A huge lottery jackpot is up for grabs tonight. A $400 million top prize is on the line for the Powerball. The $400 million is the fifth highest grand prize in the nation’s history for lotteries. The Powerball has been hitting higher numbers recently in part due to a rise in ticket prices. It costs…
Most believe Gov. Chris Christie is ready to run for higher office in 2016. A new Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press poll says that 63% of respondents believe that their governor wants to run for president in 2016, which includes 40% who say he is already planning his campaign. Currently, 44% of New Jerseyans say that…
Two brothers from Atlantic County have been arrested and charged with selling counterfeit professional sports jerseys that eventually wound up as prizes on the Wildwoods boardwalk. Brett Strothers and Evan Strothers have both been charged with buying illegal counterfeit sports jerseys and offering them as prizes at their games of chance on the North Wildwood…
The Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine received a grant from the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority to help pay for education. The CRDA gave the center a $14,675 grant to help pay for camera equipment that will facilitate distance learning in the Atlantic City schools. Students will be able to view animals at the center…
Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno was in Atlantic City on Tuesday, speaking to about 200 Dunkin Donut franchise owners. The group was part the Independent Franchise Owners National Convention, held at Caesar’s. The group chose to hold their convention in Atlantic City to support New Jersey’s franchise owners as the state continues to recover from Hurricane…
Joshua Malmgren was in court again on Tuesday, as judge John Porto viewed a videotape interview of his girlfriend. On the tape Elizabeth Melli said that Malmgren was on a binge for several days of drinking and taking pain pills before the accident that claimed the lives of two teenage girls along Bayshore Road last…
The huge boardwalk fire last week in Seaside Park was officially blamed on the effects of Hurricane Sandy at a news conference on Tuesday. Federal and county investigators found that the fire started in electrical wiring that was compromised by salt water and sand during the storm last October. More than 50 businesses were completely…
Tax abatements for new businesses at the county airport could bring more jobs to Lower Township. Deputy Mayor Norris Clark presented a preliminary report from the township’s Economic Development Advisory Board at a Sept. 16 township council meeting. He noted Cape May County had the third highest unemployment rate in the nation. Clark said a…
Cape May County Assemblyman Nelson Albano will be investigated by a legislative ethics panel over his controversial encounter with a State Trooper during a traffic stop. The Star Ledger reports that the Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards voted unanimously to investigate Albano’s conduct during the traffic stop that occurred in 2012. After the stop…
A major screw up by the campaign for democratic gubernatorial candidate Barbara Buono. Her campaign admitted today that it failed to get a 500-word biographical statement submitted in time last month so it could be included on all sample ballots mailed to New Jersey’s registered voters. Buono is the only candidate not to have information…