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$1.5 Billion Mega Millions Jackpot Claimed in South Carolina
The mystery is over. Partly. Lottery officials on Monday announced that a South Carolina resident had stepped forward to claim the $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot from last October — the largest jackpot payout to a single winner in U.S. history — but elected to remain anonymous.
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Man Suspected of Killing 5 in Louisiana Arrested at Grandma's Virginia Home
A 21-year-old man suspected of killing his parents and three other people was arrested Sunday when he drove up with a gun to his grandmother’s house in Virginia, a sheriff said. On Saturday, Dakota Theriot shot and killed three people — a young woman, her brother and her father — in Louisiana’s Livingston Parish before taking her father’s pickup truck,...
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Louisiana Town Reels From Loss of 5 Children in Fiery Florida Crash
It was supposed to be a fun, post-Christmas trip to Disney World for 14-year-old Jeremiah Warren and his friends from a church in this small Louisiana town — “clean fun” as Warren’s aunt described it. But then word came of a fiery crash on a Florida highway that killed seven people, including five children from this area traveling in a...
