of all deaths involving police in New Jersey. All…
One-Man Crime Wave: Arrest Made In Armed Gas Station, 7-Eleven Robberies In Four Bergen Towns One-Man Crime Wave: Arrest Made In Armed Gas Station, 7-Eleven Robberies In Four Bergen Towns
One-Man Crime Wave: Arrest Made In Armed Gas Station, 7-Eleven Robberies In Four Bergen Towns Authorities charged an Essex County man with robbing three gas stations and two convenience stores in Bergen County at gunpoint – four of them in one night. Thomas Johnson, 30, of East Orange brandished a handgun while holding up two gas stations in Mahwah, another in Paramus and a 7-Eleven in Fair Lawn of several thousand dollars in less than half an hour late last month, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Johnson did it again three nights later, robbing a 7-Eleven in Elmwood Park of $650 as two employees locked themselves in the bathroom and called police, the prosecutor said. T…
WINNERS: Five NJ Powerball Players Take Home $50K WINNERS: Five NJ Powerball Players Take Home $50K
Winners: Five NJ Powerball Players Take Home $50K There were five New Jersey Powerball players who took home $50,000 apiece in the Saturday, Feb. 4 drawing, state Lottery officials said. Five tickets matched four of the five white balls and the Powerball. Those tickets were sold at the following locations: Bergen County: 7-Eleven #38078, 111 Union Ave., East Rutherford; Bergen County: Wawa #8335, 7 Jewels St., Garfield; Hudson County: Quick Chek #124, 20-38 East 53rd St., Bayonne; Morris County: Main Street Submarine, 187 Main St., Madison; and, Passaic County: Nana Pena Grocery Deli Market, 276 Trenton Ave., Paterson. The winning n…
Elmwood Park 7-Eleven Robbed At Gunpoint, Employees Call 911 From Locked Bathroom Elmwood Park 7-Eleven Robbed At Gunpoint, Employees Call 911 From Locked Bathroom
Elmwood Park 7-Eleven Robbed At Gunpoint, Employees Call 911 From Locked Bathroom A gunman robbed $650 in cash from a 7-Eleven in Elmwood Park as two employees locked themselves in the bathroom and called police, authorities said. Responding officers got them and several patrons to safety after getting the call from the Broadway (Route 4) convenience store around 10 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. They also set up a perimeter with help from their Fair Lawn colleagues and a Bergen County Sheriff's K-9 unit, the chief said. It was "too soon to say" whether the robber is the same one who held up a 7-Eleven in Fair Lawn and a trio of gas stations…
UPDATE: Gunman Robs Gas Stations, 7-Eleven In Paramus, Fair Lawn, Mahwah In Under 30 Minutes UPDATE: Gunman Robs Gas Stations, 7-Eleven In Paramus, Fair Lawn, Mahwah In Under 30 Minutes
Update: Gunman Robs Gas Stations, 7-Eleven In Paramus, Fair Lawn, Mahwah In Under 30 Minutes UPDATE: Law enforcement agencies in two states were sharing information in the search for a masked gunman who robbed two gas stations in Mahwah, another in Paramus and a 7-Eleven in Fair Lawn of several thousand dollars in less than a half hour. The spree ended with back-to-back holdups of two gas stations on northbound Route 17 in Mahwah barely a couple of minutes from the Rockland County border. The robber entered the Valero station near Route 202 at 11:05 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 22, Mahwah Police Chief Stephen Jaffe said. He “brandished a handgun at the staff at the register and demanded mone…
Friday The 13th Proves Lucky For 11 NJ Lottery Players Friday The 13th Proves Lucky For 11 NJ Lottery Players
Friday The 13th Proves Lucky For 11 NJ Lottery Players Friday the 13th turned into a lucky one for eleven New Jersey Lottery players. Ten Mega Millions lottery tickets worth $10,000 — and one good for $20,000 — were sold in the Garden state. The tickets from the Friday, Jan. 13, drawing 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: $20,000 Ticket: Union County: Alika Retail, 101 North Park Ave., Linden. $10,000 Tickets: Bergen Coun…
Hudson Man, 24, Gets Mandatory 2½ Years In Prison In Hit-Run Death Of Fairview Dad Hudson Man, 24, Gets Mandatory 2½ Years In Prison In Hit-Run Death Of Fairview Dad
Hudson Man, 24, Gets Mandatory 2½ Years In Prison In Hit-Run Death Of Fairview Dad An unlicensed Jersey City driver must spend at least 2½ years in state prison for fleeing a pedestrian crash that killed a Fairview man. Danny Maiker Vasquez, 24, abandoned his father's minivan at the scene of the overnight crash on Broad Avenue near the North Bergen border that killed 39-year-old father of two Julius Smith shortly after 3:30 a.m. July 5, 2021. Smith was walking toward the 7-Eleven on Fairview Avenue along a stretch of road known locally as "Dead Man's Curve" when the 2008 Toyota Sienna mounted the sidewalk and struck him, authorities said at the time. Vasquez initially ke…