Powerball jackpot grows after midweek drawing
No ticket matched all six Powerball numbers in Des Moines on Wednesday. The top prize rolls to about 40 million for Saturday after a 34.7 million jack pot. Nine tickets won 100 000 for matching five numbers without the Powerball. The guns case: Calvin and Shawnee Sistrunk plead guilty to child neglect for leaving a loaded .22 handgun where their 6 year old could reach it. the daughter found it at school and was suspended.
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Suspect convicted in teen’s rape, murder case
A Bentonville jury convicted Joshua Macabe Brown, 23, of first degree murder in the 13 year old Jesse Dirkhising slaying, sparing him from death penalty after rejecting capital murder charges. Brown had been convicted of a rape charge earlier, with sentencing up to life. Prosecutors said Dirkhising was drugged, bound, raped and sodomized in 1999 at Brown’s apartment shared with Davis Carpenter. The boy suffocated due to the drugs and restraint.
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Scandinavia’s land mass rising after ice age weight
Satellite data show Scandinavia rising about 9 mm per year after being depressed by ice sheets up to two miles thick. Researchers from the University of Toronto and colleagues used 33 sensors and GPS to measure rebound across Sweden Norway Finland Denmark and the Gulf of Bothnia.
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Missing matter in universe found in dead stars halo
Astronomers report 38 white dwarfs about 450 light years away in the Milky Way halo could account for 3 to 35 percent of the universe's missing matter. The cooling remnants from stars up to eight solar masses may help explain gravitational effects observed since 1933. Science journal Science published the study by Ben Oppenheimer and colleagues.
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Spring storm drenches northeast Boston
A stubborn spring nor'easter lashes the Mid-Atlantic and New England with heavy rain snow and gusty winds. Parts of New Hampshire Vermont and Maine report up to 10 inches of snow and Maine and Rhode Island reach four and a half inches of rain flooding neighborhoods and closing roads and schools. Local highway closures and an Interstate 490 shutdown near Rochester follow a tractor trailer accident amid slippery conditions.
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