The head of Serbia’s state lottery resigned and several other employees are under investigation after a winning lottery number was shown on live television before it was drawn. Aleksandar Vulovic said he was stepping down out of “moral obligation” and denies any wrongdoing after a winning ball, 21, was shown on screen before it was drawn from the machine.

The jackpot for next Friday’s draw will be $50-million, and there will two MaxMillions prizes of $1-million each available. The lottery’s main prize was last won July 17, when $50-million was shared by 20 ticketholders in the Montreal suburb of Longueuil.

Where do Lotto winners live? How do they choose their numbers? And where do they keep that all-important winning ticket? We’ve all done it. Opened the newspaper and seen the latest Lotto millionaire and thought: Why couldn’t it have been me? From celebrating with a shiny new trouser press, to a new pair of hips for your wife and keeping your winning ticket in the microwave, here’s the anatomy of a Lotto winner.

Record Year for SC Education Lottery The South Carolina Education Lottery says the 2015 fiscal year was the best on record for the lottery. Check out this story on WLTX.com: http://on.wltx.com/1SoY3uE Columbia, SC – The South Carolina Education Lottery says the 2015 fiscal year was the best on record for the lottery.

Every Saturday, the South Jersey Times cheers those who make our area a better place in which to live and jeers those whose actions merit derision. CHEERS : To word that a former golf course could soon become a new Gloucester County park.

As Hamid Lamrabet scratched his Money Money Money ticket from the Virginia Lottery, he thought he’d won $5,000. Money Money Money is one of dozens of Scratcher games available from the Virginia Lottery.

Gov. Robert Bentley called the Legislature into special session to pass a General Fund budget. Gov. Robert Bentley took his campaign for tax increases and budget reform to the Bessemer Chamber of Commerce today, where he was asked about whether he’s concerned that Alabamians buy lottery tickets in other states.

A Clovis woman is now a millionaire after running to the store for tortillas and sticking $20 into a California Lottery vending machine. Catalina Deniston, a Fresno County government employee, was visiting her father in Sanger on Monday when he asked her to get tortillas from Gong’s Market on Academy Avenue, just south of North Avenue.

The government minister in charge of mental health has admitted there is still a ‘postcode lottery’ on the standard of care provided. Alistair Burt said he had followed ITV News’ special Changing Minds series, which has focused on the stories of those who have been failed by the series.

Enter to win a pair of tickets to see Grammy Winner Keb’ Mo’ on September 5, 2015 at the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom.

ONE lucky Lottery player is a millionaire thanks to a Bournemouth convenience store – but their identity remains a closely guarded secret. Ian Brough, who owns Madison’s convenience store in Bearwood , was stunned to receive a letter from the National Lottery telling him his shop had sold a winning lottery ticket and created a millionaire.

The numbers are in for the Iowa Lottery concerning the just concluded budget year and they amount to the 4th highest total in the it’s 30 year history. Sales amounted to $325 million with scratch game ticket sales accounting for $212 million of the total and representing a record amount.

Truck drivers can make a nice paycheck, but it would take a long time to equal the payday trucker Steven Peloquin earned on a recent run through Pennsylvania. While at Penn 80/Flying J Travel Plaza in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, earlier this month, Peloquin bought a Mega Millions ticket .

As a woman sat in her car scratching off a newly-bought lottery ticket last Wednesday, her daughter asked if anyone ever really won. And after taking photos of the $200,000 winning ticket on their cell phones, the ladies drove straight to Columbia to cash it in.

Midale’s Andrew Mok is $2 million richer, after he won the grand prize through the July 11 draw of the Western 6/49. Mok was born in a Year of the Rabbit, and his wife said his horoscope indicated he would have good luck this year.

The North Carolina Education Lottery is on the verge of cracking $2 billion in gross revenue, which allowed it to contribute a record $522 million to education initiatives in the state last year. The lottery reported $1.97 billion in ticket sales for the fiscal year that ended June 30, marking a 7.2 percent increase over 2013.

Many Republicans including Gov. Rick Scott oppose selling tickets online. Yet lottery officials have asked companies seeking a multi-million dollar contract with the state to prove that they could sell tickets on the Internet or at bank machines, gas pumps and even on handheld terminals.

Anticipating a stampede of customers during Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to Philadelphia, a regional rail line will hold an online lottery for 24-hour regional rail passes for travel on Sept. 26 and 27. This story is part of the Deseret News National Edition , which focuses on the issues that resonate with American families.

A truck driver who purchased a Mega Millions ticket at a truck stop claimed his $92 million prize Wednesday at Pennsylvania Lottery headquarters. Steven Peloquin, 52, of Mechanicsville, Virginia, turned in the sole winning ticket from a Mega Millions drawing last week and chose the cash value payout rather than a $153 million annuity, the Pennsylvania Lottery said.

Tom Rea, a building maintenance supervisor for the city’s department of corrections and his wife, Catherine Ruggeri-Rea, the city’s courts administrator, were announced as the winners of a $70 million jackpot at a news conference Wednesday morning. Rea, 62, has worked for the city for 40 years.