In an extraordinary stroke of beginner's luck combined with birthday fortune, a 21-year-old man from Livingston County hit a massive $500,000 lottery prize with the very first ticket he ever bought.
A normal Saturday afternoon at a store turned into a nightmare for a few moments for one lingerie shop over the weekend and wreaked havoc before leaving.
There are surely many of you who have stories or memories of the Higgins Hall dormitory at Western Illinois University in Macomb.
The stories within those walls, and the walls themselves, went up in a puff of smoke as WIU imploded the dorm building this morning...