Joanna Ramos, a fifth-grade student at Willard Elementary School, died of blunt force trauma to the head six hours after an altercation with a female classmate that lasted less than a minute, said Long Beach Police spokesman Sgt. Rico Fernandez. Authorities have identified the other girl, who is 11, as well as several onlookers, and they are continuing to investigate what happened.

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http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/23/justice/alabama-honeymoon-trial/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

An Alabama judge on Thursday abruptly dismissed the murder case against a man accused in the scuba-diving death of his newlywed wife off Australia's coast. The decision from Judge Tommy Nail came near the end of the second full week of David Gabriel "Gabe" Watson's trial in Birmingham. According to Ken Glass, the judge's judicial assistant, Nail dismissed the case "after the state rested its case against Gabe Watson (and) the defense filed a motion for a judgment of acquittal due to a lack of evidence."

Peoples Pie

It was hard to keep people happy and stay out of debt.

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Lottery sales and transfer.

Fiscal Year	Net Sales	Game Prizes	Transfers to State
1988	$65,804,532	$30,123,006	$11,343,321
1989	$68,188,022	$33,755,427	$24,500,950
1990	$64,530,640	$28,941,942	$19,259,917
1991	$70,206,003	$32,800,224	$19,453,470
1992	$77,147,506	$37,304,320	$27,147,019
1993	$114,499,165	$58,865,299	$32,629,372
1994	$152,292,802	$79,390,419	$47,888,013
1995	$177,074,245	$92,074,812	$53,246,818
1996	$182,113,628	$96,088,069	$58,114,547
1997	$185,356,681	$99,351,785	$56,658,134
1998	$192,017,310	$101,688,863	$60,304,388
1999	$198,920,985	$107,079,089	$59,333,464
2000	$192,560,800	$104,377,074	$59,646,911
2001	$184,727,159	$97,938,088	$56,535,258
2002	$190,083,880	$98,963,631	$60,494,603
2003	$202,942,874	$107,660,534	$62,500,000
2004	$224,457,166	$120,775,874	$70,217,944
2005	$206,720,771	$112,554,879	$65,409,441
2006	$236,045,945	$131,004,556	$67,088,609
2007	$239,955,044	$133,975,947	$71,016,098
2008	$236,667,471	$132,970,457	$70,046,954
2009	$230,505,668	$130,911,165	$68,187,612
Totals	$3,693,080,433	$1,967,789,823	$1,121,022,843

The Kansas Lottery Act requires that a minimum of 45 percent of total sales be paid back to the players through the prize fund. In fiscal year 2009, July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009, the Kansas Lottery paid out 56 percent in prizes. The State Gaming Revenues Fund received 29 percent of ticket sales; cost of sales was 4 percent, which covers online vendor fees, telecommunications costs and instant ticket printing 6 percent was paid to Lottery retailers for commissions and bonuses and 5 percent covered administrative expenses salaries, advertising, depreciation, professional services and other administrative expenses.