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.

Do you want to increase your chances of winning the lottery in Britain? Then you should strongly consider moving in the southern part of the country.

Figures released by the U.K. lottery showed that areas in the south have the highest percentage of winning.

Villagers in the remote town of Koh Sireh in Thailand believe that a banana tree is capable of predicting the winning numbers in lottery. People from as far as Phattalung, Phang Nga and Krabi, Thailand have been trooping to the village to pay visit and respect to the banana tree.

Some were hoping to be given the winning numbers of the lottery, while some are paying respect, claiming that the tree gave them fortune by giving them winning numbers.

New Jersey police got a call from a frantic man stuck in a garbage truck Thursday. Police reached him just as the truck was about to compact its load.

The man said he was looking for returnable bottles in garbage cans when he accidentally fell asleep in one of them. The truck picked him up and he awoke amongst the trash.