One San Antonio woman has a lot of things to be grateful for this Christmas, at least $7.5 million reasons.

Deborah L. Kempel scored huge on a Diamond Dollars scratch ticket at a Triple S. Express at 6480 Babcock Road.

She claimed the second of three top prices available in the game, Texas Lottery said in a press release.

Talk about a lucky Christmas!

This article appears in Year in Review 2015.

Mark Reagan isn't from Texas, but he came here as soon as he could. He got his start on the windy plains of southwest Kansas at the Dodge City Daily Globe where he covered education and eventually served...