CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Why do you think they're called fortune cookies? After his weekly meal at a Chinese restaurant, a North Carolina man used the numbers in his fortune cookie to play the lottery. And ...

A North Carolina lottery player checked his ticket — and kept seeing zeros. Now, John Carter credits a fortune cookie with leading him to the six-figure win. “We had Chinese food last night and we got ...

TOWSON, Md. (Gray News) – A woman in Maryland recently made a case for the numbers written on a message inside fortune cookies when she used her own numbers to win $50,000 in the Jan. 8 Powerball ...