On a sunny Saturday morning, the mood inside Bond Funeral Home was gray, with dark clouds of emotion brimming with electricity.

DES MOINES, Iowa — It’s all about the odds. With four out of every five possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone is almost sure to have won the game’s highest jackpot after Saturday night’s drawing, a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars — and that’s after taxes.

Who knew Butter could bring Nathan Fahlin relief from the anxiety and anger that plagued him after his deployment to Iraq?

A SPECIAL SPEAKER First lady Michelle Obama has some advice for some Nashville, Tenn., high school graduates: Strike your own path in college and life — and work to overcome inevitable failures with determination and grit.

DAMASCUS, Va. — As many as 60 people were injured Saturday when a driver described by witnesses as an elderly man drove his car into a group of hikers marching in a parade in a small Virginia mountain town.

SPOKANE, Wash. — Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin.

MALMO, Sweden — Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest Saturday with her ethno-inspired fl ute and drum tune “Only Teardrops,” despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine.

CAIRO — The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-graders. A team of Islamist lawyers with long beards sang in unison a chant for the Prophet Muhammad.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis toured St. Peter’s Square to greet tens of thousands of people attending a rally of prayer, music and speeches Saturday, and he embraced the brother of a Pakistani politician who was assassinated in his country after calling for greater religious freedom for Christians there.

FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Officials described a scene of shattered cars where two commuter-packed trains collided in Connecticut, saying Saturday that it is fortunate that no one was killed and that there weren’t even more injuries.

With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its contentious membership policy should be overhauled so that openly gay boys can participate in Scout units.

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — A simple test could have alerted offi cials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch’s brew of cancer-causing chemicals.

GRANDE RIVIERE, Trinidad — Giant leatherback turtles, some weighing half as much as a small car, drag themselves out of the ocean and up the sloping shore on the northeastern coast of Trinidad while villagers await, wearing dimmed headlamps in the dark.