Tanasia Kenney

5 days ago | miamiherald.com | Tanasia Kenney

A lottery player tried their luck at Cash 5 and wound up scoring a six-figure prize, according to the North Carolina Education Lottery. The lucky winner, from Luverne, Alabama, hit the jackpot, winning $120,000 in the drawing Thursday, May 8, lottery officials said. They purchased the ticket online and matched all five numbers, beating odds of 1-in-962,598 to snag the game’s top prize, according to the NC Education Lottery website.

5 days ago | miamiherald.com | Tanasia Kenney

A dispute over a dog left inside a hot car ended with a witness being hit by the car in a parking lot, according to Florida deputies. The dog’s owner, 68-year-old Anthony Panagoplos, was arrested and charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon following the incident outside a Bealls store in Englewood, the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a probable cause affidavit obtained by McClatchy News. He was arrested and taken to jail but posted bail, online records show.

5 days ago | miamiherald.com | Tanasia Kenney

A Georgia teacher was arrested after he was accused of threatening to commit a school shooting, state investigators said. Mason Garrett, 22, was charged with terroristic threats and acts after making verbal threats to shoot students and staff at Warren County High School, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Garrett was arrested April 29 and taken to the McDuffie County Jail, the bureau said in a May 7 news release.

6 days ago | miamiherald.com | Tanasia Kenney

Some Apple users are owed money as part of a class-action settlement over alleged privacy violations involving Siri. The tech giant agreed to pay $95 million to resolve accusations that Siri, its voice-enabled AI assistant, recorded private conversations and shared them with third parties, court documents show. Users alleged Apple collected their confidential communications as the “result of an unintended Siri activation” on their devices, according to the settlement administrator’s website.

6 days ago | miamiherald.com | Tanasia Kenney

A fight between lovers ended with a man splashed with hot chicken grease, leaving him badly burned, Georgia police said. Olympia Laster, 43, was charged with aggravated battery in the May 6 attack on her boyfriend at an extended-stay hotel in LaGrange, the city’s police department said in a news release. The couple were reportedly arguing when Laster threw a pot of hot chicken grease on Robert Herron, 46, according to police.