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Shop owner sells himself $1.8 million lotto ticket

BELLE VERNON, Pa

A western Pennsylvania shop owner sold himself a $1.8M Pennsylvania lottery ticket and will get an extra $10,000 as the seller of the ticket.

Ron Rea owns Tobacco World stores in Uniontown and Belle Vernon and bought the winning ticket for the Nov. 18 Match 6 Lotto drawing at the Belle Vernon outlet.

Rea says he doesn’t play the lottery’s Daily Number but spends about $20 a day on tickets for games with higher odds, telling the Herald-Standard of Uniontown that’s because, “If you hit, your life’s changed.”

Rea’s ticket was worth $1,782,432. A lottery spokeswoman confirmed Rea’s claim to the winning ticket.

Rea is 68 and says the winnings will help he and his wife of 38 years, Rita, build their retirement funds.

Police: Pa. woman hurt in wayward cow attack

LANCASTER, Pa.

The cow just wouldn’t moooooooove.

Police say a central Pennsylvania woman had to be taken to a hospital after she was knocked down by a cow she tried to shoo off the road.

Southern Regional Police say the woman encountered a cow standing in the road Tuesday night in Conestoga Township, Lancaster County.

Fearing the cow would be struck by another motorist, Officer Dianne Carter says the woman stopped her car and tried to herd the cow off the road.

But Carter told the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era the cow turned on the good Samaritan, head-butting her in the abdomen and knocking her down a hill.

The woman was transported to a hospital with head, neck and arm pain, but Carter said she was expected to be fine.

J-E-L-L-Uh-Oh: Gelatin, pudding cups spill in Iowa

RUDD, Iowa

Northern Iowa authorities said they’ve cleaned up a slippery mess after a tipped semitrailer spilled Jell-O and pudding cups across a county road.

The Floyd County sheriff’s office says 52 pallets of gelatin and pudding fell from the trailer when its top ripped open near Rudd early Tuesday. It took crews three hours to clean up the debris.

The sheriff’s office said 39-year-old semitrailer driver Eric Young of Charleston, S.C., wasn’t able to make a turn and went into the ditch where the rig rolled onto its side.

Young and 32-year-old passenger Martin Brandon, of Bridgeport, Conn., suffered minor injuries.

The Globe-Gazette reported that damage to the semitrailer is estimated at $50,000.

Associated Press