The Daily Populous

A view of the Lawn of the campus of University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

When the Charlottesville protests erupted two weekends ago, ESPN executives -- for better or worse -- wondered if there might be an issue on their hands.

They were worried that his big moment, even on a lightly watched game, might turn into a national joke. »

A former lottery worker was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Tuesday for rigging the system in several states so he could collect the jackpots.

He admitted to rigging computer codes to produce winning numbers -- netting Tipton and his accomplices millions of dollars.

The Tiptons' friend Rhodes, who also lives in Texas, was the one who attempted to redeem the $14.3 million jackpot. »

“Not one drop of Poland Spring Water emanates from a water source that complies with the Food and Drug Administration definition of ‘spring water,'” the lawsuit states.

And, it goes on: “the famous Poland Spring in Poland Spring, Maine, which defendant’s labels claim is a source of Poland Spring Water, ran dry nearly 50 years ago.”.

“Had he known that Poland Spring Water was ordinary groundwater,” the complaint says, “he would have consumed lower cost bottled water products or filtered tap water.”. »

A Berlin school finished building a 1.8-meter (5-feet-11-inch) fence to keep street prostitutes out of its campus, local media reported on Tuesday.

"There were always complaints about unscrupulous characters including prostitutes walking shamelessly and illegally into school grounds even during the day," the district school inspector Carsten Spallek told the daily Berliner Zeitung.

City officials spent 57,000 euros ($67,000) to build a fence to keep such characters off school grounds, rival daily B.Z and national tabloid Bild later reported. »