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• If the changes are approved by a rules committee, the starting jackpot would increase from $12 million to $15 million and jackpots would grow by at least $5 million after each drawing without a winner.
• Lottery executive director Norm Lingle says players who match the first five numbers but miss the Mega Ball will win $1 million, up from $250,000.
• Players will choose five white ball numbers from a pool of 75, up from 56, and one Mega Ball number from a pool of 15, down from 46.
• The result will be odds of 1-in-15 to win any prize and 1-in-259 million to win the jackpot.
• The changes would take effect Oct. 22.
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Early morning house fire in Sioux Falls kills 1
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- An early morning house fire in Sioux Falls has killed a mother of four children.
• Authorities say the blaze in the one-story house was reported about 1:40 a.m. Wednesday. The 40-year-old woman who died was the only one inside, as her children were staying elsewhere for the night. The mother's name was not immediately identified. Her children range in age from 5 to 17.
• The cause of the fire was not immediately determined. Fire officials say the house was heavily damaged.
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AP News in Brief
Death toll in violence in Egypt between police, ex-president's supporters rises to 421
• CAIRO (AP) -- An Egyptian Health Ministry spokesman has further raised the death toll from the previous day's clashes between police and supporters of the country's ousted president to 421.
• The spokesman, Khaled el-Khateeb, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the number of injured in the previous day's violence has also risen to 3,572.
• He says the ministry was in the process of updating the latest figures and that an even higher death toll was likely.
• Wednesday's violence began when police moved to clear two sit-in camps in Cairo by supporters of Mohammed Morsi, ousted in a military coup on July 3. The clashes there later spread to elsewhere in Cairo and a string of other cities.
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