LINCOLN, NEBRASKA (June 26, 2023) — Lauren Anne Plumley of Geneseo, Illinois, has been named to the Deans' List at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for the spring semester of the 2022-23 academic year.

Plumley, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering, was named to the Dean's List for the College of Engineering.

More than 6,400 students at Nebraska were named to the Deans' List for the spring semester.

UNIVERSITY, MISSISSIPPI (June 26, 2023) — Elizabeth Howard of Muscatine, Iowa, is among the more than 3,100 students who earned their degrees from the University of Mississippi in May 2023.

Howard, who majored in Mathematics, received a Bachelor of Arts from the College of Liberal Arts.

BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS (June 26, 2023) — Illinois Wesleyan University's Dean's List for the spring semester of the 2022-23 academic year consisted of 731 students from 30 states and 29 countries. To qualify for the Dean's List, students must earn a GPA of 3.50 or better during the semester, based on 4.0 for straight As.

The following local students made the list:

Heather Dietrich of Geneseo, Illinois, a senior majoring in Nursing

CLIVE, IOWA (June 26, 2023) — Three big lottery prizes all were won this weekend in Iowa. The first was a $1 million Mega Millions® prize in that game’s Friday drawing, followed by an InstaPlay jackpot of nearly $400,000 and a Powerball® prize of $2 million, both won on Saturday.

The winning streak demonstrates the random nature of lottery games, and the key detail emphasized by the Iowa Lottery: You never know when or where the next big winner will hit.