A Virginia retiree had an Independence Day she won’t soon forget after winning $1 million in Saturday’s Powerball drawing. Angela Leyco of Chester, Va.

Packers Food Mart, 527 U.S. Highway 319 North in Moultrie, sold the winning ticket from the June 30 drawing. Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $16.5 billion to the state of Georgia for education.

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11, 2001, has won $5 million on a lottery scratch-off ticket. Carmelo Mercado was presented with an oversized check on July 2. The 63-year-old, who’s retired, gets $3.3 million in a lump-sum payment after taxes are taken out.

Dennis Gosda bought the winning ticket at Camp Cedar Springs in New Lisbon, and his ticket matched all five winning numbers from the Wednesday drawing.

The 36 states that participate in the multi-state lottery are making it harder to win the top prize, but increasing the odds of winning any money. So the odds of winning the jackpot – which was a record $590.5 million in 2013 – will increase to one in 292,201,338, up from 1 in 175,223,510.

In country music – or any genre, for that matter – musicians can toil for years with little recognition, only to wake up one morning with a hit song and so-called overnight success. Before signing a record deal with Warner Brothers, Nashville singer Chris Janson, who’ll open for Toby Keith at Hartford’s Xfinity Theatre on Friday, July 10, co-wrote “Buy Me a Boat” with Chris DuBois.

A man from west Dublin, Ireland, has described winning 500,000 in the EuroMillions multi-country game as a “pleasant shock”. EuroMillions Plus is an add-on game played only in Ireland that enters the first five numbers on your EuroMillions game ticket in a special Plus drawing held in Ireland the same evening.

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Patrick Wills, a 59-year-old Woodbridge resident and retired U.S. Marine, shot a 57 – that’s right, a 57 – after a round at one of GolfStyles Media Group’s annual Solstice Survival tournaments on June 22, according to GolfStyles . The round was played at Laurel Hills Golf Club in Lorton, Virginia.

The lottery announced Tuesday that Duane Gillis bought a winning ticket on June 20 in the Cash 5 game. His winning numbers: 9-11-24-26-28.

By Charles McCrary, former CEO of Alabama Power Co. and now vice president of Alabama Jobs Foundation, a group of businessmen working for passage of bill to allow lottery and casino gaming in Alabama I believe the time has come to let the people of Alabama vote on a state lottery and casino gaming.

THE FINANCIAL Intelligence Unit of Trinidad and Tobago has noted an increase of small intra-island money transfers through money remitters like MoneyGram and Western Union which may be indicative of drug trafficking. This was revealed last week at the FIU Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism Awareness session held at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel, Port-of-Spain.

New York State Gaming Commission, Yolanda Vega, presents retired New York City Firefighter Carmelo Mercado with the prize money cheque. NEW YORK: A retired firefighter, who severely damaged his lungs while responding to the 9/11 terror attack at the World Trade Centre, has won a whopping US $ 5 million in a lottery here in the US.

Afghan army deserter Jan Arash hit the jackpot last week – he’s been granted “asylum” in the U.S., which means he can now go on welfare, bring his entire family over from their Third World hellhole and put them on the dole, too, forever. This is what millions of Third Worlders aspire to – a permanent vacation at U.S. taxpayer expense.

The winners had not yet come forward to claim their prizes Sunday, but they have 180 days to do so, offiicals with the North Carolina Education Lottery said. A $2 million ticket was sold at O’Neil’s Quick Stop on South Morgan Street in Roxboro.

A recent study ranks the most patriotic states around the nation, while following up with the best Fourth of July destinations. According to Wallethub, patriotic hotspots were identified based on factors like military engagement, voting habits and civic education.

LEE >> A lucky Big Y shopper at the chain’s Lee supermarket on Pleasant Street won $100,000 in the Massachusetts Lottery’s Mass Cash game in the July 1 drawing, lottery officials confirmed. No one had yet claimed the prize, a spokesman said Friday afternoon, and a spokeswoman at the supermarket said the winner had not notified store employees.

The federal government has warned the public of an increased terror threat this 4th of July weekend, and San Diegans have been advised to be on alert. While there hasn’t been a specific threat, it is important San Diegans be on the lookout for anything suspicious, and to stay vigilant.