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Holders of three winning Mega Millions tickets will split Friday night's record $656 million jackpot. Two of those tickets were purchased in states where winners can remain anonymous.

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- A citrus disease that has killed millions of citrus trees and cost growers billions of dollars across Florida and Brazil has been detected in California, despite the industry's best efforts to keep it at bay....

The trial court properly denied a Franks hearing because the defense provided no offer of proof as to what was false and how it affected probable cause. State v. Pargo, 2012 Iowa App. LEXIS 228 (March 28, 2012).*

Taillight violation supported stop that revealed defendant was an “habitual” driving without a DL violator. State v. Hughes, 2012 Iowa App. LEXIS 266 (March 28, 2012).*

The trial court erred in not considering the defendant’s offer of proof of the 911 call and other things on the question of reliability of an anonymous tip, but, on de novo review, the court of appeals considers it and finds that it does not change the outcome. State v. Kooima, 2012 Iowa App. LEXIS 231 (March 28, 2012).*

Police in northern Mexico arrest eight people in connection with the killing of two 10-year-old boys and a woman in ritual sacrifices.

Defendant took a pretrial application for writ to this court on a Gant issue denied by the trial court, and that order was law of the case and could not be appealed again on the direct appeal from the conviction. State v. Massey, 2012 La. App. LEXIS 413 (La. App. 5th Cir. March 27, 2012).

There was no proof that the officer’s challenged statements was anything more than negligent. One was a reasonable assumption based on the facts known to the officer at the time. United States v. Wyatt, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 42725 (W.D. Ky. March 28, 2012)*:

Just because there is no Fourth Amendment rights in prison does not mean that an inmate has no rights at all. Here, the inmate’s drinking mug was bought with his own money, and it was arbitrarily confiscated. He stated a claim under the takings clause of the state constitution. Johnson v. King, 2012 Miss. App. LEXIS 169 (Miss. App. March 27, 2012).*

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) -- Authorities investigating the 2009 disappearance of a Utah woman found her blood in the family home and a hand-written note in which she expressed fear about her husband and her potential demise, according to documents unsealed Friday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Election Commission overstepped its bounds in allowing groups that fund certain election ads to keep their financiers anonymous, a federal judge ruled Friday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Election Commission overstepped its bounds in allowing groups that fund certain election ads to keep their financiers anonymous, a federal judge ruled Friday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Election Commission overstepped its bounds in allowing groups that fund certain election ads to keep their financiers anonymous, a federal judge ruled Friday....

The government changes its advice to motorists saying the need to top up fuel is not urgent, after the union rules out any strike over Easter.

CHICAGO (AP) -- A nephew of Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade was one of 13 men shot - two fatally - during a violent six-hour stretch in Chicago, another indication that violence is on the rise in the nation's third-largest city....

There would be no special prosecutor, no grand jury, no release of 911 tapes in the Trayvon Martin case had thousands across the national not mobilized, organized and took to the streets to demand justice, Roland Martin says.

BEIJING (AP) -- China is shuttering more than a dozen websites, penalizing two popular social media sites and detaining six people for circulating rumors of a coup that rattled Beijing in the midst of its worst high-level political crisis in years....

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- The four candidates for Mexico's presidency officially launched their campaigns for the July 1 election on Friday, all of them promising change....

SIDNEY, Mont. (AP) -- Residents of a tight-knit eastern Montana town mixed calls for justice with sorrowful relief Friday as they mourned a high school teacher who was kidnapped, strangled and her body buried in a shallow grave discovered after two months of searching....

SIDNEY, Mont. (AP) -- Residents of a tight-knit eastern Montana town mixed calls for justice with sorrowful relief Friday as they mourned a high school teacher who was kidnapped, strangled and her body buried in a shallow grave discovered after two months of searching....

A creation of Berlin artist Kulja Kugler, giant robot bass player can play two songs.

A visual record of the London 2012 Olympic Games featuring sculpture, painting and photography from 10 leading UK artists goes on show in Oxford.

More than 450 people attend the funeral of vicar John Suddards at the church in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, where he was the parish priest.

A mother and her three-year-old son are named by neighbours after police arrest a man on suspicion of murder at a house in Gwynedd.