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NEWS
Biggest lottery still unclaimed
BY KEVIN O'HANLON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LINCOLN, Neb. — Whoever won the nation's biggest jackpot has an open invitation to return to the convenience store where the winning ticket was bought and share the wealth.
"IIf I sold the ticket to them. I hope they'd share in the winnings — at least, even one-tenth of a percent would suit me just fine," said Stacey Carey, a clerk at the U-Stop on West O St.
No one had come forward Sunday to claim the record $365 million Powerball jackpot, said Nebraska Lottery spokesman Brian Rockey. With the office closed for President's Day, the
winner may not be known until today, if then.
Jim Haynes, acting director of the Nebraska Lottery, said large jackpot winners "tend to wait until they have sought legal counsel or financial counsel."
The winning numbers drawn Saturday were 15, 17, 43, 44 and 48, with a Powerball number of 29, according to the MultiState Lottery Association of Des Moines, Iowa, which runs the game for the participating states.
The U-Stop — which would earn a $50,000 bonus if it sold the winning ticket — was swarmed with reporters and customers Sunday, said owner Mick Mandl.
"Everybody wants to talk to
us," he said. "They're excited."
Carey says she suspected that the winning ticket was sold in her store.
"The prior-shift clerk told me he heard it was sold here and I checked our lottery machine and sure enough, it said it was sold at this store."
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The U-Stop is a busy store, where many people around Lincoln stop for gas, cigarettes and lottery tickets.
"We get all kinds of clientele in here so it could be anywhere from a rich businessperson to somebody who lives in low-income housing across the street," Carey said.
Records indicate the ticket was bought at 3:09 p.m. and its numbers were computer-generated. The ticket holder beat the 1-in-146.1 million odds of winning.
Visitors to the store over the weekend were greeted by a white board with a hand-drawn message: "Welcome to U-Stop. Home to the largest lottery payout in U.S. history!"
The winning ticket holder has the option of taking the money in one lump sum or installments over 30 years. The cash option is $177.3 million, or $124.1 million after taxes. On the installment plan, the first payment would be $6,507,986 after taxes.
In October, an Oregon family claimed the largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history won by a single ticket, $340 million.
WORLD
Bush to sell ports to Arab company
NEWARK, N.J. — Democratic senators assailed an Arab company's takeover of operations at six major American ports and said Monday that President Bush should stop the deal to better protect the U.S. from terrorists.
"We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government." New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez said during a news conference. "We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either."
Menendez said he and New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will introduce legislation prohibiting the sale of port operations to foreign governments.
Elected officials have criticized the government's approval of last week's purchase of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., by Dubai Ports World, a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirate.
The Hoodie Hoo Sisterhood
The Associated Press
Jeremy Portjie/THE TELEGRAPH HERALD Northern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day participants, from left, Pat Sievers, Sister Kathy Lentsch, Sister Kathryn Fitzpatrick and Sister Phyllis Manternach, gather at high noon to shout "Hoodie Hoo" from the steps of Mount Saint Francis Center, the motherhouse of the Dubuque Franciscan Sisters, Monday in Dubuque, Iowa. Northern Hemisphere observers annually shout "Hoodie Hoo" three times at noon on Feb. 20 to drive away winter.
Jeremy Portje/THE TELEGRAPH HERALD
Museum recalls black struggles
BY ANNE WALLACE ALLEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NATION
"It's interesting, when you talk to people, what they know or they think they know," said Moore, who left Detroit's Motown Historical Museum to take the position in Boise this month. "African-Americans have made a significant contribution to this state."
BOISE, Idaho — As the new director of the Idaho Black History Museum, Kimberly Moore's job starts with convincing people that such history actually exists.
Ask most people in or out of Idaho about the state's black history and you're likely to get a blank look. There just aren't many black people around — 11,000 is Moore's estimate, less than 1 percent of Idaho's 1.4 million population.
Black history in Idaho starts with York, the slave of William Clark who traveled through what is now northern Idaho 200 years ago with explorers Clark and Meriwether Lewis.
The museum tells the story of York and the black explorers, fur traders, gold prospectors, miners, ranchers and others who came after him. Some traveled to Idaho to find work, land or religious freedom. Others came to escape oppression in the post-Civil War South.
The museum is set in a former black Baptist church. Exhibits introduce people such as Gobo Fango, a West African who was born in 1855 and adopted by white Mormons. He started a sheep ranch near Oakley.
There's also a piece on Les Purce, the first black city councilman in Idaho, in Pocatello, in 1973, who went on to become the state's first black mayor.
Another covers the 1940 visit of famed opera singer Marian Anderson. Anderson was snubbed in other cities because of her skin color, and Boise was no different: She stayed at the Hotel Boise but had to enter and exit through the back door.
The black history in the exhibits is bittersweet, mixing triumphs on the frontier with the oppression that was a fact of life.
What sets Idaho's black history apart from other states' is the stain left by the Arvan Nations.
The white supremacist group was founded in the mid-1970s by Richard Butler, who bought 20 acres near Hayden in northern Idaho. Butler declared bankruptcy in 2000 and gave up the land. After his death in 2004, the compound's grounds were turned into a park dedicated to peace.
Even though Butler is associated with Idaho, he wasn't from the state, noted Janet French, a member of the museum's board.
"He was basically real estate shopping for some remote place where the federal government would leave him alone," French said. "My understanding is the locals up in northern Idaho were incensed their character was being tarnished by a bunch of people who weren't from Idaho in the first place."
Idaho isn't used to the kind of national attention generated by the Aryan Nations. The quiet, rural state still produces one-third of the nation's potatoes, and it has a huge strip of national forest in the middle of it.
The museum held a gospel music workshop earlier this month, and she was surprised and moved when 90 percent of the people who turned up were white. That doesn't happen in places with a large, established black population, said Moore.
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