1. Mega Millions Winner to Get $190 Million
(Money/Economy)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM There was no grand prize winner in the Mega Millions drawing of Tuesday, May 14. The last winner of the Mega Millions jackpot came on March 12, and 18 consecutive ...

2. Powerball Winning Numbers Get $360 Million
(Money/Economy)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The Powerball lottery jackpot is heading back toward record territory. Powerball will offer its largest grand prize since the game set a record last year by awarding ...

3. Preakness Preview: Can Orb Take The Next Step To Greatness?
(Sports/Professional)

BY TOM VALLEDOLMO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey has been around the racing game for a long, long time. He has saddled a number of champions over the years – superstars ...

4. Mega Millions Winning Numbers Get $170 Million
(Money/Economy)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The Mega Millions jackpot continues to grow, and has now gone about two months without a player winning the jackpot. There was no winner in the game of May 10, so ...

5. Powerball Winning Numbers Get $270 Million
(N.J./State)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The 11th consecutive Powerball lottery drawing took place Wednesday night without a grand prize winner, which means the giant jackpot will take yet another leap forward ...

6. Mega Millions Winning Numbers For $154 Million
(N.J./State)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The Mega Millions lottery jackpot is continuing its ascent into the stratosphere. No one was able to win the Mega Millions grand prize in the drawing on May 7, so ...

7. Powerball Winning Numbers Get $222 Million
(N.J./State)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Temperatures are expected to approach 80 degrees by the end of the week in the New Jersey area, and it’s never too early to think about your summer vacation. A whole ...

8. Mega Millions Winning Numbers: $139 Million
(N.J./State)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Jackpots for the two major lottery games in the New Jersey area are still on the rise. The last jackpot winner in Mega Millions came from Westlake, Ohio on March ...

9. Powerball Winning Numbers Win $191M
(N.J./State)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The massive potential financial windfall waiting for a lottery player in New Jersey rolls on as tonight’s Powerball jackpot will be $191 million. No one hit the ...

10. Mega Millions winning numbers land $126M
(N.J./State)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The odds are astronomical of winning a lottery jackpot, but this weekend New Jersey’s lottery players have two big opportunities to collect jackpots of over $100 million. ...

11. This year’s Kentucky Derby Trainers and Jockeys who’ve “Been There, Done That”
(Sports/Professional)

BY TOM VALLEDOLMO SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM All the significant preps have been run and, with a mere 11 days remaining before 20 of the world’s classiest 3-year-old horses load into the gate ...

12. A Nobel Prize Idea: Connecting Global Warming and Beer
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY ANDRES SIMONSON SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM COMMENTARY Climate change deniers regularly cite potential flaws in temporal temperature records. Theirs is a classic garbage in, garbage out ...

13. Garwood Native Dave Durante Helping To Reshape Professional Gymnastics
(Sports/Professional)

BY JERRY MILANI NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Dave Durante has had an interesting life as an athlete. The Garwood native speaks fluent Italian, has a degree from Stanford University, helped grow a niche sport ...

14. What’s Wrong With Wikipedia?
(Opinion/Commentary)

... not meddle in the least in American affairs.’ He was the only signer of the Declaration to turn his coat and came to be ‘much spoken against.’” “Washington’s Crossing” won the Pulitzer Prize in history. ...

15. Check Your Tickets New Jersey: $1 Million Powerball Winner to Expire in May
(N.J./State)

BY BOB HOLT NEW JERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The New Jersey Lottery says to “give your dreams a chance,” while in New York they’re saying, “You never know.” One New Jersey lottery player can actually make ...

16. 'Lucky Guy' Broadway Review: Tom Hanks Makes a Memorable Debut as a Driven Reporter
(Entertainment/Movies)

BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Drawn from the brief and hectic life of Pulitzer-winning newspaper columnist Mike McAlary, “Lucky Guy” is Nora Ephron’s rousing romance of New York’s tabloid ...

17. Mindless in Totowa: Four N.J. Men Arrested for Smoking Weed in State Trooper Parking Lot
(N.J./State)

BY MICHAEL HAYNE NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM COMMENTARY Call Jay Leno and alert him of the world's dumbest criminals. Okay, maybe not so much criminals but definitely criminally stupid. It seems four ...

18. New Jersey Powerball Winner Won’t See a Penny Yet, Owes Thousands in Child Support
(N.J./State)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM There’s good news and there’s bad news for Passaic County Powerball Lottery winner Pedro Quezada. Of course, Quezada claimed one of the biggest jackpots in the history ...

19. Helen Mirren, Rupert Evert and James McAvoy Nominated for Olivier Awards
(Entertainment/Movies)

PAULA SCHWARTZ NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Helen Mirren, Rupert Everett, James McAvoy, Kristin Scott Thomas and Imelda Staunton were the big names announced today as nominees for the Olivier Awards, the ...

20. Rare Chinese Bowl Sale is Latest ‘Trash to treasure’ tale
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BY PAT SUMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM You can bet this bowl won’t be filled with jelly beans or salted nuts. Just purchased from Sotheby’s auction, New York, for $2.23 million, the thousand-year old ...