Austin: The Powerball jackpot Saturday night could be even higher than the record $600 million being advertised, possibly rivaling the largest lottery jackpot in US history, a Texas Lottery official said on Saturday.
"Oftentimes, the advertised amount is lower than what the actual jackpot ends up being," said Kelly Cripe, a spokeswoman for the Texas Lottery. "It's entirely possible this $600 million jackpot will end up being a bigger jackpot."
The Powerball record in November was advertised at $550 million, but ended up being $587.5 million when the winning numbers were drawn, thanks to last-minute sales.
Powerball officials told participating states on Saturday they would not be raising the advertised number for the drawing, Cripe said....
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07:11 AM, May 19, 2013
Granbury: Habitat for Humanity spent years in a North Texas subdivision, helping build many of the 110 homes in the low-income area. But its work was largely undone during an outbreak of 16 tornadoes on Wednesday night that killed six people and injured dozens. On Thursday, authorities combed through debris in Granbury, while residents awaited the chance to see what was left of their homes. Witnesses described the two badly...
11:54 AM, May 17, 2013
Houston: The death toll in the massive fertilizer plant explosion in Texas has risen to 14, with US investigators announcing they had nearly finished search and rescue efforts. Two days after the West Fertilizer Company fertilizer facility exploded in the US town of West, Texas, the residents were grappling with the tragedy. "It's going to be a long recovery for this community," Governor Rick Perry said on Friday. The death...
04:48 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Texas: A Texas law enforcement official says 12 bodies have been recovered following a massive explosion that leveled a fertilizer plant. Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt Jason Reyes said today that about 200 people were injured in the explosion at facility Wednesday night in the small farming community of West, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Waco. Search and rescue crews have been sifting through the still-smoldering remains...
08:07 PM, Apr 19, 2013
West Texas: Police in Texas say between five and 15 people were killed in a fertilizer plant explosion that also injured more than 160 others. Waco police Sgt William Patrick Swanton said on early Thursday morning that the death toll is only an estimate as search and rescue operations remain under way in downtown West. An explosion on Wednesday night shook the ground with the strength of a small earthquake...
03:39 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Waco: A massive explosion at a fertilizer plant near Waco on Wednesday killed two and injured more than 100 people, leaving the factory a smoldering ruin and leveling buildings for blocks in every direction. The explosion at West Fertilizer in West, a community about 20 miles north of Waco, happened shortly before 8 pm (local time) and could be heard as far away as Waxahachie, 45 miles to the north....
08:09 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Houston: A community college student, who said he had fantasised since childhood about stabbing people to death, went on a slashing spree at his Houston campus on Tuesday, wounding at least 14 people, two of them critically, before bystanders subdued him, police said. The suspect, identified as Lone Star College student Dylan Quick, 20, was charged with three counts of aggravated assault stemming from the rampage, carried out with a...
10:14 AM, Apr 10, 2013
San Antonio: Martin Laird has spent the last six months on the driving range looking for answers to his struggling game. The Scottish golfer finally found what he was looking for, and then some on Sunday - winning the Texas Open with a final-round 9-under par 63 to overcome a resurgent Rory McIlroy and some of the world's best along the way. Laird, who entered the week 161st on the...
08:08 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Austin: Lance Armstrong has asked a Texas court to dismiss a lawsuit by a Dallas promotions company seeking repayment of more than $12 million in bonuses paid for winning the Tour de France. SCA Promotions sued Armstrong and his manager Bill Stapleton in state district court in Dallas in February, claiming Armstrong committed fraud by using performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour seven times. SCA paid Armstrong's team management company...
05:28 PM, Apr 07, 2013
San Antonio: Billy Horschel held off an experienced leaderboard to shoot 2-under 70 and take a two-shot lead entering the final round of the Texas Open on Saturday. Horschel, who also held the lead after the second round, battled through the gusting San Antonio wind to reach 10 under overall - two shots ahead of Jim Furyk and Charley Hoffman. Horschel was second at last week's Houston Open and extended...
08:23 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Double US Open champion Curtis Strange has hit out at Nick Faldo and Johnny Miller for criticising world number two Rory McIlroy's recent switch of club manufacturers. McIlroy ditched his Titleist equipment at the start of the year but Strange believes the 23-year-old Northern Irishman's slump in form is nothing to do with the change he has made. "I don't think clubs have anything to do with it at all,"...
07:11 PM, Apr 06, 2013
San Antonio: Rory McIlroy matched the low round of the day with a 5-under par 67 and moved within three shots of the lead at the Texas Open on Friday, continuing his surge toward next week's Masters. The world's No. 2 golfer, who decided to play in the tournament late last week, had seven birdies - including his final three holes - and overcame a bogey on No. 9 after...
08:36 AM, Apr 06, 2013
San Antonio: Matt Bettencourt and Peter Tomasulo shot 5-under 67s to take a surprising share of the lead after the first round of the Texas Open on Thursday, holding off a field that includes world No. 2 Rory McIlroy. The two took advantage of warmer and calmer afternoon conditions and held a one-stroke lead over a group of four players - including three-time major winner Padraig Harrington - at 4...
09:12 AM, Apr 05, 2013
A 27-year-old North Texas man, who was one of the first to receive a full face transplant in the US, has married another burn patient, transforming their pain into bliss. Dallas Wiens married Jamie Nash, 29, on Saturday at a Texas church where a severe electrical accident destroyed his face and eyesight in 2008 as he was making repairs to a window, The Dallas Morning News reported. ...
09:47 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Campus of one of the largest universities in the US, located close to the Mexican border was evacuated after officials received an anonymous bomb threat. Students and staff of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) got a text message around 2 pm on Tuesday, warning of a bomb and telling them to leave campus. ...
02:20 PM, Mar 27, 2013
This Friday, Hollywood offers a mixed bag of films from the critically acclaimed Oscar nominated 'The Master' to comedy 'The Incredible Burt Wonderstone'. If you like gore there's 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' in 3D. ...
10:08 AM, Mar 15, 2013
'Asurudu 3D', the Telugu version of the movie is produced by Betha Sudhakar ...
04:06 PM, Mar 01, 2013
A county employee was shot and injured by two unidentified men on Thursday outside a court building in the US state of Texas, Xinhua reported. ...
12:46 AM, Feb 01, 2013
Shooting broke out between two people on the campus of Lone Star College near Houston on Tuesday and three people were injured, including one of the shooters, police said. ...
02:21 AM, Jan 23, 2013
