A Missouri woman who bought some scratch-off lottery tickets on impulse said they were on her counter three weeks before she discovered one was worth $20,000.

Kristen Fritschie of Hallsville told Missouri Lottery officials she made an impulse buy a few weeks ago and purchased some scratch-off tickets, including a $2 Double Match Scratchers game.

"I put them on my cabinet counter and they stayed there for three weeks," Fritschie said. "I had last Saturday off and thought, 'I should scratch my tickets off.'"

Fritschie said she wasn't wearing her glasses at the time, so she didn't believe her eyes when she scratched off the $20,000 top prize. She said she had her son double check the ticket.

"He said, 'Mom, go get your glasses,'" Fritschie said. "Then he called my husband and my husband said, 'It's not nice to fib.' It was all exciting!"

Fritschie said she might spend some of her winnings on a golf cart.

"I enjoy golf and would like to learn to play," she said.

A Colorado wildlife photographer helped rescue an elk that she spotted with its antlers tangled in a swing near a resort.

Jackie Crivello said she was on her way to take photos of wildlife in Rocky Mountain National Park early Wednesday morning when she spotted the elk with its antlers tangled in the swing.

"I knew he was in big trouble. I knew I had to help and I knew I couldn't leave him there," Crivello {link:told KDVR-TV"https://kdvr.com/2018/08/22/wildlife-photographer-helps-rescue-an-elk-caught-tangled-in-a-swing/" target="_blank"}.

She said she called 911 and was told help was on the way, but she grew worried after three hours passed without any police or wildlife officers arriving.

"The elk was completely exhausted. It was three hours at this point," she said.

Crivello said she was preparing to approach the elk herself to cut it free of the swing ropes when a Colorado Parks and Wildlife officer arrived.

The officer tranquilized the elk.

"He fell and his head was held up by the swing. I thought he died," Crivello said.

The officer cut the elk free from the swing and Crivello said the animal woke up about an hour later and headed back into the woods without any apparent injuries.

Firefighters climbed to the roof of a Massachusetts high school to rescue a seagull that had impaled its wing on a lightning rod.

The Fairhaven Fire Department said workers at Fairhaven High School contacted authorities Tuesday to report a seagull with its wing impaled on a rooftop lightning rod.

Firefighters climbed to the roof of a Massachusetts high school to rescue a seagull that had impaled its wing on a lightning rod.

The Fairhaven Fire Department said workers at Fairhaven High School contacted authorities Tuesday to report a seagull with its wing impaled on a rooftop lightning rod.

A South Carolina man captured video of a safety-minded alligator crossing a road by using the designated crosswalk.

Pawleys Island resident Jimmy Card posted a video to Facebook showing the alligator crossing a road at Huntington State Park.

The gator obeys the rules of the road by using the crosswalk.

The video shows the reptile successfully arriving at the other side of the road.

Employees of DHL Paket GmbH gathered at lake Otto-Maigler-See in Cologne and used wooden planks, poles, rope and rubber rings to construct a series of rafts that were then combined into a single raft.

The workers fit 956 people on the raft and they were able to conform to Guinness World Records rules by standing on the raft for five minutes without getting their feet wet.

Guinness adjudicator Sofia Greenacre confirmed the raft surpassed the 512 people that gathered on a single raft in 2014.