A family that lost its home in a recent flood has it’ll buy a new house after winning a quarter-million dollars on a George Lottery instant ticket.
The New Mexico Lottery in August launched "Red vs. Green," an instant game that was designed by a 22-year-old graphic designer who attended UNM on a Legislative Lottery Scholarship.
A struggling 22-year-old actress, who made ends meet by playing Snow White at DisneyLand, won $5.2 million on the California Lottery show “Make Me a Millionaire.”
Les Robins, a Wisconsin junior high teacher who won $111m in Powerball in 1993, now runs a summer camp on the 226 acres of lakefront property he bought with his winnings.
Officials in Connecticut will no longer give players one year to claim their winning prizes. Instead they’ll have 180 days, with unclaimed winnings going to the state.
A Wichita man has won more than $1m on separate scratch tickets. His first hit was for $75,000, then he scratched off $900,000 on another instant ticket.
A local businessman has purchased the historic first ticket ever sold in NH, and has loaned it to the NH Lottery for display. The 1964 ticket was the first one ever sold in a legal state-run lottery.
This month, Vermont joins New Hampshire and eleven other states in offering Hot Lotto. Along with Maine and NH, VT was among the first states ever to team up and offer a multi-state lottery game when it launched Tri-State Megabucks in 1985.
A struggling 23-year-old SD rancher just claimed one of the biggest undivided lottery jackpots in US history. Neal Wanless promised “not to squander” the money and to pay back the town that has supported his family.
For the second time since January, a store in a tiny New York town has made instant millionaires out of lottery players.