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March 8, 2014 - 3:49 pm

NEW YORK — A 75-year-old New York woman found her fortune in a cookie.

Emma Duvoll won $2 million in a recent Powerball drawing after playing the numbers found in her fortune cookie.

The retired Bronx resident bought the lottery ticket after dining at a Chinese restaurant in Greenwich Village.

The Daily News reports that the owner of Sammy’s Noodle Shop & Grill joked that maybe the waiters should get 20 percent of her winnings.

Duvoll, a retired deli owner, picked up her prize on Thursday. She purchased the ticket for the Feb. 1 drawing at the Hannaford Pharmacy in upstate Pine Bush.

She plans to invest her winnings and may splurge on a trip to Switzerland to see relatives.

Israel and Iran launch new strikes even as diplomatic effort gets underway

By Sam Mednick, Jon Gambrell and David Rising The Associated Press

June 20, 2025 - 7:14 am

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By Ricardo Torres-Cortez / RJ

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Two residents who live near the site of an approved housing and resource facility want to stop construction while officials consider alternate sites, according to a lawsuit.

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The Nevada Supreme Court ordered Gov. Joe Lombardo’s ethics case back to District Court.

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