Georgia
Obama exhorts good deeds by Morehouse graduates
President Barack Obama, in a soaring commencement address on work, sacrifice and opportunity, on Sunday told graduates of historically black Morehouse College to seize the power of their example as black men graduating from college and use it to improve people's lives. The president said his success was due to ...
Ala. teacher cleared in taping together students
A sixth-grade teacher in Phenix City is thankful to be cleared of child abuse charges and plans to stick to the book for now on when correcting children. First-year science teacher Sierra Pettway taped two students together by their forearms in December in an attempt to help them get along. ...
Cell phones stolen from Georgia charter school
Investigators in Mitchell County are trying to solve an unusual theft from a school. Investigator Melvin Ray says someone took about 20 students' cell phones from a locked file room at Baconton Community Charter School. The school's policy is if a child is caught with their cell phone during school ...
5 vehicles set afire in Columbus historic district
Columbus officials are investigating the burning of five vehicles in the city's historic district. Historic district resident Cathy Fussell said she was awakened by a loud explosion about 3:20 a.m. Saturday. It was a tire exploding on her van, which was burning from the rear. She said all five vehicles ...
Ga. students' weather balloon travels 100 miles
Elementary school students in Athens launched a weather balloon that reached an altitude of nearly 97,000 feet and traveled nearly 100 miles to Sparta. The Engineering Club at Chase Elementary School released the 7-foot helium-filled balloon Tuesday. They tracked it to a dense swamp in a heavily wooded area in ...
Jet donated by Travolta being moved to Ga. museum
The military is helping move a Gulfstream jet once flown by actor John Travolta to its new home at an aviation museum in middle Georgia. Members of two maintenance squadrons based at Robins Air Force Base were scheduled to tow the G-2 private jet Sunday to the Museum of Aviation ...
$590M-plus Powerball: 1 winning ticket sold in Fla
It's all about the odds, and one single ticket in Florida has beaten them all by matching the numbers drawn for the highest Powerball jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million, lottery officials disclosed Sunday. The lone winner was sold at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., according to ...
1 winning ticket sold in Fla. on Powerball
A lottery official says 1 winning ticket has been sold in Florida for a record Powerball jackpot of more than $590 million. Terry Rich, a lottery official in Iowa, confirmed the ticket matching all six numbers was sold in Florida. Rich told The Associated Press by telephone that details were ...
OH Lottery
These Ohio lotteries were drawn Sunday: Mega Millions Estimated jackpot: $12 million Pick 3 Evening 8-6-0 (eight, six, zero) Pick 3 Midday 4-8-2 (four, eight, two) Pick 4 Evening 0-9-2-5 (zero, nine, two, five) Pick 4 Midday 2-5-6-7 (two, five, six, seven) Pick 5 Evening 2-9-0-9-7 (two, nine, zero, nine, ...
One Jackpot Winner
One of the tickets sold in Florida for the Powerball game Saturday evening matched all six numbers drawn, which were: 10-13-14-22-52 Powerball: 11 (ten, thirteen, fourteen, twenty-two, fifty-two; Powerball: eleven) The player matching all five numbers and the Powerball won the $600 million jackpot. The prize goes to an estimated ...
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