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ORANGEBURG, S.C. – The South Carolina Highway Patrol says a trooper responding to a wreck on Interstate 26 near Orangeburg died when his vehicle skidded off a wet road and slammed into a utility pole. Patrol spokesman Sid Gaulden says Lance Corporal James Haynes was driving early Friday on state …

PETALUMA, Calif. – Beginner’s luck has turned a California woman into a millionaire. After playing the lottery for the first time, Elba Escamilla of Petaluma, Calif., discovered she had won the $80 million jackpot, state lottery officials said. Escamilla bought the winning ticket last week, but didn’t check the numbers …

CHICAGO – Illinois lawmakers moved swiftly after last year’s massacre at Virginia Tech to make it harder for anyone with a history of mental illness to buy guns, fortifying what were already some of the nation’s toughest weapons laws. But the new measure does not take effect until June. And …