Lottery News

Eleanor Duckitt, 66, from Cayton near Scarborough, said she was over the moon after her numbers came up in the Thunderball draw last Saturday.

Retired postal worker Melvyn Wilson is probably one of the luckiest men on earth, because on Wednesday, he picked up his fourth winning lottery check, and this time, it was for a whopping $500,000, reports The Washington Times .

BEIRUT: Mondays and Thursdays are busy days for the Sbeity Bookshop in Karakol al-Druze in Beirut.

The winner of a $2.3 million Powerball prize stepped forward Wednesday to claim his prize, having matched all numbers except the Powerball number, lottery officials said.

Two winning Powerball tickets - one from Baltimore City, one from Calvert County , and each with a second-tier prize of $1 million - were pulled from Wednesday night's drawing, said the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency on Thursday.

A Powerball ticket sold in Rapid City is worth $10,000 in the latest drawing. South Dakota lottery officials say the ticket matched four of five white ball numbers and the Powerball to win the game's third prize.

WAUPACA, Wis Wisconsin has its third million-dollar Powerball winner in the last week.

Wanda Ruiz Padilla, a factory worker from Arden, plans to use the $200,000 she won playing the Power 7's scratch-off game to fix up her mother's home, pay bills and take her first vacation in six years.

With the Powerball Jackpot reaching record levels, even people who don't normally play the lottery are taking an interest.

The New York State Lottery announced Wednesday that it took in a total of $7.86 billion with profits of $3.5 billion for the 2010-2011 fiscal year.

The winner is required under Florida law to redeem the ticket at Lottery headquarters in Tallahassee.

A winning Mega Millions lottery ticket worth $95 million was purchased at a Tinton Falls store, according to a press release issued by the New Jersey Lottery.

For a few hours before the Mayor Rob Ford crack video revelations broke last Thursday, the firing of Paul Godfrey, Ontario's gambling czar and pusher of a Toronto casino, was the hot topic of conversation.

No word yet on if she'll be quitting her day job, but a Phoenix nurse has turned in her winning $1 million Powerball ticket from the drawing on May 11.

No tickets matched all four numbers plus the Mega Ball in the Mega Money game so the jackpot rolled over to $550,000, the Florida Lottery said Wednesday.

Jason Peck is one of two Wisconsin $1 million winners from Saturday's drawing. He is the first to claim his prize.

Two volunteer projects in Bradford have told of their joy at receiving a cash boost of more than A 400,000 between them from the Big Lottery Fund.

Three Kentucky residents became millionaires Monday after they picked up their prize checks from Kentucky Lottery Headquarters in downtown Louisville.

A A 1MILLION prize lottery ticket bought somewhere in Taunton Deane has been given to good causes after its purchaser failed to come forward.

An Illinois man got a real treat from his cookie jar earlier this month -- in the form of a $4.85 million winning lottery ticket.