Public health officials in the U.K. have identified two more “areas of intervention” following a recent spike in the number of COVID-19 cases. Luton, a town 30 miles north of London, and Lancashire towns Blackburn and Darwen in north-west England have both reached the highest level on the COVID-19 watchlist. They join Leicester and surrounding areas which were subjected to the U.K.’s first full local lockdown, as restrictions are eased in other parts of the country, while still attempting to control the spread of the virus....

The thunderstorm knocked down trees across the region, damaging power lines. The storm damaged structures and outdoor dining areas, and Albany media reported that a 24-year-old driver was killed in the storm. Massachusetts Power Outage In Massachusetts, 33,363 Eversource customers and 65,156 National Grid customers are without power. The Eversource outage is impacting customers in Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, and Norfolk counties. Eversource said its crews have worked through the night and restored the power of more than 110,000 customers since the windstorm....

First Five: 20-28-33-63-68Powerball: 20Power Play: 2x Saturday night’s 02/13/21 Powerball jackpot was estimated at $56 million, with a cash option of $41.3 million. There was no grand prize winner, nor were there any second-prize winners. The Powerball jackpot for 02/17/21 now increases to $66 million. Here are the winning numbers from last Wednesday night’s 02/10/21 drawing: First Five: 15-39-58-63-67 Powerball: 07 Power Play: 2x Wednesday’s 02/10/21 Powerball jackpot was $42 million....

First Five: 44-52-54-64-69Powerball: 26Power Play: 3x Saturday night’s 06/05/21 Powerball jackpot was estimated at $286 million, with a cash option of $196.6 million. There was a grand prize winner on a ticket sold in Florida, and the game for Wednesday 06/09/21 will reset to the $20 million minimum. Here are the winning numbers from last Wednesday night’s drawing: First Five: 06-07-11-66-67 Powerball: 19 Power Play: 3x The Wednesday 06/02/21 Powerball jackpot was $268 million....

First Five: 12-21-22-29-32 Powerball: 21 Power Play: 2x The Wednesday 08/21/19 jackpot was estimated at $40 million, with a cash option of $28.6 million. The jackpot could have increased if sales further lottery projections, according to officials. Someone purchased a ticket in New York last Saturday to win the previous jackpot of $149 million? The Powerball reset at the $40 minimum to start the game over again. Winning numbers from the 8/17/19 jackpot were: 18-21-24-30-60...

First Five: 10-40-45-56-67Powerball: 02Power Play: 2x Saturday night’s 12/04/21 Powerball jackpot was worth $278 million, with a cash-value option worth $196.6 million. The total jackpot could increase depending on the number of tickets sold around the country prior to the drawing. The winning numbers on Wednesday (12/01/21) for the $264 million jackpot were: 12-15-38-57-63 with a Powerball of 24. The Power Play was 2x. There was no grand prize winner on Wednesday, nor were there any tickets sold that matched the first five white balls, and minus the red Powerball, for the game’s second prize of $1 million....

First Five: 03-25-44-53-64Powerball: 10Power Play: 2x Saturday night’s 12/11/21 Powerball jackpot was worth $307 million, with a cash-value option worth $224.7 million. The total jackpot could increase depending on the number of tickets sold around the country prior to the drawing. The winning numbers on Wednesday (12/08/21) for the $291 million jackpot were: 03-07-33-50-69 with a Powerball of 24. The Power Play was 2x. There was no grand prize winner on Wednesday, nor were there any tickets sold that matched the first five white balls, and minus the red Powerball, for the game’s second prize of $1 million....

No one has claimed the $25 million jackpot for the June 27 draw, according to the Powerball website. Therefore, it will now roll over to the next drawing on July 2, when the estimated jackpot will be $351 million (with a cash value of $40.6 million). Although no-one claimed the top prize, there were some big winners from Saturday night’s drawing. Eight players matched four balls and the Powerball to win $50,000 prizes, while another player also had the Power Play feature and so doubled their winnings to $100,000....

Nobody won the grand prize so the jackpot will roll over to Saturday night’s draw where it will be worth an estimated $304 million with a cash value of $236 million. This will be lottery players’ second chance to win a jackpot worth more than $300 million this week, as the Mega Millions jackpot on Friday night is an estimated $310 million. Although nobody won the jackpot last night, one player from Virginia matched five numbers and won $1 million....

