$338M Lottery Winner to Take Lump-Sum Payout
Posted: 7:18 AM New Jersey lottery officials say the Dominican immigrant who won the $338 million Powerball lottery has decided to take the payment in one lump sum.
Posted: 7:18 AM New Jersey lottery officials say the Dominican immigrant who won the $338 million Powerball lottery has decided to take the payment in one lump sum.
Posted: 7:10 AM North Korea has again cut a military hotline to the South -- and it's not clear what it will mean for the hundreds of South Korean workers who are at an industrial complex in the North.
Posted: 8:22 AM U.S. home prices rose in January at the fastest pace since the summer of 2006.
Posted: 5:04 AM Italy's highest criminal court has overturned the acquittal of Amanda Knox in the slaying of her British roommate and ordered a new trial.
Posted: 4:50 AM Rye whiskey using George Washington's own recipe will soon go on sale at the first president's Mount Vernon estate in Virginia.
Posted: 4:36 AM U.S. taxpayers are spending a lot on their former presidents.
Posted: 4:53 AM A Palestinian official says the U.S. is seeking to bring Arab countries into efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in the coming weeks.
Posted: 9:58 PM Authorities say a 9-year-old girl walked about a mile to find help after surviving a car crash that killed her father in Southern California.
Posted: 9:42 PM The co-owner of a facility where two Icelandic men died while skydiving says they did not deploy their main parachutes.
Updated: 4:40 AM New Jersey Lottery officials say they'll release information on the lone winning ticket sold in the state for the $338.3 million Powerball drawing.
Posted: 7:41 AM The commander at Marine Corps. Base Quantico in northern Virginia says a shooting in which a Marine killed a male and female colleague before killing himself was isolated to a single building.
Posted: 10:19 AM House Republicans have passed a budget plan that would cut spending sharply, including less money for Medicaid.
Posted: 8:18 AM A man accused of slapping a toddler on a flight and using a racial slur has pleaded not guilty to assault in federal court.
Posted: 8:13 AM President Obama says he's told Israel's leaders the U.S. does not consider settlement activity in the West Bank constructive or appropriate.
Posted: 7:13 AM President Barack Obama is opening his first trip to Israel since taking office.
Posted: 7:06 AM Syria's main opposition group is demanding a full international investigation into an alleged chemical weapons attack in the country's north.
Posted: 4:48 AM Authorities say a University of Central Florida student who pulled a dorm fire alarm in the middle of the night had a more sinister plan than sending students scurrying out into the night.
Posted: 4:42 AM If history is any judge, the U.S. government will be paying for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for the next century as service members and their families grapple with the sacrifices of combat.
Posted: 4:33 AM When William Edward Small told his father that he'd signed an organ donor card, it came as no surprise. "Little Ed" had been that way his whole life, his dad says.
Posted: 4:35 AM The Supreme Court will hear arguments today about validity of Arizona's voter registration law
Posted: 7:45 PM State legislators across the country are introducing laws making it harder for animal welfare advocates to investigate cruelty and food safety cases.
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Posted: 8:21 AM A man and a woman are presumed drowned after they were dragged away by a fast-moving, icy river in Sioux Falls as they tried to save a 6-year-old child.
Posted: 8:01 AM President Barack Obama has hosted dinners and lunches and visited Capitol Hill over three days in his outreach effort with Congress.