An Australian student worried about her parents' money problems rifled through a pile of her lottery tickets Thursday and discovered that she had won 13 million Australian dollars ($10 million) 10 months ago. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

A couple picking up trash along a roadside found a winning scratch-off lottery ticket that led them to a $1,000 jackpot. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

A "nagging" wife who pushed her husband to buy a lottery ticket helped scoop the $4.2 million ($7.7 million New Zealand dollar) first prize - with only minutes to spare. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

The single mother - with nine maxed-out credit cards and $8,500 in debt for her associate's degree - bought what turned out to a $1 million winning ticket with a $10 bill she found in the store Friday. picked by kissmenow 3 years ago

The Michigan Lottery will issue the most expensive ticket in its history -- $50 per ticket -- for a shot at the $2 million top prize. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Karma can come back to you at any moment. Sometimes your Karma comes back to you Instantly. Want to find out if your karma is good or bad? Take this test to find out. picked by wags273 2 years ago

After throwing out her $1 million winning lottery ticket. picked by suebe 12 months ago

The draw of the same six winning numbers twice in a row in Bulgaria's national lottery was a freak coincidence, officials said Thursday.

What are the odds? Apparently 1 in 4,000,000. picked by proverb 2 months ago

Fourteen city workers and one retired city worker in the western Ohio town of Piqua claimed a $207 million 12-state lottery prize Wednesday. picked by Wags273 12 months ago

Karma is, as they say, a b***h. Don't believe me? Here is a kid who fully understands the meaning of Karma picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Your job is to verify lottery tickets.

Someone has just handed you a ticket worth thousands of dollars.

Would you pocket it and cash it yourself?

Clerks at five Twin Cities stores did just that during the Minnesota State Lottery's first compliance test, authorities said. The clerks and three accomplices now face felony charges of lottery fraud. picked by kakana 8 months ago

NY State Lottery officials are hoping to join the big 32-state lottery, Powerball, in hopes of generating more state revenue. Right now, Powerball is available only in neighboring states like Connecticut and Pennsylvania, so when there's a big jackpot, New Yorkers head out of state to buy tickets. picked by suebe 8 months ago

A British lottery winner doubled his share of the jackpot to nearly £1 million ($2.4 million) after discovering he mistakenly bought two lucky tickets for the same draw. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Barry Shell of Brampton, Ontario could call it his lucky day -or his unlucky day. He won $4.4 million dollars in the Canadian Lotto drawing July 18th. Monday, he went to pick up his winnings at the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, and was photographed with the check.

Then Shell strolled out of the building and into the hands of Peel Regional Police officers. picked by Bingo 4 months ago

The thief browsed the Melbourne Club X store Saturday night for about 30 minutes until other customers left before she threatened the clerk with the syringe and demanded money. picked by kakana 8 months ago

Biggie had it right when he said “Mo’ money mo’ problems”. Finding yourself up to your eyeballs in cold hard cash may seem like the answer to all your prayers but if you don’t know how to handle all this money (and the reality is most people don’t), winning the lottery can become a living nightmare. Following, are some of the worst cases of lottery disasters; th... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

The winner of a $1 million lottery scratch ticket may not be so lucky after all. That's because he's also a convicted bank robber who isn't supposed to be gambling. Boston probation commissioner's office has scheduled a court hearing for December 7 to determine whether Timothy Elliott, 55, violated his probation when he bought the $10 ticket for the "$800 Million Spectacular" game at a H... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A national lottery may have been fixed after 18 people picked the same winning numbers that had been drawn four days earlier picked by ruthstark 3 months ago

They claim that for the last 5 years, the office workers pooled money for lottery tix. They were not at work the day the winning numbers came up, and so never got the chance to chip in. Both sides seem to have some valid points IMO. picked by Moe 11 months ago

Joel Ifergan had a winning ticket in the lottery but was denied any money because he purchased his ticket 7 seconds after the deadline. He is suing because he feels that they should go by the time that the convenience clerk said it was instead of the official computer time. picked by bernardblack 1 year ago