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TALLAHASSEE (AP) — The jackpot in the Florida Lotto game has grown to $4 million after no one matched the six winning numbers in the latest drawing, lottery officials said Sunday.
Twenty-five tickets matched five numbers to win $5,683 each; 1,466 tickets ...

BEIRUT — The U.S. government insists it has the intelligence to prove it, but the public has yet to see a single piece of concrete evidence produced by U.S. intelligence — no satellite imagery, no transcripts of Syrian military communications — connecting...

WASHINGTON — The White House asserted Sunday that a “common-sense test” dictates the Syrian government is responsible for a chemical weapons attack that President Barack Obama says demands a U.S. military response. But Obama’s top aide says the administra...

MIAMI — Diana Nyad’s 110-mile swim from Cuba to Florida has generated positive publicity and adoration for the 64-year-old endurance athlete — along with skepticism from some members of the small community of marathon swimmers who are questioning whether ...

NEW YORK — They weren’t exposed to anywhere near the same level of ash, grit and fumes, but emergency workers who rushed to the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania countryside on 9/11 are signing up for the same compensation and health benefits being given to N...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Benjamin Jealous, the president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said Sunday that he plans to step down at the end of the year.
The Baltimore-based NAACP is the nation’s largest civil rights orga...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Riddick” is seeing light at the box office.
The sci-fi thriller starring Vin Diesel as an intergalactic criminal with built-in night vision debuted in first place with $18.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. “Riddick” is t...

NORTH PORT — Police are investigating the death of a 15-year-old boy found at a home in the 6800 block of Kappa Place, off Pan American Boulevard in North Port.
Officers responded to the home around 12:30 p.m. Saturday and found the teen, whose name was n...

Patriot Riders of America held their 4th Annual Benefit on Saturday, starting with a Poker Run leaving the event site at the American Legion Post 110, Port Charlotte, and making four other stops before returning to the post for a day long event raising fu...

When they were all counted, there were just under 9,000 crayons.
That’s how many our community collected and shipped to the schoolchildren in Oklahoma this summer.
Don’t you feel good when a plan comes together? Especially when it’s a good idea to start ...