The gang tunnelled into the vault from a dress shop next door and stole upwards of half a million quid, and the beauty of the job was that loads of it was dirty loot anyway: nicked or withheld from the taxman, so the boxes' shifty owners had to stay schtum.

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Time to invest a buck? Lottery pots growing

Players matching all five numbers and the Powerball would have won or shared the $153.3 million jackpot. The prize goes to an estimated $173 million for Wednesday. There was one winning Powerball ticket sold in Arizona, with four of the five numbers drawn plus the Powerball. That ticket is worth $10,000. Similarly, Wednesday's The Pick jackpot is estimated to grow to over $11 million, because none of the tickets sold for Saturday's game matched all six numbers drawn. Those numbers were: 16, 42, 33, 44, 3, 28 .

Fort Lewis MPs find stolen handgun, 'suspicious device'

FORT LEWIS, Wash. (AP) - Military police at Fort Lewis have arrested a man after finding a handgun and a "suspicious device" in his car after making a routine traffic stop in one of the post's training areas.The arrest was made about 1 a.m. Friday.In the car, the MPs found a pistol that had been reported stolen, and in the trunk, a "tape-wrapped object about the size of a deck of playing cards wired to a garage door opener."The MPs called out soldiers from an explosive ordnance disposal unit, who rendered the device safe by about 7 a.m.A spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said he didn't know whether the device proved to be a bomb.A U.S. Army news release says the man, who was not immediately identified, was arrested for outstanding warrants and was being held at Fort Lewis.The news release says MPs "have no indication that the suspect intended to target Fort Lewis personnel." .

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The trip not only highlights his country's growing influence on its Arab neighbor in the post-Saddam Hussein era, but it also serves as an act of defiance toward the U.S., which accuses Iran of training and giving weapons to Shiite extremists in Iraq.

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