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  • Winning ticket for huge Powerball jackpot sold in Florida

    By Becky Bratu, Staff Writer, NBC News Do you have the lucky ticket? A winner for the huge Powerball jackpot was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., a Florida Lottery official confirmed to NBC News early ...

  • 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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Movie Review

Daughters of Darkness (Les lèvres rouges) [Blu-Ray]

Daughters of Darkness (Les lèvres rouges) [Blu-Ray]

A purposefully difficult-to-classify hybrid of European art-film austerity and borderline campy erotic-horror excess, Harry Kmels Daughters of Darkness is one of the most effective of the revisionist vampire films that emerged all over the continent in the 1960s ... ...

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  • Citizens worry over new FEMA Flood Maps

    "Despite never having flooded before, building to specifications that FEMA gave us and even our own levees to further protect us FEMA has now decided we're a flood hazard area," said Robert ...

  • Canadian Press NewsAlert Oxbow wins the Preakness Stakes

    Lisa Scotti, of Baltimore, reads hhere program before the sixth race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. The 138th Preakness Stakes horse race takes place Saturday. (AP Photo/Mike ...

  • Concerned Citizens’ rally to recall Coroner Dr. Peter Galvan

    The St. Tammany Parish coroner has gone to court in an attempt to quash a subpoena from the Office of the Louisiana Legislative Auditor and faces a looming deadline to comply with a second subpoena -- this one from the Office of the Louisiana Attorney General -- WDSU has ...

  • New Orleans says gunfire at Mothers Day parade wont end citys second line tradition

    FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2011 file photo, a member of the Big 9 marching club plays trumpet in a second line commemorating the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. New Orleans officials and cultural advocates say the Mother’s Day parade shootings that left 20 people injured won’t spell the end of second-line parades, the local tradition that celebrates the city and ...

  • Slideshow Top 12 American Boomtowns

    Bloomberg Rankings sorted through U.S. Census data for metropolitan areas to rank those with the greatest population growth, then scored areas on growth in gross domestic product, adjusted for inflation. They combined the two scores and winnowed the list to regions with more than 1 million residents to find the top 12 American ...

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