Jeff Stone

Winning Powerball tickets were sold in Missouri and Arizona before the California Lottery Commission voted to include their state in the raffle starting next year.

Stephen King’s novel “Under the Dome” will be the basis for a new CBS television series starting in the summer of 2013. The network ordered 13 episodes of the straight-to-series show, which will be about what happens when a small New England town is cut off from the rest of civilization by a mysterious glass dome, which seemingly appears out of nowhere.

African painted dogs that killed a young boy only two weeks ago are featured in a calendar sent out by the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium.

Officials from the South Lyon Community School district in Michigan are under fire after their decision to suspend teacher Susan Johnson, who allowed an eighth grade student to play a pro-marriage equality song.

William Shatner, famous for his portrayal of Captain Kirk of the fictional Starship Enterprise in the “Star Trek” TV series, has announced he will attend the retirement ceremony of the very real USS Enterprise, perhaps the most famous ship in the United States Navy.

All the fear among online pirates and torrent websites appears to have been for naught with the announcement Wednesday that the dreaded “six strike” policy will, at least for now, be suspended.

Dr. Melba S. Ketchum of Nacogdoches, Texas has issued a news release claiming she and her team of scientists have been able to decipher some mysterious Bigfoot DNA.

"The Dark Knight Rises" has been the most downloaded movie for two weeks running, and it looks like it could surpass "Avatar" on the list of most pirated movies ever via BitTorrent.

Food and Drug Administration officials suspended operations at the country’s largest organic peanut butter plant after a salmonella outbreak was traced to it. The shutdown of Sunland Inc.'s New Mexico factory is the first time the FDA has used new powers it was given by a 2011 food safety law.

Three members of a Northern California family perished Saturday during a walk on the beach that became a failed rescue mission. Mary Elena Scott, 57, and her husband Howard Kuljian, 54, were found dead after their son ran into the waves in an attempt to rescue the family dog. Gregory “Geddie” Kuljian, 16, is still missing.

Who is this Jenny Johnson person Chris Brown is lobbing his hate at? Oh wait a minute, she’s actually really funny.

The people of ancient excelled in writing, astronomy and adaptability, but never seemed to have much luck with predictions. Scientists say the prophecy of a 2012 apocalypse is no different.

Sighs of relief must have been audible throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport over the weekend when a trucker who was detained after making a wrong turn into Mexico was released from prison.

Andrew WK, who released his debut album, “I Get Wet,” in 2001, took to his blog last week to announce he would be visiting Bahrain on behalf of the United States government, something the U.S. Department of State first confirmed before backing off on the idea Monday.

Confidential information rained down on spectators in the form of confetti as they watched the balloons and floats go by during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York last week.

New evidence has surfaced in the Casey Anthony murder case that might have resulted in a conviction, had the jury heard the relevant testimony.

The epic "Les Miserables" musical boasts a cast of Anne Hathaway, Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman and a slew of others collaborating on a final production that had critics in a standing ovation during a recent New York City screening.

Florida police have arrested a woman who was photographed earlier this year riding a manatee. Witnesses took pictures of Ana Gloria Garcia Gutierrez, 53, as she swam with the endangered animals during a visit to the beach on Sept. 30.

Lawrence Guyot, a pioneering leader of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and survived brutal jailhouse beatings in the south, has passed away due to complications from heart disease and diabetes. He was 73.

The Minnesota Golden Gophers were without their head coach during the second half of their game against the Michigan State Spartans Saturday after Jerry Kill had a seizure at halftime.

The most popular BitTorrent client in the world was disabled for a sizable chunk of the Internet on Saturday night as hundreds of users took to Twitter and other social-media networks to complain about their uTorrent service.

The tension between international copyright enforcers and BitTorrent users rose to another level with the news that Finnish police raided the home of a 9-year-old girl and confiscated her Winnie the Pooh-themed computer after she tried to download a song from The Pirate Bay.

Some lucky homeowners had the find of a lifetime on their hands when the crew they hired to install new heating and air systems in their house found a stash of gold dust worth around $300,000.

Many fans’ love-hate relationship with J.R. Ewing turned to sadness with the news that “Dallas” actor Larry Hagman had died on Thursday night due to complications from cancer. He was 81.

Elizabeth Smart has announced that she is writing a memoir that will chronicle her time in captivity at the hands of a drifter couple. The book will also describe the course her life took when she was freed after nine months with her captors. Smart, now a 25-year-old senior at Brigham Young University, was just 14 when she was abducted from her Utah home by Brian David Mitchell.

Despite being one of the year’s most highly anticipated films, James Bond fans have not been easy on “Skyfall,” which has been watched so closely that at least 24 bloopers, or mistakes, have already been found.

The district attorney in an upstate area of New York has admitted he previously had a career as a porn star, despite lying in response to the allegations while running for prosecutor. Mark Suben, who was been D.A. in Cortland County near Syracuse, NY since 2008, came clean during a press conference after an anonymous tipster posted a video of some of Suben’s moments on film.

Hockey fans unfamiliar with Brian Burke’s involvement in Covenant House might have walked by the Toronto Maple Leafs general manager sleeping on the street and thought the NHL lockout had put him there.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) employees who plan to walk out on the company during its busiest time of year appear committed to their plan as Black Friday -- aka the day after Thanksgiving -- approaches.