LUCKY VET: Wayne Leyde, a 26-year-old who served two tours in Iraq with the Army, bought four scratch-off lottery tickets at a Mead, Wash., store last week and won $1 million.
MORE CHARGES: Federal prosecutors filed identity theft charges Friday against a woman who was driving the van that crashed into a school bus in southwestern Minnesota, killing four students. Olga Marino Franco del Cid, 24, of Minneota, had already been charged in state court with four counts of criminal vehicular homicide; the new charges accuse her of giving authorities a false name and Social Security number after the Feb. 19 crash near Cottonwood.
TRIAL DELAYED: A federal judge in Reno on Friday postponed the tax evasion trial of Joe Francis, founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” video series, until August but did not rule on whether he could be released from jail.
60 DAYS: James Barbour, 41, a Broadway actor who played the beast in Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” was sentenced Friday in New York to 60 days in jail and 3 years’ probation for sexual encounters with a 15-year-old drama student.
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