Hilario Laeong became the latest winner of $750,000 from the California Lottery’s $10 Crossword Cash Scratchers game last week. Laeong, a custodian, purchased his winning ticket at the Hillside Loop Shell Gas Station at 950 Hillside Blvd. in Daly City, according to California Lottery spokesman Greg Parshak.

A former Iowa Lottery Worker has been found guilty of fraud. A Jury in Des Moines found that Eddie Tipton rigged the hot lotto game, and tried to claim a $16 million jackpot.

Claudine Forget said she feared the worst when her colleague began chatting with her online this past weekend by saying: “Call me – it’s urgent.” “He told me to sit down,” said Forget, who works the night shift for hardware retailer Rona Inc. south of Montreal. “I told him to stop.

Gamblers who played high-limit table games at B.C. casinos helped BCLC earn record profits last year. Gamblers who wager up to $100,000 at high-limit tables in British Columbia casinos helped B.C. Lottery Corporation earn its highest profits to date last year.

Peter McCathie survived being hit by lightning when he was a teenager and now he’s won the lottery – both events combined come to about a 1 in 2.6 trillion chance. McCathie is splitting the $1 million Lotto 6/49 prize with co-worker Diana Miller, the Atlantic Lottery told ABC News today.

A group of 20 Rona hardware employees pose with their 55 million dollar Lotto Max jackpot cheque, the second largest in Canadian history, at a news conference, Monday, July 20, 2015 in Montreal.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz A group of 20 Rona hardware employees pose with their 55 million dollar Lotto Max jackpot cheque, the second largest in Canadian history, at a news conference, Monday, July 20, 2015 in Montreal.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz Most of them attended a news conference in Montreal this afternoon to collect their cheques and some said they will be quitting work.

STACEY: KCCI’S JASON RANTALA IS LIVE IN STUDIO WITH OUR TOP STORY. JASON: EDDIE TIPTON IS CONVICTED ON TWO COUNTS OF FRAUD AFTER AUTHORITIES SAY HE WAS THE MYSTERY MAN WHO TRIED TO CASH THAT MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR LOTTERY TICKET.

“My brother bought me a Lucky Day Lotto ticket as a birthday gift and I won! It’s the best birthday gift ever!” Jeff Hendrix said after hitting the jackpot, according to a statement from the Illinois Lottery. Jeff Hendrix was eating at his 51st birthday celebration when his brother, Scott Hendrix, told him he was the lucky winner, according to the Lottery.

The Minnesota Lottery is expected to send a record amount of money to the state this year, director Ed Van Petten said Monday, although that may represent a high-water mark. The $135.3 million generated through ticket sales in the 2015 fiscal year bests the previous record by about $220,000.

Chester’s annual portion of video lottery proceeds from Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort took a 36 percent hit last year, city council learned on Monday. Mayor Larry Forsythe opened Monday’s council meeting with the bad news, saying, “That’s something we need to start looking at real closely.

Twenty co-workers from Boucherville, Que., got their cheques today after winning a $55 million jackpot, the province’s biggest-ever lottery prize. The winners of Friday’s $55-million Lotto Max all work together on the night shift at the Rona distribution centre, situated on Montreal’s South Shore.

An Iowa jury began deliberating Friday after hearing over four… A former lottery security official was found guilty Monday of rigging a computerized Hot Lotto game so he could win a $14 million jackpot then trying to get acquaintances to cash the prize for him without revealing… A former lottery security official was found guilty Monday of rigging a computerized Hot Lotto game so he could win a $14 million jackpot then trying to get acquaintances to cash the prize for him without revealing his… Police say a Wyoming man accused of opening fire at an alcohol detoxification center is a parks employee of a small town who said he targeted the facility because he was tired of cleaning up after the homeless… Police say a Wyoming man accused of opening fire at an alcohol detoxification center is a parks employee of a small town who said he targeted the facility because he was tired of … (more)

It’s not my job to defend Robert Stebbins, recently fired as sales director for the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery.

Estimated Wednesday jackpots are $80,000 for Easy 5, $1.550 million for Lotto and $80 million for the Powerball. The biggest prize in Louisiana for Saturday night’s drawings is $1,662.

If you bought a lotto ticket on July 24 of last year at Milky Way Deli at 1669 Ralph Avenue – in the Carnarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn – you could be a secret millionaire. The New York Lottery has sent out one last call : If you don’t come forward by next Friday, July 24, your $7 million ticket will be thrown back in the lotto pool for future winners to share.

The winner of a $1 million Powerball prize has yet to come forward, three months after winning the big prize, according to the Michigan Lottery. One ticket drawn on April 18 matched the first five numbers – 13-22-23-29-31 – to win the $1 million prize.

An Iowa jury began deliberating Friday after hearing over four days the complex story of how a lottery security officer allegedly fixed the Hot Lotto game in 2010 to get himself a winning ticket for a $14 million jackpot and then attempted to cash it anonymously. Eddie Tipton of Norwalk, Iowa, is charged with two counts of fraud, which carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison each.

Someone may be at risk of letting $1 million slip through their hands. And that person may be in Cherryville.

The purchases are possible through a new service offered by the N.C. Education Lottery that provides lottery players the convenience of entering a drawing in one of the jackpot games-Powerball, Mega Millions or Carolina Cash 5-while pumping gas. The service is optional to lottery retailers.

The Unclaimed Property Division of the Utah State Treasurer’s Office returned more than $22.5 million to rightful owners in the past year alone, a 34 percent increase from the prior year’s all-time high of $15.8 million. The Unclaimed Property Division of the Utah State Treasurer’s Office returned more than $22.5 million to rightful owners in the past year alone, a 34 percent increase from the prior year’s all-time high of $15.8 million.