There was no Mega Millions jackpot winner again Tuesday night. The estimated jackpot amount for Friday’s drawing now stands at $508 million. The jackpot has been rolling over since early March. Tuesday’s winning numbers were 29-46-53-64-73 mega-10.
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump spent time with a couple of vice presidential finalists in New Jersey over the holiday weekend. Trump met with Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and U.S. Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa at a golf club he owns. Gov. Chris Christie wasn’t in those meetings but has been vetted for the job…
While Gov. Christie approved the new state budget last week, he did veto several bills affecting low income families. One bill vetoed by Christie would subsidize schools for breakfast served during the school day and cost taxpayers about $6 million. Christie said the subsidy is unnecessary because the federal government already partially reimburses schools for…
Lottery players, line up: The Mega Millions jackpot will be worth about $449 million on Tuesday night. There were no big winners in the Mega Millions lottery drawing on Friday night which pushes the jackpot up. No one has hit the Mega Millions since March 8th. The cash value of the jackpot is estimated at…
Eight people were rescued off the coast of Sandy Hook Saturday morning after their boat capsized in Sandy Hook Bay. The United States Coast Guard announced that a good samaritin and a New York City Fire Department boat crew performed the rescue. The Coast Guard then marked off the area to warn other boaters about…
Senate President Steve Sweeney is not hopeful that a deal can be reached in Trenton to restore funding for important transportation projects. Governor Christie shut down all projects funded by the Transportation Trust Fund after the legislature refused to implement at 23-cent increase in the gasoline tax. Sweeney says that he will try to reach…
Two people were killed, several were injured in an accident on the Garden State Parkway Friday evening. State Police say it happened in the northbound lanes near milepost 117 shortly before 7pm. A van carrying 14 people overturned on the Parkway; several of the injured were taken to a nearby hospital, one of the injuries…
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie rejected legislation that would have provided an increase in welfare benefits for the first time in three decades. Christie called the legislation “irresponsible” because democrats who supported the measure did not come up with a way to finance the additional benefits. Christie cut virtually all of the $300 million in…
New Jersey lawmakers approved a bill to allow cities across the state to participate in needle exchange programs. A pilot sterile syringe program was launched in November of 2007 in Atlantic City, to help decrease the spread of injection-related diseases, such as HIV and AIDS. Funding for the statewide program was included in the new state…
New Jersey has a new budget, but still no funding for transportation projects. Governor Christie signed the $34.5 billion budget on Thursday night. Democrats and republicans largely agreed on the components on the spending plan; New Jersey was obligated to have a new budget in place by Friday morning.