I am a two-time lottery winner. I claimed a $100,000 lottery ticket in November and a $1 million lottery ticket on Monday. Both came from scratch off. Everyone has been asking me what it's like to win and so I'll tell you.
Producer Jen Hauser talks about the difficulty of "quietly accepting" two lottery winnings while working for CNN.
Sergio Blanco faced the most painstaking moment of parenthood the past week when he had to ask two of his young sons whether they were sexually molested at Miramonte Elementary School.
Raymond Boucher and Brian Claypool, lawyers for alleged victims in Miramonte abuse case, say more victims will come forward.
A New York councilman says he has submitted a legislative draft to ban the "perp walk" throughout New York, outlawing the photography of criminal suspects before due process of law.
"She's the sweetest bright spirit in the universe," adds Kirstie Alley
John Paul II moved closer to sainthood Friday as the Vatican announced he will be beatified later this year.
The late Pope John Paul II takes a significant step towards sainthood. CNN's John Allen explains on American Morning.
It took a two-year journey around the world for Susan Sparks to identify her life's mission -- finding the funny in religion.
Human progress requires good ideas.
As followers celebrate the 100th anniversary of Mother Teresa's birth, questions remain on when she will become a saint.
A solemn Mass at the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, India, marked the 100th anniversary of Mother Teresa's birth on Thursday.
For more than two decades Abebech Gobena has helped Ethiophia's forgotten children.
The sight of a baby girl suckling on the breast of her dead mother changed the course of Abebech Gobena's life forever.
August marks the 100th anniversary of Mother Teresa's birth and few will be prouder than the citizens of her birthplace Skopje.
Nearly 21 years ago, Patty Webster landed her dream job as an adventure tour guide in the Peruvian Amazon. But as she shared the area's beauty and culture with tourists, she realized there was a darker side to the rainforest paradise.
Once an Amazon tour guide, Patty Webster now brings medical care to Peru's most remote areas.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced Tuesday his candidacy for governor.
Jerry Brown wants another shot at running California. Jessica Yellin looks at this unique politician.
Zilda Arns Neumann, a Brazilian doctor and care worker dedicated to helping the people of Haiti, was among those who died in Tuesday's devastating earthquake. She was 75.
Pope Benedict XVI is expected to sign a decree on Saturday that will put his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, a step closer to sainthood.
Kevin Garibo hasn't known life outside a hospital. Born three months ago with respiratory issues, he needed a procedure to breathe on his own. Nurses prod at him, medical machines hum around him and tubes are more present than teddy bears.
"By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world."
The couple will preside over a December celebration to honor the 2009 laureate
A man, who doused himself with gasoline and charged at an officer, burst into flames when he was hit with a Taser, police in Australia said Tuesday.
The scandal surrounding the Rev. Alberto Cutie has raised questions in the minds of many concerning the Catholic Church's discipline of priestly celibacy. Why does the church continue to defend a practice that seems so unnatural and so unnecessary?
Whenever you speak with Carlos Santana, you pretty much know what you're going to get: lots of talk about love and light. spiritual analogies, name-dropping of people like Marvin Gaye and Mother Teresa.
Carlos Santana brings his own mix of music and spirituality to 72 shows at the Hard Rock in Vegas. Denise Quan has more.
Georgia Keightley strolled through the religion section at Barnes and Noble in Springfield, Virginia, on Monday searching for a last-minute Christmas gift.
If Sir John Templeton were alive today, he'd probably be snatching up stock. The billionaire investor made his biggest gains during the 20th century's bleakest moments. His credo: "The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy."
Time.com: Sainthoodupdated: Mon Oct 13 2008 23:00:00
As Pope Benedict XVI announced the ascendance of four new saints, a look back at how the guiding lights of the Catholic faith are identified
Indian Christians celebrate the country's first female Christian saint.
According to UNICEF, there are 143 million children in the world who have lost one or both parents.
Home video of Steven Curtis Chapman with his daughter Maria, who was tragically killed in May
The tween star's representatives are shocked, shocked, at the results of Vanity Fair's photo shoot. But was it a career move?
Viewpoint: No, we are not the Da Vinci Code heretics the Vatican might suspect. We look instead to the Boccaccio Code
The fast-tracking of the sainthood process for the nun who, as a child, encountered the Virgin Mary at Fatima reflects the importance of that apparition to Pope John Paul II
How a seamstress turned politician is almost single-handedly tackling the crisis of displaced families in her troubled Baghdad neighborhood
The destitute and the diseased still gather outside Mother Teresa's clinics in this sprawling city in eastern India, where the nun known simply as "Mother" dedicated her life to the poorest of the poor.
She was the embodiment of godliness, but newly published letters show a struggle with doubt that was all too human
Fortune: Falcon questupdated: Wed Aug 01 2007 22:36:00
If it's your idea of fun to admire the fabulously wealthy, brilliant, and charismatic person you will never be, you'll want to read "Mine's Bigger: Tom Perkins and the Making of the Greatest Sailing Machine Ever Built," by Newsweek senior editor David A. Kaplan. But if holding up the ludicrously self-involved for public examination makes you whimper with delight, you'll like it just as much.
SI.com: Hollow victoryupdated: Sun May 20 2007 20:23:00
SAN ANTONIO -- The Spurs held home-court advantage Sunday with their 108-100 opening win in the Western finals, but that result seemed of secondary importance as Gregg Popovich and Jerry Sloan fumed afterwards. They were like two old pals each claiming indignation and fury based on what they'd seen.
Leadership is seen by many in Britain and Germany as the quality which best defines being great, according to a new survey.
IF YOU LIVE LONG ENOUGH, YOU SEE just about everything, I guess. Robber barons who once reengineered thousands out of their jobs become philanthropists. Austrian movie stars morph into high state o...
Pope Benedict XVI has said he is putting his predecessor John Paul II on the fast track to possible sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.
Ronald Reagan was the most fascinating person of the last quarter-century, according to a Top 25 list compiled by CNN and editors at Time magazine. The world of politics is also home to many others who made the list.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been gathering in a Krakow field and clogged Poland's city streets to watch coverage of the funeral of Pope John Paul II, a man revered as a national hero in his homeland.
Fortune: What's In The cardsupdated: Mon Mar 31 2003 00:01:00
Best friend lost his job. Dad's savings are toast. War and smallpox on your mind. Tough times all around, eh? It could be worse. Suppose you had to capture all that angst and agita and transform it...
Fortune: The Peace Dividendupdated: Mon Nov 23 1998 00:01:00
Not that she was the sort to have minded, but Mother Teresa was shortchanged when she won the Nobel Prize in 1979. The Nobel Foundation gave her only 800,000 kronor, equal to about $190,000. But th...
Charity purists, beware. Anyone who thinks of Mother Teresa as the true embodiment of the virtue is hopelessly old-fashioned. Forget self-sacrifice (or Wasp noblesse oblige). Nowadays, giving money...
Even the vast and merciless poverty of Calcutta cannot do what the New York City building code can do: make Mother Teresa cry "uncle." ÊThe Missionaries of Charity, whose leader that estimable lady...
Fortune: SAINTLY STOCK PICKERupdated: Mon Apr 10 1989 00:01:00
On Wall Street John M. Templeton, 76, is known as an astute money manager who controls $14 billion in assets. But religious leaders around the world know him as a devout man who annually awards a l...
Novelists define a culture for posterity. So a young upwardly mobile professional might feel flattered to learn that Louis Auchincloss, the distinguished novelist and social observer, has called hi...
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