Gloria C. MacKenzie, an 84-year-old Florida widow, stepped forward as the purchaser of the winning Powerball ticket worth $590 million, claiming the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in history.
Michelle Obama, the first lady, faced off with a heckler at a Democratic fundraiser in Washington and told the protester who was shouting in support of gay rights that she could “listen to me, or you can take the mike, but I’m leaving,” which prompted the crowd to shout for the first lady to stay and attendees to then escort the protester out.
Andrea Sanderlin, 45, who lives in the wealthy New York City suburb of Scarsdale, was charged with conspiring to raise and distribute marijuana and was alleged in a federal complaint to regularly take her Mercedes to a warehouse in Queens where she was raising thousands of marijuana plants.
James Everett Dutschke, 41, an ex-martial-arts instructor in Mississippi, pleaded innocent to allegations that he sent letters containing the poison ricin to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a state judge, and faces a July 29 trial in Aberdeen, Miss.
Jason Smith, 32, a Republican Missouri state lawmaker, livestock-farm owner and attorney, took the oath to become the newest member of the U.S. House after winning in a special election to replace Republican Jo Ann Emerson, who resigned to lead the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.
A.M. Homes, an American novelist, won this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, one of Britain’s most prestigious literary awards, with her sixth novel, May We Be Forgiven.
Moses Wilson, 29, who authorities in upstate New York say knocked back a couple of beers during a break-in at a home in Syracuse in February, was arraigned after police reportedly matched his DNA to that found on the cans.
John Hickenlooper, the Democratic governor of Colorado, signed a bill allowing illegal aliens in the state to get driver’s licenses.
Trish Staine, 33, an aspiring half-marathon runner in Duluth, Minn., had attributed her back pain to a two-hour training session until medical staff members at the emergency room detected a fetal heartbeat and whisked her to a delivery room where Staine, who had no idea she was pregnant, gave birth to a 6 pound, 6 ounce girl later named Mira, short for Miracle.
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