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Illinois convenience store owners watch as lottery player wins $1M on scratch-off ticket

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:04:00 GMT

SPRING VALLEY, Ill. — A $20 holiday-themed scratch-off ticket has turned an Illinois Lottery player into a millionaire.According to the Illinois Lottery, the Merry Multiplier ticket was sold at Happy’s Super Service Convenience Store in the 100 block of East Dakota Street in Spring Valley, and the store's owners say they watched as the big winner scratched their way to riches.“Next thing we know, the customer is jumping up and down and screaming, so we knew it had to be a big winning ticket. It was a pretty exciting moment,” said Lisa West, who owns the store with her husband Fred.The store's owners say Spring Valley, located about 90 miles from Chicago, only has about 5,500 residents, so the million-dollar win is pretty significant.“There’s not a lot of action going on here, so someone winning a million bucks playing the Lottery is pretty big news around and we’re so excited that it happened at our store,” West said.The recently minted millionaire picked up just one of the 61 milli...

LoDo landlord sues to evict 7-Eleven that “attracts vagrancy and crime”

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:04:00 GMT

A landlord at 18th and Blake in LoDo wants permission to evict a convenience store that the landlord blames for difficulties leasing office space above the store.“The 7-Eleven at the premises attracts vagrancy and crime,” its landlord alleges.In September 2021, Seattle-based Unico paid $61.2 million for the five-story office building at 1755 Blake St. 7-Eleven had been a ground-floor tenant for 11 years by that time and had just signed a lease extension to stay there through June 2026, court records show.Unico says that “problems relating to vagrancy around 7-Eleven’s business” date back to at least 2016, when its prior landlord warned about a need for increased security. 7-Eleven initially refused to pay for that security but relented in 2019, according to Unico.Two months after Unico bought the building in 2021, there was a gunpoint robbery. Since then, there has been an overdose, a stabbing suspect who fled into the store, and vagrancy. There were four break-ins between Oct. 4 an...

Upon Further Review: How Broncos fooled Chargers’ defense on key scoring drive in fourth quarter

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:04:00 GMT

The Broncos had the Chargers’ defense looking silly on Sunday afternoon.Denver faced a third-and-1 at Los Angeles’ 10-yard line when it lined up in a T formation with quarterback Russell Wilson under center and running back Javonte Williams, fullback Michael Burton and tight end Chris Manhertz behind him.Wilson got the Chargers to bite on a play-fake to Williams, then the nine-time Pro Bowler rolled to his left. As this was happening, tight end Adam Trautman ran undetected into the end zone, where he caught a 10-yard touchdown pass from Wilson to take a 24-7 lead with 3:11 left in the fourth quarter.What a call. #AsISawIt x @KOAColorado pic.twitter.com/Iq3CazvCVK— Denver Broncos (@Broncos) December 11, 2023A day after the Broncos’ seventh victory, head coach Sean Payton said there’s no better feeling than when a play works as intended. But it has to be the right situation.“The challenge, honestly, as a play-caller, is you really have to be true to the situation,” Payton said. ...

Men’s basketball: CU Buffs’ Tristan da Silva named Pac-12 Player of the Week

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:04:00 GMT

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — It wasn’t as if Tristan da Silva quickly served notice this particular game away from home would be different.In fact, although he had other decent numbers at halftime, at that point it looked as if Colorado’s senior forward was on his way to another frustrating shooting day outside the CU Events Center.But then da Silva caught fire, and the Buffs followed his lead.After nearly joining an exclusive club that counts only Chauncey Billups among its members in CU Buffs men’s basketball lore while leading a key win against Miami, da Silva on Monday was named the Pac-12 Conference Player of the Week.Da Silva nearly joined Billups as the only CU players to post a triple-double in points, rebounds and assists after finishing with 22 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists in a 90-63 win against the Hurricanes in Brooklyn, N.Y.It is da Silva’s second career Pac-12 weekly honor and his first this season. The Buffaloes also nearly rejoined the Associated Press top 25 on Monday, ...

Orange County home ransacked as man escapes with thousands of dollars worth of items

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:04:00 GMT

Surveillance video captured a burglar breaking into a home over the weekend and stealing thousands of dollars worth of cash and jewelry in Westminster.The incident happened on Dec. 9 around 7:30 p.m., when the suspect entered the home through a second-story window.The family feels shaken after the incident and is hoping police will catch the suspect before he strikes again.“We’re uncomfortable and we don’t feel safe in our own home at this point,” said victim Sandy Le. “When we got home, everything was in disarray. There were things all over the ground and that’s when my mom said, ‘Oh, someone was in the house.’” Surveillance video caught the male suspect ransacking the home. He was seen rummaging through closets and drawers before escaping with thousands of dollars in cash, jewelry and religious belongings.Security video captures the moment a burglar broke into a home and stole thousands of dollars worth of cash and jewelry in Westminster on Dec. 9, 2023. (Le Family)Security v...

