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I stop at the convenience store nearly every day.  Usually just to grab a cup of coffee, a quick in and out trip.  All too often this short trip is disrupted by some annoying person, completely oblivious to how they are totally screwing up your day from the start.

Did you happen to buy a Powerball ticket in the Twin Cities yesterday? Check your numbers, because the Minnesota State Lottery is saying a ticket with Wednesday's winning numbers was  purchased in Dakota County. This means that somebody has won the $228.9 million dollar prize that comes along with it.

For about $35, couples in England who are having trouble conceiving can purchase a lottery ticket that could win them customized fertility treatments in one of the nation's top clinics. Britain's Gambling Commission approved of this bizarre game late last month. As of now, the tickets can be purchased online, but they may soon also be available at newsstands.

Tyrone Curry doesn't have to wake up at 4 a.m. and mop the floors at Evergreen High School in Seattle. Not after the custodian won the Washington State lottery to the tune of $3.41 million five years ago.

Doing your taxes is a pain, and many people put off their preparation until right before the mid-April filing date. Chicago man Irving Przyborski is certainly grateful he got a bit of a jump on his 2010 taxes . That's because when Przyborski went into his tax files last week, he found a lottery ticket he had bought almost a year before among the paperwork. When Przyborski checked the numbers, he