Celebrating lottery windfall, Greatwood Primary School children, with from left: Nicola Morris, project officer ; Greatwood teacher, David Atkinson; director of services, Paul Ellis; Cllr Simon Myers, and Martin Wills, museum curator/m CRAVEN Museum and Art Gallery is on its way to a major transformation after receiving support from the Heritage Lottery Fund. A A 98,000 initial grant from the HLF announced this week will pave the way to a further bid for A 1.4 million in the next two years.

Randy Houpt of North Platte says he and his wife plan to remodel their home after he claimed a $1 million Powerball ticket. Houpt won the $1 million prize by matching five numbers, but not the Powerball number, from the Sept.

Most are so shocked by the life change, they take a while to get used to the money and start off small. But when Camelot offered to give me a day in the life of a winner, I decided to jump right in.

The Classic Lotto jackpot will be $12.3 million for Saturday’s drawing after no tickets matched the winning numbers from Wednesday. Those numbers are 2-23-31-32-33-39 Kicker 138988.

State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg thinks the state lottery should get in on the fantasy sports action, but the governor has other ideas. Goldberg’s office oversees the lottery, and based on the success of DraftKings sees the fantasy sports market as a lucrative industry, Boston Herald reports.

Changes to the weekly Lotto draw will come into force tomorrow, leaving players of the game wondering if the chance of them winning the jackpot is now even more of a distant dream. Saturday’s draw will be the first after the number of balls is increased from 49 to 59, which statisticians say means the overall chance of winning the jackpot will decrease to one in 45 million.

The phone calls wouldn’t stop. The man on the other end of the line made promises of a big payoff: millions of dollars in prize money.

Check your wallet, desk and junk drawers. The winner of a Fantasy 5 jackpot has only days to claim prize.

A Powerball ticket worth $1 MILLION was purchased from the Piedmont Petro Corner Mart #38 at 2705 White Horse Rd. in Greenville for Saturday night’s drawing. A $400,000 Palmetto Cash 5 ticket was purchased in Spartanburg from the Kangaroo Express #1500 at 1505 John B. White Sr. Blvd. The Palmetto Cash 5 ticket sold in Spartanburg matched all five numbers drawn.

Blackjack players flocked to Maryland Live in August 2014 when table games started at the Hanover casino. Maryland Live reported $49.6 million in revenue in September 2015 to lead all state casinos.

The gunman who killed nine people at an Oregon community college said in writings he left behind that everyone else was “crazy” and ranted about not having a girlfriend, a law enforcement official said Monday. The mother of the Oregon gunman who killed nine in a college classroom apparently wrote about her love of guns in an online forum, referring to places that attempt to pass firearms legislation as “lame states.”

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” A supervisor at a Michigan fiberglass factory who won a $310.5 million Powerball jackpot said Tuesday that she immediately quit her one-time “nasty, dirty” job and will buy land to build houses for her family. Julie Leach of Three Rivers said she was having a “really bad night” working the third shift when she took her lunch break at McDonald’s.

Virginia Lottery officials will present a check today to a Hampton resident who won $500,000 in the Bank a Million game. No name-calling, personal insults or threats.

A record $60 million lottery ticket was bought by an office pool few days ago. This is the reaction as coworkers gathered to review their tickets.

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A deal has been reached between the state and the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Tribes, to allow the keno video lottery game to take effect throughout the state. Under the agreement, the tribes will get 12.5-percent of gross revenues from keno, which will be run by the Connecticut Lottery Corporation .

Julie says she worked the third shift at a fiberglass company and upon learning she won the jackpot, she “quit automatically.” Julie was in the McDonald’s drive thru when she realized she had the winning ticket.

Changes in the Powerball lottery are now in effect, making it a little easier to win a little money and a lot harder to win a lot of money.

Julie learned that she was the winner while she was on a work break in the drive-thru of a McDonald’s while waiting for her food. She went back to work and some co-workers looked at her numbers to help her verify that she had actually won.