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  • PowerballSuccess

    You could buy a $1 billion Powerball ticket this Labor Day weekend

    By Ed White, Kendria LaFleur, and others
  • Richard GuilfordSuccess

    56-year-old retired autoworker gets Facebook message about wallet he lost 11 years earlier: ‘it was in the engine bay of a car’

    By Ed White, Mark Vancleave, and others
  • Hulk HoganSuccess

    Hulk Hogan, giant of professional wrestling, dies of cardiac arrest at 71

    By Curt Anderson, Ed White, and others
  • Jim's South St.Retail

    The end of cheap cheesesteaks? Philly shop owner hoping ‘crazy’ beef prices settle after ‘grilling season and all the rest’

    By Tassanee Vejpongsa, Ed White, and others
  • Malik Everett fries beef for a cheesesteak at Jim’s South St. in Philadelphia, Wednesday, July 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)Economy

    Rising beef prices might force Philly shop to list cheesesteaks at market price: ‘I really hate to do that’

    By Tassanee Vejpongsa, Ed White, and others
  • FILE – Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, during a news conference in New York on July 2, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)Politics

    Florida judge rejects Trump DOJ push to release Epstein grand jury transcripts as congressional pressure mounts

    By Ed White and The Associated Press
  • LA County mansionLifestyle

    Bizarre discovery of 21 children in LA home raises questions about lack of regulations for surrogacy

    By Ed White, Safiyah Riddle, and others
  • Michigan State CapitolPolitics

    Michigan Republicans’ bait-and-switch on minimum wage laws ran afoul of the constitution, court rules

    By Ed White and The Associated Press
  • A car is crushed by the fallen building that hosted the Gansevoort mural that was struck by a tornado, in Rome, N.Y., Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Much of the U.S. and Canada is cleaning up or still dealing with a new wave of severe storms that have caused deaths and damage this week from the Plains to New England. (John Clifford/The Daily Sentinel via AP)Environment

    Tornado in New York topples a bomber jet, rips off roofs and turns buildings into rubble

    By Andrew DeMillo, Ed White, and others
  • Workers cleared an uprooted tree from a lawn in Norridge, Ill., Tuesday, July 16, 2024. The tree was toppled as storms with reports of tornadoes blew through Iowa, Illinois and Indiana. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)Environment

    Illinois dam fails and hundreds ordered to evacuate after rain, wind and at least 6 tornadoes pound the Midwest

    By Melissa Perez Winder, Ed White, and others
  • FILE – This February 2020 photo provided by the American Civil Liberties Union shows Robert Williams of Farmington Hills, Mich., a suburb of Detroit. On Friday, June 28, 2024, the ACLU announced that the city of Detroit has agreed to pay $300,000 to Williams after he was wrongly accused of shoplifting using facial recognition technology. (Drew English/ACLU via AP, File)Tech

    Facial recognition technology incorrectly flagged a man as a shoplifting suspect. Now Detroit is paying him $300,000

    By Ed White and The Associated Press
  • Larry Nassar victimsLifestyle

    About 100 Larry Nassar victims get $100 million settlement from the FBI bobbling the case for over a year, source says

    By Ed White and The Associated Press
  • Gretchen WhitmerEnvironment

    The White House and Gretchen Whitmer just took out a $1.5 billion loan to buy a nuclear power plant that was going to get dismantled

    By Ed White and The Associated Press
  • American musician Aretha Franklin performs on stage at the Park West Auditorium, Chicago, Illinois, March 23, 1992. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)Personal Finance

    Aretha Franklin’s home is awarded to her sons based on a handwritten will signed with a smiley face and found between couch cushions

    By Ed White and The Associated Press
  • Samantha WollPolitics

    Police say they have no suspects but several ‘people of interest’ in stabbing killing of Detroit synagogue leader

    By Ed White and The Associated Press