Lawmakers in Arizona have sent the Governor a bill to keep the state lottery when the current game expires in 2012.
A California couple, who were making ends meet with part-time jobs, won $7 million in the SuperLotto Plus. John and Patricia Estrada were planning on moving to more affordable housing, but will now be able to stay in their Desert Hot Springs home.
After scratching off a $10m ticket – the largest instant prize in the country – a Stoneham woman is planning for an unusually fun holiday with her family.
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.