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It’s the winter that wouldn’t die.Five days into spring, a winter storm raked the Midwest and Northeast on Monday, turning commutes messy and threatening to dump up to 4 inches of snow around Philadelphia and Washington.The good news: Temperatures hovering at or just above freezing should hold accumulations down.“The roads are in pretty good shape this morning because, after all, it is March,” Wea...
A truck driver claims to hold the winning ticket in one of the largest Powerball drawings in history -- $338 million -- according to the manager of a New Jersey gas station.The unidentified trucker reportedly called the Bordentown, N.J., store late Sunday, saying he had the lucky ticket."He's pretty ecstatic," Isaiah DeVries, manager of Love’s Travel Stop, told NBCPhiladelphia.com. "He said that h...
ROME -- Italy's highest court was set to decide on Monday whether to overturn the acquittal of American student Amanda Knox in the murder of her roommate.Knox and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were both convicted and then acquitted of Meredith Kercher's 2007 murder in Perugia, Italy, where they were students.Knox spent four years in prison after being found guilty.Small-time drug dealer Ru...
Mississippi officials are investigating the death of state legislator who was found at the home of a former colleague Sunday afternoon, according to local reports.State Rep. Jessica Upshaw, 53, appeared to have died of a gunshot wound, Simpson County Sheriff Kenneth Lewis told NBC station WLBT in Jackson, Miss.“It appeared she had a gunshot wound to her head. It appeared to be self-inflicted,” Lew...
A messy Monday was in store for millions along the East Coast, with winter weather advisories warning of a mixture of snow and rain for Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, metropolitan New York and parts of northeast New Jersey.Snow was falling in Cape May, N.J., as of 4:30 a.m. ET Monday, with lighter snow reported in Georgetown, Delaware, according to NBC10.com in Philadelphia.Some areas outside the...
In his first interview since going to prison in October, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky disputed the account of a key witness and said legendary coach Joe Paterno would never have let him coach if he thought Sandusky was a pedophile.“If he (Paterno) absolutely thought I was (a pedophile), I'd say no,’’ Sandusky said. “If he had a suspicion, I don't know the answer to tha...
In hundreds of rallies in large cities and small towns, postal employees, other union members, community supporters and others rallied Sunday to preserve Saturday mail delivery.In many cases, the participants protesting Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe‘s decision to suspend Saturday mail delivery beginning Aug. 5 exemplified the “neither rain nor sleet or snow…” postal motto by braving a major spring storm barreling across the nation’s mid-section.
Prince Harry plans to visit the United States on an official multi-stop journey that will include a visit to wounded veterans.The prince will be in America from May 9-15, the palace said in a briefing Monday. His trip will include a stop in Washington, D.C., where he will visit the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, a facility for wounded service members.Harry, an officer in the British...
A cousin of Chief Justice John Roberts who wants to marry her lesbian partner in California says she will attend this week’s landmark Supreme Court argument on gay marriage.Jean Podrasky will sit in a section of the courtroom reserved for relatives and guests of the chief justice. Her partner of four years, Grace Fasano, will attend with her, she told the Los Angeles Times.Podrasky said that she h...
In his first interview since going to prison in October, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky disputed the account of a key witness and said legendary coach Joe Paterno would never have let him coach if he suspected Sandusky was a pedophile.“If he (Paterno) absolutely thought I was (a pedophile), I'd say no,’’ Sandusky said. “If he had a suspicion, I don't know the answer to t...
