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Herald Sun
A YOUNG struggling farmer won one of the biggest jackpots in US lottery history after buying the ticket in a town called Winner.
Neal Wanless, wearing a black cowboy hat and a huge grin, accepted his giant-sized Powerball cheque of $289 million at a ceremony on Friday.
Mr Wanless, who is 23, single and lives with his parents on the family's 130ha farm in South Dakota, said he was going to buy himself a bigger spread, repay the kindness other townspeople had shown his family and spend his newfound fortune... |
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Canwest News Service
Vacation time is when you get to appreciate the beauty of sunsets and sunrises. Here are some of the best places to worship the sun's movements. |
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AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
MADRID - A 25-year-old Spanish woman who won a record 126 million euros (172 million dollars) in the Euro Millions lottery only learned of her good luck days later after spending the weekend bed-ridden with the flu, officials said Tuesday. |
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USA Today
BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut (AP) — A Connecticut family has been saved from a house fire by a new bride who rushed inside through thick smoke while wearing her wedding gown.
Officials say Georgette Clemons had just left her wedding reception Sunday evening when... |
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One kidney donated to stranger leads to 10 'pay it forward' transplants; and it's still going
By LINDA A. JOHNSON Associated Press Writer
When Matthew Jones decided to donate a kidney to a stranger, the Michigan father of five had no idea he'd be starting a lifesaving, "pay it forward" chain. His kidney donation to a Phoenix woman in 2007 set off a long-running organ swap that resulted in 10 sick people getting new kidneys over a year. It hasn't ended yet.
This chain of living donors and others like it could help increase the number of kidney transplants, lead to better matches that will increase survival and even reduce spending on costly, long-term dialysis, says the Ohio doctor behind the effort. |
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By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Optimists live longer, healthier lives than pessimists, U.S. researchers said on Thursday in a study that may give pessimists one more reason to grumble.
Researchers at University of Pittsburgh looked at rates of death and chronic health conditions among participants of the Women's Health Initiative study, which has followed more than 100,000 women ages 50 and over since 1994.
Women who were optimistic -- those who expect good rather than bad things to happen -- were 14 percent less likely to die from any cause than pessimists and 30 percent less likely to die from heart disease after eight years of follow up in the study.
Optimists also were also less likely to have... |
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Wildlife News
Courtesy Wildlife Management Pro
A couple from Montana were out riding on the range, he with his rifle and she (fortunately) with her camera. Their dogs always followed them, but on this occasion a mountain lion decided that he wanted to stalk the dogs (you’ll see the dogs in the background watching). This turned out to be a very bad decision for the cat.
The hunter got off the mule with his rifle and decided to... |
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 By Associated Press
STACEY PLAISANCE
Updated: 9/13/2007
NEW ORLEANS
Harry Connick Jr. walked through the Bourbon Street jazz club where he performed as a child, saying repeatedly how amazed he is that so little has changed.
''It's exactly the same,'' the singer-pianist said Wednesday at the Maison Bourbon, where more than 30 years ago he performed on piano with the Dixieland jazz band. ''I remember the smell of Irish coffee in here. That's what people liked to drink in here back then.''
Connick was elated to see the painting of a group of musicians marching through the French Quarter still hanging on the wall. He said he has a deep appreciation for much of what has remained intact in New Orleans since Katrina struck on Aug. 29, 2005, flooding 80 percent of... READ MORE |
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 Kids who volunteer with Kids Against Hunger learn that no matter how young they may be, they can make a difference. They help to create and distribute nutrition-packed meals for hungry children all over the world.
Richard Proudfit, a Minnesota businessman, founded the organization after traveling to Honduras on a hurricane relief mission where he witnessed widespread starvation. He came back home determined to do something. Since then, he and his volunteers have delivered... READ MORE |
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 By Associated Press
Updated: 7/30/2007
HAMLIN, PA.
Lightning can strike twice. Just ask Don Frick.
Frick said he survived his second lightning strike Friday — 27 years to the day of his first — and emerged a bit shaken with only a burned zipper and a hole in the back of his jeans.
''I'm lucky I'm alive,'' Frick told The Associated Press in a phone interview... READ MORE
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 By Associated Press
Updated: 7/23/2007
MASONVILLE, COLO.
Zoey is a Chihuahua, but when a rattlesnake lunged at her owners' 1-year-old grandson, she was a real bulldog.
Booker West was splashing his hands in a birdbath in his grandparents' northern Colorado back yard when the snake slithered up to the toddler... READ MORE |
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