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A single winning ticket for a record Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was sold in Florida, organizers said late Saturday, but there was no word about who won. The winning numbers from Saturday night's drawing were: 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52, with a Powerball number of 11. The odds of winning were put at one in 175 million. The winning ticket was sold at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, a suburb of Tampa, according to the Florida Lottery. The prize tempted many Marylanders to buy tickets for the lottery game before the 11 p.m. drawing.

Even as an experienced sailor, Peter McChesney said that racing the J/70 gives him a different kind of thrill. The 223/4-foot boat, the newest design of Rhode Island-based J/Boats, which began building its line in the late 1970s, will be the most popular entry in the prestigious Annapolis National Offshore One-Design (NOOD) Regatta Series, which will be held Friday through next Sunday. The third leg of the six-race series is expected to attract an estimated 1,000 sailors, with the top prize being a trip to the Top-Sider NOOD Regatta Championship in the British Virgin Islands in November.

Artist Jan Mitchell has returned to Annapolis to establish the Jan R. Mitchell Art Glass and Sculpture Gallery after a 15-year sojourn in the Virgin Islands.The newly renovated gallery is located on Cornhill Street in the former Annapolis Pottery, which Mitchell and her late husband, Bryan, owned and operated for nearly 16 years.She has work on permanent display in the Smithsonian and has produced several federal commissions through the Art-in-Architecture GSA awards.Life-size bronzes for the federal courthouse and the federal building in St. Croix include Market Woman, a bronze that stands in front of the U.S. District Court and symbolizes the ancient Greek goddess of justice.

Sydney Henderson and Selina Mann went 10-for-10 from the free-throw line in the final 1:46 to help Mount St. Mary's clinch a 74-64 nonconference victory against host Seton Hall in women's basketball Sunday. The win was the Mount's first victory against a Bowl Championship Subdivision school in the school's Division I history. Henderson paced the Mountaineers (4-4) with 27 points and 10 rebounds, while Mann posted 10 points, seven assists and four steals. After the Pirates (3-7) trimmed the margin to 62-57 with 3:09 on the clock, Mann and Henderson sealed the victory from the line.

WASHINGTON -- Donna Christensen, then new in Congress, was passionately opposed to the motion to impeach President Bill Clinton in December 1998. Whatever his mistakes, Christensen believed, Clinton did not deserve to be removed from office. But Christensen, who represents the Virgin Islands, could not vote. She was reduced to speaking on the House floor only after the impeachment vote and declared that if she could have, she would have voted no. "We're all generally forgotten or on the back burner," Christensen said recently, referring to herself and the four other nonvoting delegates in the House.

SAN ANTONIO -- It's Tim Duncan's lack of emotion that stands out most, a personality that never appears to change. Rarely on the court will he smile, yell or display any type of passion. That's true whether he's dunking on Shaquille O'Neal, hitting a jumper from the top of the key or blocking a shot."He's a strange bird in that sense," said San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich. "He's got this natural disposition. I always say he's on island time, where nothing fazes this guy. He doesn't get excited about anything.

Blackbeard and his fellow pirates were lured to the tropical paradise that's now the British Virgin Islands for the same reasons we were: Hidden coves, calm waters and 50 islands within sight of each other, most ringed with pristine, white-sand beaches.Unlike the pirates, we weren't looking for a cave to stash pieces of eight, though I wish we could have found some of their treasure which, legend has it, is still hidden there. We came to sail the easily navigated, clear, blue waters that draw yachters and divers from around the world, increasingly these days with their children aboard.

Jan. 17 1893 Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown as a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate. 1917 The United States paid Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.

A 20-year-old man living in Towson was ordered detained yesterday on charges that he was involved in a bank robbery and shooting last summer in the British Virgin Islands. Ricky Terrence Powell of St. Croix in the Virgin Islands, and several other men are accused of making off with $56,415 in a robbery of the National Bank of the Virgin Islands, authorities said. During the Aug. 15, 2007, robbery, two customers were shot, authorities said. Authorities say Powell ended up living in an apartment in the 7000 block of Lachland Circle in Towson.

