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Powerball tickets are shown at a lottery agent, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, in Haverhill, Mass. After 35 straight drawings without a big winner, Powerball players will have a shot Wednesday at a near-record jackpot worth an estimated $1.73 billion. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
What are the 10 largest US lottery jackpots ever won?
Here is a look at the 10 largest U.S. jackpots that have been won and the states where the winning tickets were sold. more
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FILE - Derek Fox on Corach Rambler, right, clears the Chair fence to win the Grand National horse race at Aintree Racecourse Liverpool, England, Saturday, April 15, 2023. The Grand National is implementing a series of significant changes that will take effect from next year in an effort to make the world’s most famous steeplechase safer for horses and jockeys. They include reducing the field from 40 horses to 34, softening the fences by using foam and rubber toe boards, and moving the first fence closer to the start to stop horses building up too much speed. (AP Photo/Jon Super, File)
Grand National to reduce number of horses to 34 and soften fences in bid to make famous race safer
The Grand National is implementing a series of significant changes that will take effect from next year in an effort to make the world’s most famous steeplechase safer for horses and jockeys. They … more
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a plenary session at the 2023 Russian Energy Week international forum at the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. (Kristina Kormilitsyna, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Russian President Putin arrives in Kyrgyzstan on a rare trip abroad
President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Kyrgyzstan on a rare trip abroad for the Russian leader who was indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Ukraine. It is the first time … more
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Ricky Dority, 65, speaks at the home of his son in Greenwood, Ark.,, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. Dority was freed in June with the help of a dogged private investigator he hired with COVID-relief funds and students at Oklahoma City University's Innocence Project who found inconsistencies in the state's account of a 1997 cold-case murder.(AP Photo/Sean Murphy)
An Oklahoma man used pandemic relief funds to have his name cleared of murder
An Oklahoma man who was freed after being imprisoned for decades on a murder conviction says there are more cases like his. Ricky Dority used his pandemic relief money to hire a private investigator, … more
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This image provided by Eran Shani shows Shlomi Mathias playing the guitar as his wife, Debbie ‘Shahar’ Mathias, laughs and sings next to him at her 50th birthday party on Oct. 1, 2023, in Lehavim, Israel. They both died days later while protecting their 16-year-old son, Rotem Mathias, from Hamas fighters who attacked their kibbutz in Israel near the border with Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. (Eran Shani via AP)
His parents shielded him from gunfire as Hamas attacked. He survived. They did not
An Israeli-American teenager survived a siege by Hamas attackers over the weekend after his parents shielded him from the gunfire but were killed themselves. The family lived on a kibbutz in southern … more
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A building at Vermont State University's Castleton Campus in Castleton, Vt., is shown Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. Police were searching for a suspect who shot and killed a retired dean on a nearby rail trail last week. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)
Vermont police release sketch of a person of interest in the killing of a retired college dean
Vermont State Police have released a sketch of a person of interest in the killing of a retired college dean who was shot dead last week while walking on her favorite trail near the Vermont State … more
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Joann Woodson keeps a flower after placing a wreath at the headstone of her husband Cpl. Waverly B. Woodson Jr. during a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2023 in Arlington, Va. During the D-Day invasion, the landing craft Cpl. Waverly B. Woodson Jr. was in took heavy fire and he was wounded before even getting to the beach, but for the next 30 hours he treated 200 wounded men while under intense small arms and artillery fire before collapsing from his injuries and blood loss, according to accounts of his service. With Joann Woodson, are her son, Steve Woodson, center, and Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
A Black medic wounded on D-Day honored for treating dozens of troops under enemy fire
An African American combat medic who was wounded while landing on Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion of France but went on to tend to dozens of troops has been posthumously honored. Family and … more
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Smoke rises following Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
AP PHOTOS: Rockets sail and tanks roll in Israeli-Palestinian war's 5th day
A Palestinian mother kneels beside the body of her dead son. Israelis crouch beside stone walls to shield themselves from rockets. As Israelis and Palestinians endured a fifth day of bloodshed … more
This screengrab of the Etsy page of a seller going by “LIMMERENTOMOLOGICA” shows four birdwing specimens currently on sale online. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn said Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, that Charles Limmer made tens of thousands of dollars over the past year by illegally trafficking scores of flying insects, including endangered birdwings — whose numbers have fallen because of diminishing habitat and illegal poaching. The six-count indictment against Limmer, 75, accuses him of working with overseas collaborators to smuggle some 1,000 lepidoptera, including some of the rarest and most endangered moths and butterflies in the world. (Etsy via AP)
Rare birdwing butterflies star in federal case against NY man accused of trafficking insects
Federal prosecutors in New York are seeking forfeiture of a collection of 1,000 butterflies, moths and other insects that authorities say were illegally trafficked. Some of the dried specimens … more
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Powerball tickets are shown at a lottery agent, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, in Haverhill, Mass. After 35 straight drawings without a big winner, Powerball players will have a shot Wednesday at a near-record jackpot worth an estimated $1.73 billion. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Second biggest US lottery prize ever is up for grabs in Powerball drawing
After 35 straight drawings without a big winner, Powerball players are lining up for a shot at a near-record jackpot worth an estimated $1.73 billion. If winning numbers are drawn on Wednesday, it … more
