Student meal program continues

FAIRMONT — The local student meal program will continue each week until further notice.

Full-week meal packages (five breakfasts and five lunches) will be delivered Monday of each week beginning Monday.

A new drop-off list is in effect. Times and locations have changed:

9 a.m. Ceylon; 9:30-9:55 a.m. St. Paul Lutheran, Lincoln Park, Gomsrud Park; 10-10:25 a.m. Veterans Park, Winnebago ball diamonds, Bowlmor Lanes; 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Fairmont Elementary School (door 1), Fairmont High School (horseshoe).

Suspect sought in home invasion

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities have identified the man killed in an apparent home invasion in Minneapolis.

Gregory Turner, 52, was shot in the chest Monday evening at a duplex. Police said Thursday they are still looking for the shooter.

Authorities say another person was assaulted in the home, but was not taken to the hospital.

Investigators believe the shooting involved people who knew each other.

The Star Tribune reports a neighbor called 911 after seeing a woman running from the home, then hearing a gunshot inside the duplex.

Virus could cut lottery jackpots

DES MOINES (AP) — Hoping to escape all the coronavirus-caused economic uncertainty by winning a giant lottery jackpot?

Think again. Those jackpots are going to shrink as the pandemic tamps down lottery sales.

The group that oversees the Powerball game announced Wednesday night that it would cut minimum jackpots in half, from $40 million to $20 million, after there is a winner of the current big prize. The jackpot also could grow more slowly, with minimum increases of $2 million instead of the normal $10 million after each twice-weekly drawing.

“Powerball players in many U.S. lottery jurisdictions are under shelter-in-place orders or recommendations from their governors or mayors, which have affected normal consumer behaviors,” said Gregory Mineo, the director of the Maine lottery and chairman of the Powerball Product Group. “Just like other enterprises around the world that are making adjustments, we are making proactive changes to continue to offer the world’s premier lottery product.”

The other national lottery game in the United States, Mega Millions, is considering a similar move.