(UPI) A North Carolina man won a $837,187 lottery jackpot after his sister had a dream that he encountered riches.

"In her dream I found a bunch of gold," David Atwell of Kannapolis told NC Education Lottery. I guess dreams do come true.

Atwell bought the winning $1 Cash 5 ticket at Jiffy Quick in Kannapolis.

"I was stunned," he said. ...Read more

(UPI) A miniature horse in South Carolina broke a world record for longest tail on a miniature horse with locks measuring 5 feet, 11.26 inches.

The horse, named Sweetie, stands 3 feet, 1 inch tall and is 36 years old. Her owner, Risa Formisano, told Guinness World Records she wraps up Sweety's tail to keep it from dragging behind her. She also ...Read more

(UPI) Four zebras got loose from their trailer on the highway in North Bend, which is near Seattle. Three were captured -- two with assistance from rodeo professionals -- but one remains missing.

Trooper Rick Johnson, public information officer for Washington State Patrol District 2, posted photos of the zebras on X on Sunday.

He wrote, "This ...Read more

(UPI) A woman in Annapolis, Md., won $229,680 from a Fast Play lottery ticket she purchased from a vending machine.

"This is real!" she said.

The woman has chosen to be anonymous and go by the name "Faithful Grandmother" to describe her winnings at the Maryland Lottery Headquarters in Baltimore.

"Faithful Grandmother" picked up lottery ...Read more

(UPI) A Ghana man studying forestry in Alabama set a world record for most trees hugged in an hour when he hugged 1,123 trees at Tuskegee National Forest.

Abubakar Tahiru, 29, became interested in nature conservation while growing up in a farming community in Tepa, Ghana. He is pursuing a master's degree in forestry at Auburn University.

The ...Read more

(UPI) Sometimes winning a six-figure lottery ticket is about being at the right place at the right time, as a South Carolina man found out earlier this month, collecting $200,000 in a scratch-off game.

The Lowcountry man told South Carolina Education Lottery officials he was in line at the Happy Liquor Store, in North Charleston, S.C., when he ...Read more

(UPI) An anonymous Maryland woman won a $50,000 Powerball prize after her boyfriend encouraged her to play lottery games.

"He always says, 'Just play. It's only a couple of bucks,'" the winner told Maryland Lottery.

The woman, dubbed "Olney Winner" because of the area in Maryland, bought the $10 quick-pick winning ticket at Weis Markets in ...Read more

(UPI) A Nigerian woman broke a world record for the longest interviewing marathon after hosting 90 people over 55 hours, 24 seconds.

Clara Chizoba Kronborg hosts a talk show on YouTube called "Women's World Show." She beat the previous record holder, Rob Oliver, who had a time of 37 hours, 44 minutes in 2022.

The interview marathon included ...Read more

(UPI) A wildlife rescuer in South Carolina came to the rescue of an alligator found to have been trapped in a drainage pipe for nearly six months.

Matt Kraycar of K&K Wildlife Services said he was summoned by Port Royal Plantation security in Hilton Head when the gator was spotted trapped underneath a grate.

Kraycar said the alligator ...Read more

(UPI) Firefighters called in a search and rescue team for help recovering a poodle who found himself trapped under the kitchen in a home "of non-standard construction."

The Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said in a news release that the 3-year-old poodle, named Jock, was trapped underground when crews arrived.

Firefighters did not ...Read more

(UPI) Three cows escaped from their farm in Kansas and led police on a chase "for quite a while."

The Shawnee Police Department posted photos to Facebook showing the three cows evading officers this week in Shawnee.

"This trio booked it for quite awhile near Midland and Maurer Road before finally hoofing it back home with the help of our ...Read more

(UPI) A British man ran a distance of one mile through the water in a swimming pool in an attempt to break a Guinness World Record.

Adam Lopez, 37, ran 63 laps in the 82-foot pool at Nuffield Health in Norwich, England, on Tuesday with a time of 35 minutes and 24 seconds.

Lopez bested the current Guinness World Record by four and a half ...Read more

(UPI) An Oregon Lottery Raffle ticket worth $1 million spent weeks stored in a Tupperware container with a Portland woman's other lottery tickets before the Powerball jackpot reminded her to check them.

Leslie Carr, 52, told Oregon Lottery officials she brought the stack of tickets from her Tupperware container to the Fred Meyer store in Happy ...Read more

(UPI) A 10-foot alligator wandered onto an Air Force base in Florida and parked itself on the runway, right under the wheels of a plane.

The MacDill Air Force Base in Hillsborough County posted photos to Facebook showing the gator that made its way to the runway on Monday and crawled between the wheels of a plane's landing gear.

The Florida ...Read more

(UPI) The 9-year-old winner of a European seagull imitating contest has an origin story worthy of a Marvel hero after being bitten by a seagull.

Derbyshire, England, boy Cooper Wallace, aka Seagull Boy, wore full seagull regalia when he showed off his skills at the European Championship Gull Screeching event in De Panne, Belgium.

Wallace took ...Read more

(UPI) A financial advice website is seeking someone who has never seen a single Star Wars movie to watch every film in the Skywalker saga and make $1,000 in the process.

FinanceBuzz announced it is celebrating the upcoming Star Wars Day -- aka May the Fourth -- by paying someone $1,000 to watch all nine of the Skywalker saga films.

"We're ...Read more

(UPI) Firefighters in England came to the rescue of a deer that spent the night caught in a soccer net in a water-filled ditch.

The Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue Service said on social media that personnel were summoned to the ditch near the soccer field in Wisbech St. Mary on a report of a deer in distress.

"Members of the public met the ...Read more

(UPI) Animal rescuers in Virginia facilitated a family reunion for a family of curious ducklings who became separated from their mother when they wandered into a hotel.

Richmond Animal Care and Control said in a Facebook post that the ducklings wandered through the automatic doors at the Marriott Hotel on 14th and Cary streets in Richmond.

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(UPI) A Virginia woman won $1 million from a Powerball ticket her son gave her because he was leaving on a vacation.

Maria Roldan of Vienna told Virginia Lottery officials her son gave her the Powerball ticket he bought from the 7-Eleven on Gallows Road in Dunn Loring because he was leaving for a vacation and wouldn't be around for the drawing....Read more

(UPI) Medical experts in Australia are pleading with snake bite victims to stop bringing the offending serpents with them to the hospital.

Dr. Adam Michael, director of emergency medicine at Bundaberg Hospital in Queensland, said a suspected snake bite victim came in earlier this month with a highly venomous eastern brown snake in a poorly ...Read more