A woman in Virginia said she’s still in shock after winning $1 million in a lottery drawing twice in the same day.
Virginia Fike, of Berryville, said she picked up the two Powerball tickets a few weeks ago at an area truck stop, and actually made a mistake in the process. Instead of buying one ticket for Powerball and MegaMillions, she purchased two Powerball tickets with the same set of numbers: 5-13-17-20-30.
“I picked numbers based on my parents’ anniversary and their ages at that time, divided by the year they were married,” Fike told lottery officials. “I just love the jackpot games, and I play when I can afford it.”
After the winning Powerball numbers were drawn on April 7, Fike said she was sitting in a hospital room, keeping her mother company when they saw news that there were two $1 million winners.

Source: RTV6 News – Indianapolis

Police say a man wanted for assault was driving too fast, and hit a landscaping rock, sending the vehicle flying onto a rooftop early Wednesday morning.The airborne driver broke his leg when he jumped from the house. Read More…

An Odessite dressed as the Star Wars villain visited the mayor’s office this week to claim a free land plot citing Ukrainian legislation which grants every citizen the right to own 1,000 square meters of land.

His visit followed a decision by city authorities to grant attractive land plots along the sea coast to a group of people for free, prompting public concerns about corruption, according to local media.

The mayor’s office has since said the move was a mistake but has not yet canceled it, according to local news website Dumskaya.net.

“I am Darth Vader, the right hand of Emperor Palpatine,” the man introduced himself to amused policemen, as seen in a video posted on YouTube (here) and accompanied by the Imperial March music.

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Don Johnson of Bensalem, Pennsylvania sure does and over the past six months he was able to clown three major Atlantic City casinos to the tune of $15 million playing high stakes blackjack card games.

At the Tropicana Casino this April, he was allowed to play $100,000 per hand, and just 12 hours later the casino was down $5,800,000. Last December he took Caesars Atlantic City to the cleaners for $4,230,000. Between December and April he chipped away at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa for $4,900,000.

He is responsible for the first time in the 25 year long history of legalized gambling in Atlantic City for putting a casino in the red for the entire month. The CEO of Tropicana Casino was subsequently fired for allowing a known shark to play at $100,000 per hand.

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This is one of those things that happens time and time again & just makes you shake your head.

Via WISH-TV:

VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) – Authorities say a reserve police officer accidentally shot himself in the leg while unloading his gun outside a northwestern Indiana church where he was picking up his son.

Valparaiso police said 29-year-old Daniel Glickauf’s femer was shattered in the shooting, but no one else was hurt.

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So it’s Halloween, you’re in from out-of-state and you decide to grab grandpa’s Depends and go out trick-or-treating. And you’re pushing 50 years old as well.  If that’s not enough, you decide, hey, I should do this while I’m drunk.

Via the AP…

OCEAN CITY, Md. – Maryland State Police said a drunken 47-year-old Florida man wearing a diaper was arrested for shouting profanities while trick-or-treating. Police said Joseph David DiVanna of Sarasota, Fla., was arrested about 9:15 p.m. Sunday and charged with disorderly conduct.

Police said witnesses reported DiVanna cursed at adults and children in the Fox Chapel neighborhood of West Ocean City as he tried to get them to give him candy.

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There’s nothing like a good superhero fight in a public parking garage, now is there?

Via the AP…

STAMFORD, Conn. – It is assault charges for Spider-Man and Captain America, and breach of peace for Poison Ivy. Police in Connecticut said a man dressed as Captain America and another as Spider-Man have been arrested after getting into a fight in Stamford over the Halloween weekend.

Stamford Police Lt. Elizabeth Erickson said officers found 25-year-old Michael Sanchez, dressed as Captain America, beating the father of 21-year-old Vincent DeCarlo, sporting a Spider-Man costume, in a parking garage Sunday morning.

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By making gold investing as easy as buying a candy bar from a vending machine, GOLD to go hopes to attract average buyers to the gold market.

Source: CNN Money

While women have quickly snapped into the increasing lines of shapewear, trebling sales in the past decade according to the market research NPD Group, Gavin Jones realized men wanted more than a male girdle or “mirdle” to trim the beer gut if they were to upgrade from their boxers or cotton briefs with fancy waistband.

In partnership with an American friend and former investment banker Corie Chung, Jones spent about a year and about $1.4 million of his own money researching and developing a new product line that was more mainstream than the compression wear around and came with health benefits.

Source: Reuters