A janitor at the Ottawa-Carlton District School board won the top prize in the July 16 Lotto 6/49. Kevin Frost, 39, picked up his $7. 379 million check Thursday. Being persistent finally paid off for Frost, who has been betting on the lottery since he was 18. Frost said he plans use his winnings to pay his mortgage, buy a house and travel to Scotland to play golf.

A two-foot saltwater crocodile wandered in the front door of an Outback watering hole and got an invite from drinkers at the pub. The young croc seemed harmless to the drinkers, so they invited the animal inside at the Noonamah Tavern on Sunday where they taped its mouth and took pictures of them holding it, before placing it a box.

A birthday party invitation posted on the popular social websites Facebook and Bebo attracted some 400 guests and gatecrashers, who destroyed and robbed the plush celebration venue in Spain. The birthday celebrator, British 16-year-old Jodie Hudson, and her mother Amanda learned too late the disaster the online invitation would cause to their luxurious Marbella vacation villa, which suffered ruined walls, destroyed carpets, and broken banisters, doors and furniture.

Monster Cable Products has filed suit against a chain of glow-in-the-dark mini golf courses, alleging Monster Mini Golf infringes upon their trademark. Monster Cable says the mini-golf chain could be confused with the maker of high-end cabling for high-definition television and other electronics.

Authorities at a woman's house discovered a black python that they said might have been in the residence for two months, without the woman's knowledge. Officers from animal control received the report from the woman, who had been living in her apartment for two months, was watching television when the snake slithered out from behind the set.