Winning Powerball jackpot ticket worth $1.3 billion sold in Portland, Oregon
A Powerball player in Oregon won a jackpot worth more than $1.3 billion on Sunday, ending a winless streak that had stretched more than three months.
A Powerball player in Oregon won a jackpot worth more than $1.3 billion on Sunday, ending a winless streak that had stretched more than three months.
Jon Aros has been drawn to the stars since the first time he saw the rings of Saturn through the lens of his first telescope — a gift from his mom and uncle. “Ever since then, I was hooked. It has become a complete obsession,” Aros said. Today, almost four decades later, the 50-year-old Indiana University Northwest adjunct professor of chemistry has traveled the globe to capture celestial events like Monday’s total solar eclipse to experience the natural phenomena first-hand and to collect data and... Читать дальше...
Rwandan President Paul Kagame blamed the inaction of the international community for allowing the 1994 genocide to happen as Rwandans on Sunday commemorated 30 years since an estimated 800,000 people were killed by government-backed extremists.
A 17-year-old was shot in an Auburn Gresham business Sunday morning, police said. The teen was in the business on the 8100 block of South Halsted Street at around 8:29 a.m. when two people outside pulled out guns. They fired shots before driving away in a gray-colored SUV, according to police. He was struck by the gunfire and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in stable condition. No arrests have been made, police said.
One person was injured and three were displaced after a fire tore through a home in Humboldt Park early Sunday morning, police said. Chicago police and firefighters responded to the blaze on the 800 block of North St. Louis Street at around 12:47 a.m. A 59-year-old man was taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition with burns to his body, according to police. Three others were displaced. The cause of the fire was not immediately known.
Orland Park District 135 Superintendent John Bryk said it has been multiple years since the district adopted the curriculum adjustment Horn referenced, but said it takes years to fully implement curriculum changes.
Things had been tense on the Wentworth Police District Council for a while by the time Ephraim Lee walked out of the group’s December 2023 meeting. He apologized to the room for the council’s dysfunction and said: “If you want to see this (unprofessionalism), then you can just go down to City Hall.” Then he left. Lee had only served on the brand-new civilian council for the 2nd Police District for seven months, which was meant to represent the civilian voices of Hyde Park and Kenwood residents in the affairs of the Chicago Police Department. Читать дальше...
Should Eileen O’Neill Burke ultimately win, she would quickly face formulating her own reform agenda, making cases to tamp down Chicago’s persistent gun violence and running an office struggling with morale issues.
On April 7, 1915, jazz singer-songwriter Billie Holiday, also known as “Lady Day,” was born in Philadelphia.
A law signed by Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb in March prohibits anyone but the state from bringing civil action against the firearms industry.
Two-term Maine governor and former U.S. Rep. Joe Brennan has died at age 89.