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Donald Lawson, 44, a Lapeer, Mich., man who grew up in Fort Smith, has claimed a $337 million Powerball prize, opting to take a lump-sum, $224.6 million payment that works out to $158.7 million after taxes, and said the money won’t change him, adding: “Yeah, I’m a millionaire now, but I’ll still [go to] McDonald’s. I don’t like filet mignon or lobster.”

Sgt. Claude Denis

of the Quebec provincial police force said someone stole millions of dollars’ worth of maple syrup from a warehouse that stocks over $30 million worth of the sap.

Ahn Ho-yeol, spokesman for the Unification Church, said the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s pneumonia has worsened and the church moved its 92-yearold founder to a churchowned hospital near his home in South Korea.

Andrew Leaper, 43, a Scottish fisherman, in April pulled in a piece of history with his catch - a 97-yearold message in a bottle, released on June 10, 1914, that the Guinness World Records has confirmed set the world record for spending the longest time at sea.

Lyndsey Moeller

of North Pole, Alaska, has been reunited with her Labrador-pit bull mix, Scrappy, after the stolen 4-month-old puppy was found gagged and zipped up in a suitcase that had been tossed in the trash in Fairbanks.

Debra S. Nelson

has been assigned to oversee the case of George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood-watch volunteer charged in Florida in the killing of Trayvon Martin, after an appeals court ruled that Judge Kenneth Lester should disqualify himself.

Tiffany Nicole Klapheke, 21, a Texas woman who says her husband’s deployment overseas left her too stressed to care for their three daughters, has been charged in Abilene with three felony counts of injury to a child in connection with her 22-monthold’s death and the severe neglect of her two other children, ages 6 months and 3 years.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 09/01/2012

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