Iowa
No Powerball jackpot winner
None of the tickets sold for the Powerball game Wednesday night matched all six numbers drawn in Des Moines.
Players matching all five numbers and the Powerball would have won or shared the $16 million jackpot.
The prize goes to an estimated $21 million for Saturday.
Tickets that match the first five numbers, but miss the Powerball, win $100,000 each, and there were two of those. They were sold in: Nebraska, South Dakota.
Colorado
Prosecutor facing disbarment for deception
A Colorado Springs prosecutor admitted posing as a public defender to help deputies capture an ax murderer, even though he knew it might violate ethical codes.
Chief Deputy Dist. Atty. Mark Pautler told a three-judge disciplinary panel Wednesday that he wanted to "take a killer off the streets."
Defense lawyers want Pautler disbarred, saying he shouldn't have deceived death row inmate William "Cody" Neal.
"The notion that if the crime is bad enough, government lawyers are entitled to lie is a flawed one," said Jeffrey Pagliuca, who called for suspension of Pautler's license.
Pautler, 58, is accused of violating attorney rules of professional conduct by introducing himself as a public defender when he persuaded Neal to surrender on July 8, 1998.
Neal, 44, later pleaded guilty to killing three women with an ax and was given three death penalty sentences. He also confessed to raping a fourth woman and forcing her to watch one of the murders.
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