Lucky Illinois Lottery winners who’ve won cash prizes of $600 are now finding out they may not be so lucky after all. Thanks to a budget impasse in the Illinois General Assembly, instead of payouts winners are getting I.O.U.s, a Chicago Tribune report says .

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The Classic Lotto jackpot is $12.8 million for Saturday’s drawing after no tickets matched the winning numbers from Wednesday. Those numbers are 4-24-29-35-46-48 Kicker 187379.

The couple won after matching five main numbers and the Bonus Ball in the Lotto draw on Saturday, October 3. Betty, 56, a physiotherapist technician at Wishaw General Hospital, thought at first she had only matched four numbers – a prize of 70 – but as she checked she realised she had in fact matched five numbers with number four coming up trumps as the Bonus Ball. With both her daughter and granddaughter born on the fourth of the month, it’s always been lucky for Betty.

A COUPLE who were still in shock from winning nearly A 150,000 on the EuroMillions Lottery have described how they burst into tears when their dog uncovered a second winning ticket for the same draw. Jane and Alan Slater, of the Isle of Wight, had already started making plans for their future with their win after matching five numbers and the lucky star on the draw held on Tuesday September 29. But a few days later, Mrs Slater, 59, had just taken her dogs, Ruby and Kai, for a walk and they were getting back into the car when Ruby disturbed the second winning ticket for another A 150,000, which had been tucked into a catalogue and forgotten about.

Yolanda Vega, right, came to Lakeville Pharmacy on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, to present West Babylon’s Jose Hernandez and New Hyde Park’s Nora Murphy with their lottery prizes. Photo Credit: Jim Staubitser Yolanda Vega, right, came to Lakeville Pharmacy on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, to present West Babylon’s Jose Hernandez and New Hyde Park’s Nora Murphy with their lottery prizes.

The cash-starved Illinois lottery lowered the boom even harder on its players on Wednesday, saying anyone with a winning ticket worth $600 or more will face delays collecting prizes until the state’s long-running budget impasse ends. Since July, the state has not been making timely payments to players who have won $25,000 or more, triggering a class-action lawsuit in federal court last month against Republican Governor Bruce Rauner’s administration.

More than a million Ghanaians entered the 2016 Diversity Immigrant Visa Programme for 2016 for a chance to travel to the United States of America to seek greener pastures. Out of the number, 6,000 Ghanaians were successfully selected in the computerised random selection process.

Cheadle SMU Football Club has secured a grant of A 69,861 from the National Lottery, Sport England’s Inspired Facilities fund, to renovate the former Kingsley Youth and Community Centre and adjoining pitch. The site has fallen in to disuse during recent years and the club now plans to refurbish the building to create a base for the football club as well as a site for indoor and outdoor sports and other social activities.

An audacious, movie-worthy lottery rigging scandal that has rocked Iowa is now spreading into other states – including Texas. The Hot Lotto mess does not involve the state-run Texas Lottery.

A winning Jersey Cash 5 ticket worth $65,863 was sold in Camden County on Sunday, New Jersey Lottery officials said on Tuesday. The top prizewinning ticket was the only one sold for Sunday’s drawing that matched all five numbers drawn.

Now, the Danbury man has received some help of his own. He recently bought a winning ticket in the state’s $5,000 A Month For Life game at the Mill Plain Exxon in Danbury.

Garden City Police arrested two men last week for altering lottery tickets and stealing approximately $1,000 from the Pilot Travel Center on Dean Forest Road. Jose Carlos Carrillo, 20, and Edwin Steven Chicas, 18, were arrested Friday afternoon and charged with altering and forgering lottery tickets, according to Garden City Detective Armando Villegas.

The so-called Jamaican lottery scam is an offshore scheme that robs the most vulnerable Americans of more than $300 million. Sophisticated crooks are using a phone and computer to take victims for millions.

The National lottery last week celebrated making 4,000 people millionaires. Tom Morris met Richard and Dione Buss who scooped a big win in 2013 and talked snazzy sports cars, horses and kebabs Dione Buss was working in the council tax department at Bristol City Council when she and her husband Richard scooped 1.9 million on the National Lottery.

The Missouri Lottery said Tuesday that Farah and Justin Shaddix of Cape Girardeau and Erik Kneebone of St. Peters correctly matched the five white-ball numbers in the Sept. 26 Powerball drawing.

Man celebrates birthday with $150,000 lottery winner “Yeah, it was $150,000. It was an unbelievable birthday!” exclaimed Wirz.

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Picture by Christian Cooksey/CookseyPix.com on behalf of the National Lottery and 3×1 PR. For further information please contact Laura Phillips at 3×1 PR on 07413 529158Pictured celebrating winning A 60, 852 in the Lotto draw at the Radstone Hotel, Shaw Betty and Tony Bradley matched five main numbers and the bonus ball to win a A 60,852 windfall in the Lotto draw on October 3. Mrs Bradley, 56, a physiotherapist technician at Wishaw General Hospital, first thought at first she had only matched four numbers, which would have meant a prize of A 70. She said: “I play the Lottery every week but I wait until Sunday morning to check the Saturday draw.

Congratulations, you’re now registered! Let us know what news and updates you want to hear about and we’ll send them straight to your inbox. Ryan Magee, of Monnaboy Road, Eglinton, was accused of four common assaults on a female between August 1 and 2. The 34-year-old, who won over A 6 million on the Euromillions Lottery in 2008, was not present for the brief hearing.