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California Lottery Director Alva Johnson announces that Edwin Castro won November's record-high $2.04 billion PowerBall jackpot on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, in Sacramento, Calif. Castro declined to appear at the news conference but said in a written statement he was shocked and ecstatic. The jackpot ticket was sold at Joe's Service Center in Altadena, an unincorporated foothill community northeast of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Adam Beam)

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Winner of California's $2B lottery gets largest U.S. jackpot
By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press
Tue,02/14/23-11:42AM , 160 Reads
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The winner of the largest U.S. lottery jackpot in history is a former student in the California public school system who wants to mostly stay out of the spotlight.
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This 2005 image provided by landscape and garden designer Deborah Silver shows a moon garden she designed and planted at the Cranbrook Educational Community museum complex in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.(Deborah Silver via AP)

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Moon gardens: Designed to shine when bathed in moonlight
By JESSICA DAMIANO - Associated Press
Tue,02/14/23-8:13AM , 227 Reads
Planning this year's garden? My guess is you’re envisioning plants bathed in daylight.
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How climate change can impact your finances
By SPENCER TIERNEY OF NERDWALLET
Tue,02/14/23-7:37AM , 113 Reads
Kristy Jiayi Xu got an unwelcome surprise this New Year’s Eve: The roof of her garage was leaking during a severe rainstorm in San Francisco. Delays in getting a contractor to fix the roof has brought unexpected costs to keep things dry, including a dehumidifier.
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Bella Whitice talks with classmate Katherine McCormick as they try and outwit the "robot" that was creating writing assignments in Donnie Piercey's class at Stonewall Elementary in Lexington, Ky., Monday, Feb. 6, 2023.The robot was the new artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT which can generate everything from essays and haikus to term papers in a matter of seconds. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

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Amid ChatGPT outcry, some teachers are inviting AI to class
By JOCELYN GECKER - AP Education Writer
Tue,02/14/23-6:05AM , 456 Reads
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Under the fluorescent lights of a fifth grade classroom in Lexington, Kentucky, Donnie Piercey instructed his 23 students to try and outwit the “robot” that was churning out writing assignments.
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