(UPI) A Maryland Lottery player said following a friend's advice led to her winning a $30,000 prize from a Fast Play game.

The St. Mary's County woman, nicknamed Kitty Cat, told Maryland Lottery officials she has been ...Read More

(UPI) A message in a bottle tossed into an Ontario lake as part of a school project was found by a student at the same school 26 years later.

Makenzie Van Eyk was a fourth grade student at St. John the Baptist Catholic ...Read More

(UPI) A book is back at a Massachusetts library after being returned to another facility 51 years past its due date.

The Worcester Public Library said its only copy of The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley was due back May ...Read More

(UPI) The side of a Nebraska highway was littered with hundreds of boxes of energy drinks after a semi truck overturned and wound up in a ditch.

Officer Mike Bossman, a spokesman for the Omaha Police Department, said on ...Read More

(UPI) A traveler at New York's LaGuardia Airport captured video when a raccoon descended from the ceiling and caused chaos at a terminal.

The video, posted to X by user Ahmad Anonimis, shows the raccoon dangling from a ...Read More

(UPI) A rare U.S. dime missing its mint mark was auctioned for $506,250, nearly 30 times the amount it sold for 46 years earlier.

GreatCollections, which handled the auction of the "1975 No S Proof Dime," said the coin ...Read More