Ben Hooper
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Illinois man's birthday present wins him a $1M lottery prize - UPI.com (opens the original)
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Sept. 4 (UPI) -- An Illinois man won a $1 million lottery jackpot from a ticket he received as a gift from a friend at his birthday party. The Bradwood man told Illinois Lottery officials his wife threw him a big party for his birthday, and during the event a friend handed him an envelope with several lottery tickets inside. "I never would've imagined actually winning," the man said. One ticket, for the Aug. 8 Lotto Million 2 drawing, wound up scoring a $1 million prize by matching the numbers 1
Look: Firefighters rescue cat stranded on roof of Connecticut home - UPI.com (opens the original)
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Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Firefighters climbed to the top of a Connecticut home to rescue a curious cat that went exploring and wound up stranded on the roof. The Berlin Volunteer Fire Department said its Truck 9 crew responded Wednesday to a report of a cat stranded on the roof of a home. "Members were able to safely remove the feline from a ledge near the roofline and she happily returned to the indoors," the post said. The cat's owner said the feline had apparently managed to climb out through an open
Mustang captured after two months on the loose in Maryland - UPI.com (opens the original)
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Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Authorities in Maryland said a mustang on the loose for over two months has finally been captured and taken to a rescue facility. The untamed horse, now known as Outlaw, escaped from its former owner's property in late June and has been spotted running loose near Liberty Reservoir in Carroll County on multiple occasions. Carroll County Animal Control said officers worked together with Gentle Giants Horse Rescue and JR Raulerson, a professional horse expert, to organize Thursday'
Watch: Large, aggressive lizard wrangled in Mass. parking lot - UPI.com (opens the original)
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Sept. 4 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts animal control officer responding to a report of an exotic lizard in a parking lot ended up wrangling a large, aggressive mangrove monitor. Burlington Police Animal Control said on social media that "what started as a report of a lizard in a Burlington parking lot turned into the safe capture of a mangrove monitor." Jamie Jeffrey, Burlington's animal control officer, arrived on the scene to find the mangrove monitor, a species native to Australia, New Guinea and
Watch: Deer spends time in Florida home's bathroom, swims in the pool - UPI.com (opens the original)
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Sept. 4 (UPI) -- A large deer found its way inside a Florida home and spent some time in the bathroom before taking a plunge into the backyard pool. The St. Johns County Sheriff's Office shared a video to social media showing the buck deputies discovered when they arrived at the home Aug. 23. The video shows the deer looking back at deputies from next to the toilet inside the home. The deputies and home residents rearranged some furniture inside the home to create a path for the buck to make its
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