One government official is fighting to cancel a reality television show featuring a terminally ill patient charged with picking the most deserving contestant to receive her kidney. The "Big Donor Show," is planned to air this Friday. One member of Dutch parliament is protesting the show. But advocates for the show say that it is meant to draw attention to the shortage of donated organs and the long lines for them.

A couple who decided to pick up the roadside trash because they grew tired of seeing it lying there for long time, found a winning scratch-off lottery ticket. The Clinton County couple, Ronnie and Tina Abbott, found the lottery ticket worth only $15 on Sunday while picking up garbage near Frankfort, about 55 miles northwest of Indianapolis.

An Iowa man was on cloud nine when he discovered that he's the "idiot" who hasn't claimed an $800,000 Powerball lottery prize. According to Iowa Lottery staffers, Ed O'Neill of Clinton had purchased the ticket for a Jan. 6 Powerball drawing but didn't think it necessary to check the results until a co-worker pointed out an article in the local newspaper which mentioned of a person who had failed to claim a hefty Powerball lottery prize. O'Neill, 58, who works for the Clinton Chamber of Commerce, said he was talking to a receptionist at the Chamber who cursorily showed him an article saying, "'Read this article about the idiot that hasn't claimed his ticket. '"

A 15-month-old child proved lucky for her baby sitter when she discovered $1,300 in cash stuck between a thrift store book bought earlier that day for $0. 25 cents. Rhiannon Barnes' baby sitter Sheila Laughridge says it was the toddler who wanted her to buy the book and was stunned when the kid found a brown paper bag full of $100s, $50s, $20s and $10s.

An airline pilot from Maplewood got twice lucky this weekend when he won a $25,000 lottery jackpot - two days in a row. According to Minnesota Lottery officials, Raymond Snouffer Jr. first matched the numbers of Saturday's Northstar Cash with odds of about 170,000 to 1. The lottery ticket numbers that made him an exclusive winner were 11-14-23-26-31.