Nearly 80,000 people have signed up for 2016, spurred in part by the threat of a large tax penalty.

But a long-ago music student who became a composer recalls that Lucie McNulty of Wells, found dead after two years, taught music with zeal and got good results.

Police made several previous well-being checks but didn’t enter the home until numerous factors – her unpaid taxes, returned mail and disconnected phone – gave them sufficient cause.

Typical government revenue from a Powerball drawing is $30,000, but the last total was about $725,000, and another mini-windfall is likely Wednesday.

Roux, 29, was profoundly affected when he lost his father to 9/11 and, for him, the flag ladies and their supporters represented the opposite of his own worldview.

A judge finds insufficient evidence that James Roux III, whose father died in the Sept. 11 attacks, intimidated the women.