Gregg Hensley of Marion won $200,000 on the Multiply the Cash second-chance drawing on April 11. The big win followed his $10,000 win earlier this year and a $20,000 win in 2020. The North Carolina Education Lottery said in a statement on April 19: “So overcome with emotion that he couldn’t speak, Gregg Hensley of Marion said he had to just hand his phone to his wife so she could see the $200,000 prize that he won in a second-chance drawing....

In a news conference on Friday, Burgum bemoaned the “senseless dividing line” between those choosing to don masks or face coverings in public places and those who don’t. Burgum, a Republican, noted that although North Dakota does not require residents to wear masks in public some people are choosing to wear a face covering. Burgum cautioned people against thinking of that decision as a political one. Some protesters have attracted attention by refusing to wear masks in grocery stores and other public places, including a recent incident at a Costco warehouse that went viral....

On Friday, September 18, health officials reported a total of 17,230 cases statewide, which included a 508 positive case increase. Before Friday, North Dakota’s largest single-day increase in new cases was reported on September 11, at which time health officials reported 468 new infections. New virus cases have been on the rise in North Dakota since July. The state reported its first day of more than 100 new cases on July 12, and new daily case increases have frequently been above 200 since mid-August, according to the NDDOH....

The test came just hours after the U.S. and South Korea completed two-day naval drills off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula, the news outlet reported. The office of Japan’s prime minister issued an emergency alert on Saturday and announced on Twitter that North Korea had “launched a suspected ballistic missile.” In an email on Saturday, a spokesperson for the State Department told Newsweek that the U.S. “condemns the DPRK’s ballistic missile launch....

Kim Hyok Chol was appointed chief negotiator for Pyongyang’s special envoy in the lead up to the second U.S.-North Korea summit February in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi. Months after the dialogue fell through with no agreement, South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo cited unnamed North Korean sources in May saying that Kim Hyok Chol had been executed and others top officials purged in March on the orders of supreme leader Kim Jong Un....

In a brief press release, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said: “While we have assessed that this event does not pose an immediate threat to U.S. personnel or territory, or to our allies, the missile launch highlights the destabilizing impact of the DPRK’s illicit weapons program.” USINDOPACOM said Washington was “consulting closely” with allies and reaffirmed defense commitments to Seoul and Tokyo. The South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it had detected “two unidentified ballistic missiles” fired by the North into the East Sea, according to AFP....

After touring flood-hit sites over the weekend, Kim chaired on Tuesday the sixth enlarged meeting of the ruling Korean Workers’ Party’s Seventh Central Military Commission in Pyongyang in order to discuss “severe damage” dealt to the Komdok area of South Hamgyong Province by a major storm termed “Typhoon No. 9.” The devastation was enough to force the ruler to rethink his year-end goals ahead of the upcoming, highly-anticipated Eighth Pary Congress set for January....

In a press statement published Friday, a spokesperson for the North Korean Foreign Ministry argued that “the anti-government protests that occurred in Cuba are an outcome of behind-the-scene manipulation by the outside forces coupled with their persistent anti-Cuba blockade scheming to obliterate socialism and the revolution.” Though the statement did not mention the U.S. by name, a possible sign that Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un was still interested in potential diplomacy with Washington, the reference to Washington’s long-standing embargo against Havana was clear....

Two short-range ballistic missiles of an unknown type were fired from a site close to the eastern city of Wonsan, where such tests are often conducted. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the projectiles flew around 155 miles at a maximum altitude of 19 miles before landing off the country’s east coast, The Associated Press reported. The South Korean JCS said the North’s repeated launches “are not helpful to efforts to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula, and we urge [North Korea] to stop this kind of behavior....

And let’s face it, he’s doing a lot. Pyongyang has test fired about 40 missiles in 2022, the highest number of launches in a single year. Five ballistic missiles have been sent on various trajectories in a 10-day stretch. The most recent, an Oct. 4 test of the Hwasong-12, an intermediate range ballistic missile, flew over Japan, the first time a North Korean projectile traversed Japanese territory since 2017. According to government estimates, the distance of the Oct....

During halftime of the Tar Heels’ battle with No. 1 Clemson in the ACC Championship Game, North Texas spread the word like wildfire with a tweet that included an entire website dedicated to Littrell’s hiring. MORE: Coaching vacancies | Meet the new coaches Littrell, 37, has been at UNC the past two seasons under Larry Fedora after serving as OC at Indiana for two seasons and Arizona for three....

Culture shock began before I got there. After making some preliminary calls about renting a room in a private house, I came home to a lengthy message on my answering machine from a Torontonian I’d spoken to briefly a few days before. He was calling to let me know that his room had been rented. But he wanted my address so he could send me some material about accommodations and the schedule for a festival I had mentioned....

European WCQ odds here O’Neill’s men ended their Group C campaign with two successive defeats - Germany won 3-1 in Belfast on Thursday - meaning they are likely to see their FIFA ranking affected. That likelihood did not unduly concern O’Neill, though, who is just pleased Northern Ireland are still involved. “We can’t be greedy,” he told Sky Sports. “We’re up against some great teams, potentially, in the play-off. We’ll just have to deal with whoever comes in the draw....

In 2012, when Teague was athletic director at Virginia Commonwealth, women’s basketball coach Beth Cunningham filed a gender-discrimination complaint against him. The accusations were not specified in the records reviewed by the Star Tribune and VCU officials did not respond to requests for comment on the matter. MORE: Five female reporters talk harassment | Star-Tribune reporter harassed by Teague VCU settled the complaint for $125,000 in July 2012, three months after Teague left the university and took over at Minnesota....

In an age zooming forward technologically, why all the backward glances? The Oxford English Dictionary’s first definition of nostalgia reads: “acute longing for familiar surroundings; severe homesickness.” With the speed of computers doubling every 18 months, and the net doubling in size in about half that, no wonder we’re aching for familiar surroundings. Since the cornerstone of the Information Age is change, anything enduring becomes precious. “People are looking for something authentic,” says McLaren....

The CARES Act includes unprecedented increases in the unemployment insurance (UI) program. It adds a federally funded $600 weekly bonus—more than 20 times the bonus paid in the 2009 stimulus law—to normal state unemployment benefits. It also bypasses most of the safeguards in UI programs that had targeted benefits toward workers who had been laid off from regular jobs. People with little work experience or who quit are now eligible, and the federal government pays the entire benefit amount....

THE HUGE ELECTRONIC SCREEN above New York’s Times Square shows steamy flashes of the latest music videos. At corner newsstands, vendors display practically as much nudity as they do news. On the side era passing bus. a bunch of male models drop their trousers to show off Tommy Hilfiger’s designer drawers. Up Broadway, in the strip clubs. the fleshy bump ’n’ grind is still one of the longest-running shows in town....

Real Madrid held to fourth straight draw Zinedine Zidane’s men won their first five fixtures in 2016-17, but came into this match looking to end a run of three straight draws against Villarreal, Las Palmas and Borussia Dortmund. Villarreal finished fourth in La Liga last season, while Las Palmas has been a revelation so far this term and was playing at home and BVB is always a strong side in the Champions League - especially at the Signal Iduna Park....

Prosecutors say Peterson confessed to the crime and explained that Laura provoked it by hitting her with a baseball bat during a nap. Peterson pleaded not guilty. But before a trial could be held, a judge ruled that police had violated Peterson’s Miranda rights and threw out the confession. Prosecutors had to drop the case and detectives are now trying to collect other evidence to implicate her. Peterson, meanwhile, is in jail on unrelated charges that she butchered a dog and threatened a neighbor and police; Peterson has pleaded not guilty....