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An Illinois woman won $1 million from a lottery ticket that she bought at the supermarket — and which she had forgotten about entirely.

Debbie Bury recently won big while waiting in the oncology unit at Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park -- just after doctors told her they had found three tumors on her brain, WCCO reported.

The basketball gods seem to have a vendetta against the Sparks.

"When I won, it felt like it was a message from her."

The Nets — rebuilding and stuck in the lottery positions — shouldn’t need a wake-up call. But Friday’s loss to the Sixers should serve as one.

PHOENIX — After the Nets started this road trip the worst way possible, they have a chance to end it better than anybody could’ve imagined Wednesday in Phoenix. And get this, Nets fans: That’s a good thing. There’s a subset of Brooklyn fans...

A US Army vet and retired police detective who said that the California lottery was taking too long to pay out his jaw-dropping $44.3 million jackpot has finally claimed his winnings after months of waiting — and has a plan for the prize.

The winning tickets were sold out of the Chevron gas station on Ventura Blvd in Encino, Ca.

The Nets won the game. Many will fret it’s helping lose them the war. Or the lottery.

How do you start Ben Simmons with another non-shooter?

Kevin Durant was incredible to watch. And Nets fans are hoping whoever they land in the lottery will be as well.

Friday’s Mega Millions drawing is worth an estimated $1.15 billion, evoking headlines and likely luring more people to convenience stores with dreams of private spacewalks above the earth.

Bill Belichick never had to be concerned about “tanking” with the Patriots and he’d like to see the NFL make a simple rule change.

"Life changed from there. Growing up, I was so young, I had no understanding of the lottery or money... and how unique it was to happen to us."

The perturbed technician turned his fury into opportunity when he visited Doc's F&B Liquors in Glen Burnie later that day and played the rude driver's license plate number.

Make no mistake, the decimated Nets played hard throughout a 112-111 overtime loss to the equally shorthanded Jazz before 18,175 at the Delta Center on Sunday

The Nets’ game Tuesday night at Portland will have plenty of lottery ramifications. And they’re going into it shorthanded.

PORTLAND, Ore — The Nets steamrolled lottery rival Portland 132-114 in a wire-to-wire rout Tuesday night at Moda Center, their most lopsided victory of the season. Was it Pyrrhic? Possibly. Was it sweet? Certainly. Cameron Johnson drives to the...

Shocking video shows a mugger violently attacking an 83-year-old woman just after she collected cash from a lottery win.

In Ziaire Williams, the rebuilding Nets took a flier on a former lottery pick as a salary dump.