In January 2011, homeless and broke Ted Williams stood in the cold at a busy intersection in Columbus, Ohio, hoping for a miracle. The former radio announcer was trying to piece his life back together after it was ravaged by drugs and alcohol. “My family had all given up on me,” Williams told NBC News in an interview this week. Williams’ chance to start over came when Columbus Dispatch reporter noticed his sign, which pleaded for help and boasted about Williams’ “God given gift of voice.” The Dispatch posted a video of Williams’ attention-grabbing baritone voice — and overnight, Williams went viral. He got a haircut, a shave and offers for big-time work, including voicing commercials for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. A month ago, Pepsi debuted a new ad voiced by Williams, which is running now and will run during the Super Bowl. Now, nearly five years later, Williams wants to give back to the homeless community.
Two men are suing the New Jersey Lottery after they threw out a winning Powerball ticket worth $1 million.
Salvatore Cambria and Erick Onyango, of Suffern, New York, argue in their federal lawsuit that the lottery was at fault for failing to quickly post the accurate winning numbers from the March 23 drawing online.
Cambia tells The Record newspaper he asked Onyango to check the lottery's website for the winning numbers soon after the 11 p.m. drawing. Cambria tossed the ticket when the numbers didn't match.
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They realized they had won when they saw the numbers the next day. But the ticket was on its way to a landfill in Canada.
The men say they have two tickets showing serial numbers that prove they had a winner.
