ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

RI man hits $180K jackpot 1 day after son wins $1K

CRANSTON, R.I.

Perhaps there’s luck in their genes.

A man from East Providence has claimed more than $180,000 in lottery winnings, a day after his son won $1,000 in a different game.

Rhode Island Lottery officials say the man claimed the $180,599 jackpot July 2 from the Wild Money game’s June 30 night drawing. He was accompanied to lottery headquarters in Cranston by his wife and son, who had just won $1,000 of his own on an instant ticket June 29.

Lottery officials didn’t release the winner’s name. The winner says he wants to take his wife of 35 years on a vacation, but he’s not sure how else he’ll spend the money.

He bought the ticket at an East Providence convenience store.

Monkey seen? Officials search for missing macaque in NC

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.

Searchers trying to find an 8-pound monkey that escaped more than a week ago are playing sounds of a baby monkey to try to recapture the wayward animal.

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center spokesman Chad Campbell told the Winston- Salem Journal that someone reported seeing the monkey in southwestern Forsyth County on Friday. But crews didn’t see the animal when they arrived. This particular type of monkey, called a macaque, escaped from the Wake Forest University Primate Center.

Campbell says searchers have set up humane traps and are playing baby monkey calls to lure the animal. Officials hope the monkey will respond to the calls because she is a breeding animal used in research.

The 16-year-old macaque is from Indonesia and has been in captivity since 2008.

Thieves bust through wall to steal bags of hair extensions

CHICAGO

Three thieves battered through a wall, crawled close to the floor to dodge motion detectors and stole six duffel bags filled with human hair extensions from a Chicago beauty supply store.

The Chicago Tribune reported Saturday that the extensions were worth $230,000.

Store owner Don Shin says the criminals took his best merchandise. He thinks the culprits will try to sell the extensions on the street or to salons. The thieves broke through a wall from an attached empty storefront about 2 a.m. Saturday.

Extensions can be made from artificial or human hair. They are used in salons to add length and volume to a hairstyle.

Shin says the thieves didn’t take any of “the cheap stuff” and “knew what they were doing.”

Associated Press