Richard Martin, 43, who drives a truck delivering flooring products to stores in Iowa, and his wife, Elizabeth, 40, a receptionist at a health clinic, claimed their $1 million Powerball prize at Iowa Lottery headquarters Monday. Their net proceeds were $700,000 after federal and state taxes were withheld, according to lottery officials.

Officials say an ex-priest who won more than $1 million in the New York Lottery 30 years ago has been charged with a sex crime. The Journal News reports the charges suggest Faraone is accused of engaging in sexual conduct with a person younger than 15 years old or with a person incapable of consent due to a mental disability or incapacity.

LITERATURE Wales, the national company for the promotion and development of literature, has announced the next round of writers’ bursaries are open for application. The bursaries, which are funded by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Wales, enable writers of all genres and backgrounds to take time out to write.

An Overseas Filipino Worker in Singapore can now breathe a sigh of relief after she was cleared of accusations that she stole a lottery ticket that had a $2.3 million grand prize in the Singapore Sweep. In a report published on The Straits Times , Ms Len , who won the lottery ticket and deposited the prize money into her bank account, was told by cops that her account was no longer frozen.

There were tickets sold in California, Florida, Iowa, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania that matched five numbers, each worth $1 million. Two tickets, sold in Illinois and Virginia, matched five numbers with the Powerplay, each worth $2 million.

Ashley Morris with the Star News Reports, Scott Kelly of Wilmington won $50,000 in the instant game Ultimate Millions, according to a news release.

The Powerball jackpot now stands at $235 million. Here, a woman buys a Powerball ticket at a newsstand in Philadelphia.

An ex-priest who won $1 million in the lottery 30 years ago is being held in the Putnam County Jail on charges of a sex crime, reported LoHud.com.

The Michigan State Lottery’s Powerball jackpot continues to grow as no one matched all six Powerball numbers on Sept. 19, 2015, increasing the next jackpot to at least $235 million.

Eddie Park , owner of the Y&E Superstop in Bryant, watches as regular lottery customer Roger Urrey of Bryant checks his tickets Thursday. The convenience store racked up $1.89 million in lottery sales in fi scal 2015, or about $5,178 per day.

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These triplets really are 1-in-a-million. Kelli Fenley gave birth July 1 to identical triplets, which is extremely rare, according to CBS New York .

Each time state lawmakers find themselves in legal trouble over failing to fully fund public schools, some Washington taxpayers invariably ask: What about lottery money? Isn’t that supposed to fund education? The truth is, even if all lottery profits went to basic education, that money would still be woefully inadequate to solve the state’s school-funding problems. Those court sanctions stem from a school funding lawsuit known as McCleary, in which the state Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that the state was failing to meet its constitutional obligation to fully fund basic education.

But once identical Owen Michael, Noah Charles and Miles John arrived on September 17, they felt like they’d ‘won the genetic lottery’. And in many ways they did, identical triplets are extremely rare.

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More than 34,000 Arkansas students are receiving scholarships at 51 state colleges and universities thanks to the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery. This football season the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery is partnering with the University of Central Arkansas to shine a light on higher education by featuring students who have received college scholarships through the Academic Challenge Scholarship.

Saturday night’s Powerball jackpot is $208 million, but the odds of winning are slim. There’s a 175 million to 1 chance your ticket will match all six numbers drawn on September 19, but if you beat the odds, it would be an amazing return on a $2 investment.

Forget Ecuador . Really forget Costa Rica. As for Italy, sure, if you win the lottery.

The parkway where Pope Francis will celebrate Mass will be able to hold about 250,000 of the million or more people organizers have projected will attend the service, a new estimate shows. The Secret Service told The Associated Press on Friday that about 80,000 people with tickets distributed mostly through local parishes and an online lottery will fill the first three blocks in front of the pope’s altar for the mass Sept.

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Lottery lost money last year for the first time since 2009, reducing the amount of money it generates for state programming by $125 million, according to a new report from the Illinois Legislature. The loss comes after the state hired a private manager, Northstar Lottery Group, in 2010 to increase sales and profits.