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 man in North Carolina won big after he decided to use his fortune cookie numbers to play the lottery. Gabriel Fierro, 60, picked up the cookie while having dinner with his wife at the Red Bowl ...

Fortune was on her side — twice. A Virginia woman won $50,000 on a lottery ticket earlier this month by playing the numbers she found inside a fortune cookie, but a close call nearly took away her ...