Catherine McQueen/Getty Images(SALEM, Ore.) The winners of the $1.326 billion Powerball ticket were officially revealed by the Oregon Lottery on Monday.During a press conference at the Oregon Lottery Headquarters in Salem, Oregon, husband and wife Cheng and Duanpen Saephan and their friend Laiza Chao were announced as the winners of the massive lottery drawn earlier this month.Cheng Saephan, an immigrant from Laos living in Portland, explained how life-changing the lottery win is amid his eight-year cancer battle."I m happy for my family, they will have a good life," Saephan said during the press conference. "I m battling cancer so thinking how am I going to spend all the money," he said, adding that he can now find a "good doctor" and that he and his wife plan to buy a home with their lump-sum winnings.Saephan immigrated to America in 1994 and used to work in aerospace.He and his wife and their friend, Laiza Chao, bought 20 Powerball tickets in hopes of
Paramount Home EntertainmentThe comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is turning 20, and that s kind of a big deal. To celebrate, Paramount Home Entertainment is bringing the hit comedy to 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc for the first time.It makes its format debut on July 2, 2024.Written by director Adam McKay and Will Ferrell, the classic had Ferrell in the title role, a newsman who s a big fish in the small pond of local journalism in 1970s San Diego, California.Ferrell is joined by a deep bench of comedy talent: Paul Rudd, Steve Carell and David Koechner play the rest of his Channel 4 news team, which is upended when Christina Applegate s Veronica Corningstone is installed as Burgundy s co-anchor.Also appearing in the film are the late Fred Willard, Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Luke Wilson and Tim Robbins, among others.The new release is loaded with two hours worth of extras, including auditions, deleted scenes, bloopers and Wake Up, Ron Burgundy, a 92-minute movie featu
Steve Prorak/EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Rural Americans are more likely to die early from one of the five leading causes of death than those who live in urban areas, according to new federal data.Researchers looked at the number of potentially preventable deaths from 2010 through 2022. The report was published Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Rural Americans were more likely to die from heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries, stroke and chronic lower respiratory disease before age 80 compared to urbanites, researchers said."There is a well-described, rural-urban divide in the United States, where rural residents tend to be sicker and poorer and to have worse health outcomes than do their non-rural peers," Dr. Macarena Garcia, a senior health scientist in the CDC s Office of Rural Health, said during a press conference on Monday.About 20% of the U.S. population lives in rural areas while the remaining 80% live in urban areas, according to da
City Council agrees to borrowing package for new Fleet Management Building.
The Jamestown City Council has agreed to go-ahead with borrowing up to $2.7-million to complete the new, Fleet Maintenan.
ABC News(NEW YORK) At least five deaths, including one of a 4-month-old child in Oklahoma, were confirmed Sunday from a severe storm that swept through the heartland, spawning multiple tornadoes across four states, including a powerful pair of twisters that touched down in Nebraska, officials said.Emergency officials in Hughes County, Oklahoma, said the baby was one of four people killed in storms that struck Holdenville. One person died from storm-related injuries at a sports bar in Sulphur that was hit by a tornado, officials said. At least 30 people were injured in Sulphur, including 20 who were at the sports bar, according to officials.Oklahoma Gov. J. Kevin Stitt confirmed Sunday afternoon that at least four people were killed in the storms that slammed his state.One person was reported dead in Marietta, Oklahoma, and two people were killed in Ada, Oklahoma, Stitt said.A state of emergency was declared in 12 Oklahoma counties, authorities said.Sunday night, the National Weather