The Towson grandmother, who tries to buy a lottery ticket any time her horoscope includes the word “numbers,” used numbers from a fortune cookie on a ticket for the Jan. 8 Powerball drawing ...

The man bought a Cash4Life ticket from the Jackpocket app and discovered his fortune cookie was correct, as he matched all five white balls in the drawing, earning a prize of $1,000 a year for life.

If you’re the sort of hard-nosed realist who thinks that fortune-telling, horoscopes and the like will never help you in the real world, you might want to think again. A grandmother in Maryland ...