A Dallas man with a history of family violence has been accused in the slaying of his girlfriend, who died Saturday after she was severely beaten, police said.Brandon Clyde King told officers when they responded about 6:15 a.m. that he found his girlfriend of two years, Mia Doucet, unconscious in the bedroom of a house in the 500 block of…
A North Texas woman has claimed a Powerball prize worth $1 million, lottery officials announced Wednesday.
Cheryl Spann, of Ponder, won the second-tier Powerball prize after buying a winning ticket at Bev's, located at 1003 N. Farm to Market 156, in Ponder.
Spann's ticket matched all five white ball numbers (20-24-26-35-49) but not the Powerball number (19).
Spann requested minimal publicity following her win.
Multi-state Powerball jackpots start at $40 million and roll until the jackpot has been won. Drawings are held each Wednesday and Saturday.
The estimated jackpot for Wednesday's drawing is $700 million -- or $443.3 million in cash. That's the second largest Powerball jackpot on record and the third largest jackpot of any U.S. lottery game in history.
