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A bartender got the surprise of her life after a customer tipped her a lottery ticket in O’Fallon, Missouri, on October 19. 

A man with seven kids and 21 grandkids is now richer than ever after he won $80 million in the Powerball jackpot in September. 

A two-time cancer survivor from Bend, Oregon, has hit the jackpot after he purchased a winning lotto ticket worth $4.6 million.

A Michigan couple who won $500,000 playing the lottery in 2016 is accused of burglarizing homes in the state, police said.

A Tuesday morning vote by the state’s Ethics Commission has led to the imminent investigation of Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo (D) over dealings with gaming giant International Game Technology (IGT), the same company that runs the state lottery.

A veteran in Salem, Oregon, is thankful he took a second look before throwing away the winnings of a lifetime.

What is the purpose of an immigration policy? Is it to benefit the interests of the nation that constructs and implements it, or is to benefit the immigrants who stand to gain from it?

A Virginia woman hit the jackpot of lucky streaks, winning the state lottery a total of 30 times in one day.

Carrie Walls, the wife of a furloughed federal worker, won a large cash prize and new SUV in the Virginia lottery game on the same day her husband missed his first paycheck since the partial government shutdown began. 

When 126 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit nurses won $10,000 on a ticket from their lottery pool, they decided to donate it to two coworkers in need.

Tina and Harold Ehrenberg are suddenly $1.8 million richer, after cleaning up for Thanksgiving guests uncovered a winning lottery ticket.

The Mega Millions lottery jackpot prize is approaching a record $654 million for Tuesday evening’s drawing.

A man who won $10,000 playing the lottery was found dead inside his New York City apartment Monday night, police said.

The mother of two never originally meant to buy the lottery ticket that changed her life.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A judge has sentenced a lottery computer programmer to up to 25 years in prison for rigging a computer program to enable him to pick winning numbers in several lottery games over six years.

Aug. 2 (UPI) — A Virginia football player who won a $100,000 lottery jackpot using his grandma’s license plate number said all he bought was a pair of designer flip-flops.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) chose half of the 2,400 winners out of the 80,000 lottery contestants for Los Angeles area port jobs that can pay up to $1,200 per day.

A 31-year-old pizza delivery man from Hemet, California found his life changed forever when he won over one million dollars in the California lottery.

Illinois still doesn’t have a budget, the state has practically defaulted on millions in payments to service providers, can’t even pay its lottery winners, but state Democrats have introduced a bill that would make Barack Obama’s birthday a “state holiday” — meaning state workers would have yet another paid holiday added to their generous benefits.

On Wednesday, a California man claiming he had submitted a missing, winning ticket to state lottery officials for a $63 million jackpot filed suit, asserting that officials had destroyed the evidence. Brandy Milliner’s suit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior

According to a report by WALB, a forklift operator who won a nearly half-million dollar Georgia lottery jackpot was killed Thursday night during a home invasion robbery. Officials say Craigory Burch Jr., 20, died from gunshot wounds. In November 2015, Burch won

The California winner who will share Wednesday night’s record-smashing Powerball jackpot will be exempt from state taxes on the winnings. At least three winning tickets for the record breaking $1.586 billion Powerball lottery were sold, and the California one has been tied

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