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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...

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...

Good morning, Houston. If you've played the lottery, we're sure there have been times when you felt like you couldn't win — and you know what? Turns out you were right. In scratch-off games, the Texas Lottery may continue selling tickets even when almost all the prize money has been claimed, meaning tickets carry virtually no chance of winning. Case in point: the Deal or No Deal game, in which 99 percent of prize...

Good morning, Houston. We're beginning today with news that's not happening in Texas, but could have had repercussions in our transportation industry: In Arizona, lawmakers just missed banning truck mudflaps with silhouettes of naked women on them. The ban came in a proposed amendment to a bill regarding the legal height of truck fender splash guards, and it took aim not at racist slogans and busty outlines on mudflaps. "I personally am tired of...

Governor Rick Perry revealed Thursday that his call to vaccinate school aged girls against HPV is more personal than political. In a Perry scheduled interview with five reporters, the Texas Governor revealed that prostate cancer runs in his family, and some personal information about his family member's experiences with cancer. "Every generation of Perry's, back to the 1850s, has died of prostate cancer. I'm going to get it," said Perry. The HPV-vaccination order is just...

Gov. Rick Perry was expected to propose privatizing the Texas Lottery to generate money for health care and education, and he didn't disappoint: The governor projects that selling the lottery off to a private operator could net the state at least $14 billion, he said in his State of the State address this morning in Austin.

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.

Remember the $64 million Texas Lottery ticket that was sold in Sunset Heights earlier this month? The owner of the Shop & Save quickie mart where the ticket was sold got $500,000, his share of the jackpot — and now we know more about him and what he plans to do with his newfound fortune.

Texas Lottery odds are back in Houstonist’s favor, and we're loving it!