Swedish teenager shoplifts winning lottery ticket, but won't get the payoff
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The old saying that crime doesn't pay seems especially true for a teenager who allegedly stole a lottery ticket but was forced to hand it over after discovering it contained the jackpot win.
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The inflatable cartoon character was returned yesterday, and police say that the person who brought it back attributed to theft to a teenage prank.
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A would-be German thief went from predator to victim when he tried to mug a taxi driver but ended up having his own wallet snatched instead.
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By Katherine Rosenberg, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.  Feb. 10--VICTORVILLE -- It was a gamble all around -- for both a woman carrying a large Las Vegas jackpot in her purse, and for the gas station attendants who later stole her winnings.
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(CBS/AP) When Debi and Steve Cifelli heard they&#39;d won California&#39;s $27 million lottery jackpot, their first reaction was what you might expect.
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A teenager bagged more than he bargained for when he bought a PlayStation game console on the Internet auction website eBay, discovering about 65,400 euros (90,200 dollars) in cash in his delivery.
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Thieves who broke into a delivery truck in a parking lot in south-western Sweden made off with about 150 000 pairs - or about three tons - of low-cost reading glasses, reports said on Wednesday.
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OSLO, Norway - Confronting a grocery store with its promise to pay shoppers a bonus if they found any products with expired freshness dates, two enterprising teens turned a 7,000 kroner ($1,030) profit by loading up shopping carts with out-of-date beer they weren't old enough to buy.    The boys, ages 14 and 15, got their reward despite being underage, the Oslo daily Verdens Gang reported Tuesday...
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There was one winning ticket for the $314.3 million Powerball lottery prize, and it was sold in this city on the Indiana-Ohio state line, lottery officials said Sunday.
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A Georgia truck driver stepped forward Wednesday to claim half of a $390 million jackpot, the richest lottery prize in U.S. history. "I'm going to do a lot of fishing," Ed Nabors, 52, of Rocky Face, Ga., about 90 miles north of Atlanta, said in a deep Southern drawl. The other winning ticket in Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing was sold at a liquor store in New Jersey, and the holder did not immediately come forward.
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Tesco agrees to pay the cash to a woman who was told her winning Lottery ticket was invalid.
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More chance of winning the Lottery than collecting
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Two German teenagers robbed a girl but  accidentally left their own pictures behind for police on a  discarded mobile phone.
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CLEVELAND -- Ever since she claimed to lose a winning lottery ticket, Elecia Battle's reputation has been on the ropes.
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A group of Canadian co-workers will finally receive C$5.75 million ($5.75 million) in prize money, three years after their winning lottery ticket was allegedly stolen and cashed in by a retailer.
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BLACKSTONE, Massachusetts - A man who retrieved a $1 million lottery ticket from the trash reached a settlement with the family of the man who claimed he accidentally threw it away.  Edward St.
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HOLTSVILLE, N.Y. - If money could buy happiness, these thieves would be overjoyed. They stole the ATM.  Packs of thieves have been swiping the cash machines from drugstores and mom-and-pop shops around Suffolk County, most recently before dawn Friday.