The string of lottery jackpot rollovers just keeps on going.
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The Airbus EC130 aircraft was heading to Boulder City from Palm Springs, California, when it crashed near Halloran Springs, California, about 80 miles south of Las Vegas.
Flooding and snow combined with excessive heat to cause misery for some visitors to national parks near Las Vegas in 2023.
The popular Angels Landing trail at Zion National Park is expected to be packed with visitors. Hikers now can apply for four seasonal lotteries.
The Sunday afternoon crash will be investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board.
A tractor trailer carrying beehives crashed in Death Valley National Park and left the driver with “traumatic injuries.”
Nobody matched all six numbers Monday, raising the Wednesday drawing to $1.73 billion for the annuity payout, $756.6 million for all cash.
The purse will be the fourth-biggest jackpot in U.S. history — if there is a winner.
The numbers drawn Monday were 12-26-27-43-47 with a Powerball (red) of 5.
The eighth-largest jackpot in lottery United States history was not won Wednesday when the Powerball numbers proved elusive for the 30th consecutive time..
The Federal Aviation Administration said United Airlines had requested the ground stop as a result of a communications issue.
“It’s apocalyptic,” Frank Taylor said Thursday evening, the end of the seventh day of searching for the 50-person Nevada Task Force-1 he leads.
A 45-member Nevada Task Force-1 team has been conducting response and recovery missions since arriving in the disaster zone two days ago.
Park rangers are endangered by heat as well as visitors, say park officials. And heat sometimes prevents helicopters from getting enough lift.
It was the third biggest Powerball jackpot and the sixth largest in U.S. lottery history.