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The huge Mega Millions drawing worth an estimated $1.13 billion was won last night by a single ticket sold in New Jersey, by far the largest lottery prize in the state’s history.

The final Mega Millions jackpot amount will be determined after all ticket sales have been counted. The prize has a cash option estimated to be $537.5 million.

The big Mega Millions win is the 8th largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history and the first Mega Millions to prize won since Dec. 8 when two tickets bought at the same Los Angeles gas station hit a $394 million jackpot. Since then, 30 drawings had been held without a ticket matching all the winning numbers.

Tuesday’s winning Mega Millions numbers were: 7, 11, 22, 29 and 38. The Mega Ball drawn was 4 with a Megaplier of 2X.

New Jersey Lottery officials will announce the location the historic ticket was sold later Wednesday morning as well as the locations where any third-prize tickets were purchased.

Tuesday’s Mega Millions jackpot win was the first time someone who bought a ticket in New Jersey hit either the Mega Millions or Powerball jackpots in nearly four years. On July 24, 2020 someone who purchased a Mega Millions ticket in Bayonne won the $202 million Mega Million jackpot.

Thirteen second-prize Mega Millions tickets matching five numbers but not the Mega Ball were sold. A ticket bought in New York is worth $2 million because the winner spent an extra $1 for the Megaplier option. Tickets valued at $1 million were sold in Colorado, Florida (2), Georgia (2), Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York (2) and Ohio.

A ticket bough in California is valued at $1,058,180. California lottery prizes vary depending on ticket sales and number of winners. They differ from the fixed second prizes offered in other participating states.

The previous largest lottery prize won in New Jersey was the $533 million Mega Million jackpot won by now former Vernon resident Richard Wahl on March 30, 2018. The ticket was sold at the Lukoil gas station on Route 23 in Riverdale.

The identity of Tuesday’s winner will likely never be publicly revealed as lottery winners in New Jersey have been allowed to remain anonymous since a law was passed in January 2020.

The odds of a $2 ticket winning the jackpot by matching five numbers and the Mega Ball are 302,575,350 to 1. Players have a 1 in 12,607,306 chance of a ticket matching five numbers but not the Mega Ball and winning at least $1 million.

Mega Millions drawings are held on Tuesday and Friday in 45 states, along with Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Wednesday’s Powerball jackpot is worth $865 million with a cash option of $416.1 million.

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BAYONNE, NJ - It’s been said that politics makes for strange bedfellows, an adage that appears to be proving to be true in Bayonne where Councilman Neil Carroll is pushing an effort to reestablish rent control.

Last week, Carroll’s effort got the support of former Board of Education Trustee Michael Alonso who said that the 1st Ward representative’s proposed solution “deserves further favorable consideration, because all of Bayonne's residents deserve priority treatment from their city government, not outside corporate developers.”

“It’s good that Carroll is thinking about his neighbors,” Alonso said.

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Rent control on new buildings was defeated by 121 votes in 2012, allowed the city to gradually phase out rent control in Bayonne and paving the way for massive new residential development in the city.

In the years since, rent control supporters have tried twice to have the matter put up as a referendum; neither effort was successful.

“People now more than ever don’t feel like they are being represented in city hall,” said Alonso, who is expected to run for Board of Education again this year. “With all the new developments, the east side doesn’t even have a council member at city hall to represent them.”

Making reference to an article that appeared in TAPinto Bayonne earlier this year, Alonso said a former school official fought to change the structure of municipal government back in the 1960s.

“We now think it’s that time again,” Alonso said. “People think we should be more like Hoboken and Jersey City by having six wards instead of three.”

“We have grown too large to only be represented by five people,” Alonso said, adding that growing the body would mean that more neighborhoods would be represented. “People deserve to have a government that represents them and their neighborhood.”

BAYONNE, NJ - A less than enthusiastic city council voted to approve a study on possibly reinstituting rent control in the city, although only Councilman Neil Carroll appears to fully support the idea.

“This is the first step,” Carroll told TAPinto Bayonne.

While other members of the council voted in favor of studying a property in need of redevelopment and examining their rent control laws, most appeared to prefer other options such as the use of the Affordable Housing Trust fund to create more affordable housing in a city that has seen a flood of luxury rental developments – most of which were attracted to Bayonne after the city abolished rent control.

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The resolution would require a reexamination of local rent control laws, while looking at other aspects of the existing housing stock.

Unlike Jersey City and Hoboken, Bayonne largely did away with rent control, which in part made the city more attractive for development of high end rental development, but with rising rents throughout the city, the need for affordable housing has become dire, supporters of the measure, including Carroll, say.

