CORRECTIONS.Byline: The Register-Guard Page One: A story on page A1 Friday contained incorrect information. The chance of matching five of six numbers in the Oregon Lottery's Megabucks A lot of money! game is .000000489, or about one in 2 million. There have been about 605 Megabucks drawings in the past five years. Before May 2001, Megabucks drawings were held only twice a week. Also, the odds of getting four diamonds, four hearts, two clubs and three spades is greater than getting a hand of 13 hearts while playing bridge. Business: In a story on page C9 about Smith & Wesson Smith & Wesson U.S. gun manufacturer. The company has its roots in an 1852 partnership between Horace Smith (1808–93) and Daniel B. Wesson (1825–1906), who designed and marketed a lever-action, repeating magazine handgun that held a self-contained cartridge. introducing its biggest handgun, The Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. erroneously er·ro·ne·ous adj. Containing or derived from error; mistaken: erroneous conclusions. [Middle English, from Latin err reported the last name and title for an official quoted from the Violence Policy Center. The official was Tom Diaz Tom Diaz is a senior policy analyst at the Violence Policy Center and is one of the more prominent advocates for a strict system of federal gun control in the United States. , not Ortiz, and his title is senior policy adviser, not executive director. News sources or readers who see errors in The Register-Guard are encouraged to call 485-1234 and ask for the News Department. |
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