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News-Herald
Aptly named NYC lottery player wins $1 million scratch-off prize
A New York woman named Francine Fortune is living up to her name. Fortune, a Brooklyn resident, is a top prize winner of the New York Lottery’s 50Xtra scratch-off game, the New York State Lottery said in a press release on Tuesday. She scratched off the box worth $1 million, and she took home a lump sum payment of $416,325 after all required withholdings were collected.
The Staten Island Advance
Check your tickets: Staten Island and Queens Powerball lottery players take home $50,000 each
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — One lucky lottery player purchased a Powerball ticket worth $50,000 on Staten Island. Announced Saturday night, the lottery player bought their third-place prize ticket at the Mannix Family Market at 2656 Hylan Blvd. in New Dorp. It is not immediately clear who the lucky winner...
Vice
The Alligators-in-the-Sewer Myth Is Real, and Florida Has the Video to Prove It
New York has the legend. Florida has the actual alligator. A public works crew in Oviedo, Florida, sent a camera-equipped robot into a stormwater pipe to figure out why a stretch of road kept developing sinkholes. What they found, staring back at the camera, was a 5-foot-long American alligator. The...