AS Greece continues to battle hardship and confusion, the people caught in the crisis try their best to put on a brave face. NATHAN Cera was sacked from his first job in radio after just three months, and his second not long after.

The person who bought a lottery ticket at a Brooklyn deli last July has not yet claimed their $7 million proze, and only has until July 24 to claim their winnings. A Brooklyn deli sold a $7 million Cash4Life ticket last July – and the lucky buyer has to claim the prize this month or lose it for good.

The trial of a former lottery security officer accused of fixing the Hot Lotto game in 2010 to get himself a winning ticket worth millions may not start Monday as scheduled. State prosecutors on Friday filed a motion asking the judge in the case to delay the trial of Eddie Tipton.

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley announced his plans for the upcoming Special Session Friday in which he said he was putting several things on the table for legislators to consider including business taxes, tobacco and soft drink taxes, and elimination of the FICA deduction. Gaming and lottery discussion is off the table, Bentley stated.

CHEMICAL LEAK AT THE DOW FACILITY NEAR FREEPORT. YOU’RE GOING TO NEED MORE LUCK THAN EVER TO WIN THE POWERBALL.

According to the N.C. Lottery, Mary Shoffner won a $100,000 top prize in the Mega Bucks game. She bought the ticket at John’s Food Express on North Church Street.

A judge has sentenced a Wyoming State Penitentiary inmate to serve 35 years in prison for trying to hire a hit man to kill his own mother and stepfather so he could collect life insurance money and inherit their house. U.S. District Judge Nancy Freudenthal of Cheyenne on Thursday sentenced 23-year-old Andrew Silicani on four counts of using the mail in his unsuccessful attempt to commission the murders.

A SELFIE ROCK CHECKED. HOW ONE PHOTO ADDS TO THEIR GOALS. THERE IS A NEW MILLIONAIRE IN THE GRANITE STATE LOTTERY OFFICIALS SAY SOMEONE WON $1 MILLION ON THEIR POWERBALL TICKET LAST NIGHT, BUT THAT PERSON HAS YET TO COME FORWARD.

Ridgewood resident Carla Bossolina and her son, Mathew, buy a Powerball lottery ticket at a Seven Eleven convenience store in Hawthorne on Thursday, July 9, 2015. The Powerball lottery jackpots are about to get bigger – but so too will the odds of winning, a rules change that will likely mean fewer winners but more money for the states that run the game.

The winning Quick Pick ticket was purchased at Dundee Pharmacy, 2750 Dundee Road, and matched all five numbers – 09 – 10 – 29 – 32 – 41 – to win the prize, according to lottery officials. The retailer will receive a bonus of $3,500, 1 percent of the prize amount, for selling the winning ticket.

The Ohio Lottery had a boom year, hitting a record $3.6 billion in sales and funneling $990 million to K-12 education. The Ohio Lottery Commission today released figures for the state fiscal year ending June 30. The total, including all lottery games and a share of proceeds added from two new racinos that opened during the year, jumped $483 million compared to the 2014 fiscal year.

Lottery operator Ithuba would continue to run the popular numbers game while government reconsidered the awarding of the licence agreement, deputy trade and industry minister Mzwandile Masina said on Thursday. The high court in Pretoria found trade and industry minister Rob Davies’ decision to conclude an agreement with Ithuba for the third National Lottery License was unlawful.

Courier turned multi-millionaire Gary Baron has not yet agreed to share the spoils of his $16.6 million Powerball win with the members of his lotto syndicate, Fairfax Media understands. The Geelong man is accused of keeping the big win to himself, cheating the other members of the syndicate out of their share of the $16.6 million group draw last October.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, currently celebrating 80 years, received $2 million from the State Lottery Fund to improve the aging infrastructure of OSF’s two oldest and largest theatres and its landmark public courtyard. OSF is one of four arts organizations to receive funding, thanks to the efforts of the Cultural Advocacy Coalition.

Customers shrugged off rule changes that will make it harder to win Powerball jackpots. At I-10 and Shepherd, Powerball players at the Customers unfazed by new Powerball jackpot rules HOUSTON – Customers shrugged off rule changes that will make it harder to win Powerball jackpots.

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New reports show that the odds of winning the top prize — anywhere from $2 million to $600 million — will jump from 1 in 175,223,510 to around 1 in 292,201,338. New reports show that the odds of winning the top prize — anywhere from $2 million to $600 million — will jump from 1 in 175,223,510 to around 1 in 292,201,338.

Changes coming this fall to the PowerballA multi-state game will grow jackpots faster and increase the average jackpot prize won. “Powerball players are motivated by larger jackpots and that’s what these game changes are designed to create,” said Pennsylvania Lottery Executive Director Drew Svitko.

Retired New York City firefighter Carmelo Mercado just hit a life-changing lottery jackpot. And, this jackpot comes nearly 14 years after Carmelo was a first responder to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center twin towers back on September 11, 2001.