Jackpot grows to estimated $640 million

DES MOINES, Iowa>> A giant Mega Millions jackpot grew larger Wednesday to an estimated $640 million after another drawing without a winner.

No one won the lottery game’s top prize Tuesday night, making it 21 straight drawings without anyone matching all six numbers. The next drawing will be Friday night.

The reason for all the big prizes is simple — long odds ensure there are few winners and the long streaks of lottery futility allow jackpots to grow ever larger week after week.

The odds of winning a Mega Millions jackpot is one in 302.6 million.

Mega Millions is played in 45 states including Colorado, as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

— The Associated Press

Suspect in deadly shooting turns self in to police

A 22-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting a man at Berkeley Lake Park turned himself in to police Wednesday.

Miguel Piria, 22, knew the man he is suspected of shooting Monday afternoon, Denver police said in a news release.

Police received a call at 3:15 p.m. Monday about a man who was shot in Berkeley Lake Park in the parking lot behind the Smiley Branch Library on West 46th Avenue, according to Piria’s arrest affidavit. The man was placed in a car and driven from the area, the caller said.

While officers investigated the shooting in the park, they received a call about a gunshot victim found near East Andrews Drive and North Dillon Street. Officers who responded to the area and found a man unconscious and bleeding from the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene, and detectives later identified him as the man shot in the park.

A man was in the car with Piria and the victim immediately before the shooting, according to the arrest affidavit.

— Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post