August 16, 2012 (CBS/AP) DETROIT - A lone winning ticket in the $337 million Powerball drawing has been sold at a Michigan gas station but the identity of the lucky owner was still unknown.
The winning numbers in the Wednesday night drawing were 6, 27, 46, 51, 56 and Powerball 21.
"It turns out that it was the third largest Powerball jackpot ever and the seventh largest jackpot in U.S. history. It ... (had a) cash value of $241 million," said Michigan Lottery spokesperson Andi Brancatto.
BABYLON, N.Y. (AP) — A man suspected of faking his own drowning at a New York beach in a scheme to collect on a life insurance policy was arrested Wednesday at the hospital where he was receiving psychiatric treatment.
Raymond Roth arrived at state park police headquarters in handcuffs wearing a blue polo shirt and white pants. He didn’t speak to reporters.
James puts a lighthearted slant on Einstein's genius
August 14, 2012
By thisiscornwall.co.uk
Anyone who found schooling a trial will be encouraged to know that Albert Einstein did too. In fact this German-born Nobel Prize winner, whose name has become synonymous with genius, felt so out of place in an academic institution that he left at 15 with no formal qualifications.
Considered one of the great scientific brains of the modern world, young Albert didn't talk until he was five either – but suddenly burst out into full sentences as if waiting until he had something weighty to say. He did. Einstein's most singular talent was cogitating upon the big questions – time,
Baby-picture zapping plug-in is well Liked on Facebook
Unbaby.me performs the useful social task of removing baby pictures that narcissistic parents post on your Facebook newsfeed. In less than four days, it has 44,000 Likes. Next stop: a reduced birth rate?
by Chris Matyszczyk August 4, 2012 12:51 PM PD
People generally have children in order to reproduce their own imperfect selves and try to make them more perfect.
This is a legitimate, if slightly warped, activity -- yet we tolerate it for what we imagine is a social good.
By Laura Hautala
August 3, 2012
A gay couple took their story viral after a Denver-area cake shop turned down their order for a wedding cake last week. Supporters of same-sex marriage have been calling the shop, and protesters plan to gather in front of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colo., on Saturday.
Minor alien invasion OK with most Americans, poll shows
As part of its new "Chasing UFOs" series, the National Geographic Channel conducted a poll to assess Americans' views on the paranormal. By Amy Hubbard Los Angeles Times June 28, 2012
LOS ANGELES — More than 80 million Americans believe that UFOs exist and many of them are not afraid of an alien drop-in, according to a new study.
As part of its new "Chasing UFOs" series, the National Geographic Channel conducted a poll to assess Americans' views on the paranormal. The study found that 11 percent of those polled believed they had seen a UFO.
Munch’s The Scream nabbed for a record $119.9-million in New York auction
from theglobeandmail.com5/3/2012 One of the art world's most recognizable images — Edvard Munch's The Scream — sold Wednesday for a record $119,922,500 at auction in New York City.
The 1895 artwork — a modern symbol of human anxiety — was sold at Sotheby's. Neither the buyer's name nor any details about the buyer was released.
The previous record for an artwork sold at auction was $106.5 million for Picasso's Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust, sold by Christie's in 2010.
Munch's image of a man holding his head and screaming under a streaked, blood-red sky is one of four versions by the Norwegian expressionist painter. The auctioned piece at Sotheby's is the only one left in private hands.
The image has become part of pop culture, “used by everyone from Warhol to Hollywood to cartoons
BY JOSÉ BAYONA / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Cinco de Mayo on May 13? Sounds like a joke, but it’s happening this year.
The 11th edition of the popular Cinco de Mayo Festival in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park will take place Sunday, May 13, instead of the usual first Sunday of May.
Organizers are making the most of it, deciding to celebrate not only the anniversary of the Battle of Puebla but also Mother’s Day, two themes they call dear to the Mexican community.
“This weekend, the Mets play at the Flushing stadium and the city moved our festival for the weekend
By CHUCK BARTELS | Associated Press 5/2/2012 SEARCY, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas woman who cashed a $1 million lottery ticket may have to give up the winnings to a woman who threw away the ticket after she bought it, according to a judge's ruling Tuesday.
The judge decided that Sharon Duncan was entitled to the prize money, not Sharon Jones, who claimed the prize money after she took the ticket from a trash can of discarded lottery tickets at a convenience store in Beebe, a city about 40 miles northeast of Little Rock.
Jones' attorney, James Simpson, said he plans to appeal. Jones had testified that she already spent some of the money on a new truck and cash gifts to her children.
Simpson noted that Duncan testified she threw away the ticket after the read-out on a ticket scanner said, "Sorry. Not a winner." The attorney argued that people shouldn't be allowed to throw items away and then say, "'ooh, I want to un-abandon it.'"
"We'd have garage-sale law all over the place," he said. "It became trash when someone threw it away."
