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.
Following the success of sport-themed instant games, such as those from the Celtics and the Red Sox, the New England Patriots say they’ll be among the first NFL teams to offer a scratch ticket from the Mass Lottery.
A man from Grayson, GA had one lucky day. Three of his scratch tickets came up winners, the biggest prize being for $1,000,000.
A widower from Washington D.C. is the winner of last month’s Powerball jackpot. But his identity remains a tantalizing mystery, as his lawyer picked up the big check instead of him.