But no one has claimed the $117 million jackpot for the July 25 draw, according to the Powerball website, it will now roll over to the next drawing on Thursday July 30. The estimated jackpot then will be $126 million (with a cash value of $103.6 million). Although no-one claimed the top prize, there were some big winners from Saturday night’s drawing. A player from Nevada matched all five white balls correctly to win $1 million, according to the Powerball website....

Baseball has a way of wowing us, shocking us and satisfying us — basically, it’s the anti-“Game of Thrones” Season 8. So while you’re busy wallowing in how the final season of that dragon and blood show ended, here are some early-season surprises that are sure to fill the void that “Game of Thrones” left behind. MORE: Watch ‘ChangeUp,’ a new MLB live whiparound show on DAZN Bullpen ineffectiveness It seems like bullpens in 2019 are as effective as walking a mile after finishing three personal pizzas in an attempt to lose weight....

Gilbert, a legendary American success story in the mid 20th century, was receding into the haze of history until late last year, when a witty and enjoyable biography appeared: “The Man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were Made” by Bruce Watson. Shortly thereafter, a December television movie, “The Man Who Saved Christmas,” brought Gilbert to life in the person of Jason Alexander. (Gilbert “saved Christmas” in 1918 by convincing the Council of National Defense to abandon a planned wartime ban on toy sales....

The state has an alarmingly high teen-pregnancy rate, but the Governor’s Council on Adolescent Pregnancy, formed in 1987 to bring it down, recently announced some cheering statistics. The number of pregnancies among Maryland girls under 18 fell 13 percent between 1988 and 1990 (more recent data are not yet available). And while the birthrate among the state’s 15-to 17-year-olds remained steady from 1988 to 1989, nationwide it rose 8.4 percent....

On Tuesday, user u/clockingjam shared the story on Reddit’s r/AmITheA**hole community where it has received thousands of reactions and comments. The woman explained that she and her fiancé Ryan were recently engaged. With her parents divorced over 15 years ago, her mom remarried a man named Tom who had two children—Lily and Anne. [The poster changed the names.] “Lily is my age but I’m a few months older and we went to the same school,” explained the Redditor....

The Washington Democrat told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that GOP lawmakers would now have to return to their constituencies and explain why they opposed the popular stimulus package, which offers a round of $1,400 direct checks. The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives gave the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill its final approval in a 220-211 vote largely along party lines. Not a single Republican backed it, and Jared Golden was the only Democrat to oppose the bill, which will now be signed off by President Biden....

So, this Preakness boils down to mere child's play — a game of pin the tail on the donkey. Either California Chrome gets boxed in by rivals ganging up on him — who try to pin him in from post 3, taking him out of his comfort zone — or, as he has done in his past five starts, California Chrome toys with this bunch. MORE: Triple Crown coverage from the Daily Racing Form | The Linemakers on Sporting News...

Medina Spirit will start the 146th running of the so-called Run for the Black-Eyed Susans takes place as favorite on Saturday at the of a week in which he has made the headlines for all the wrong reasons. The three-year-old won the Kentucky Derby on May 1, but his triumph could be short-lived after he tested positive for an excessive amount of the steroid betamethasone. The drug is legal under Kentucky racing rules, but only in limited amounts and must be cleared 14 days before a horse race....

MORE POTENTIAL BREAKOUTS: Tigers, Giants | Phillies, White Sox | Reds, A’s Here’s a deeper look: Mets: Dominic Smith, 1B 2017 stats: .198/.262/.395, 167 AB, 9 HR, 6 2B, 49 K, 14 BB Smith’s debut with the Mets didn’t come until mid-August, and he started slowly. Through the end of that month, the first baseman was hitting just .164 and looked as though his bat had not come with him from Triple-A Las Vegas, where he was hitting ....

In a Facebook post last Tuesday, Alyssa DeWitt, who is five months pregnant, said that she was enjoying a day at the First Street Beach Pier at Lake Michigan when she noticed a pair of hands waving at her from the water. DeWitt revealed that she “immediately” got her own kids out of the water and ran onto the pier, where she noticed a group of children “getting pulled out into the lake and slammed against the pier wall....