Lottery winner who scooped A 27million EuroMillions jackpot with ticket she bought on her way home from claiming benefits battered taxi driver in drunken rampage Been given community service for attack, in which she also hurled a book and tore a sat-nav from the windscreen Margaret Loughrey has been ordered to perform 150 hours of unpaid work after she assaulted a taxi driver and broke his glasses A A 27million EuroMillions jackpot winner has been ordered to perform 150 hours of unpaid work after she assaulted a taxi driver and broke his glasses. Margaret Loughrey, from Strabane, Co Tyrone, claimed she couldn’t remember carrying out the booze-fuelled attack in May this year.

Lindsay Wildlife Experience staffers could be excused for having the kind of daydreams lottery winners indulge in: The 60-year-old wildlife-rehabilitation center has received a $2.6 million gift from the late Stephen S. Ball, its largest-ever single donation. The money could be used to upgrade wildlife rescue and rehabilitation facilities, including the hospital’s treatment rooms and animal housing; for new aviaries and outdoor improvements of animal exercise areas; or to help build an endowment fund, according to a Lindsay news release Friday.

Margaret Loughrey, who won the EuroMillions jackpot in December 2013, was “highly intoxicated” on vodka when the offence took place in May. Loughrey, 50, of Co Tyrone, Ireland, who bought the winning ticket on her way home from the Jobcentre and has given away half her fortune to help the needy, also admitted criminal damage. Her lawyer Stephen Chapman told the court in Strabane: “She is a woman with a number of advantages and she accepts that her behaviour on this night was totally unacceptable.

It doesn’t matter how many times Ken Osborne wins the lottery, there are more important things to be thankful for. “The biggest thing I’ve won is this battle with cancer,” said Osborne, who had his second big lottery win last weekend.

A $1 million Powerball prize will be split 19 ways after a group of workers at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis shared a winning ticket for the Aug. 12 drawing. The Missouri Lottery says all 19 are medical records employees at the hospital.

The man, who released statements Friday via the Michigan Lottery Office , won on a $30 World Class Millions instant game ticket. “I scratched the numbers on the ticket first, before revealing the prizes,” the man said.

” A woman accused of helping a man who was convicted for spearheading a Jamaican lottery scam that bilked dozens of mostly elderly people out of their retirement savings has pleaded not guilty. Melinda Bulgin, of Providence, Rhode Island, made her first appearance in federal court Wednesday for a hearing on numerous charges of mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy.

Raymond Scott, of Fort Kent, Alta., is shown in a Western Canada Lottery Corporation handout photo. Scott simply couldn’t believe that he had won $50 million, and thanks to his habit of joking about his lottery tickets, his wife wouldn’t believe him.

ST. ALBERT, Alta. – An Alberta man had joked so many times about winning the lottery that his wife didn’t believe him when they finally hit the jackpot.

Tatts boss Robbie Cooke had the spit and polish out to present the company’s full year results in the best light possible light on Thursday – it failed to distract Tatts watchers’ from the latest shareholding “oversights” of veteran board member, Brian Jamieson . Slipped in among Tatts financial announcements was the news that Jamieson has had a bit of trouble accounting for his shareholding interests in the lottery and wagering shop.

Lottery Rewards announced it is locating in the New York BizLab business accelerator in downtown Schenectady this fall, the company announced today. Lottery Rewards bills itself as the first national second chance lottery gaming company.

The exact cause and circumstances of a five-day outage that blocked nearly half the state’s lottery retailers from selling printed tickets like Pick-3 and Mega Millions earlier this month are still a mystery, but a few determinations are unanimous. The blackout, although anomalous, was unacceptable, may have been detected sooner and should have been handled better, state officials and executives from Northstar New Jersey, the group responsible for the lottery’s sales and marketing, said at a meeting Thursday.

Raymond and Sheena Scott are presented with a whopping big check by Bill Robinson, president of the Alberta Gaming & Liquor Commission. A very shy man from a tiny Alberta hamlet made his wife blush and a room full of people laugh Thursday when asked why he was in the Mini Mart that day.

NJ Lottery officials reported that a winning New Jersey Lottery ticket purchased with Powerplay matched 4 white balls and the Powerball for the Wednesday, Aug. 19 drawing.

Richard Shy, 65, has been bagging groceries for 15 years at a Gwinnett County grocery store and it paid off in a big way this week, according to the Georgia Lottery. Shy won $3 million in the lottery’s Jumbo Bucks Lotto with Ca$h Match game after buying the winning ticket at the same Lilburn-area Publix Super Market where he works.

The Louisiana Lottery Corporation says nobody won the two major jackpots in the Louisiana Lotto and multistate Powerball drawings on Wednesday night. Louisiana Lotto players matching all six numbers drawn would have won or shared a $2.075 million prize, which will rise to an estimated $2.150 million for Saturday.

While in Charleston for business, a Washington D.C. man bought a lottery ticket for one of his employees that turned out to be a winner. According to SC Lottery officials, Deborah Jefferson’s boss mailed her the ticket in May. She’s been keeping the win a secret but was able to take a day off of work to fly to Columbia to claim her $100,000 prize.

The mayor of a city in British Columbia’s Interior says hundreds of jobs were created as a result of the construction of a new casino. Cascades Casino Kamloops opened the doors to its new $40 million, 5,800-square-metre entertainment centre on Wednesday night in the same city that’s home to the B.C. Lottery Corporation’s head office.

Strong online lottery sales and online wagering have helped lift Tatts Group’s annual profit by nearly 26 per cent. The gambling group’s net profit rose by 25.7 per cent to $251.96 million in the year to June 30, from $200.4 million in 2013/14.

Wednesday numbers for that draw were 08-12-25-38-45-48. There were no matches for the $1 million Atlantic 6/49 draw, either.