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Missouri Powerball player wins $50,000 prize

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:33:47 GMT

POTOSI, Mo. -- A Powerball player won a significant prize in Potosi. A ticket purchased at the Casey's on Missouri Street matched four of the five white ball numbers and the Powerball for the September 16th drawing. This is the 49th Missourian to win a $50,000 Powerball prize in 2023.The Associated Press reports that the Powerball jackpot has climbed to an estimated $1.4 billion after no players matched all six numbers and hit it rich. The winning numbers announced Wednesday night are: 9, 35, 54, 63, 64 and the Powerball 1. Attorney general urges Tyson Foods to sell two southern Missouri plants Players will next have a shot at the Powerball jackpot Saturday night. No matter how large the prize grows the odds stay the same. It’s those odds of 1 in 292.2 million that make the jackpot so hard to win.The $1.4 billion jackpot is for a sole winner who takes an annuity, paid annually over 30 years. Winners choosing the cash option would receive an estimated $643.7 million.

$1 million ticket sold in Colorado in Wednesday Powerball drawing, jackpot surges to $1.4 billion

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:33:47 GMT

A $1 million ticket was sold in Colorado for Wednesday’s Powerball drawing, but no jackpot winners mean the grand prize has now surged to the game’s third largest prize.The Powerball jackpot now stands at an estimated $1.4 billion for the next drawing on Saturday night. The jackpot has a cash value of $643.7 million.The Powerball drawing on Wednesday night produced more than 3.2 million winning tickets across the country, including seven tickets that matched all five white balls to win $1 million prizes.As well as the Colorado ticket, two $1 million tickets apiece were sold in California and Texas and one apiece in New York and Pennsylvania.Three more tickets, from Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Texas, matched the five white balls and included the Power Play feature to increase their winnings to $2 million.Four Colorado tickets also won smaller $50,000 prizes.Saturday’s estimated jackpot ranks as the third largest in the Powerball game and fifth largest among U.S. lottery ja...

Sixers players on being challenged by CU Buffs coach Deion Sanders: “We love that”

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:33:47 GMT

FORT COLLINS — When in Memphis, you see Elvis. When in D.C., you see Lincoln.When in Colorado?You see Coach Prime.“It was really cool, yeah,” Philadelphia 76ers forward Tobias Harris said of a Sixers team dinner with new CU Buffs football coach Deion Sanders on Tuesday night in Boulder. “We were all there asking questions and getting to understand his mindset and how he’s been so successful in his career and his coaching career.”As part of training camp activities at CSU’s Moby Arena this week, the Sixers held a players-only meal to get an audience with Sanders, whose 3-2 Buffs visit Arizona State (1-4) on Saturday in an effort to snap a two-game losing skid.Of course, because it’s Coach Prime, Sanders’ social media team had cameras at the ready, and a series of Deion quotes to the Philly players went viral on Twitter late Tuesday night.Especially the part where Coach Prime appeared to jab reigning NBA MVP Joel Embiid about the big man...

Funeral for slain sheriff's Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer to be held Thursday

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:33:47 GMT

Funeral services for slain Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer will be held Thursday in downtown L.A.Clinkunbroomer, 30, was fatally shot on Sept. 16 outside the Palmdale Sheriff's Station when a gunman pulled up alongside his vehicle and opened fire, killing the eight-year veteran of the sheriff’s department.Services are scheduled to be held at 9:30 a.m. at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels at 555 West Temple Street. Clinkunbroomer family ‘shocked’ by decision not to seek death penalty Law enforcement and personnel from local, state, and federal agencies will be in attendance. The sheriff's department stated they “lament the loss of a beloved grandson, son, sibling, fiancé, and treasured friend.”Clinkunbroomer, affectionately known as “Clink,” came from a legacy of service. His father and grandfather both served with LASD.  The young deputy had gotten engaged within days of his ambush-style killing.  Services for Clinkunbroomer will be live-st...

Model killed in downtown Los Angeles was pregnant

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:33:47 GMT

Loved ones of a model who was found brutally killed in her downtown L.A. apartment are still distraught as they've received no answers about her death so far.Nearly a month after the body of Maleesa Mooney, 31, was found inside her apartment on the 200 block of South Figueroa Street, her family said they’ve been mostly left in the dark with no suspect information being released to them.Mooney was an expectant mother and an aspiring model and real estate agent when she died.“It’s honestly so stressful,” said Jourdin Pauline, Mooney’s sister. “I have thousands and thousands of scenarios in my head of what could have happened because we don’t know.”Pauline said she’s frustrated as she’s been waiting weeks for answers about her sister's murder sister since Sept. 12.“This person is still out there and the police are not telling us anything,” Pauline said. “What is the hold up? What did the guys see? Can you share it with us? Suspects? Surveillance video that you do have? Show us somethin...