On a visit in January to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, I was standing on the beach watching a spectacular sunset when this beautiful sailboat came across the horizon. I grabbed my camera and captured the moment. Ralph Mirarchi Fallston

Edward Charles "Ned" Wilson III, a retired Aberdeen Proving Ground information technology specialist and former board member of Maryland Life Magazine, died June 17 of prostate cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 64. The son of farmers, Mr. Wilson was born in Baltimore and raised on the family farm in Darlington, where he eventually built a home and spent his entire life. After graduating from McDonogh School in 1964, he earned a bachelor's degree in 1968 in English from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. Drafted into the Army in 1968, Mr. Wilson was sent to Phu Bai, Vietnam, after completing training in preventive medicine at Fort Sam Houston in Texas.

Perhaps you are right that peace negotiations based on Israel's pre-1967 boundaries, though perhaps arbitrary, are basically "what has to happen" to end the Israel-Palestine conflict ("Obama and the Arab Spring," May 19). But you should firmly tell our president that in order to demonstrate his moral leadership and credibility, he should have the U.S. first pull back from all its occupied territories. First, the territories won in World War II: Guam, Wake Island, the Marianna Islands and Midway Island.

The Rev. Henry Robert Harper, a Josephite priest who was an associate pastor of St. Peter Claver Roman Catholic Church, died March 29 at the University of Maryland Medical Center of complications from a fall he suffered at his West Baltimore church rectory. He was 86. Born on St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, he was the son of a physician and a rear admiral in the Navy's 3rd Medical District. He was educated in parochial schools in Washington, D.C., and was a 1942 graduate of the Georgetown Preparatory School.

Fashion consultant Nilsa Wheatley, 36, is moving here from Atlanta. To get an idea of Baltimore's fashion scene, the fashion expert headed to the War Memorial Building to catch Baltimore Fashion Week's opening night. Wheatley describes her style as "bohemian with a modern edge," which developed when she returned to her native Virgin Islands after attending design schools in London and New York. "I found my creative voice while living in the islands. It was good to leave New York, where everyone tells you how fashion is supposed to be, and go somewhere where you can find your own voice and be yourself."

Most of the nation returns to daylight-saving time at 2 a.m. tonight, spinning the dial ahead to 3 a.m. Officially, there will be no 2 o'clock hour. Hawaii, most of Arizona and Indiana skip the switch, as do Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The rest of us spend 65 percent of our year on DST, and "noon" comes an hour before the middle of our day.

Paul Harris had 18 points and 11 rebounds, Jonny Flynn scored 18 points and Syracuse beat No. 17 Florida, 89-83, last night in the semifinals of the CBE Classic in Kansas City, Mo. Syracuse (4-0) shot 51 percent from the field and had 19 assists on 31 field goals, taking control with a big run early in the second half. Andy Rautins hit five three-pointers and had 15 points - all in the first half. Arinze Onuaku added 13 points and 12 rebounds, and Kris Joseph had 10 points for the Orange.

Most of the nation returns to daylight-saving time at 2 a.m. tonight, spinning the dial ahead to 3 a.m. Officially, there will be no 2 o'clock hour. Hawaii, most of Arizona and Indiana skip the switch, as do Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The rest of us spend 65 percent of our year on DST, and "noon" comes an hour before the middle of our day.

Hasheem Thabeet and the second-ranked Connecticut Huskies overpowered Miami in the Paradise Jam semifinals last night at Charlotte Amalie in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Thabeet, 7 feet 3, had 19 points on 8-for-11 shooting and added 14 rebounds in 32 minutes in the Huskies' 76-63 victory over the No. 17 Hurricanes. "It's not about me hitting the first shot or the last shot," Thabeet said. "I give credit to my teammates and my coaches for executing the plays." No. 3 Louisville 81, South Alabama 54: : Freshman Samardo Samuels scored 24 to lead the Cardinals (2-0)