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When you win a huge jackpot in the lottery in order to get your winnings you must hold up a big check and get interviewed by local news stations.

Ronnie Martin just got a whole lot richer, thanks to his fortune cookie. Martin used numbers from a fortune cookie to win the cash in July’s massive $543 million Powerball drawing according to a press release. He drives from his home in Pennsylvania to work in New Jersey every day, and he usually stops at the […]

Craigory Burch Jr., 20, who won $434,272 in Georgia lottery’s Fantasy 5, died in a daring home invasion.

Earlier this year a young woman’s life changed forever after she won the power ball worth a whopping $188M. Five months later she has been charged with having a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia in her home. FOX 8 reports: WWAY reported that Brunswick County Sheriff’s deputies have cited 26-year-old Marie Holmes with possession […]

Pennsylvania native Joseph Amorese’s get-well card turned into the most epic present ever! According to People.com: Amorese won $7 million from a scratch-off lottery ticket included in a get well card from his father, reports ABC News. The newly crowned “Greatest Dad Ever” gave his son the note with the winning Golden Ticket scratch card inside […]

MONTICELLO, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York county of 76,000 people has gotten its second $100 million-plus Mega Millions jackpot winner in three months. Real estate agent Tammy Pratt of South Fallsburg in Sullivan County was introduced Wednesday as the sole winner of the $126 million Mega Millions jackpot drawn Feb. 27. Pratt was […]

Although African Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, we account for 33 percent of the missing in the Federal Bureau of…