November 5, 2022 3:46 am
The Powerball jackpot for Saturday’s drawing is now the world’s largest lottery prize ever offered. The estimanted annual annuity prize is estimated at $1.6 billion. The cash option is worth $782.4 million. The Powerball was last won on August 3. Lottery officials say that if there is no winner in tonight’s drawing, the next drawing on Monday would be worth an estimated $1.9 billion or $929.1 million in cash.
November 5, 2022 3:29 am
(AP) – A transition is coming this weekend across most of the United States, and it has nothing to do with the election: Daylight saving time is out, standard time is in this weekend. Standard time begins at 2 a.m. local time Sunday and lasts until March 12. Relish the chance to catch up on sleep and remember to set clocks back an hour before going to bed Saturday night. The time change means darkness will arrive earlier in the evening but it will be lighter earlier in the morning than now. Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and most of Arizona do not observe daylight saving time. The International Association of Firefighters also recommends that people replace batteries in their smoke detectors when we switch to and from daylight saving time. The group says that 60 percent of home fire deaths occur in homes without working smoke alarms.
November 4, 2022 3:50 pm
UNDATED (AP) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says her husband is out of the hospital. She says Paul Pelosi “remains under doctors’ care” as he continues what she calls a “a long recovery process and convalescence” from a hammer assault last week. Paul Pelosi was treated at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. The House Speaker thanked the 911 operator who sent police to the Pelosi home as well as emergency responders and hospital doctors and staff. She also expressed thanks for the love, support and prayers the family has received from around the world.
November 4, 2022 1:53 pm
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — TV icon Oprah Winfrey on Thursday endorsed Democrat John Fetterman in Pennsylvania’s hotly contested Senate race and rejected Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz, whom she had helped launch to stardom nearly two decades ago when she brought him on her popular daytime talk show as a regular guest. Until now, Winfrey had said she would leave the election to Pennsylvanians, but she changed that position in an online discussion on voting in next Tuesday’s election. “I said it was up to the citizens of Pennsylvania and of course, but I will tell you all this, if I lived in Pennsylvania, I would have already cast my vote for John Fetterman for many reasons,” Winfrey said, before going on to urge listeners to vote for Democrats running for governor and Senate in various states. The Pennsylvania seat has for months been seen as the most likely pickup opportunity for Democrats in the evenly divided Senate. Polls show a close race between Fetterman and Oz, a celebrity heart surgeon who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump. (Photo: ABC News)
November 4, 2022 9:26 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – America’s employers kept hiring briskly in October, adding a substantial 261,000 positions, a sign that as Election Day nears, the economy remains a picture of solid job growth and painful inflation. Last month’s hiring remained near the robust pace it has maintained in the two-plus years since the pandemic recession ended. The unemployment rate rose to 3.7% from a five-decade low of 3.5%. A robust job market is deepening the challenges the Federal Reserve faces as it raises interest rates at the fastest pace since the 1980s to try to bring inflation down from near a 40-hear high.
November 4, 2022 7:56 am
The Bentworth School District cancelled classes on Friday after receiving word of a fire in a gas line from a gas well sub-station along Johnston Road. Superintendent Scott Martin tells WJPA News the fire was less than a quarter-of-a-mile from the district’s campuses. He says the decision was made out of an abundance of caution. Students already at the school or on their way were returned home. There will be no online instruction, but Martin says afternoon Vo-Tech students will be transported and will have instruction. Martin says no injuries resulted and the fire was put out quickly. We have no word on what may have sparked the fire.
November 4, 2022 4:08 am
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is facing the possibility of having billions more dollars added onto the amount he owes relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The punitive damages phase of his Connecticut trial is set to begin Friday. A jury last month ordered Jones and his media company to pay nearly $1 billion in compensatory damages to the Sandy Hook families for repeatedly telling his audience of millions the 2012 shooting that killed 20 first graders and six educators was a hoax. A judge will determine punitive damages after hearings set for Friday and Monday.
November 4, 2022 4:07 am
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) – A Kansas abortion clinic that was among the first in the country to open after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade has been inundated with patients. Some drive 10 hours or more to get there, coming from Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and even Louisiana. But that’s only if they can get an appointment. Planned Parenthood clinics in the state, including this newest one, are only able to take about 10% to 15% of the patients seeking abortions. Kansas is one of the few states in the region still providing abortions in the wake of the court’s ruling.
November 4, 2022 4:06 am
NEW YORK (AP) – The rate of deaths that can be directly attributed to alcohol rose nearly 30% in the U.S. during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s according to new government data. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had already said the overall number of such deaths rose in 2020 and 2021. Two reports from the CDC this week provided further details. A report released Friday focused on more than a dozen kinds of “alcohol-induced” deaths that were wholly blamed on drinking. The rate of those had been increasing by 7% or less each year. In 2020, they rose 26%. That’s the highest rate recorded in at least 40 years.
November 4, 2022 4:05 am
(AP) – Twitter began widespread layoffs Friday as new owner Elon Musk overhauls the social platform. The company had told employees by email that they would find out by 9 a.m. PDT (noon EDT) if they had been laid off. The email did not say how many would lose their jobs. Musk didn’t confirm or correct investor Ron Baron at a conference stage in New York on Friday when he asked Musk how much money the billionaire Tesla CEO would save after he “fired half of Twitter” earlier in the day. Twitter’s roughly 7,500 employees have been expecting layoffs since Musk took helm of the company. Already, Musk has fired top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal.
