A construction company owner who lost two homes in Hurricane Katrina claimed a $97 million Powerball prize, a jackpot won off a ticket he bought at a convenience store where he stopped to buy his wife a gallon of milk. »
A 56-year-old single mom from Long Island hit the jackpot at a time when she was about to lose her home, New York lottery officials said Friday. »
A great grandmother who has beaten cancer twice is sharing a Lottery win of almost £1m ($2m). »
Australia — A SYDNEY grandfather who won almost a million dollars in a New South Wales lottery says he owes his good fortune to four-leaf clover and a change of numbers. »
A FORGOTTEN bank account gave one woman a surprise when she was reunited with £1,200 ($2400) she thought she had lost. »
All Fred Brown ever wanted to do was sell cars. »
“We are wondering how to spend the money but one thing’s for sure - we’re going to ensure that all our loved ones are taken care of.” »
Just weeks after scooping £1.1 million on the National Lottery, Joanne Gilbert, 47, has returned to her old job working in a hospital laundry at Cwmbran’s Llanfrechfa Grange Hospital. »
A Swanton man who read a news report about unclaimed Megabucks winnings discovered he had one of the $10,000 tickets in his wallet, Vermont Lottery officials said. »
Any way you look at it, Kristina K. Schneider — a gas-station cashier and single mother of a 9-year-old girl named Janae — was destined to become a millionaire. »
Grandad Quentin Waite celebrated quite modestly after winning £263,783 on the National Lottery by buying a new pair of work boots - and a £19,000 Ford Focus car. »
A man with 11 foster children won $1 million from the Georgia Lottery, money he said he’ll use for his family. »
The first clue as to how things have changed for Harold and Helen Lerner — the Rutherford couple who won $258 million in the Mega Millions lottery in 2005 — is when you try to call their phone number. »
A supermarket shelf-stacker said today she has quit work and is planning a shopping spree in New York after hitting the National Lottery jackpot. »
For a Nevada couple, good things come in twos. And that includes winning big Powerball jackpots in Arizona — twice. »
A STUDENT who won £2.5 million on the Lottery told yesterday how her dream had literally come true. »
A World War II veteran and his family stepped forward Monday to claim a Powerball jackpot worth more than a quarter-billion dollars, one of the largest single-ticket lottery prizes in U.S. history. »
Waukegan High School Counselor Ray Cave is just like any other person. »
A man in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province recently won 6.38 million yuan (US$786,683) on the lottery using the numbers from his wife’s date of birth. »
Douglas Fader has heard the stories about winners of big lottery jackpots who squandered their winnings. His former co-worker Sara M. Richmond, he says, isn’t one of them. »
BEV Wiebe was grinning from ear to ear when she was introduced as Manitoba’s latest millionaire. »
A couple from Fort Dodge, Iowa stepped forward to claim the $200.8 million Powerball prize. »
For those lucky enough to scoop the Lotto jackpot it is usually a ticket to unbridled luxuries and a lifetime without work. »
Tuesday was a million-dollar day for John Beard. »
A woman who won $1 million from a state lottery game four years ago has improbably hit the jackpot again. »
A Clinton County woman now has enough money to pay for a good portion of her upcoming wedding. »
Betty Ward received the surprise of a lifetime when she checked her 2by2 Kansas Lottery ticket from the Sept. 5 drawing. »
McDonald’s millionaire Lotto couple buy new dream house nearby - so they can walk to work »
An 89-year-old woman who continues to work at Springfield Hospital thinks she’ll pay off a car loan now that she’s won a $2.175 million lottery prize. »
A woman and her father won the three top daily prizes totaling $75,000 in a lottery game - without knowing that either was playing. »