I might start doing this with scratchers, just in case one ever hits:  A husband in Missouri bought a lottery ticket, only scratched off the bar code to scan it, and found out it hit for $100,000.  But then he didn’t tell his wife, and left it for HER to scratch off.  So she got the full experience of hitting the jackpot……. One year ago, a guy in New Jersey named Jim Alturo decided he’d help clean up his town by walking around and picking up cigarette butts people tossed on the ground . . . and he ended up with over 24,000 of them. The exact count was 24,185.  And for each one, he decided to donate a penny to the American Lung Association.  So that’s $241.85.  He says he knows it’s not a significant amount of money, but “every penny helps.” And finally……………..

A woman in New York named Dennise Gomez just got to meet retired NYPD officers Eric Ocasio and Charles Claudio, who, in 1996, pulled her from a burning car as a kid. It was an emotional day, because they found out SHE’S now a cop too.  She told a reporter, “I want to do what they did for me.” To everyone’s surprise, NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban presented Gomez with Ocasio’s same shield number.