LITTLE ROCK — Cindy Hill, 51, who was laid off from her office-manager job in June 2010, said she, her husband, Mark, 52, and their children are going to have “a pretty good Christmas” after the couple won half of a record $588 million Powerball jackpot and opted to take their payout in a lump sum, which works out to about $136.5 million after taxes.
Rep. Mike McIntyre, D-N.C., is headed back to Congress for another term after a recount showed him beating Republican David Rouzer by 533 votes out of 334,647 votes cast.
David Luchsinger, 62, superintendent of the Statue of Liberty and of neighboring Ellis Island, said Lady Liberty survived superstorm Sandy with every crown spike in place, but Liberty Island and Ellis Island both suffered extensive damage to their infrastructure, leaving Luchsinger in the dark as to when the tourist attractions will reopen.
Anthony Hayne, 36, a Cleveland man whose guilty plea in a failed plot to bomb a highway bridge in Ohio quickly led three of his co-defendants to plead guilty, apologized for his actions, telling the court, “I blame it on myself,” and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Daniel Jacowitz, an officer with the California Highway Patrol, said a sneezing fit is to blame for truck driver Antonio Zamora’s crashing into nearly a dozen vehicles at a San Francisco Bay-area auto dealership, adding that Zamora wasn’t cited in the accident.
Victoria Ann Marut, 22, a graduate student at Truman State University, has been charged in Kirksville, Mo., with felony forgery over allegations that she faked a case of terminal cancer.
Lilia Tirdea, a California woman who served poisonous mushrooms to residents of an elder-care home, has been barred for life from working in such facilities after four peopledied, state officials said, adding that Tirdea, who was the home’s caretaker, failed to apply state standards when she served “foraged mushrooms” to five residents.
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