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New Jersey man wins $315M Powerball jackpot, quits job

The New Jersey accountant who held the sole winning ticket for last month’s $315.3 million Powerball jackpot said Friday he had just refinanced his home in order to send his daughter to college.

Repair work continues on USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor

The National Park Service is working as fast as possible to reopen access to the USS Arizona Memorial after cracks were discovered last month on the floating concrete pier near the metal access ramp, officials said.

More evacuations ordered as Colorado wildfire expands

More people were ordered to get out of the path of a growing wildfire in southwestern Colorado on Saturday as ground crews contended with hot, dry and windy weather.

New team to manage nuclear weapons lab in New Mexico

Overseeing a top nuclear weapons laboratory that has had security and safety problems will be the responsibility of a new management team that includes two universities and a research firm that does work around the world, the U.S. government announced Friday.

New findings revealed about odd Hawaiian fish

The fish buyer noticed something different about the large, colorful disc-shaped opah waiting to be sold at the auction house in Honolulu. Among the differences: one fish had a bigger eye than the other.

Nonprofit helps fund projects at Death Valley, Great Basin

The Fund For People In Parks, a nonprofit sponsorship group founded in 2014, has raised more than $800,000 for 30 projects at 11 different parks, including Death Valley and Great Basin national parks.

Indiana teacher survives school shooting, Las Vegas shooting

A central Indiana woman who survived last year’s mass shooting in Las Vegas says her instinct to protect her students kicked in during a recent shooting at the middle school where she works.

 
Florida officials find body of woman attacked by alligator

A woman who disappeared while walking her dogs near a Florida lake Friday was bitten and likely killed by an alligator that was later captured, wildlife officials said.