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Hundreds of aircraft including two dozen stealth jets began training Monday as the United States and South Korea launched a massive combined air force exercise. The war games come a week after North Korea test-fired its most powerful missile ever, an ICBM that may be able to target the eastern seaboard of the United States. The five-day drill, which is...

A North Carolina woman hit the jackpot with two scratch-off lottery tickets, marking the second such instance in three weeks. The Charlotte Observer reports Michelle Shuffler, of Granite Falls, won $10,000 with one scratch-off ticket and $1 million with another on Sunday. Shuffler said in a statement that she and her husband purchased the winning $10,000 ticket in Lenoir, and...

She knows how to pick a winner. Kimberly Morris of Wake Forest scratched off two North Carolina lottery tickets on Monday, winning $1 million on one of the tickets and $10,000 with another, local media report. Morris thought things were going well when she bought a ticket at a grocery store Monday afternoon and scratched off the $10,000 prize. She...

The University of Virginia is donating to a medical fund for people injured last month in the white nationalist rallies in Charlottesville, in a rebuke of a donation the Ku Klux Klan pledged to the university nearly a century ago.

Lisa Lynn Masters, an actress whose resume credits her appearances on multiple hit shows including “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “Law &Order: Special Victims Unit” and “Gossip Girl,” has died. Masters appeared on a 2015 episode of ‘Schmidt’ playing the character of Dr. Goodman.