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  • Boy 8 accidentally shot by brother

    The Advocate reported that the 8-year-old was shot in his shoulder and taken to a hospital Saturday for treatment of injuries that weren't considered ...

  • Obama to give promised speech on terrorism drones

    President Barack Obama will deliver long-promised remarks Thursday explaining the legal framework behind the decisions he makes to use drones against terrorist threats and further detail the administration's counterterrorism policy, according to a White House ...

  • 9 still hospitalized after trains crash

    Two passenger trains heading in opposite directions collided during rush hour Friday evening in southwestern Connecticut, damaging both trains and leaving dozens injured, some of them critically, authorities ...

  • Report N. Korea fires fourth missile

    North Korea fired a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan on Sunday, according to South Korea's semiofficial news agency Yonhap, citing a South Korean military ...

  • Jefferson breaks through to semifinals with 1-0 win over Inglemoor | 4A Boys Soccer

    FEDERAL WAY — Even Brandon Madsen had to marvel. This wasn't just another goal for the Jefferson High School junior, who has 18 this season. It was almost magical, hitting the back of the net with less than five minutes to play and lifting the unbeaten Raiders to a 1-0 victory over Inglemoor on Saturday in the quarterfinals of the Class 4A state boys soccer tournament at Federal Way ...


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Movie Review

Le Samouraï [DVD]

Le Samouraï [DVD]

Le Samoura was the second of Jean-Pierre Melvilles color films, but it very well could have been shot in black and white. The desaturated colors of the Parisian streets and the grayish walls of the interiors suggests a moral gray zone, a place in which the characters drift and occas ... ...

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  • Winning ticket for $590.5 million Powerball jackpot sold in Florida

    (Reuters) - One winning ticket for a record U.S. Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was sold in Florida, organizers said late on ...

  • Winning numbers for largest Powerball jackpot are ...

    CNN - The winning numbers for the largest multistate Powerball jackpot are: 22, 10,13,14, 52 and the Powerball number is 11. Saturday's jackpot is a record $600 million. It marks the largest in Powerball history, surpassing a $587.6 million jackpot split by winners in Arizona and Missouri in November. The jackpot has a cash value of $376.9 million. The largest lottery jackpot in U.S. ...

  • Woman survives I-59 car crash

    But that's what happened. The driver, a young woman described by authorities as being in her late teens or early 20s, survived. In fact, she was able to get out of the mangled Saturn on her own, with minor injuries -- largely because she was wearing a seat ...

  • Players hopeful luck strikes twice at West Mestairie store

    It's all a game of odds. Some people play just for a chance at winning. Others rely on their own system of numbers and rituals to cash in on their luck. One Metairie store saw huge crowds because of it's past brush with luck. "It went from $500 million to $600 million, so that's really making them come in more," said Briana Moran, a store clerk at the West Metaire Shell ...

  • Powerball mania Jackpot hits $600 million

    That's all it took for Mammie Hicks to plunk down money at a Riverside, Mo., convenience store for a chance at Saturday's record $600 million multistate Powerball ...

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