State News-Thursday, August 3rd

CORNWALL, Pa. (AP) - Queen Elizabeth -- the first, that is --got it in the face yesterday at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire in Cornwall, about 25 miles east of Harrisburg. The temperature there reached 96 degrees in the shade before noon. The queen, portrayed by actress Catherine Simmons, kept her royal composure when one youngster sprayed her face with water in the broiling heat. Reacting in character, she told him: "Blast your wondrous brains, you are glorious!" The children were visiting from a summer day camp in Wilmington, Delaware. Renaissance Faire officials had expected more than five-thousand children to attend Summer Youth Day, a one-day event for children's groups before the fair opens to the general public on August 12th. Some organizations, though, canceled or brought smaller groups because of the heat.

HELLERTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Nearly three dozen New York-area children were treated for heat-related injuries after a trip to Dorney Park in Allentown. William Wales with the Hellertown police department says the kids were returning home from a trip to the amusement park yesterday when a caravan of eight buses pulled over and called for help. The the air conditioning on one bus had gone out. Temperatures were in the 90s. Wales describes the scene as "pretty chaotic." He says about 13 of the youngersters were unconscious, lying along the side ofthe road. Wales says several E-M-S departments were called. He says, "Kids were gasping for air" and the eyes of some were rolling back in their heads. Some were crying, others had apparent asthma attacks. About 35 children were treated at hospitals. Their injures were believed to be non-life threatening.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Powerball prize goes to an estimated 204 million for Saturday. None of the tickets sold for last night's game matched all six numbers drawn. They were: 10-13-16-19-and-24. The Powerball was 15. Players matching all five numbers and the Powerball would have won or shared a 179-point-eight million dollar jackpot. Tickets that match the first five numbers, but miss the Powerball, win 200-thousand dollars each. There were 17 of those, including two each in Indiana and Missouri and one in West Virginia, but none in Kentucky. There were Power Play Match Five winners in Washington, D.C., Iowa and North Carolina. Powerball is played in Pennsylvania and 27 other states, as well as the District of Columbia and the U-S Virgin Islands.