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FILE – South Carolina Education Lottery Director, Ernie Passailaigue , right, extends his hand to Monica and Anthony Wilson, of Charlotte, N.C., as he presents them with a check for their Powerball winnings Thursday May 29, 2003, at Red Rocket Fireworks in Fort Mill, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)

Someone could win $1.8B Powerball jackpot Saturday. Odds are their identity will remain a mystery.

September 5, 2025 at 8:06 p.m.

Saturday’s $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot is the second-largest in history, but even if there is a winner, don’t expect to find out who they are or how they plan to...

In this undated photo provided by the Merkel family, Fletcher Merkel, who was killed in a school shooting in Minneapolis on Aug. 27, 2025, poses for a picture. (Merkel family photo)

Parents of students killed in Minneapolis church shooting share emotional pleas

August 29, 2025 at 9:10 a.m.

The parents of the two schoolchildren fatally shot in a Minneapolis church spoke out for the first time on Thursday afternoon, with some imploring the shaken community to address the...

In this image taken from the North Carolina Department of Transportation camera, cars are lined up to evacuate via a ferry on the island of Hatteras Island, N.C., Monday, Aug. 18, 2025, due to the expected impact of Hurricane Erin. (North Carolina Department of Transportation via AP)

What to know about powerful Hurricane Erin as it heads toward the US East Coast

August 18, 2025 at 3:37 p.m.

Island communities off the coast of North Carolina are bracing for flooding ahead of the year’s first Atlantic hurricane, Hurricane Erin.

This GOES-19 GeoColor satellite image taken Wednesday, July 16, 2025 at 12:46 EDT and provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, shows a tropical weather system over the Florida Panhandle. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association via AP)

Gulf Coast braces for flooding as storm system builds into possible tropical depression

July 16, 2025 at 5:29 p.m.

The weather system moving across the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday was showing a greater chance of becoming a tropical depression as it moves toward the northern Gulf Coast, according to...

Steve Romero, 23, center, hugs his wife, Hailey Hart, right, and their friend Jessica Soileau, left, after recalling how he, his fiancee and their three dogs rode out Saturday’s tornado in their small 1994 Toyota in Tylertown, Miss., on Sunday, March 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Residents pick up the pieces after devastating storms scour the US South and Midwest

March 17, 2025 at 4:32 p.m.

A three-day outbreak of severe weather across seven states kicked up a devastating combination of wildfires, dust storms and tornadoes, claiming at least 41 lives since Friday.

FILE – An Alabama state trooper swings a club at John Lewis, right foreground, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., March 7, 1965. (AP Photo, File)

‘Bloody Sunday’ 60th anniversary marked in Selma with remembrances and concerns about the future

March 9, 2025 at 9:53 a.m.

Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of the clash that became known as Bloody Sunday. The attack shocked the nation and galvanized support for the U.S. Voting Rights...

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