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1 winning ticket sold in Fla. on Powerball

Sun, 19 May 2013 01:41:05 -0400

DES MOINES, Iowa - A lottery official says 1 winning ticket has been sold in Florida for a record Powerball jackpot of more than $590 million.

Powerball drawing follows late ticket-buying rush

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:40:22 -0400

DES MOINES, Iowa - It's all about the odds.

Authorities: Hofstra student was killed by police

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:27:03 -0400

MINEOLA, New York - A Hofstra University student being held in a headlock at gunpoint by an intruder was accidently shot and killed by a police officer who had responded to the home invasion at an off-campus home, police said Saturday.

1 of 2 fires north of LA contained

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:05:04 -0400

SANTA CLARITA, California - One of two wildfires burning in the hills and mountains around Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles was fully contained Saturday and authorities were getting an upper hand on the second one.

Police call fatal NYC shooting a hate crime

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:07:16 -0400

NEW YORK - A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man's face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, a killing New York's police commissioner called an "anti-gay" hate crime.

FBI searches apartment in ricin letter case

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:01:13 -0400

SPOKANE, Washington - Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin.

Ex-Pa. officer once hailed as hero faces charges

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:28:13 -0400

PHILADELPHIA - A former Philadelphia police officer once hailed as a hero and given a seat next to the first lady at a speech by President Obama has been arrested and charged with rape and other crimes.

Up to 60 injured after car drives into Va. parade

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:59:37 -0400

DAMASCUS, Virginia - An elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Saturday parade in a small Virginia mountain town and investigators were looking into whether he suffered a medical emergency before the accident.

Official: Broken rail eyed in Conn. train crash

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:25:45 -0400

BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut - The commuter train derailment and collision that left dozens injured outside New York City was not the result of foul play, officials said Saturday, but a fractured section of rail is being studied to determine if it is connected to the accident.

Federal report documents inmate sex abuse in US

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:50:29 -0400

INDIANAPOLIS - Inmates at jails in Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia face the nation's highest levels of sexual abuse at the hands of guards, according to a new federal report based on surveys of inmates at U.S. jails and prisons.

Alaska volcano shoots lava up hundreds of feet

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:38:07 -0400

Alaska's remote Pavlof Volcano was shooting lava hundreds of feet into the air, but its ash plume was thinning Saturday and no longer making it dangerous for airplanes to fly nearby.

Landing gear issue leads to plane's belly landing

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:22:14 -0400

NEWARK, N.J - An airline official says a US Airways Express flight with 34 people aboard was forced to make a belly landing at Newark International Airport after experiencing landing gear trouble. No injuries were reported.

Boston police, city to review bombings response

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:19:18 -0400

LOWELL, Massachusetts - Boston's police department and mayor's office will conduct twin reviews of the response to last month's bombing of the Boston Marathon, police commissioner Ed Davis said Saturday.

Funeral held for mom, son found dead in home

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:37:04 -0400

TRENTON, New Jersey - Funeral services have been held for the New Jersey woman and boy whose bodies were found in their home after a 37-hour hostage standoff last weekend.

'All aboard' for West Point transportation museum

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:23:28 -0400

WEST POINT, Mississippi - It's not so often a grown man gets to report to work and play with trains. For Terry Craig, though, it's a weekly joy. As curator of the Sam Wilhite Transportation Museum on West Point's Depot Drive, he is not only conductor of the largest working stationary train of its scale in North Mississippi, he got to build much of it.

First lady to high school grads: Live your dreams

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:19:13 -0400

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - First lady Michelle Obama has some advice for some Tennessee high school graduates: Strike your own path in college and life and work to overcome inevitable failures with determination and grit.

Search for missing Maine teen focuses on pickup

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:50:23 -0400

BANGOR, Maine - Maine law enforcement officials are continuing to follow up on tips as they try to find a 15-year-old Glenburn girl last seen a week ago.

Obama's Morehouse visit shines spotlight on HBCUs

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:44:32 -0400

ATLANTA - When President Barack Obama addresses graduates at Morehouse College on Sunday, he'll also be speaking to the broader community of historically black colleges and universities - a proud corner of higher education that has struggled more than most during the last few years of economic distress.

Women sad, angry over sale of nonprofit Ohio home

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:17:45 -0400

CINCINNATI - For more than 100 years, the Anna Louise Inn in downtown Cincinnati has been a safe, serene place that thousands of struggling women came to know as home.

NY pol accused of serial sex harassment to resign

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:36:00 -0400

ALBANY, New York - A New York assemblyman accused of sexually harassing young female staffers for years says he will resign before he's expelled from the Legislature.