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Starting this week, communities along the Red River are returning to something they know too well: preparing for a rising tide.The National Weather Service announced Thursday that a late-winter snow is creating a 50 percent chance of river levels rising as high as 38 feet in Fargo, N.D., and Moorhead, Minn., which would make it the fifth-highest crest on record – just shy of the 41 feet reached du...
The winning numbers in the drawing for the Powerball jackpot of $320 million are: 17, 29, 31, 52, 53, 31.The drawing took place Saturday. The lump-sum option is $198.3 million.People in 42 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands scrambled for Powerball tickets until the last minute, even with odds at about 175 million to one.The prize is the sixth highest ever. No ticket matched the ...
The Marine Corps Saturday released the names of the three Marines who died in a shooting Thursday night at a base in Quantico, Va."We send our prayers and condolences to the families, fellow Marines and friends of the Marines who were lost in this tragic incident," Col. David W. Maxwell, base commander, said in a statement. "Our priority is to take care of and support all of those who are affected...
ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. -- Authorities say a skydive instructor and a student who jumped separately have died in Florida.The skydivers, both men, were part of a jump Saturday in Zephyrhills, about 30 miles northeast of Tampa. Authorities say the plane took off about 10:30 a.m. and 22 people jumped. When only 20 returned, authorities started searching for the missing men.The bodies were located abou...
A $12 million television ad campaign paid for by Mayors Against Illegal Guns hopes to push gun control efforts including comprehensive background checks.New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the group's co-chair, announced the ad buy Saturday. The New York Times reported Bloomberg is financing the campaign.“I don’t think there’s ever been an issue where the public has spoken so clearly, where C...
Neighbors of a Georgia woman whose baby was fatally shot in his stroller made frantic calls to 911, some weeping and pleading for help.Police in the coastal city of Brunswick released recordings Saturday of three 911 calls placed right after the shooting.One woman sobs as she says: "Somebody shot this child ... Please we need everything we can get."See the original report at NBCPhiladelphia.com...
People in 42 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands scrambled for Powerball tickets, even with odds at about 175 million to one.The drawing for the Powerball jackpot, now at $320 million, takes place Saturday. The lump-sum options is $198.3 million.The prize is the sixth highest ever. No ticket matched the six numbers in Wednesday night's Powerball drawing, and no one has won the j...
By JoNel Aleccia, Senior Writer, NBC NewsAshyle Horton had volunteered in the past for the program that runs the University of Arkansas campus food pantry, but showing up as a client was an entirely different experience.“I was very fearful and nervous,” said Horton, 22. “It felt so weird going to a food pantry to get help.”The graduating senior says she desperately needed the pasta, rice and other...
Evidence collected from a roadside gun battle between a white supremacist ex-convict and Texas police has provided "a very strong lead" for investigators looking into the shooting death of Colorado's prisons chief, a police spokesman said on Saturday.Evan Spencer Ebel, a 28-year-old parolee from Denver, was killed by police on Thursday after a high-speed chase through Decatur, Texas.He is now cons...
A man released 23 years after he was wrongly convicted for the 1991 murder of a New York rabbi suffered a heart attack on his second day as a free man, his attorney confirmed to NBC News.David Ranta was hospitalized after the heart attack, attorney Pierre Sussman said. The man's heart attack was first reported by the New York Times.Ranta, 58, spent more than two decades in jail after he was found ...
