Most car people aren’t huge fans of cops writing a lot of tickets. Maybe that’s because more than a few of us have paid out the nose for speeding a time or two (or five). But it’s different when you see them dishing out penalties to drivers camping in the left lane, forcing everyone to […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One Kansas City woman is starting the new year right after winning $50,000 off a Powerball ticket. According to the Missouri Lottery, the winner didn’t realize she had been carrying around the winning ticket for nearly a month. She told the Missouri Lottery she bought the ticket on Dec. 4, 2023, […]
A gas station in northern Illinois recently sold a winning $1 million lottery ticket. The Illinois Lottery said the player bought the winning ticket at a Marathon gas station, located at 115 W. Dundee Road in Arlington Heights, Illinois, which is nearly 70 miles southeast of Rockford. The winning ticket matched all six numbers, 16-32-40-42-44-45, […]
Michael Morgan and his wife sat down for dinner with two lottery scratch-off tickets in hand. They wouldn’t be eating. Morgan had bought the two $10 tickets earlier and gave one to his wife to scratch-off as he worked on the other, he told North Carolina Lottery officials in a Jan. 9 news release. As […]
A Maryland woman checking headlines on her phone noticed a Powerball ticket sold at a Hyattsville gas station had won $1 million, the Maryland Lottery reported. “I bought tickets at the Green Meadow Exxon in Hyattsville,” the woman, a public safety worker, said. “I said, ‘Maybe it is me.’” A quick check of her tickets […]
A Myrtle Beach man stopped for a lottery ticket on his way to a car wash and wound up winning big, South Carolina Education Lottery officials said. While waiting in line, he scratched the 5 Spot game to reveal a $200,000 prize, officials said in a Jan. 5 news release. He purchased the ticket from […]
When you speed around a corner and notice a police car sitting in a nearby parking lot, your first instinct might be to tap your brakes to slow down. But it could be too late. The cop already clocked you driving faster than the posted speed limit and is prepared to give you a ticket. […]
The couple began their journey to London at Brisbane airport.TK Kurikawa / Shutterstock.com An Australian couple faced a huge last-minute expense over a name discrepancy on a ticket. The husband bought a ticket for his wife “Kate” instead of “Katherine,” the name in her passport. The couple had to pay more than $3,000 before they could […]
No Labels, the centrist political group planning to offer a bipartisan “unity ticket” for the 2024 presidential election, may not actually have a Democrat on its ticket, one of its top leaders said in a video recording of a recent event that was obtained by HuffPost. “One of the things we’ve also gotten asked about […]
CARLSBAD, Calif. — Legoland California is celebrating its 25th birthday this year with a limited time deal. Between Jan. 8 and March 10, the theme park is offering up to four kid tickets at $25 each with the purchase of a single adult ticket. A regular one-day Legoland online ticket normally costs around $104. The […]
A husband in Washington, D.C., got an early start on his Christmas shopping — and it paid off in a big way. Pamela V.’s husband bought her a Powerball ticket for the Dec. 2 drawing and held onto it until Christmas Day, when he gave it to her as a gift, according to a Jan. […]
If you bought a Powerball ticket back in July when the jackpot soared to $1 billion but forgot about it, you might want to locate your ticket. The Kentucky Lottery is searching for the owner of an unclaimed ticket worth $1 million. What’s more, the deadline to claim the ticket is coming up. After that […]