(UPI) A New York man bought a lottery ticket while visiting a friend in Massachusetts and won a $1 million top prize.

The Massachusetts State Lottery said Corona resident Jose Carrasco was visiting a friend in Massachusetts when he stopped at the American Food Markets store in Mattapan.

Carrasco bought a $100X Cash scratch-off ticket and ended...Read more

(UPI) A California man discovered he has been mistakenly paying his neighbor's power bill for up to 18 years.

Ken Wilson, who has lived in the same apartment since 2006, said he recently noticed his Pacific Gas and Electric bill was going up, so he took steps to try to reduce his energy usage.

He reached out to PG&E when his bill failed to...Read more

(UPI) Firefighters helped a California driver remove an unusual obstruction clogging up their engine: a stowaway marmot.

The El Dorado County Fire Protection District said on social media that a resident brought her vehicle to the station on Pollock Pines to seek help removing an animal from under the hood of her car.

The creature turned out ...Read more

(UPI) Animal rescuers in England came to the assistance of a hungry fox that went searching for food and ended up with its head stuck in a plastic container.

Secret World Wildlife Rescue said on social media that its response team was called out to help a fox that "had managed to get its head stuck in a container whilst curiously looking for ...Read more

(UPI) A Connecticut man shared video of his close encounter with a black bear he found lurking in a garage.

Andrew Hart of Hart Curb Appeal LLC said he was at a work site in Bloomfield when he encountered the unexpected garage guest.

Security camera footage shows Hart walking up the driveway toward the garage when the bear suddenly pokes its ...Read more

(UPI) Animal rescuers in Arizona are encouraging responsible sporting behavior after a badger was rescued from a soccer net that had been left out overnight.

The Tucson Wildlife Center said rescuers were called out recently to help a badger that had become entangled in a soccer goal net.

"Badgers are nocturnal, that means they come out at ...Read more

(UPI) David Rush appeared on TV series Live with Kelly and Mark and broke his own Guinness World Record by punching 600 balloons in one minute.

Rush, who recently set the record at 327 balloons, set up 630 balloons on the set of the ABC talk show and managed to burst 600 of them with his boxing gloves in the allotted time.

A Guinness World ...Read more

(UPI) An Ohio man had plenty of reasons to celebrate when he won a $500,000 lottery prize while celebrating his 40th birthday.

The Ohio Lottery said the Findlay man bought a $10 Mega Multiplier scratch-off ticket from the Speedway on Tiffin Avenue in Findlay while celebrating his 40th birthday.

The ticket turned out to be a $500,000 winner.

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(UPI) An African snake is being cared for by authorities in Connecticut after apparently being abandoned in a reservoir area.

Burlington & Canton Animal Control said on social media that a Metropolitan District of Connecticut Police officer found the snake at the Nepaug Reservoir, off Route 202 in Canton.

The snake is believed to have been...Read more

(UPI) Officials in an Ohio city said they do not believe there is an alligator on the loose at a local park after a reported sighting set off two days of searching.

The City of Beavercreek said local police received a report Sunday about a "potential alligator sighting" at Dominick Lofino Park.

The teenage witness snapped photos of the ...Read more

(UPI) A Michigan lottery club used old cans to win the $1 million Mega Millions prize.

The group had been playing the lottery some three decades, and members funded their gambling habit with the spare change they earned from can recycling.

"Shortly after the drawing, I remembered I hadn't checked our Mega Millions ticket yet, so I pulled the ...Read more

(UPI) The second set of critically endangered cotton-top tamarin triplets to be born this year at Walt Disney World this year have arrived, park officials announced Saturday.

The three tiny primates were born at Animal Kingdom's Discovery Island on Saturday and are bonding with their parents and siblings, a Disney World spokesperson told UPI.

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(UPI) A Michigan woman said a "strong feeling" led to her winning a $264,963 progressive jackpot from an online lottery game.

The 60-year-old Kent County woman told Michigan Lottery officials she occasionally uses the lottery app to play online games.

"I play games on the Michigan Lottery app every now and again," the player said. That ...Read more