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Thursday at a summit focusing on Indian child foster care in South Dakota.
• The three-day summit is in response to a 2011 National Public Radio series that said South Dakota routinely broke the Indian Child Welfare Act.
• Under federal law, Native American children removed from homes must be placed with relatives or put in foster care with other Native American families except in unusual circumstances.
• The summit is bringing together federal officials, state and tribal judges and representatives from tribes in South Dakota, Oklahoma, Washington and Minnesota.
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Numbers drawn for $360M Powerball jackpot
BARBARA RODRIGUEZ,Associated Press
• DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- The winning numbers have been drawn for the $360 million Powerball jackpot.
• The winning numbers drawn Wednesday night: 2, 11, 26, 34, 41 and a Powerball of 32.
• The jackpot is considered the third largest in Powerball history and the seventh largest overall. There was no immediate indication whether any tickets matched the winning numbers.
• Lottery officials expect jackpot totals of this size to continue to climb in shorter amounts of time, thanks in part to a game redesign in January 2012 that increased the odds of winning some kind of prize, but also lowered the possible number combinations to win the Powerball.
• There's also "cross-selling" of Powerball and Mega Millions tickets -- states being able to sell both Powerball tickets and Mega Millions tickets -- that began in January 2010. As a result, large jackpots will continue to surpass all-time jackpot records set years ago, said Mary Neubauer, spokeswoman for the Iowa Lottery. Iowa is one of the founding Powerball states.
• "It usually took a handful of months, if not several months, for a jackpot to reach this large amount," she said. "Now it's achieving that within a handful of weeks. I think the redesign is achieving exactly what we had wanted it to achieve, which is the bigger, faster-growing jackpot."
• The redesign means players don't necessarily have to strike big to get lucky. A $1 increase and new $1 million and $2 million prizes means the odds of winning something have increased. Just last Saturday, there was no Powerball jackpot winner, but more than a dozen tickets won $1 million prizes in 10 states.
• In fact, more than half of the all-time jackpot records have been reached in the last three years. The top two all-time jackpots -- $656 million from a Mega Millions (Continued on page 17)
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