Liquor Store Worker Caught Trying to Steal $600 Lottery Ticket
A cashier from Florida has been caught trying to steal a $600 winning lottery ticket in an undercover sting. Crystelle Baton worked at the Winn-Dixie Liquors store in Fort Meyers in Florida where she...
View ArticleLotto Winner Loses Cancer Battle Just Three Weeks After Win
When carpenter Donald Savastano of New York won $1,000,000 on a scratchcard earlier this year he thought it was the answer to all his dreams. Self employed and with little saved for the future, he had...
View Article$535m Powerball Winner Fights to Retain Anonymity
A New Hampshire Powerball winner who scooped a massive jackpot worth $535,000,000 is refusing to claim her prize and is embroiled in battle with lottery officials over the release of her name once she...
View ArticleUS Lottery Jackpots are Soaring
We’ve only just recovered from the big EuroMillions rollover in the UK and Europe but right now in the US, lottery players are caught up in lotto fever as both multi-state lotteries offer staggeringly...
View ArticleLottery Winner Faces Jail For Robbing Banks
A jackpot winner who scooped a prize close to $20,000,000 on California’s SuperLotto is facing a life behind bars after robbing banks to fund his heroin addiction. 55-year old James Hayes saw his life...
View ArticleMassive US Powerball Winner is from Pennsylvania
Last week the eighth biggest lottery prize in US Powerball history was won after a single player matched all the numbers in a $456,700,000 draw. The ticket matched all the white balls, and that red...
View ArticleSingle Ticket Holder Scoops $521,000,000 Mega Millions Jackpot
In the last few weeks we’ve seen both the Powerball and Mega Millions Jackpots soar. Last week we brought you the news that the Powerball jackpot had found a winner and now a single winner has scooped...
View ArticleKansas Shop Staff Praised for Finding $1,000,000 Lottery Winner
Shop staff in Kansas have been praised for their integrity after tracking down a $1,000,000 lottery winner after they left the shop without their ticket. The ticket was brought into the Pit Stop...
View Article$150,000,000 Powerball Jackpot Lands in Oregon
We love to hear stories about big winners and today we’re celebrating the $150,000,000 US Powerball jackpot finding a winner last week. On Wednesday night a single ticket holder became the latest big...
View ArticleMega Millions Jackpot Approaching $500,000,000
We talk often of life-changing lottery jackpots but maybe none quite so life-changing as the current US Mega Millions jackpot, which after a string of rollovers has climbed to a staggering $493,000,000...
View ArticleCalifornia Syndicate Scoops $543,000,000 Mega Millions Jackpot
A lottery syndicate made up of eleven workers from the Wells Fargo & Co branch in California just hit the big time, scooping the end of July Mega Millions jackpot worth a staggering $543,000,000....
View ArticleUS Multi-State Jackpots Are Soaring
The US multi-state lottery jackpots are big news this week as combined they total more than $600,000,000, giving US lottery players plenty to get excited about this coming week! The next big winning...
View ArticleUS Lottery Jackpots Climb to $1bn
We’ve been watching the big multi-state US jackpots climb for weeks but right now they are reaching record breaking proportions with a combined jackpot this week of almost $1 billion! The Mega Millions...
View ArticleMega Millions Jackpot Hits New Record
For weeks we’ve been talking about the big US Multi-state jackpots and now the Mega Millions has hit the big news with a new record jackpot worth a staggering $1.6 billion, the biggest jackpot the...
View ArticleA Single Ticket Wins $1.6 Billion Mega Millions Jackpot
Last week we reported that the US Mega Millions jackpot had hit a new record with a jackpot worth $1.6 billion then after days of Americans queuing around the block to buy lottery tickets, a winner was...
View ArticleCouple Find Winning Lottery Ticket While Cleaning for Thanksgiving
We’ve all been there, the family are visiting, the house is full of clutter and the full deep clean is underway, but what most of us won’t do in this situation is find a lottery ticket worth...
View ArticleMan Dreams He Wins Lottery, Scoops $1,000,00 the Next Day
We often hear lottery winners describe their good fortune as ‘a dream come true’ but for one lucky lottery winner, it really was a dream come true, quite literally. A Maryland man has pursued his...
View ArticleMissouri Nurses Win Lottery Then Hand Winnings to Two Colleagues in Need
A group of nurses from Missouri organised a lottery pool for NICU staff at Mercy Children’s hospital in St Louis, Missouri. The nurses and staff at the neonatal intensive care unit have been pooling...
View ArticleMan Accused of Stealing Roommate’s Lottery Ticket
California Police have arrested a man accused of stealing a winning lottery ticket from his roommate as he slept. Police say Adul Saosongyang attempted to claim the $10,000,000 prize on Monday after...
View ArticleFamily Hit by Government Shutdown Win Lottery Prize
Wherever you are in the world, it’s unlikely you haven’t heard of the government shutdown in the US and for those government workers affected, they are currently furloughed without pay. For one federal...
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