Good morning, Houston. If anyone out there's looking for a show idea to pitch to MTV, may we suggest The Real World: Monsatery? Based on the statements of Hugh Brian Fallon, a monk from Blanco, The Christ of the Hills monastery would fit right in with the Real World drama: Fallon told authorities that fellow monk Samuel Greene encouraged sex among the monks, offered people marijuana when they were having problems and faked tears...
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The man who had the only winning ticket in Saturday's $75 million lottery drawing returned to the League City convenience store where he bought the ticket to let the staff know — but no one apparently thought to get his name. Not that it really matters: The only people who need to know his name are the ones at the Texas Lottery Commission in Austin, where he'll claim his prize. Still, Houstonist was hoping to...
So we all know it's hard to win the lottery, right? But even if you do win, you might not get your money, KPRC reports: Thanks to a lack of training and oversight, many winners of smaller lottery prizes are never able to collect their winnings. Kinda makes us glad we stuck with poker.
Last summer, Texas lottery officials got in trouble after it was discovered that they had artifically inflated the advertised lotto jackpot to try to sell more tickets — a discovery that led lottery Director Reagan Greer to resign. And now we're finding out what the lottery folks learned from that experience: nothing. According to an audit report released today, the lottery messed with the advertised jackpot at least three more times after the initial scandal.
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