Operation Fortune Cookie, a 2008 raid netting 24,000 marijuana plants, was the largest weed bust in state history -- but it imploded among claims of police snitches, paid-off politicians and a ...

Origins: The 30 March 2005 Powerball drawing wasn't the only time a fortune cookie had been successfully used to garner a lottery windfall. A decade earlier, two of the three winners who split a ...

A record 110 players won $500,000 and $100,000 prizes in Wednesday's Powerball (search) drawing, most of whom apparently used the numbers included in a fortune-cookie message. Ordinarily the ...

A man from New Jersey opened up a fortune cookie that encouraged him to 'believe in miracles' just before he went on buy a Cash4Life lottery ticket that saw him win $1,000 a week for life ...

North Carolina man took the numbers from his fortune cookie and used them in Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing, turning a $3 ticket into a $4 million prize.

Emma Duvoll, 75, won a $2 million payday playing the Powerball drawing after using numbers that were printed on her fortune cookie, the New York lottery announced Thursday.

A Virginia woman used the numbers found inside of a fortune cookie on a lottery ticket that won her $50,000.

Guess that's why they call them "fortune" cookies. A New York City woman won a $2 million Powerball prize with the numbers she found in a fortune cookie, lottery officials said Thursday. Emma ...