Cynthia Ostrosky of Fairfield recently won a Lucky for Life $25,000 A YEAR FOR LIFE annuity prize from the Connecticut Lottery, and the store where she bought her ticket is just as star-struck. News Express, also in Fairfield, is the only store out of 2,800 retailers in the state to have sold such a winning ticket twice, having sold another Lucky for Life winning ducat less than two years ago.

A purchaser displays Mega Millions and Powerball tickets bought at a Plaid Pantry in Janzten Beach. © 2016 Oregon Live LLC. All rights reserved .

A purchaser displays Mega Millions and Powerball tickets bought at a Plaid Pantry in Janzten Beach. © 2016 Oregon Live LLC. All rights reserved .

Starting Monday, the lottery says players may use PayPal to fund accounts to play online games. To make a deposit into their lottery account, players must have a balance in their PayPal account or the account must be linked to a financial institution account.

Starting Monday, the lottery says players may use PayPal to fund accounts to play online games. To make a deposit into their lottery account, players must have a balance in their PayPal account or the account must be linked to a financial institution account.

Winning numbers drawn in ‘Pick 3 Night’ game

Winning numbers drawn in ‘Pick 3 Night’ game

The winning ticket for Wednesday night’s drawing was sold at Carroll’s Corn, 20 Second Ave. SW, lottery officials said this morning. The holder of the winning ticket has one year to claim the prize at Lottery headquarters in Roseville.

The winning ticket for Wednesday night’s drawing was sold at Carroll’s Corn, 20 Second Ave. SW, lottery officials said this morning. The holder of the winning ticket has one year to claim the prize at Lottery headquarters in Roseville.

“It’s kind of ironic that we claimed the prize on tax day,” said Lacey Suchla as she and her husband, Nick, brought their winning Powerball ticket to the Minnesota Lottery office in Roseville on Friday morning. “It’s kind of ironic that we claimed the prize on tax day,” said Lacey Suchla as she and her husband, Nick, brought their winning Powerball ticket to the Minnesota Lottery office in Roseville on Friday morning.

SAN MARCOS, CA: A woman who purchased a winning SuperLotto Plus ticket in December in San Marcos claimed her $7 million prize, state lottery officials said Friday. Bertilia Devine, a retired accountant, waited to collect her winnings so she could get her financial affairs in order.

SAN MARCOS, CA: A woman who purchased a winning SuperLotto Plus ticket in December in San Marcos claimed her $7 million prize, state lottery officials said Friday. Bertilia Devine, a retired accountant, waited to collect her winnings so she could get her financial affairs in order.

The Powerball jackpot is now more than $200 million as the drawing of Wednesday April 13, 2016 yielded no grand prize-winners. That means the drawing on Saturday, April 16 will have an estimated jackpot of at least $205 million and a cash option of $136.4 million.

A COUPLE who run a Darlington newsagents say they have the “luckiest shop” in the town after selling a winning lottery ticket which has made one customer a millionaire. The One Stop store in Neasham Road has been told by the National Lottery that a ticket sold in the shop has resulted in a substantial prize being awarded.

A TEACHER says she had to call her husband twice to tell him she’d won A 33,333 on the Lotto – after he thought it was an April Fool’s joke. Celia Wilson, 56, from Dentons Green, was one of 30 staff at a Widnes primary school to take a share in the A 1million jackpot.

A TEACHER says she had to call her husband twice to tell him she’d won A 33,333 on the Lotto – after he thought it was an April Fool’s joke. Celia Wilson, 56, from Dentons Green, was one of 30 staff at a Widnes primary school to take a share in the A 1million jackpot.

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Brenda Sellers has been an occasional player of the N.C. Education Lottery for years, but she’d never purchased a $10 ticket for the 50X The Cash scratch off. “I didn’t think I’d won anything,” said Sellers, who added that she hadn’t checked the winning numbers before having the ticket scanned at the Food Lion on West Broad Street, where she has worked for 11 years.

Brenda Sellers has been an occasional player of the N.C. Education Lottery for years, but she’d never purchased a $10 ticket for the 50X The Cash scratch off. “I didn’t think I’d won anything,” said Sellers, who added that she hadn’t checked the winning numbers before having the ticket scanned at the Food Lion on West Broad Street, where she has worked for 11 years.