Leader of L.A.-based gang sentenced to 16 years in prison

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:04:00 GMT

The leader of a gang based in the San Fernando Valley was sentenced Monday to 16 years in prison on federal racketeering and narcotics crimes.Mario Alberto Miranda, 32, of Sherman Oaks, was the leader of a gang referred to by the United States Department of Justice as the "Vineland Boys."Miranda was charged as the lead defendant in a federal grand jury indictment that targeted 31 of the gang's members and associates. On June 26, he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, better known as the RICO Act, to distribute methamphetamine. 3 soldiers of ‘Mexican Mafia’ convicted of killing man for imprisoned leader From September 2008 to November 2019, Miranda and other members of the gang engaged in drug trafficking throughout the San Fernando Valley. According to the DOJ, Miranda operated as the gang's drug supplier and shot-caller who managed drug and firearms stash houses and extorted drug dealers who operated in area...

In-N-Out Burger is about to open in yet another state

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:04:00 GMT

Idaho is about to go “Animal Style.”California-based In-N-Out Burger will open its 400th restaurant in Meridian, Idaho on Tuesday in what will be its first location in the French fry-loving state.The new restaurant will employ around 80 “associates” with a starting wage of $17.50 per hour, the fast-food chain said in its announcement.In-N-Out was founded in 1948 as a tiny burger stand in Baldwin Park in the San Gabriel Valley, east of Los Angeles. After slowly expanding in the region over several decades, the Irvine-based company now has locations throughout California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Texas, Oregon and Colorado. How many of these In-N-Out secret menu items do you know? Its expansion plans also include locations in New Mexico and Tennessee in the coming years.Restaurant No. 399 opened in San Juan Capistrano last Thursday.Lynsi Snyder, the granddaughter of founders Harry and Esther Snyder and current president and CEO of In-N-Out, recently released a book to coincide with th...

Federal jury: Google’s Android app store violated law

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:04:00 GMT

By Michael Liedtke | Associated PressSAN FRANCISCO — A federal court jury has decided that Google’s Android app store has been protected by anticompetitive barriers that have damaged smartphone consumers and software developers, dealing a blow to a major pillar of a technology empire.The unanimous verdict reached Monday came after just three hours of deliberation following a four-week trial revolving around a lucrative payment system within Google’s Play store. The store is the main place where hundreds of millions of people around the world download and install apps that work on smartphones powered by Google’s Android software.Epic Games, the maker of the popular Fortnite video game, filed a lawsuit against Google three years ago, alleging that the internet search giant has been abusing its power to shield its Play Store from competition in order to protect a gold mine that makes billions of dollars annually. Just as Apple does for its iPhone app store, Google col...

Closing arguments start in trial of 3 Washington state police officers charged in Black man’s death

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:04:00 GMT

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A Black man who was shocked, beaten and hogtied facedown on a sidewalk pleaded for breath during his arrest in Washington state, and the three police officers charged in his death did not respond to his pleas, a prosecutor told the jury in closing arguments Monday.Had the officers done what most people would do if someone was struggling to breathe, Ellis would be alive today, said special prosecutor Patty Eakes, who is working for the Washington Attorney General’s office.“They chose instead to treat him like an animal, in the most dehumanizing position you can imagine,” she said. The Pierce County Medical Examiner ruled Ellis’ death a homicide and determined he died of hypoxia due to physical restraint.Ellis died March 3, 2020, nearly three months before George Floyd’s death would spark an international outcry against police brutality. The trial is the first in which an officer was charged in a death of a suspect since Washington voters approve...

Red Wings forward David Perron suspended 6 games for cross-check on Ottawa’s Artem Zub

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:04:00 GMT

DALLAS (AP) — Red Wings forward David Perron was suspended for six games by the NHL on Monday for cross-checking Ottawa defenseman Artem Zub in the aftermath of a hit on Dylan Larkin that knocked out the Detroit captain.Perron was given a match penalty for intent to injure for cross-checking Zub as he stood next to the prone Larkin in the first period of Saturday’s game. Larkin was motionless on the ice after getting cross-checked in the back of the head and neck by Ottawa’s Mathieu Joseph.In its explanation for the severity of the penalty against Perron, the NHL said he had sufficient time to engage Zub in a different manner. “First, this is not a hockey play. This is an intentional strike with a stick made with the purpose of exacting retribution on an opponent,” the league said. “This is not a case in which two players are jousting and are mutually aware that sticks are being raised.”The NHL referred to video that showed Perron circling back after the whistle, and taking se...