A fighting fund of more than A 14 million has been put together with cash from the National Lottery and European Union to tackle poverty and unemployment in the city and county. The Big Lottery Fund has announced it is matching European Union investment to give people in need the tools to overcome barriers to work, education and training.

Helen Fortune of Oxford Junction, N.S. won the $1 million 6/49 LOTTO prize in the June 17 draw. Fortune is truly the name of the game for a Cumberland County woman who won the Lotto 6/49 $1 million prize in the June 17 draw.

Newlyweds from Cape Cod are planning to buy a house, pay off student loans and buy a truck after winning $15 million on an instant scratch-off ticket. WCVB-TV, http://bit.ly/1LqA6Ph, reports that Stacy and David Foster, of Orleans, who were married May 1, went to a store on Route 6 in Eastham Saturday and asked for a $30 Supreme Millions ticket from a machine behind a different register.

The Carmarthenshire couple have, however, splashed out on a brand new luxury car, and renovation work on their home has sped up thanks to the cash. Before they played and won online the grandparents, from Porthyrhyd, Carmarthenshire, had been planning on buying a new Kia Sportage for Davinia.

A board is preparing to pick a developer for a new state-owned casino in southeast Kansas from among three applicants. The state board was meeting Thursday in Topeka to choose among Castle Rock Casino Resort, Frontenac Development and Kansas Crossing.

Champagne being poured into a National Lottery branded champagne glass flute, as Lotto players will have to select their winning numbers from a pool of 59 – up from 49 – in sweeping changes to the game taking effect later this year Winning the National Lottery jackpot is going to be a lot harder after the biggest overhaul in its 21-year history. From October, ten more numbers will be added to the pot meaning Lotto players will have 59 numbers to choose from instead of 49, while average jackpots are set to triple.

Joycelyn Toler, a lucky wife, mother and grandmother, is the latest winner from Clovis to win a big lottery prize. Toler won $50,000 this week playing the Monopoly Millionaires’ Cluba Scratcher game.

Wyoming’s own Cowboy DrawTM continued a warm-weather winning streak as the Wyoming Lottery Corporation reported that 11 WyoLottoTM players won $1,000 each in the June 15 and June 18 drawings of the state’s newest lottery game. Tickets for the Cowboy Draw game are sold only in Wyoming, giving WyoLotto players higher chances of winning prizes.

The Roanoke Times reports the Virginia Lottery says Tom Cook purchased his Mega Millions winning ticket at a Kroger in Salem. Cook returned to the store Monday to pick up his check.

Newlyweds from Cape Cod are planning to buy a house, pay off student loans and buy a truck after winning $15 million on an instant scratch-off ticket. WCVB-TV reports that Stacy and David Foster, of Orleans, who were married May 1, went to a store on Route 6 in Eastham Saturday and asked for a $30 Supreme Millions ticket from a machine behind a different register.

Tolder, the Lottery said, had driven to her usual lottery retailer to buy one of the Monopoly Millionaires’ Club scratcher. The ckerk there told her that scratcher wasn’t available so Toler drove to Allsup’s Store #4 to buy what would turn out to be a winning ticket.

Best Value Food Store, 1040 NW 47th Ave., Plantation, sold the only Powerball ticket to hit the $80 million jackpot in the Saturday, June 20, drawing. Best Value Food Store, 1040 NW 47th Ave., Plantation, sold the only Powerball ticket to hit the $80 million jackpot in the Saturday, June 20, drawing.

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Anthony Perosi Jr. wasn’t the only one who got lucky when he scored a $136 million Powerball win – so did a bicyclist who got doored by his pickup. The Staten Island plumber is being sued by Kieran Del Pasqua, who says he was sent flying when Perosi opened the door of his Ford F150 in a bike lane in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Two New Jersey tickets, both bought in Union County, matched the four white balls and the Powerball in Saturday’s $80 million drawing. Two New Jersey tickets, both bought in Union County, matched the four white balls and the Powerball in Saturday’s $80 Million Lottery Jackpot drawing, making them eligible to win the $10,000 third prize.

In an effort to get more Hispanics into first tier colleges and universities in this country, California couple Gilbert and Jacki Cisneros have donated $7 million to George Washington University to create the GW Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute. The institute will offer a pre-college program to high school juniors, with plus-factor consideration given to students of Hispanic heritage who are committed to leadership and service within the Hispanic community.

Tower Ramparts: Work to convert the shopping centre into “Sailmakers” is well under way, costing A 4 million. This has prompted existing tenants like Top Shop to commit themselves to the centre while new stores like Pandora jewellery are on the way.

Cheyenne Regional Medical Center is helping families who lost young babies heal. The CRMC’s Women and Children’s Services puts on a ‘Butterfly Release’ at Paul Smith’s Children’s Village at Botanic Gardens.

Rain poured over most of the country but Lady Luck smiled on the Waipa as the district’s latest millionaire claimed their first division Lotto prize. Champagne could be on the drinks menu after a customer of the Te Awamutu Paper Plus store walked away from the weekend Lotto draw $1 million dollars richer.

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