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One of the tickets sold in Florida for the Powerball game Saturday evening matched all six numbers drawn, which were: 10-13-14-22-52 Powerball: 11 (ten, thirteen, fourteen, twenty-two, fifty-two; Powerball: eleven) The player matching all five numbers and the Powerball won the $600 million jackpot. The prize goes to an estimated ...

During the execution of a search warrant, members of the Joint Federal Haz-Mat Team, FBI, and local law enforcement gather in front of the Osmun Apartments near the intersection of First Avenue and Oak Street in Browne's Addition on Saturday, May 18, 2013 in Spokane, Wash. The search warrant is in connection with ricin-laced letters intercepted at a Post Office facility in Spokane earlier in the week. (AP Photo/TheSpokesman-Review, Colin Mulvany) COEUR D'ALENE PRESS OUT

FBI searches apartment in ricin letter case

Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin. Few details have been released in the case, and no arrests have been made. Federal investigators have been searching for the person who sent the ...

In this April 24, 2013 photo, retired logger Jim Ford stands in his shop in Grants Pass, Ore. While Ford thinks logging can still be a major part of the economy in the rural West, jobs are half what they were 20 years ago, and mills continue to close. The region continues to look for new sources of jobs and government revenues. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)

Ore. timber country ponders future with fewer logs

Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of horses and move the mill to a new stand when those trees ran out. In those days the ...

Former Lakewood police officer gets more jail time

A former Lakewood police officer previously convicted for stealing from a fund to benefit the families of four officers shot in 2009 has pleaded guilty to more charges related to that case. KOMO-TV (http://is.gd/ZELvU2 ) reports 36-year-old Skeeter Manos pleaded guilty on Friday in Tacoma to identity theft and forgery ...

WA woman arrested after boyfriend is run over

An Arlington area woman has been arrested for investigation of vehicular assault after her boyfriend was run over by an SUV. The Daily Herald (http://is.gd/cbU6oL ) reports the Marysville man suffered a broken ankle and severe "road rash. Court papers say those injuries are consistent with being dragged by a ...

WA man pleads guilty to selling illegal airbags

A 25-year-old Vancouver, Wash., man has pleaded guilty to trafficking in counterfeit vehicle airbags. U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan says Vitaliy Yaremkiv was arrested in April after being indicted by a grand jury in Seattle. He has admitted to selling in 2011 and 2012 more than 900 counterfeit airbags he bought ...

Man gets 26 years in Wash. courthouse attack

A McCleary, Wash., man has been sentenced to 26 years in prison for a 2012 attack on a judge and a deputy sheriff in the Grays Harbor County Courthouse in Montesano. KOMO-TV reports (http://is.gd/x7i3dU ) Steven Kravetz was sentenced Friday. He had been convicted of first-degree assault for shooting Deputy ...

Man arrested after 8-hour Wash. standoff

Everett, Wash., police say they've captured a home intruder who held them at bay for nearly eight hours after claiming to have a grenade. Police spokesman Aaron Snell says officers entered the house shortly before 10 p.m. Friday and arrested 40-year-old Jason M. Riley of nearby Lake Stevens. No grenade ...

Man captured after Snohomish County, Wash. manhunt

Snohomish County, Wash., sheriff's officers have arrested a 22-year-old man after a pursuit that included a car chase, a foot chase, a climb up a tree and a few blasts from a fire hose. Sheriff's spokeswoman Shari Ireton says a resident in the search area spotted Vincent Nutter on Friday ...

Man killed by Spokane police is identified

Spokane police detectives say a man suspected in a fatal shooting refused to obey officers' commands and moved his hand toward his waistband. Police shot and killed the man. The Spokesman-Review says (http://is.gd/oqe029 ) 21-year-old Justin Cairns was confronted by Spokane police early Thursday in a field behind his Nine ...

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