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Signs and a closed gate stand at an entrance to the Delaware & Hudson Rail Trail, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023, in Castleton, Vt. Police said an autopsy showed that retired dean and professor Honoree Fleming, of Castleton, Vt., died from a gunshot wound to the head on Thursday, Oct. 5. She was found on the Delaware & Hudson Rail Trail about a mile south of the Castleton campus of Vermont State University, which was closed. (Keith Whitcomb, Jr./The Times Argus via AP)
Police search for killer of retired Vermont college dean who was shot on trail near campus
Students and residents in a small Vermont university town are being told to lock their doors and stick together as police search for a killer who shot a retired dean on her favorite walking trail … more
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FILE - U.S. Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., holds a miniature American flag that was presented to him as he departs federal court, June 30, 2023, in Central Islip, N.Y. Prosecutors say the ex-campaign treasurer for Santos is scheduled to enter a guilty plea to an unspecified felony in connection with the federal investigation of financial irregularities surrounding the indicted New York Republican. Nancy Marks is a veteran Long Island political operative. Marks was a campaign treasurer and close aide to Santos during his two congressional bids. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Rep. Santos faces new charges he stole donor IDs, made unauthorized charges to their credit cards
A new indictment unsealed Tuesday charges U.S. Rep. George Santos with stealing the identities of donors to his campaign and then using their credit cards to ring up tens of thousands of dollars in … more
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Mourners comfort each other during the funeral of Israeli soldier Benjamin Loeb, a dual Israeli-French citizen, in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. Loeb was killed on Saturday as the militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
AP PHOTOS: Soldiers mobilize, mourners bury the dead as battles rage in Israeli-Palestinian war
Buildings turned to rubble. Body bags in the streets. Wailing sirens and shrieking rockets. As generations of Israeli-Palestinian conflict bubbled into a fourth day of war Tuesday, there were … more
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California Highway Patrol and sheriffs block off The Old Road with access to Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, Calif, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. A spokesman says four Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies were taken to the hospital Tuesday morning after a fire during a "training incident" north of Los Angeles. (David Crane/The Orange County Register via AP)
Los Angeles sheriff's deputies in critical condition after fire broke out during training
Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were seriously hurt Tuesday after a fire broke out at a training facility north of Los Angeles. Sheriff’s department spokesperson Nicole Nishida says few … more
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A car rammed into the Chinese consulate in San Francisco on Monday, coming to a stop in the lobby and creating a chaotic scene that ended with police shooting the driver, who later died at the hospital, officials said. (Oct. 10)
White House condemns a violent crash at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco
The White House is condemning a violent crash at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco that ended with police fatally shooting a man. The man created a chaotic scene Monday when he rammed a car into … more
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FILE - This photo provided by the Innocence Project shows Perry Lott, center, smiling as he leaves court in Oklahoma City, July 9, 2018, with his daughter Candace Brown, left, and Antoinette Brown, who was his fiancé at the time he was arrested, after being freed from prison when the Innocence Project presented DNA evidence it says excluded him from the crime. An Oklahoma judge on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, exonerated Lott, who spent 30 years in prison for a 1987 rape and burglary, after post-conviction DNA testing from a rape kit showed he did not commit the crime. (Karen Thompson/Innocence Project via AP, File)
Oklahoma judge dismisses case of man who spent 30 years in prison for Ada rape
An Oklahoma judge has exonerated a man who spent 30 years in prison for a 1987 rape and burglary in Ada. Post-conviction DNA testing from a rape kit showed Perry Lott, now 61, did not commit the … more
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FILE - This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Jedidiah Murphy. On Monday, Oct. 9, 2023, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a judge’s order from the prior week that had delayed the execution. Murphy's lawyers are seeking DNA testing of evidence related to his 2001 trial. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP, File)
Texas prepares for inmate's execution in hopes that Supreme Court allows it to happen
Texas is moving ahead with preparations to execute a condemned inmate in the hopes that the U.S. Supreme Court will lift a lower court’s stay and allow the lethal injection to proceed. … more
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FILE - Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum speaks to reporters, May 3, 2023, in Atlanta. Atlanta's police chief on Tuesday, Oct. 10, fired an officer who shocked a 62-year-old Black church deacon with a stun gun during a dispute over a traffic ticket, leading to the man's death. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, File)
Atlanta police chief fires officer after traffic stop led to Black deacon’s death
Atlanta’s police chief has fired an officer who shocked a 62-year-old Black deacon with a stun gun during a dispute over a traffic ticket, leading to the man’s death. Atlanta Police Chief Darin … more
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Former President Donald Trump addresses an audience during a campaign event, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023, in Wolfeboro, N.H. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Prosecutors ask judge to take steps to protect potential jurors' identities in 2020 election case
Prosecutors are urging the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s election interference case in Washington to take steps to protect the privacy and identity of prospective jurors. The prosecutors, on … more
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FILE - Florida Panthers goaltender Alex Lyon (34) warms up while celebrating Pride Night with a colorful hockey stick before playing the Toronto Maple Leafs, Thursday, March 23, 2023, in Sunrise, Fla. The NHL sent a memo to teams last week clarifying what players could and could not do as part of theme nights this season, including Pride celebrations that had become a hot-button issue in hockey. Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday, Oct. 10, that the league sent the updated memo to teams.(AP Photo/Michael Laughlin, File)
NHL issues updated theme night guidance, which includes a ban on players using Pride tape on the ice
The NHL sent a memo to teams last week clarifying what players can and cannot do as part of theme celebrations this season, including a ban on the use of rainbow-colored stick tape for Pride nights. … more
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