Single $456.7M Powerball ticket sold in Pennsylvania: report
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Lottery winner in New Hampshire fights for her right to remain anonymous; Molly Line reports from New Hampshire.
A single ticket sold in Pennsylvania won the multimillion-dollar Powerball jackpot in Saturday’s drawing, lottery officials said.
The ticket matched all five white balls and the Powerball to win an estimated $456.7 million jackpot, with $273.9 million cash value, PennLive.com reported.
The winner has the choice of taking the larger pot amount over the span of 29 years or the cash amount for a one-time, lump-sum payment.
After 19 straight drawings failed to produce a grand-prize winner, this pot is one of the biggest in the multi-state U.S. lottery’s history, Reuters reported.
The odds of winning the St. Patrick’s Day drawing were 1 in 292 million, the report said.
Information on who has the winning ticket or where in Pennsylvania was not immediately known.
In the lucky holiday drawing, three additional tickets sold in California, Missouri and Texas matched all five white balls, PennLive reported.
The ticket sold in Texas won a $2 million prize using the 2X multiplier, while the other two tickets are worth $1 million each.
The winning numbers were 22, 57, 59, 60, 66 and Powerball 7.
The jackpot resets at $40 million for the next drawing, the report said.
LEGAL CASE COSTING POWERBALL WINNER $14G IN INTEREST PER DAY, ATTORNEY SAYS
Jan. 6 was the last Powerball drawing to produce a jackpot winner, with the single ticket sold in New Hampshire winning $559.7 million. Under the name “Good Karma Family 2018,” the anonymous winner chose the lump-sum cash option of $352 million, Reuters reported.
Amy Lieu is a news editor and reporter for Fox News.
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Bridge Collapse Saps Spirits and Research Efforts at Florida International University
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“We are the pride and joy of the Cuban community,” said Modesto A. Maidique, a former university president.
But the student body has also diversified, and enrollment has grown to more than 50,000 from 15,000 three decades ago. Despite opposition from competing schools, the university used its tight relationships with politicians to elevate its athletic program to Division 1, add doctoral programs and open schools of architecture, law, medicine and engineering.
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“We as an institution see ourselves as an anchor in the community,” Dr. Rosenberg said, with a responsibility to address major issues, including sea level rise, disparity in health outcomes, hurricanes, AIDS prevention and transportation. “We are leaning in. As an institution, we’re not in a fetal position waiting for the sky to fall.”
As the university grew, traffic on Southwest Eighth Street, along the northern edge of campus, became one of its problems. About 4,000 students lived in neighboring Sweetwater, across the busy eight-lane street. University students also work with the local elementary school in Sweetwater, which in turn sends children to the art museum on campus.
A pedestrian bridge became necessary for safety.
“This was a good project,” Dr. Rosenberg said Friday. “This was a project that spoke to our desire to build bridges. When the board hired me, I told them, ‘If you give me a pile of rocks, I’m going to build a bridge, not a wall.’ This was about neighborliness and collaboration.”
Experts in accelerated bridge construction, in which bridges are prefabricated and quickly moved into place, said it was particularly unfortunate that the collapse occurred at F.I.U. The university is known for its expertise in the field and has attracted top international scholars as Ph.D. students.
The Accelerated Bridge Construction University Transportation Center at F.I.U., a federally financed research center that received a round of $10 million in government funding in 2016, gathers, organizes and distributes information about the timesaving method.
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In addition to sponsoring industry conferences in Miami every two years, the center also hosts monthly online seminars that are viewed regularly by about 4,000 people, according to Michael P. Culmo, an expert in accelerated bridge construction.
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“They do play a key role in the field,” said Mr. Culmo, the chief technical officer for CME Associates, an engineering firm based in Mansfield, Conn.
The professor who leads the center, Atorod Azizinamini, a bridge engineer, has become something of an evangelist for accelerated bridge construction.
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A 2016 news release from F.I.U. said that Dr. Azizinamini, who declined to comment for this article, had presented the method to the federal Transportation Department as a way to replace deficient or obsolete bridges with minimal disruptions to traffic flow.
But F.I.U. needed a bridge of its own.
In September 2015, Munilla Construction Management, a business led by a Cuban-American family, submitted its proposal to build the pedestrian bridge that collapsed on Thursday. The project was officially known as the University City Prosperity Project.
The company’s proposal described the bridge as an innovative design that would “serve as an icon, a destination in its own right.” At the core of this proposal was accelerated bridge construction, which the company said would “showcase F.I.U.’s prominence in the international A.B.C. marketplace.”
The proposal emphasized the bridge’s dramatic features — a tapering pylon, glass-enclosed elevator and programmable lighting — as well as the Munilla firm’s connections. Forty percent of the firm’s team members were F.I.U. graduates, “which enhances our passion for success,” the proposal said.
It was signed by Jorge Munilla, Munilla Construction Management’s president. “They’re significant players in the Cuban community,” said Dr. Maidique, who is also Cuban-American. Mr. Munilla’s company won the project, beating out several other firms.
On campus, where students were on spring break, the reactions of those who remained were shock, sadness and anger.
Dr. Rosenberg said the institution was planning an independent investigation of the collapse of the pedestrian bridge, which was intended to be a showcase of engineering and collaboration with the community.
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“We will try to understand if there are areas where we could have done better,” he said.
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