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No one is complaining about a $100,000 mistake made by a southern New Jersey store clerk.
His name is Lucky, and it held true after the box turtle got his front legs chewed off by a raccoon: Thanks to the ingenuity of a veterinary surgeon, Lucky now skids along on plastic sliders where his legs used to be.
A 2-year-old yellow Labrador mix is recovering at a Kansas City shelter after being shot four times. And workers at Wayside Waifs have dubbed him Bullet. Waifs spokeswoman Ashlee Parker said Bullet was found several weeks ago in Caldwell County, shot once in the head, once in each front shoulder and once in the neck.
A 62-year-old man struck it big twice in the Georgia Lottery. Earl Fritz won the top prize of $777,777 in the instant game Super Lucky 7's. That dwarfed the $1,000 he won a week earlier in a different game. The carpenter said he felt lucky a week ago and now feels a little bit luckier.
This great horned owl is one lucky, or unlucky, bird — depending how you look at it. A fish hook got stuck on her wing in a Burnsville lake in 2007, but she was rescued, treated, and released. Then on Thursday, a sports utility vehicle hit her on Highway 169 and she got stuck in its grill.
Just in time for Mother's Day, a mother duck has been reunited with two of her babies who fell into a storm drain in Manchester, N.H.
Brenda Bailey is on a roll. Since September, the 59-year-old South Charleston woman has won five West Virginia Lottery cash prizes, totaling $167,600. All of Bailey's winnings came from the Lottery's instant games. Her latest win is her biggest — the $100,000 top prize in the Price is Right game.
Jack Lohrke, a major league infielder in the 1940s and 1950s who drew the nickname "Lucky" after several early brushes with death, died Wednesday. He was 85.
A North Carolina man has a knack for picking the winning number for Virginia Lottery drawings. The lottery said Wednesday that Steve Granger of Henderson, N.C., won $90,800 in Sunday night's Pick 4 drawing by playing the same number combination, 5-1-1-7, on 20 tickets.
Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff is a lucky charm for one New York City construction worker. Queens resident Ralph Amendolaro said he saw Madoff's prison number in a newspaper and had a good feeling so he played the last three digits of it in the state lottery's Numbers game. It hit March 15, paying $1,500.
Ignoring his friends has paid off big for a New York man.
A broken windshield on her son's car turned out to be a lucky break for an upstate New York house cleaner. State lottery officials introduced 55-year-old Pamela Fitch of Mechanicville as the person who won $1 million on a Big Bucks instant ticket bought on Jan. 8 at a Stewarts Shops convenience store in Saratoga County.
A Hampton man has won the Virginia Lottery's Cash 5 top prize of $100,000, and won it, and won it. Lottery officials said the man won $1.1 million after playing the same numbers on 11 tickets for the same drawing. Each winning ticket gives the man $100,000.
Shaun Ellis' son enjoyed watching the big defensive end spin and twist his way into the end zone, maybe saving the New York Jets' season in the process.
Talk about being lucky — a north Alabama man is alive after being run over by a train on Thursday afternoon. Huntsville Fire and Rescue officials said a train engineer spotted 61-year-old Arnold Romine lying across railroad ties. Witnesses said the conductor sounded the horn and tried to stop the train.
Director Mike Leigh has a knack for putting relatively unknown British actresses into Academy Awards contention, as he did with "Secrets & Lies" and "Vera Drake."
A Spanish couple got to Madrid's airport three minutes late, but it kept them off a doomed flight.
For over a year, Zhao Gang and Liu Rui had hoped to get married at 8:08 a.m. on China's auspicious triple-eight date Friday. Problem was, so did more than 16,000 other Beijing couples.
It may not be as big as 7-7-7, but thousands of couples are heading down the aisle Friday, hoping the date Aug. 8, 2008, brings them luck and an easy to remember anniversary date.
They call this koala bear "lucky." The 3-year-old male koala was struck by a car and carried for seven miles with his head and arm wedged through the vehicle's front grill, but was not badly hurt.
For Ed Warren, becoming mayor of the Australian Outback town of Winton was the luck of the draw from a trash can.
A 38-year-old waiter from Putnam County has won big in a scratch off lottery game, making him the third county resident in the past month to snag a lottery prize of $1 million or more and the fourth resident this year.
U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, already a millionaire and heir to the Kimberly-Clark fortune, is on a lucky streak. The Republican hit it big in 1997 with a $250,000 jackpot in the District of Columbia lottery. Then, last spring, he won $1,000 prize in the Wisconsin lottery, and he won another $1,000 in that lottery last week.
Rhiannon Barnes may be the luckiest 15-month-old ever. Or maybe her baby sitter is the fortunate one. While playing with a thrift store book bought earlier in the day for 25 cents, Rhiannon uncovered $1,300 in cash stuck between the pages. Her baby sitter Sheila Laughridge said she only bought the book at Rhiannon's insistence and was surprised when the toddler found a brown paper bag full of $100s, $50s, $20s and $10s.