White County judge Thomas Hughes, however, said Jones never met the burden of proof that Duncan abandoned her right to claim $1 million.
"The $1 million was never found money," Hughes said.
Earlier Tuesday, Jones testified that she gathered a handful of discarded tickets from the trash can — as she had done many times before — and said there was no sign alerting customers not to take tickets.
Washington (CNN) -- Whose turn is it to squirm?
At least one person wasn't laughing at last year's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.
Remember Donald Trump's frown when comedian Seth Meyers lampooned him about his hair and political aspirations?
"Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising, since I just assumed he was running as a joke," said Meyers.
Taking his turn, President Barack Obama credited Trump with making hard decisions -- such as firing Gary Busey over Meatloaf on an episode of "The Celebrity Apprentice."
Brazil sex worker may sue U.S. embassy over injuries
(Reuters) - A former Brazilian prostitute plans to sue the United States embassy and five of its personnel for injuries sustained outside a strip club late last year, complicating the second of two embarrassing incidents to emerge recently involving American officials and sex workers in South America.
Romilda Aparecida Ferreira, 31, and her lawyer said they plan to file suit for injuries, medical expenses, lost income, and psychological trauma after an embassy van ran over her and left her stranded in the club parking lot with a broken collarbone, punctured lung and other injuries. The incident occurred December 29 when an embassy driver was dispatched to the club to pick up three marines and one civilian staffer.
A civil suit would compound a case in which Brazilian prosecutors have already said they are considering criminal charges, including assault and failure to provide assistance to an injured person. It also threatens to further tarnish the image of overseas U.S. personnel in the wake of a separate scandal involving U.S. Secret Service members and prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia, earlier this month.
Little noticed at the time, the incident in Brasília, Brazil's capital, gained traction this week when a local reporter asked U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, then on a visit to the country, about what happened. Panetta said the United States had investigated the matter, "severely punished" the marines, and pulled them out of Brazil.
A ticket sold in Pennsylvania hit the big one Wednesday night.
And it was purchased right here in Philadelphia at the Newsstand at the Gallery.
An official news conference was scheduled to take place there at 3 p.m.
The Powerball jackpot was worth $172.7 million in 30 yearly payments, or $107.7 million cash, and only the Pennsylvania ticket matched all the numbers: 4, 25, 29, 34 and 43, with a Powerball of 29.
It’s the second jackpot win in Eastern Pennsylvania in six months. In November, Steven Lloyd of
Source: China News
April 11, media reports, local police said the U.S. state of Connecticut a five-year-old boy carrying 50 packets of heroin to school "showing off" The boy's stepfather was arrested. Police said the boy went to kindergarten with their stepfather's jacket, in front of teachers and students to "show" in the jacket pocket 50 packets of heroin. The teacher immediately confiscated drugs, and notify the school alarm. The boy's stepfather found the jacket but not go to kindergarten to find, just to be arrested by waiting police. He was charged with the crime of drug dealing crimes and crimes against the safety of children. At present, the boy has been shelter, until the other family members to come.
America bankers admit bribery accused and senior officials of their children in China are closely related
Source: China Economic Net
China Economic Net, April 26 (Zhang the United States and the United States) Reuters reported that Morgan Stanley (Morgan Stanley, the former head of China, Peterson, Garth Peterson, also known as real estate fund of Morgan Stanley) Thursday pleaded guilty to conspiracy internal control requirements to evade U.S. anti-corruption law. Peterson also admitted the allegations of violation of the securities
Apple's WWDC 2012 will be June 11-15, focusing on iOS and OS X
After some nervous waiting on behalf of Apple's developer community, the dates for Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference have been announced. The conference will take place from June 11-15 in San Francisco, where developers will "learn about the future of iOS and OS X."
Virginia Woman Wins $1 Million Lottery Twice in the Same Day
By CHRISTINA NG | Good Morning America
Winning the lottery once in a lifetime is pretty lucky. Winning the lottery twice in the same day? Virginia Pike is one of the few people that can describe that feeling. The Berryville, Va., resident had two tickets that matched five of the six Powerball numbers in an April 7 drawing so that each ticket was
U.S. Military Academy at West Point exposed the scandal woman said that the school was a classmate rape are ignored
Xinhua News Agency for the newspaper feature articles on the 20th, two women, former director of the U.S. Naval Academy and Military Academy (West Point) report to court, the reason they attended was the rape of the other participants, the school ignored.
Was a classmate of rape
Plaintiff Carly - Markert, now 20 years old, Pennsylvania, West Point, former participants. The complaint said Markert suffered roommate's boyfriend raped in 2011, report to the school, the school failed to protect her rights or to take appropriate action, high-grade male students still in the Markert where the unit.
The complaint said Markert report was the scoff of the other participants. The school did not
(CBS/AP) DETROIT - A lone winning ticket in the $337 million Powerball drawing has been sold at a Michigan gas station but the identity of the lucky owner was still unknown.