Councilman Loyad Booker, who is also a member of the Bayonne Planning Board, said he would like to see more workforce units to allow teachers, city workers and public safety workers to remain in the city, rather than seeking more affordable housing outside the city while Councilman Jacquiline Weimmer said she would like to see the development of for sale condo units in the city.

Last year, the one project proposed for such condos requested revisiting its agreement with the city to develop luxury rental units instead.

Condo development in the city largely ended with the 2008 real estate crash when banks ceased offering easy ways to get mortgages, an issue that is still relevant today as increased interest rates make first time home ownership a significant problem.

Council President Gary LaPelusa said the council will look over the report when it is concluded, adding that caveat that he has reservations about restoring rent control.

“I’m always willing to see a study. Maybe we can always learn something new,” LaPelusa said.

Carroll admitted that the lack of rent control in the city had made the city more attractive for luxury development.

“But I think we’ve reached a point where we need to look at what we need and how much we’ve already accomplished,” Carroll said. “I think everybody on the council wants to do something to keep Bayonne affordable.”

BAYONNE, NJ - A less than enthusiastic city council voted to approve a study on possibly reinstituting rent control in the city, although only Councilman Neil Carroll appears to fully support the idea.

“This is the first step,” Carroll told TAPinto Bayonne.

While other members of the council voted in favor of studying a property in need of redevelopment and examining their rent control laws, most appeared to prefer other options such as the use of the Affordable Housing Trust fund to create more affordable housing in a city that has seen a flood of luxury rental developments – most of which were attracted to Bayonne after the city abolished rent control.

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The resolution would require a reexamination of local rent control laws, while looking at other aspects of the existing housing stock.

Unlike Jersey City and Hoboken, Bayonne largely did away with rent control, which in part made the city more attractive for development of high end rental development, but with rising rents throughout the city, the need for affordable housing has become dire, supporters of the measure, including Carroll, say.

Councilman Loyad Booker, who is also a member of the Bayonne Planning Board, said he would like to see more workforce units to allow teachers, city workers and public safety workers to remain in the city, rather than seeking more affordable housing outside the city while Councilman Jacquiline Weimmer said she would like to see the development of for sale condo units in the city.

Last year, the one project proposed for such condos requested revisiting its agreement with the city to develop luxury rental units instead.

Condo development in the city largely ended with the 2008 real estate crash when banks ceased offering easy ways to get mortgages, an issue that is still relevant today as increased interest rates make first time home ownership a significant problem.

Council President Gary LaPelusa said the council will look over the report when it is concluded, adding that caveat that he has reservations about restoring rent control.

“I’m always willing to see a study. Maybe we can always learn something new,” LaPelusa said.

Carroll admitted that the lack of rent control in the city had made the city more attractive for luxury development.

“But I think we’ve reached a point where we need to look at what we need and how much we’ve already accomplished,” Carroll said. “I think everybody on the council wants to do something to keep Bayonne affordable.”

BAYONNE, New Jersey (WABC) -- Welcoming home celebration was held for a 15-year-old student from New Jersey who is alive thanks to a couple heroes who saved him after he collapsed during class due to an irregular heartbeat.

Fifteen-year-old Bayonne High School student Jaeden Gibbs returned home Thursday, 10 days after he collapsed and went unconscious in class.

He says he doesn't remember anything, but all those who helped save his life remember very well.

School security got to him in less than a minute.

"Found that he wasn't breathing, no pulse and we did what we were trained to do," Bayonne High School security guard Mike Hurley said.

"Immediately we went right to shock mode, ended up shocking him," Bayonne High School security guard Tim Carey said.

Medics were not far behind.

"Took over the rescue, shocked him again, continued with CPR, we had a pulse by the time we got him in the ambulance," said Michael McCabe, Chief of EMS.

Gibbs' father Arthur Gibbs said he was at work 51 miles away when he got the call about his son.

"You have no clue. It's the worst call you can get that your son is going through this," he said.

His son had gone into Ventricular fibrillation (V-fib).

"He had to have a defibrillator implanted in him with surgery, now if it happens again it will shock him and bring him back," Jaeden's mother Carmen Gibbs said.

The welcome home celebration for Jaeden Gibbs almost left him speechless, just knowing his school and his town were pulling for him.

"This is really a celebration, this is a celebration of life and we are happy to be a part of it," Bayonne High School Principal Keith Makowski said.

"I have a son who's a junior at Bayonne High School, even he came home and was nervous about what happened, but today we're welcoming him back, thank God, and it's a great day for everyone," Bayonne Mayor Jimmy Davis said.

Most importantly, the Gibbs family got their son back. He will be back in school very soon.

"I thank God for each and every one of you and my boy is back. It's incredible, as a parent you want to protect your kid but there's nothing you can do," Arthur Gibbs said.

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