Iowa Powerball Jackpot Grows to 28 Million This Saturday
None of the Des Moines tickets matched all six numbers in Wednesday’s Powerball drawing. Players who matched all five numbers plus the Powerball would have won or shared the 23.5 million jackpot, now estimated at 28 million for Saturday. Two tickets matched the first five numbers but missed the Powerball, winning 100 000 each, sold in Indiana and New Mexico. Lottery numbers appear on page 2A.
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Pasadena church shooting wounds four before suicide
A man identified as Oscar Castillo, 32, opened fire inside the Iglesia Cristiana Esposa del Cordero Pentecostal church in Pasadena, Houston area, wounding a young woman, her mother, and two others before shooting himself in a parking lot. The wounded were in critical condition. police said the assailant professed love for Leslie Contreras, who rejected him. He then retrieved a gun and fired inside the church office before killing himself outside.
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Female cadet to lead VMI battalion in fall
Erin Nicole Claunch of Loudoun County will become one of VMI’s two battalion commanders this fall, leading half of the 1,200 cadets during her senior year. The physics major ranked 15th in a class of 298 and surpassed male and female peers in core fitness, aiming for an Air Force career and potential astronaut role.
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Priest Daniel Coughlin named House chaplain
Speaker Dennis Hastert appointed Rev. Daniel Coughlin a Catholic priest as the new House chaplain amid a four month dispute over Catholics in the process. The choice drew Democratic charges of bias which Hastert denied as slander while defending the appointment as unexpected. Wright had been the Presbyterian nominee and Tim O'Brien was passed over. Coughlin was sworn in on the House floor as the controversy concluded.
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Massive iceberg breaks off from Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica
Washington AP reports a colossal iceberg about twice Delaware’s size, measuring 183 by 22 miles and covering roughly 4,247 square miles, calved from the Ross Ice Shelf and posing a potential threat to South Polar shipping routes. Scientists say it may take up to a century to replace this ice loss.
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