Teen wins lottery twice

A California teen is celebrating two big lottery wins in a week.

The California Lottery said 19-year-old Rosa Dominguez won $555,555 on a $5 scratch-off ticket purchased at a gas station. After that win, she said she was nervous and “just wanted to cry.” A few days later, she bought another $5 scratch-off ticket at a different station and won $100,000. The Lottery didn’t say when the tickets were purchased.

The Lottery said Dominguez collected her $655,555 in total winnings recently and told the organization she plans to go shopping and buy herself a new car.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Almost 80 years ago, Lilly Cassirer surrendered her family’s priceless Camille Pissarro painting to the Nazis in exchange for safe passage out of Germany during the Holocaust.

For nearly 20 years, the Jewish woman’s heirs have been trying to get it back.

On Monday the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the family is entitled to its day in court as it makes its case as to why Spain’s Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum should hand over a painting that has been a centerpiece of its $2 billion collection since 1993.

“It was a very, very good result,” the family’s attorney, David Boies, said of the court’s reversing a 2015 ruling dismissing the family’s lawsuit. “It sent a strong message that even public authorities cannot take possession in bad faith of stolen property and then somehow gain title to it simply over the passage of time.”

The museum’s attorney, Thaddeus J. Stauber, said Spain remains confident it will eventually prevail, adding the museum did indeed acquire the work in good faith.

In Monday’s ruling, however, the appeals court concluded the museum previously failed to establish that it did not know the painting was stolen when it acquired it from Baron HansHeinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, scion of Germany’s Thyssen steel empire and one of the 20th century’s most prominent art collectors.

The painting, “Rue St.-Honore, Apres-Midi, Effet de Pluie,” is a stunning Impressionist oil-oncanvas piece Pissarro created in 1897 while living in Paris.

Lilly Cassirer’s father-in-law acquired it directly from the artist’s dealer and passed it on to her and her husband when he died.

Both sides generally agree on what happened next:

Lilly Cassirer was forced to sell the painting to a Nazi-appointed Berlin art dealer for the equivalent of $360 and exit visas for herself, her husband and her grandson in 1939. She got the visas, but the Nazis kept the money.

By the end of World War II, the work had vanished. The German government, believing it was lost, paid Cassirer $13,000 in reparations in 1958.

In 1999 a friend of her grandson, Claude Cassirer, who had fled