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(NEW YORK) -- The dream of becoming America's next billionaire is up for grabs this Saturday night as the Powerball jackpot climbed to $1 billion, sending ticket sales soaring across the nation ahead of the Labor Day weekend drawing.Game officials increased the jackpot estimate Friday morning from $950 million after reviewing national ticket sales, Powerball said. The winner could opt for a cash payment of $453.1 million before taxes."We're bringing extra excitement […]

(MIAMI) -- University of Miami football player Adarius Hayes has been arrested and charged with vehicular homicide following a monthslong investigation into a car crash that killed three people in Florida, police said Friday.Hayes, 20, turned himself into the Largo Police Department and was transported to the Pinellas County Jail on Friday, police said.Hayes was "traveling at a high rate of speed and maneuvering aggressively through traffic" shortly before colliding […]

(MINNEAPOLIS) -- Over 100 people gathered across the street from the children's ward at Minneapolis' Hennepin County Medical Center to pray for the kids recovering there after they were shot at the Annunciation Catholic School this week.Teachers, students and nurses, as well as police officers who had heard about the Thursday night candlelight vigil over their dispatch radios, all joined together for a moment of silence, united in a shared […]

(BIG HORN COUNTY, Wyo.) -- After being missing for nearly a month, a man who had left for a three-day hike in Wyoming was found dead in Bighorn National Forest, authorities said."While it's not the outcome we hoped for, we are hopeful this will provide much needed peace and closure to the family," the Big Horn County Sheriff's Office said in a statement on Thursday.Grant Gardner, a Minnesota man who […]