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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A $1.1 billion lottery prize will be on the line as numbers are drawn for the Mega Millions game. The giant jackpot is the nation’s third-largest prize and is the result of 29 consecutive drawings without anyone matching all of the game’s six numbers. Before rushing out to spend $2 on a ticket ahead of Friday night’s drawing, keep in mind that the odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are a staggering 1 in 302.5 million. The $1.1 billion prize is for players who get their winnings through an annuity, paid annually over 29 years. Nearly all winners take the cash option, which for Friday’s drawing is an estimated $648.2 million.

(Photo features from left to right, CCBC Community Liaison Anitre Bell, 2^nd place student Erick from Rochester, President Roger W. Davis, first place winner Brayden, and V, a CCBC grad and current RMU student.)

(Aliquippa, Pa.) CCBC held their first ever Esports Day last Saturday, July 23, 2022,  at the Black Box Theatre at Aliquippa High School, The competition allowed local high school students to compete against the CCBC team in a Super Smash Bros tournament.
Brayden Beercook a former student at Western Beaver High School came in first place and won a Nintendo Switch and carrying case and placing second was a young man named Erik who is from Rochester. Erik won a Nintendo Switch game.
CCBC President Dr. Roger Davis and CCBC Community Liaison Anitre Bell presented the winners with their prizes.
Beercook as the winner got to take on “V” who won third place at the NJCAA Qualifier.
There was also a pizza lunch provide for all of the competitors
Beercook is planning to attend MIT in Fall.

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By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania judge is being urged by state lawyers to order three counties to add some 800 mail-in ballots to their May primary election results. But election officials in those counties insist their decisions are firmly rooted in unambiguous state law. A six-hour hearing Thursday in Harrisburg was the latest in a string of recent court proceedings about the rules for absentee and mail-in ballots. It’s a running battle that pits Democrats who embraced mail-in voting under a 2019 law against Republicans who see inconsistent practices and widespread confusion about what is legal.

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By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor is suing the Legislature over a package of proposed constitutional amendments that Republican lawmakers are pursuing, including one that would say the state constitution does not guarantee any rights relating to abortion or public funding of abortions. The lawsuit filed Thursday in the state Supreme Court argues that the proposed abortion amendment would violate privacy protections. Gov. Tom Wolf wants the high court to throw out the amendments, declaring that they are not constitutionally valid. He also says bundling the abortion amendment together with four others runs afoul of a constitutional rule against passing legislation that addresses multiple, unrelated topics.

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(Crafton, Pa.) Police are searching for a man accused of attacking an employee at Crafton Giant Eagle last week.
Ernest Hardman is accusing of punching a worker at the store.
Police say Hardman told an employee he left his wallet in the store after it closed and when the employee said he didn’t have a key, Hardman allegedly hit him.
Police paperwork says Hardman is also wanted in connection with several other crimes.

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(Aliquippa, Pa.) Pa State Police in Beaver are reporting that an unnamed Trooper was on patrol in the city of Aliquippa early this morning around 12:05 AM when he and his partner observed a disturbance on the sidewalk outside the Franklin Mini-Mart located on Franklin Ave in Aliquippa. The Troopers exited the patrol vehicle and approached 41-year-old Damián Bradford of Pittsburgh. As the Troopers approached Bradford he ran into the store. The Troopers pursued him into the store and a struggle ensued inside the store. During the struggle Bradford discharged his firearm and struck one of the Troopers in his leg. Bradford was taken into custody by police and the Trooper who was shot was transported to a Pittsburgh hospital. The other Trooper was also transported to the hospital to be checked out.  There is no word on the condition of the Trooper who was shot.

If Bradford’s name is familiar he is the same man who admitted shooting Dr. Gulam Moonda on May 13, 2005, in an emergency pull-off along the Ohio Turnpike in Cuyahoga County. He was sentenced to 17 1/2 years in prison.
It was all a part of a plot that Moonda’s wife Donna put together and Bradford has been out of jail for a little over a year.

(Philadelphia Phillies’ Alec Bohm hits an RBI single off Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Zach Thompson during the second inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Thursday, July 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

By JOHN PERROTTO Associated Press
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Kyle Schwarber hit his NL-leading 32nd home run and Zack Wheeler pitched seven strong innings as the Philadelphia Phillies built a large lead and then held on for an 8-7 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Schwarber’s three-run blast to right-center field off Zach Thompson in the sixth inning gave the Phillies a 7-0 lead. In the seventh, rookie Cal Mitchell ended Wheeler’s shutout bid with a two-run homer. The Pirates scored five times in the ninth inning. Tyler Heineman doubled in two runs and Kevin Newman followed with a two-run triple off Jeurys Familia. Seranthony Dominguez closed it out for his sixth save as Philadelphia won for the third time in four games.