A winning lottery ticket worth $50 million was never claimed – and now it’s worthless.
Officials in Florida say the person who bought a quick-pick ticket at a Miami-area food market for the March 12 draw let the 180-day deadline pass yesterday.
“Somebody didn’t get their $50 million,” lottery spokeswoman Sheila Griffin said. “There is no second chance. Too late.”
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A prisoner allegedly trying to escape a felony hearing fell through the roof of a courthouse and into a judge’s chambers.
Ben Rogozensky was being held in an empty jury room in Decatur, Ga., when he asked to used the bathroom, and from there climbed into a crawl space, authorities said.
But it gave way and the barefooted inmate came crashing through the ceiling, landing on the desk of stunned State Court Judge J. Antonio DelCampo.
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In another case of disorder in the court, a spectator was thrown in jail after her cell phone went off as a coldblooded killer was being sentenced.
Judge Markley Dennis first hit murderer Travis Lamont Graham with a life sentence, then turned his attention to phone offender Lashenda Floyd, whom he ordered to spend a night in the slammer in Charleston, S.C.
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Cheerleaders have been banned from wearing their short skirts to class at Elma HS in Washington state, because officials say the skimpy outfits are too distracting.
The move has parents fuming.
“Elma has dropped back to the Dark Ages,” said Kathy Shaw, whose daughter is on the drill team. “They are making our kids feel like they’re not nice girls, when they are.”
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A wife in Germany has been driven out of her bed by a jealous pet monkey.
The 45-year-old woman, whose name is known only as Claudia S, said she could no longer sleep with her husband, Bernd, because the monkey, Buddy, all but threw her out of bed.
“He would pull on my hair. I can’t even get into the bed anymore, as he gets jealous,” Claudia said. She added that she tried locking the beast out, “but that only lasts about an hour before Buddy starts screeching and wakes the whole neighborhood up.”