CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Brenda Bailey is still on a roll. Last week, the 60-year-old South Charleston woman claimed her ninth West Virginia Lottery prize, $7,000 in the Gem 7s instant game. That brings her total winnings since September to $159,000 from ...Read More
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Seven call center workers who will share Britain's biggest lottery prize with a couple from south Wales said on Tuesday they have already told their bosses that they are leaving. The seven, who worked for U.S. computer ...Read More
AUSTIN, Texas—A man who says he is the rightful owner of a stolen $1 million winning lottery ticket wants the Texas Lottery Commission to pay him. A clerk at a Grand Prairie convenience store is being sought on allegations that he ...Read More
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A man who says he is the rightful owner of a stolen $1 million winning lottery ticket wants the Texas Lottery Commission to pay him. A clerk at a Grand Prairie convenience store is being sought on ...Read More
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Authorities say a 25-year-old Texas convenience store clerk claimed $1 million in lottery winnings that belonged to a customer and left town, perhaps back to his native Nepal. Pankaj Joshi (PAN-koj JOSH-y) was indicted in September on ...Read More
GIRARD, Kan. — A former Kansas radio executive who admitted that he embezzled to support an addiction to scratch-off lottery tickets won a $96,000 lottery prize. Prosecutors say the prize money will go toward paying restitution to Paul W. Lyle's former ...Read More
A former Kansas radio executive who admitted that he embezzled to support an addiction to scratch-off lottery tickets won a $96,000 lottery prize. Prosecutors say the prize money will go toward paying restitution to Paul W. Lyle's former employer, American Media ...Read More
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Four winners of the "Fantasy 5" game will collect $62,394.16 each, the Florida Lottery announced Sunday. Two of the winning tickets were bought in Ocala and North Miami Beach, lottery officials reported. The other two winning tickets were ...Read More
SOFIA, Bulgaria - Investigators said Thursday they found no wrongdoing at Bulgaria's national lottery after the same winning numbers were picked in two consecutive draws. Sport Minister Svilen Neikov ordered the probe Wednesday after the numbers 4, 15, 23, 24, 35 ...Read More
Atlanta -- Two tickets matched the winning numbers for an estimated $333 million Mega Millions jackpot, one sold in New York and the other in California. The numbers were drawn Friday night in Atlanta. Georgia Lottery officials had estimated the jackpot for ...Read More
The $252 million Mega Millions jackpot numbers were drawn amid lottery fever across the country. The winning Mega Millions lottery numbers were: 3, 12, 19, 22 and 40 with the Mega Ball, 2. The unusually high lottery prize has drawn in players ...Read More
Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) -- A retired South Carolina stateworker claimed the $259.9 million jackpot in the 30-statePowerball lottery, hours before a drawing for a $252 millionprize in the Mega Millions game. Solomon Jackson Jr., a former supervisor in the stateRevenue Department ...Read More
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Someone who bought a Powerball ticket in South Carolina is $259.9 million richer. The single winning ticket for Wednesday's drawing was sold at a gas station and convenience store next to a Wal-Mart in Columbia, but no one ...Read More
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The economic crunch has drastically improved for one lucky lottery ticket holder who bought a ticket in South Carolina. Lottery officials said Thursday that a Powerball ticket sold in South Carolina matched all six of the numbers drawn ...Read More
Lottery officials are seeing a nice bump in ticket sales these days thanks to some large, eye-catching jackpots. The Powerball lottery game, played in more than 30 states, now has a jackpot of $245 million for Wednesday night's drawing. The other ...Read More
HASLETT, Mich.—Divine intervention? Or just plain luck? No matter what the circumstances, a Michigan church is $70,000 richer courtesy of the Michigan Lottery. The Covenant Life Worship Center and its 25 members in Haslett, Mich. had one of the second-prize tickets ...Read More
Edward Williams is the definition of lucky after winning the lottery for a second time in a year. Williams, 47, of Wichita won $75,000 in September playing a $10 scratch ticket. Then on Wednesday, he defied the odds again when matched ...Read More
Lady luck shops in Queens. Lottery officials and a crew of convenience store workers are keeping their eyes peeled for the person holding a Mega Millions ticket worth $133 million. "No one has come to make a claim yet," said Patel Dilip, ...Read More
WINNER, S.D., June 6 (UPI) -- A South Dakota rancher whose family has known hard times says he'll use part of his $232 million Powerball jackpot to help others in need.Neal Wanless, 23, whose family owns a 320-acre ranch near ...Read More
TALLLAHASSEE, Fla. -- One ticket matched the four winning numbers plus the Mega Ball number to collect $900,000 in the Mega Money game, the Florida Lottery said Wednesday. The winning ticket was bought in Jacksonville, lottery officials said. Nine tickets won $812 ...Read More
The New York lottery hopes to start sellingPowerball lottery tickets to boost revenue for the cash-strappedstate. New York is already part of the multistate Mega Millions game.The Legislature recently authorized another multi-jurisdictionalgame as a way to help close gaps in the ...Read More
