Sept. 29 (UPI) -- A North Carolina woman bought a lottery ticket and ended up winning a $162,826 jackpot one day before her 68th birthday.

Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Four people created a sham university and then fraudulently obtained millions of dollars in federal financial aid for their own use, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.

Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Animal rescuers in Wyoming are trying to find the owner of a 2 1/2-foot ball python found curled up in a resident's garage.

Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Security cameras at a toy store in Brazil were recording when a stray dog wandered into the business and attempted to steal a teddy bear.

Sept. 29 (UPI) -- The family of Hae Min Lee, whose 1999 murder was examined in the first season of the hit podcast "Serial," intends to appeal the vacated conviction of Adnan Syed.

Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Mortgage rates rose for the sixth straight week, with a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaging 6.7%, Freddie Mac announced Thursday.

Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Robbie Parker, the father of a girl who died in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, told a Connecticut civil trial jury he faced brutal harassment due to Alex Jones' conspiracy theories.

Sept. 29 (UPI) -- A new character is joining the lineup of M&M's mascots to mark the addition of purple candies to the bags of color-coated chocolate.

Sept. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon said that Former President Donald Trump does not have to declare in court whether or not the Justice Department's updated inventory of the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago is accurate.

Sept. 29 (UPI) -- A family of 12 siblings in Spain were awarded a Guinness World Record when their combined age was confirmed as 1,058 years and 249 days.