Powerball jackpot at $400M after no weekend winner

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? No one hit the Powerball jackpot this weekend, so the money will roll over and create a roughly $400 million prize for Wednesday's drawing.

The midweek jackpot remains below the record $590.5 million jackpot won in May by an 84-year-old Florida woman. But as it stands, it would be the third-largest Powerball jackpot ever and the fourth-largest lottery prize on record.

Saturday's winning numbers were 21, 24, 36, 42 and 45; the Powerball was 15.

The changes Powerball organizers made to the game last year are coming to roost in the billowing jackpots, with Wednesday's pushing into record territory less than three months after Gloria C. Mackenzie of Zephyrhills, Fla., claimed the biggest Powerball prize ever.

Powerball tickets doubled in price to $2 in January 2012 as part of a plan to help jackpots grow bigger, faster. And when the jackpots reach astronomical levels, ticket sales take off, with jackpots following close behind.

If Wednesday's jackpot doesn't top $400 million, a single winner choosing the cash option would collect $230.3 million before taxes.

No matter how many people play the game, the odds of matching all six numbers remains 1 in 175.2 million.

Half of the $2 cost of a Powerball ticket goes toward the prizes, the rest to the state lottery organization.

Powerball is played in 43 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Each state that participates in the game decides how to use the money. Some states earmark the money for a specific purpose, such as education, while others use it in their general funds.

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Obama administration vetoes Apple iPhone sales ban in U.S.

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?Apple Inc. can continue selling its iPhone 4 and iPad 2 3G in the U.S. after receiving a reprieve from an import ban won by Samsung Electronics Co. in a patent-infringement dispute,? Susan Decker reports for Bloomberg.

?U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman today overturned the ban, imposed by the U.S. International Trade Commission on June 4 after it found that some older models of Apple devices infringed a patent for a way data are transmitted,? Decker reports. ?It was the first time the executive branch has overturned an ITC import ban since 1987, when President Ronald Reagan did so in a case involving Samsung computer-memory chips.?

Decker reports, ??We applaud the administration for standing up for innovation in this landmark case,? Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet said in an interview. ?Samsung was wrong to abuse the patent system in this way.? ?Four U.S. senators wrote to Froman on July 30, asking him to ?assess the substantial public interest considerations? of using standards patents at the ITC. The senators were Democrats Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Barbara Boxer of California, and Republicans Mike Lee of Utah and James Risch of Idaho.?

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Northeastern Junior College students excel at state competition

Mike Schadegg of Wolf Auto, left, stands with Jonny Stahley and Mike Pomeroy in front of the training car he loaned them to train on before the Skills USA contest. (Courtesy photo)

Merino High School students Jonny Stahley and Mike Pomeroy, who were both enrolled in the Secondary Automotive Technology program at Northeastern Junior College this past spring, recently competed in the state-wide Skills USA contest.

Pomeroy placed 17th overall and Stahley placed 19th out of 35 competitors from all areas of Colorado. The two had previously placed at the top of the district contest to earn their way to the larger state competition.

In the state's Ford AAA contest, Stahley and Pomeroy as a team finished second overall in the written portion of the testing, out of 150 students. The duo placed sixth in the hands-on part of the contest. During the hands-on portion, experts deliberately put some "bugs" in the engine or other operating systems and it is up to the students to find out what is wrong with the car, working against time.

To help Stahley and Pomeroy prepare for the competition, Mike Schadegg from Wolf Auto in Sterling temporarily donated a 2013 Ford Focus to the college for the students to train on before they went to compete at the state level in mid-May in Denver. For many years, Wolf Auto and Jim Able from Ford AAA Colorado have supported the automotive programs at Northeastern with the donation of cars, advice, and other resources.

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Couple jailed in UK for 4-year-old's death

LONDON (AP) ? A British judge has sentenced the mother and stepfather of a 4-year-old boy who was starved and beaten to death to a minimum of 30 years in prison for his murder.

Madgelena Luczak and Mariusz Krezolek were convicted this week of murdering Daniel Pelka, who was abused and tortured in the months before his death.

The pair blamed each other for Daniel's death in March 2012, after the boy had been beaten and left to die in an unheated cell-like room.

The case has horrified Britain and raised questions of why teachers at Daniel's school in Coventry, central England ? who had seen his bruises and increasingly emaciated frame ? did not intervene.

Judge Laura Cox said Friday that the sentences reflected the couple's "unimaginable acts of cruelty and brutality."

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Justin Bieber keeps disrespecting his fans -- and horrifying their mothers.

Bieber's formerly squeaky clean image took another hit on Tuesday when, during a concert in Newark, N.J., he stuck a fan's iPhone, which had been tossed onto the stage, down his pants. Last week, Bieber came under fire for allegedly?spitting off a balcony?in Toronto onto fans below him.?

Bieber, 19, who is currently in the middle of his "Believe" tour, had asked the audience to refrain from throwing items onto the stage while he was performing. No sooner had he finished defining the word "refrain" for vocabulary-challenged fans than someone in the crowd threw a smartphone at the Biebs.?

"I said don't throw stuff on stage and this is what they ... they throw a phone on stage. I do need a new iPhone," Bieber says before stuffing the smartphone down his shiny pants. He proceeded to rub the phone around his nether regions before tossing it back into the audience. (We're sure the lucky fan who caught the phone is currently sleeping with it under her pillow.)?

Bieber has a habit of having fun with phones that have been thrown onstage at his concerts. In November, he snapped a few selfies with an iPhone that was chucked at him by a fan.?

"We're not going to just keep throwing cell phones up here and just expecting everyone to just get pictures,"?he told the crowd before kicking all other cell phones off the stage and threatening to break them. "I'll never do that again so don't try it."?

Apparently the phone-tossing fan from Tuesday night didn't get the memo.

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The Ashes: Australian PM Kevin Rudd slams Usman Khawaja's dismissal on Twitter

Usman Khawaja was adjudged to have edged a delivery by Graeme Swann to wicketkeeper Matt Prior, despite replay technology failing to provide any evidence that he touched the ball with his bat.

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Manchester:? Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has taken to Twitter to complain about a controversial decision to give one of his country's batsmen out during the third Ashes test against England on Thursday.

Usman Khawaja was adjudged to have edged a delivery by Graeme Swann to wicketkeeper Matt Prior, despite replay technology failing to provide any evidence that he touched the ball with his bat.

Rudd tweeted "I've just sat down to watch the test. That was one of the worst cricket umpiring decisions I have ever seen."

The call ? upheld after a review ? appeared to be widely condemned, with Australia bowling great Shane Warne calling it a "ridiculous decision."

It left Australia 82-2 in the opening session, with the team needing victory to stay alive in the five-test series.

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