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PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) — A Virginia couple is averaging more than $1 million a week in lottery winnings. The Virginia Lottery says Calvin and Zatera Spencer of Portsmouth claimed their latest prize last week — a $1 million in the scratch-off game $100 Million Cash Extravaganza. The streak started when the Spencers won $1 million […]
DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Crews searching through the muck and devastation wrought by Washington’s deadly mudslide are finding more human remains on the east side of the slide, near the town of Darrington. Steve Harris, a division supervisor for the search effort, said Monday that search teams are learning more about the force of the […]
A couple said their relations in the bedroom were damaged following a car accident. The Independent reports: Two years after being run over on a pedestrian crossing, the woman concerned said she still suffers from back pain and is unable to enjoy the sexual relationship she once has with her husband. A judge at a […]
Despite their sharp criticisms of federal spending, Republican states are the most dependent on government funds, according to a new Wallet Hub report. Mississippi, a…
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Campus police at Georgia’s Columbus State University fatally shot a man this weekend after officers responded to a report of someone seen loading a gun, authorities said. Zikarious Jaquan Flint, 20, died Sunday after suffering two gunshot wounds, Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan said Monday morning. Flint wasn’t a student at […]
An off-duty Florida sheriff’s deputy shot a man he caught having sex with a woman in the pool of a Boca Raton apartment complex Saturday. The Raw Story reports: An off-duty Florida deputy shot a man after breaking up his late-night tryst in an apartment complex swimming pool. The deputy, whose name has not been released, […]
LA HABRA, Calif. (AP) — Experts say a bigger earthquake along the lesser-known fault that gave Southern California a moderate shake could do more damage to the region than the long-dreaded “Big One” from the more famous San Andreas Fault. The Puente Hills thrust fault, which brought Friday night’s magnitude-5.1 quake centered in La Habra […]
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors discussed two separate fixes for an ignition switch defect in 2005 but canceled both of them without taking action, according to a memo released Sunday by the House subcommittee investigating GM’s handling of the defect and a subsequent recall. GM last month recalled 2.6 million small cars because their ignition […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Two miles beneath the sea surface where satellites and planes are looking for debris from the missing Malaysian jet, the ocean floor is cold, dark, covered in a squishy muck of dead plankton and — in a potential break for the search — mostly flat. The troubling exception is a […]
A Kenyan woman (pictured) who claims a man raped and infected her with HIV at a party recently admitted to sleeping with more than 300…
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The Virginia truck driver who killed a sailor aboard a Naval destroyer served prison time for manslaughter and drugs, but it was still unclear what led him onto the base earlier this week. The Navy identified the shooter Thursday as Jeffrey Tyrone Savage, 35, of Chesapeake, Va., but officials were still […]
DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — There is only one way searchers are narrowing the list of 90 people still missing seven days after a landslide obliterated the mountain community of Oso: by digging. There are no more phone calls being made out of the Snohomish County Emergency Operations Center to determine whether some on the list […]
