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Lottery Winner Shares Winnings With Waitresses

Newly minted Canadian millionaire Jorma Hogbacka made good this week on an old promise to share his $14.8 million lottery win with a group...
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Lottery Windfall for Education in Virgina

The lottery has been funding education in Virginia for 8 years -- this year, $455 million in profits going to the public schools. Now,...
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Church Inspired By Anonymous Donation of $3Million Lottery Ticket (w/ Video)

A Long Island church has $3 million more dollars in its coffers after a donation from an anonymous parishioner. The secret donor dropped the...
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Ga. Trucker Claims Half of $390 Million Lottery

A Georgia trucker who lives with his mother is $80 million richer (after taxes) now that he has won the lottery. Ed Nabors, 52,...
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Man Wins on Lottery Ticket Given as Wedding Gift, Donates all to Dance Company

Andreas Schmitz, a German man, received a lottery ticket as a wedding gift. It turned out to be a winner, worth a million Deutsch...

Man Wins Lottery and Gives it all to Charity

A Canadian man who won $1 million in a lottery for charity plans to give it all back. “I bought a ticket for $100,...

These Tiny Snails Are Breeding in the Wild for the First Time in 40 Years in French Polynesia

A global conservation effort to reintroduce a tiny snail to the wild is celebrating a momentous milestone, as for the first time in 40...

Hoard of 1,000-yo Coins Unearthed in Farmer’s Field Nets Millions for Metal Detecting Friends–and Treasure for UK

The largest coin hoard ever found from the period of turmoil immediately following the Norman Conquest has been bought by the British government on...

One in Three Americans Believe They Have a Way to Strike it Rich: New Poll

One in three Americans believe they have an idea they think could one day make them wealthy, according to new poll. From writing the next...

Your Weekly Horoscope – ‘Free Will Astrology’ From Rob Brezsny

Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to...

Families in Tiny Texas Town Have Adopted 77 Hard-to-Adopt Kids Inspired By Their Baptist Church Leaders

On the 4th of July, over 2,000 theaters across America ran the film adaptation of the incredible true story from a small town in...

75-year-old Woman Wins $5 Million Scratch-off After Beating Breast Cancer

A great-grandmother in Pennsylvania recently won $5 million playing scratch lottery cards, and the timing couldn't be better. Having just successfully beat breast cancer days...

Group Wants Colorado Kids to Save the Bees This Summer–Giving Out 100,000 Free Packets of Wildflower Seeds

Next Monday is the start of National Pollinator Awareness Week, and one Colorado advocacy group is hosting a flower planting drive to rewild Colorado's...

Couple in Their 80s Have Fostered More Than 150 Children–No Plans to Stop Accepting Babies

English couple Margaret Isdale and her husband Robert decided to welcome a teenage girl into their home for foster care back in 1978. Now almost...

Quadruplets Who Beat the Odds at Birth Are About to Turn 18 and Be Apart for First Time

Identical quadruplets who beat all the odds just even being born are now turning 18, and are about to be apart from their sisters...

Pony-Sized Dinosaurs Swam or Floated Across Hundreds of Miles of Ocean from America to Colonize Africa

Describing a "once-in-a-million year event," an international team of paleontologists has suggested that, though nearly impossible, a herd of pony-sized duck-billed dinosaurs must have...

Student Nurse Had to Couch Surf–But She Just Won a $5M Home in London

A 49-year-old recently had to live with friends so she could afford to continue her studies when her rent rose. But she's just won the...

Good News in History, November 26

12 years ago today, the Mars Science Laboratory launched from Earth carrying the Curiosity Rover with the objectives including the investigation of Mars' habitability,...

Young Woman Has ‘Fairytale’ Experience After Spotting Rare White Deer

A university student was out on a fishing trip with her dad when they saw three deer emerge from the woods. Not the most...

After 6 Months Searching for New Doctor, Small Town’s Viral Video was ‘Just What the Doctor Ordered’

For six months, the retiring small town doctor searched for his replacement, with no luck. But a new General Practitioner is now on the...