World's oldest sheep, Lucky, dies in Australia at 23The world's oldest sheep has died in Australia at the age of 23 - twice the normal life expectancy - after succumbing to a record heatwave. Lucky hit the Guinness record in 2007 and was a celebrity in her hometown of Lake Bolac, near Melbourne.
One-in-a-billion shot injures Missouri motoristKANSAS CITY, Mo. — Need proof we live in a pinball world? Lisa Long was driving through Cass County farm country last week when somebody — maybe a mile or more away — pulled the trigger on a high-powered rifle. (See Lisa Long's picture here.)
Flying Car CrashesThrough RoofAn Australian couple woke up in the early hours to the sight of a vehicle - passenger still in it - poking through their bungalow roof. More Articles
NJ subway train rolls over man, who escapes unhurtOfficials say a man who appeared to be drunk fell onto train tracks at a New Jersey subway station just before a train ran over him — and he walked away unharmed.
Man sleeps soundly through house firePITTSBURGH - A suburban Pittsburgh man slept soundly as his home caught on fire and partially collapsed. It wasn't until firefighters did a walk-through of the home more than two hours later that he woke up.
Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn A decade ago, I set out to investigate luck. I wanted to examine the impact on people's lives of chance opportunities, lucky breaks and being in the right place at the right time.
Dog rescuer hopes to save Lucky by selling items on e-BayLore Anne Brown didn't know what was holding up traffic as she approached 71st Avenue and Indian School Road on August 19, all she knew is she was running 20-minutes late for work. As she got closer she thought maybe there was an accident. Then she saw him.
Lucky duckling takes a step in the right directionA duck who faced being put down after fracturing a leg has been given a new lease of life thanks to a specially-made sandal.
Who's A Pretty Lucky Boy? Budgie Is Saved From Sea A PET budgie's Great Escape almost came to a soggy end after it decided to leave England and fly south to sunnier climes.
Kitten Survives Being Thrown Out Of Truck Now she's down to eight lives. An eight-week-old black and white kitten earned the name Lucky today after she was tossed out of a pickup truck on Staten Island, got trapped in the wheel well of the car directly behind -- and lived to meow another day.
Cat Falls 26 Stories, Lives to Purr Again - 'Lucky' Plunges From New York Apartment Ledge, Escapes With Minor Injury (Video)Do cats always land on their feet? The unbelievable tale of a cat named Lucky -- who fell 26 stories and survived -- doesn't quite prove the myth but it comes pretty close.
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Ky-Bracken deputy fends off would-be attacker"My 'Marine' kicked in. I was not going to let him hurt me. He is lucky he didn't raise that wrench; I don't get paid to back up," Rumford said.
Sea gives up lost denturesExcerpt: PHILLIP Worth may be a bit long in the tooth to believe in Long John Silver's gold but you could forgive him for believing in the tooth fairy.
Lottery Sells Out Of 1549 After Crash Hours after US Airways Flight 1549 made an emergency landing in the Hudson River, the lottery number 1549 sold out in Connecticut.
House Explodes, then Residents Flee :: VideoEight people escaped injury and an inferno when they fled a Kernersville, N.C., home that exploded. More Articles
Woman Kidnapped, Bound With Duct TapeVideo: A Knoxville, Tenn., kidnap victim speaks out about her attack.
Celebrity Moms Who Adopted - Family & Parenting - Your Life - MSN LifestyleIt's interesting the way you defined Madonna taking her adoptive son "to her home". She didn't "take him home" as you described with the other adopted children. Interesting. Think about your thought process.
Father, Autistic Son Rescued After More Than 12 hrs Treading in the Atlantic - CNN.comA father and son who tread water for more than 12 hours in the Atlantic Ocean before being rescued spent much of the time in the dark seas not knowing if the other was alive, authorities said Monday.
Hiding in the wood line we wait. AK47s at the ready listening for the familiar sound of Humvee engines and the crunching of rocks underneath tires as the convoy approaches. Looking for the tell tale dust cloud heading in our directions.
Church rejects $600,000 in lottery winningsThe chances of winning the lottery rely on a lot of prayer and the immutable laws of statistics, but one such lucky soul bagged a jackpot, and couldn't even give the winnings away.
NYC girl survives 180-foot fall down chimneyNEW YORK—A 12-year-old girl is relatively unscathed after falling 180 feet down a New York City chimney. Authorities say a 2-foot pile of soot and dust cushioned her fall, though both her legs were broken.
Man throws away winning $65 million lottery ticketHere's a guy who figured out how to be both the luckiest and unluckiest man on the face of the earth at the same time.
Toddler Survives on Cat Food After Mom DiesSACRAMENTO -- Sacramento police say a 2-year-old boy survived on cat food for up to six days after his mother died. A social worker heard the toddler crying while making a visit to check on the family Thursday morning.
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