Kevion Hunt Killed in Rollover Collision on 14 Freeway [Acton, CA]

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:33:47 GMT

31-Year-Old Driver Pronounced Dead after Single-Vehicle Accident near Santiago RoadACTON, CA (October 5, 2023) – Saturday evening, a rollover collision claimed the life of Kevion Hunt on the 14 Freeway. The incident took place at approximately 9:40 p.m., near the Santiago Road on-ramp.As of now, the sequence of events leading up to the accident remains shrouded in uncertainty. However, reports suggest that a blue Honda CR-V overturned.Emergency responders pronounced the sole occupant and driver of the vehicle deceased at the scene.The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office later identified the deceased individual as 31-year-old Kevion Hunt. Hunt’s city of residence remains undisclosed. Currently, the California Highway Patrol is actively investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash on the 14 Freeway.The team at Sweet James offers their warm and sincerest sympathies go out to the friends and family of Kevion Hunt. May the memories of your loved one give you st...

Big Ten schedule format revealed: USC, UCLA, Oregon and UW to face heavyweight foes in first season in the new conference

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:33:47 GMT

The Big Ten on Thursday announced the football schedule model over a five-year period that begins next season when USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington join the conference.For the four West Coast schools, the 2024-28 rotation includes the showdowns they were hoping to play.Next year, in fact, Oregon plays Michigan and Ohio State, USC plays Michigan and Penn State, Washington plays Penn State and Michigan, and UCLA plays Penn State.“When you see the quality of the matchups, there are so many great games,” Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti said.The Big Ten has identified the USC-UCLA and Oregon-Washington rivalries as two of the so-called “protected games,” meaning they will be played every year on a home-and-away basis.Non-conference games are controlled by the schools and were not included in the rotation model released Thursday.“It has been a whirlwind eight weeks,” said Kerry Kenny, the Big Ten’s chief operating officer. “When Oregon and...

Police blame some deaths on ‘excited delirium.’ ER docs consider pulling the plug on the term.

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:33:47 GMT

By Markian Hawryluk and Renuka RayasamThe way Sheldon Haleck’s parents see it, the 38-year-old’s only crime was jaywalking. But that March night in 2015, after Honolulu police found him behaving erratically, they pepper-sprayed him, shocked him with a Taser, and restrained him. Haleck became unresponsive and was taken to a hospital. Before his parents could get from their home in Utah to Hawaii, the former Hawaii Air National Guardsman was taken off life support.“Nobody’s supposed to die from something like this,” said Haleck’s father, William.An initial autopsy ruled Haleck’s death a homicide and his family filed a civil lawsuit in federal court against the three officers who tried to remove him from the street. The case should have been “one of the easiest wrongful death cases” to win, said Eric Seitz, an attorney who represented Haleck’s family.But the officers’ attorneys seized on a largely discredited, four-decade-old diagnostic theory called “excited delirium,” which has been ...

Warriors announce WNBA expansion team for 2025

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:33:47 GMT

(KRON) – The Golden State Warriors have officially been awarded a Women's National Basketball Assocation expansion franchise; the WNBA announced Thursday. The team will begin play in the 2025 WNBA season and play home games at the Chase Center.The announcement marks the first WNBA expansion in 15 years.  VIDEO: First look at Chris Paul practicing in Warriors threads “The Bay Area is the perfect market for a WNBA team, and we are thrilled this opportunity has finally come to fruition,” said Warriors Co-Executive Chairman & CEO Joe Lacob. “We have been interested in a WNBA franchise for several years, due in part to the rich history of women’s basketball in the Bay Area, and believe now is the ideal time to execute that vision and build upon that legacy. The WNBA continues to solidify itself as the preeminent women’s professional basketball league, and we look forward to supporting the best women’s basketball players in the world and our team starting in 2025.”The new WNBA ...

Indian Nationalists Cite Inspiration for Foreign Assassinations: U.S “Targeted Killing” Spree

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:33:47 GMT

Protesters stomp on an Indian flag and a cutout of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Sept. 25, 2023, over the Indian government’s alleged involvement in the killing of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, in British Columbia, Canada.Photo: Cole Burston/AFP via Getty ImagesIn the wake of Canada’s claim last month that the Indian government was behind the murder of Canadian citizen and Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, observers in the West have compared the alleged state-sanctioned killing to the actions of authoritarian states like Russia and Iran.In India, however, pro-government media outlets and politicians across the spectrum have pointed to a Western democracy that they believe has most legitimized the practice of extrajudicial assassination: the United States.The U.S. government has been supportive of Canada’s investigation of Nijjar’s murder. U.S. officials shared intelligence with the Canadian government that informed the allegations and have stated that there is...