Last week, a man from Rock Hill, South Carolina bought a $200,000 winning ticket in the Color of Money scratch-off game.

This is the second time in four months the same man, who has chosen to remain anonymous, has won the same amount playing the same lotto game.

Last September, the man bought his first $200,000 winning Color of Money ticket.

"He just came in and said, 'I just won $200,000.' He wasn't jumping up and down. I would have been jumping up and down screaming," Stephanie Korn is a cashier at Elliot's Exxon, where the man bought his latest winning ticket, told WCNC.

"This is so weird," the winner said.

"This is crazy," his wife said. "He's in shock."

The Associated Press reported that the man planned to use the money from the first win to pay for his kids' education. The second jackpot will contribute to his retirement.

Lottery officials said the man has now won two of the top six prizes offered in the Color of Money game. Instead of trying for a third lucky win, the man said

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A Checotah, Oklahoma, woman mourning the loss of her infant son has founded a charity that supplies prom dresses for girls in need.

Sherrill Garrett's 7-month-old son Jacob died unexpectedly last year. A friend tried to express empathy for Garrett's pain with a simple comment:

"In 15 years," said the friend, "you’ll be wondering who Jake would have taken to prom."

As Garrett grieved, that comment inspired her to launch "Dresses for Jake's Dates," a charity that accepts donated prom dresses and then supplies them to teen girls from low-income families.

"Every girl deserves to feel like a princess for one night," she said. "And every parents deserves to take a breath and not worry about the cost of things every once in a while. You’re paying hundreds of dollars for a dress that’s worn once and then sits in a closet forever. It can get costly and expensive."

A local shop immediately donated 67 dresses. Garrett now stores 170 dresses in a room in her home.

"It's just saved me in a way,"

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Ben Ownby, a freshman swimmer for Churchill High School in San Antonio, Texas, brings a "four-footed life preserver" with him to the pool.

Since being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at 17 months old, Ownby manually injects insulin seven or eight times a day. To make matters more complicated, the teen is allergic to adhesives and can't use glucose monitors or insulin pumps that must be attached to the body.

Instead, Ownby depends on Dakota, his 5-year-old Labradoodle service dog, to detect blood sugar levels.

Dakota can smell Ownby's breath or sweat when his owner's blood-sugar levels are too high or low. More remarkably, he can even detect this while Ownby is in the pool.

"He acts like I'm the only one near him, like there's nothing going on around him," Ownby said.

Dakota was trained by Guide Dogs of Texas to only pick up Ownby's scent, from as far as two-thirds of a mile away, San Antonio Express-News reported.

If blood-sugar levels are high, Dakota tugs on a bracelet that Ownby

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Tevinn Richards, 19, was raised in poverty by a single mother in Saint John, New Brunswick.

"We've had a hard life. Not everyday we were guaranteed food, nothing," Andrea Richards, Tevinn's mother, told CBC News.

Richards hopes Mandarin will help him escape a life of social-assistance dependency and minimum-wage jobs.

The teen started learning the language while he was attending Simonds High School — and doing poorly there. After school, he'd spend hours in his room teaching himself Mandarin by chatting online with people from China.

"When I first started learning Chinese, I was really not doing well in high school," Tevinn said.

Tevinn quickly excelled in the language, so much so that his online teacher encouraged him to visit China.

He is now on full scholarship at Qufu Normal University in Shandong province — friends and neighbours chipped in the $3,000 in airfare costs to get there — and is confident he has a bright future in teaching.

"I have been studying Chinese for a year and a

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Playful panda cub Xiao Liwu has been diagnosed with "acute cuteness" by staff at the San Diego Zoo.

"It took three sets of hands to measure and examine panda cub Xiao Liwu. Animal care staff report that the 6-month-old cub is very strong, continues to be playful and isn't very interested in sitting still," the zoo reports.

The vets also confirm that the cuddly-looking cub is getting buff, slimming down and gaining muscle in his legs.

Watch the panda exhibit those symptoms of cuteness below:

"Sometimes he can be so stubborn with his one-track mind, but it always makes for good stories and a great experience for our guests. As the morning came to an end, Xiao Liwu enjoyed playing in the bushes exploring the flowers and leaves. This “little gift” is quite a little adventurer!" writes Alyssa Medeiros, a panda narrator at the San Diego Zoo, of Xiao Liwu's life at the zoo.

"Xiao Liwu, whose name means "Little Gift," was the sixth cub born to the zoo's panda mom Bai Yun. All the San Diego

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Last Wednesday, Larch Corrections Center inmates Larry Bohn, Nelson Pettis and Jon Fowler were doing maintenance in a park with seven other inmates from the Washington state prison when they heard young boys screaming for help.

Three boys, aged 8, 10 and 16, had been tossed from their canoe when it capsized and were being dragged down a cold, fast-moving creek.

"We just thought it was some kids screaming until we seen their two heads bobbing in the water with the canoe upside down," Pettis, 37, told FOX 12. "They were coming down over flooded Salmon Creek. It was raging pretty fast."

Inmates on work crew jump into rushing water to save boysIncredible rescue in Washington State

Pettis dove into the water and let the current push him to a shallow area where he could stand.

"I don’t think I was thinking at all," Pettis told the Columbian. "I was just really concentrating on getting them to safety."

"They actually came to me right there," Pettis told FOX 12. "Right then, the current swept

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Jessica Cox, 29, was born without arms. Instead of resigning to a life of limitations, the young woman from Arizona chose to overcome what seemed like impossible obstacles with creativity and a positive attitude.

Hoopla Ha — Life with a Smile recently featured the inspirational woman:

Cox plays the piano, eats with chopsticks, drives a car, and is the first armless black-belt in the American Taekwondo Association.

She even got her pilot's license.

According to her bio, "It took three states, four airplanes, two flight instructors and a discouraging year to find the right aircraft: a 1946 415C Ercoupe Airplane. She received the Guinness World Record for being the first person certified to fly an airplane with only their feet."

Cox now travels the world as a motivational speaker, encouraging people to "think outside the shoe."

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On Wednesday, the Facebook group Jackson TN Euthanasia posted a photo of a dog facing euthanasia at a high-kill rabies control shelter in Jackson, Tennessee. He had been abandoned because his owner believed the dog was gay.

"This guy was signed over to RC, not [because] he's mean or [because] he tears things up, but because...His owner says he's gay! He hunched another male dog so his owner threw him away bc he refuses to have a "gay" dog! Even if that weren't the most asinine thing I've ever heard, it's still discrimination! Don't let this gorgeous dog die [because] his owner is ignorant of normal dog behaviour! He's in kennel 10L and he WILL be put down tomorrow [because] there is no room at the inn!" the group wrote in the post that quickly went viral.

The post inspired thousands of comments and hundreds of calls to the shelter. The bulldog-mix was quickly adopted by Stephanie Fryns, a local veterinary tech, ABC News reports. Fryns had seen the dog's photo on another adoption site

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