IT’S ten years since the People’s Post Code Lottery launched, helping to create thousands of lucky winners while providing vital funds for a host of Scottish charities. The lottery, which is based around players’ postcodes allowing entire communities to win together, set out as a unique way to fundraise for good causes.

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A GOOD DAY: Lottery winner Peter Mello of Brockton and his wife, Kathleen, won $1 million playing Powerball last week. Above is Grover Long, a clerk at the C & B convenience store where the Mellos bought the winning ticket.

Suu Le of Stoughton is the thirteenth $1 million prize winner in the Massachusetts State Lottery’s $30 “Supreme Millions” instant game. Le opted to receive a one-time cash prize payment of $650,000, less taxes.

After years of struggling financially, Susan Rick thought things were looking up when her boyfriend won $250,000 from the Illinois Lottery last month. She could stop working seven days a week, maybe fix up the house and take a trip to Minnesota to visit her daughter.

Twenty-four hours later, and the identity of a pregnant mother who had a close call with a lightning strike is still a mystery. Twenty-four hours later, and the identity of a pregnant mother who had a close call with a lightning strike is still a mystery.

Carol Craver won $3.25 million through the Lottery’s Scratchers 2nd Chance game. If a ticket isn’t an instant winner, its code can be entered into the California Lottery’s 2nd Chance Program and added to a weekly pool drawing.

Many lottery-oriented cafes are violating the Oregon Constitutional ban on nontribal casinos as interpreted by the Oregon State Lottery, according to a new state audit. The Secretary of State’s audit, released Thursday, examined the financial records of 18 Dotty’s-style delis – bare-bones cafes revolving around six state lottery terminals – and found more than half of them derive the majority of their revenues from gambling.

Lottery instant game winners, who bought tickets in South Brunswick and Edison, were among those who claimed their prizes in July, officials said this week. “I had a dream two years ago , so I thought it was my destiny,” one winner, Deepak R., said in a prepared statement.

This April 27, 2015 file booking photo provided by Burleigh County Sheriff’s Department in Bismarck N.D., shows Sanjay Williams, of Montego Bay, Jamaica. Federal prosecutors say the sentence for Williams, who was convicted May 7 by a North Dakota jury for leading a Jamaican lottery scam should reflect the “severe mental anguish” he caused his victims.

And for one man a single shiny penny did more than that it turned into a whopping 1.8m lottery win. Taxi driver Sean Lloyd became an instant millionaire after he bought a ticket just seconds after picking up the lucky coin from the street.

U.S. prosecutors say the sentence for a man convicted in North Dakota of leading a Jamaican lottery scam should reflect the “severe mental anguish” he caused his victims. Authorities say Sanjay Williams, of Montego Bay, Jamaica, was a “lead broker” who bought and sold “sucker lists” of potential victims.

John Mott, of Dresden, is one of 14 employees from Bath Iron Works who won $3 million in the Maine Lottery’s Mega Millions game in July. Mott has worked at Bath Iron Works for 38 years, first as a pipe fitter before becoming a maintenance mechanic.

Darlington Police took to social media to raise awareness of fraudsters attempting to trick people into believing they’ve won the lottery. One scam promises an online lottery prize of A 650,000 and a trip to Brazil to watch the Olympics while the other gives winning numbers and says the recipient has won A 820,000 and a trip to Brazil to watch the Rio Carnival.

On August 13, Fort Myers police say two women introduced themselves to an elderly victim at DD Discounts located at 3253 Cleveland Avenue and convinced her they had a winning lottery ticket. Police say the suspects told the victim they could not cash in the lottery ticket because they were not legal citizens.

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A $250,000 winning ticket sold at the Williamston Curb Market on Greenville Drive and a $100,000 winning ticket bought just five minutes away at the Saluda Quick Stop Inc. on Anderson Drive were both claimed this week. The quarter-of-a-million dollar winner lives next door in Pelzer.

In a series of steps beginning Friday, the lottery will stop selling Mega Millions, Hot Lotto, Gopher 5, Powerball and instant-win tickets online. When the instant-win games launched in early 2014, Minnesota became the first state to give the scratch-off franchise a virtual option.

Lottery officials are reporting a nearly 14 percent decline in the sale of Powerball tickets and other big jackpot drawing games for the last fiscal year. Nationally, Powerball sales have declined by more than 17 percent.