A winning Mega Millions ticket worth $260 million was sold at a convenience store in Blue Island. The prize is the second-largest in Illinois Lottery history-and the winner has not yet come forward.

A Pennsylvania Lottery Mega Millions ticket worth $1 million from the June 2 drawing was sold in Tobyhanna. The ticket sold in the Poconos region correctly matched all five white balls, 02-09-11-22-23, but not the yellow Mega Ball 12, to win a $1 million prize, less 25 percent federal withholding.

There was an estimated A 2.1 million jackpot up for grabs in tonight’s draw, with thousands scrabbling for the winning ticket.

Another family has joined the millionaire’s club, adding to the recent streak of lottery winners in Newfoundland and Labrador. Lester Hillier and Barbara Thomas, of Grand Falls-Windsor, collected the cheque Wednesday for $1 million after winning the Lotto Max MaxMillions draw May 29. “We checked the bank account this morning, and the money’s there – that makes it a little more real!” he joked.

After stronger-than-expected sales pushed the Mega Millions jackpot to an estimated $260 million , a lucky ticket holder in Illinois reaped the benefit by matching all six numbers drawn on June 2 – the white balls 2, 9, 11, 22 and 23, plus the gold Mega Ball 12. It is the fourth time the jackpot has been won this year. Another Illinois player took home $265 million on January 16, and New Yorkers claimed back-to-back jackpots on February 27 and March 24 .

Either one Central Virginia store is the luckiest place on Earth, or one person is holding three Mega Millions tickets worth $1 million each. Three tickets purchased at the Kangaroo Express on Temple Avenue, near Interstate 95 in Colonial Heights, matched the first five numbers in the June 2 Mega Millions drawing.

The STARS Saskatchewan Lottery has launched and two weeks into the campaign it is over 55 per cent sold! The lottery is the air ambulance service’s single largest, annual fundraiser that directly supports the care and transportation of critically ill and injured patients across the province. STARS president and CEO, Andrea Robertson says the Lottery is critical in sustaining its Saskatchewan operations.

OLG News Release Toronto, ON Roger Roy of Thunder Bay is celebrating after winning a $1 million MAXMILLIONS prize in the May 22, 2015 LOTTO MAX draw. “I scanned my ticket in the ticket-checker,” recalled Roger while at the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto where he picked up his winnings.

PLAYERS in the Stirling area have been urged to check and double check their tickets for the chance to claim the massive windfall. Players in the Stirling area have been urged to check and double-check their tickets for the chance to claim the massive windfall.

One father gave his son a $200,000 taxes paid, winning lottery ticket after purchasing, and scratching a losing ticket for himself. According to SC Lottery officials, the father unknowingly gave his son the winning ticket.

A jury came down with that judgment Tuesday after both the Prosecution and Defense wrapped their cases on Monday. The 62 year old Burns, Wyoming man was on trial for the July 2014 shooting death of his wife.

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The retired firefighter recently scratched a lottery ticket of the same name and won the ticket’s top prize of $1 million from the Virginia Lottery. Cook bought the ticket at Happy Shopper at 3323 Hampton Hwy.

Who needs psychics to reveal future lottery numbers when you can hack into the state lottery association and tamper with it? That apparently was the reasoning of Eddie Raymond Tipton, 51. Prosecutors believe Tipton inserted a thumb drive into a computer-the one that spits out random numbers for the lottery, says an article in the Des Moines Register , according to a report at arstechnica.com. At the time of this purported crime, Tipton was head of security for the Multi-State Lottery Association.

Police said Charles L. Richardson, 32, entered the Shell Gas Station on Floyd Street at St. Catherine Street on Sunday, May 31 and stabbed 74-year-old Paul Cason, a retiree whose children said he dreamed of winning millions of dollars playing the lottery. Cason was rushed to University of Louisville Hospital where he died.

Authorities say the man and woman were targeting elderly victims and the fraud is traced back to Jamaica. The victims were told they won a lottery or sweepstakes but first had to pay taxes or fees to get their prize.

Peter Congdon, 67, from Truro, Cornwall, claimed the quadruple rollover prize after realising his numbers had come up in last Wednesday’s draw A great-grandfather who scooped a massive A 13.5m lottery jackpot has said he’s going to celebrate by going on a family holiday – to BUTLINS. But despite becoming a multi-millionaire, Peter, from Truro, Cornwall, claims he won’t be changing his family’s holiday plans for a break at the Butlins resort in Minehead, Somerset.

A former millionaire Lottery winner who splashed out on a Ferrari sports car and luxury home has been banned from driving and ordered to carry out community service. Former world boxing champion Eamonn Magee has paid tribute to his son, saying he was a lovely kid and that he was proud to be his father.

The visitor bought the winning $1,000,000 Money Ball ticket at Miller Mart on J. Clyde Morris Boulevard, according to a Virginia Lottery spokesman. The game requires a winner to match all five numbers in semiweekly drawings every Wednesday and Saturday.

GRASSROOTS sports projects in the North-East and North Yorkshire – including Darlington FC’s long-awaited return to the town – will share funding of more than A 1.1 million. Two projects at Darlington Rugby Club’s Blackwell Meadows ground, which will become home to Quakers when the club moves back to the town during next season, are among 17 in the region to be awarded National Lottery/Sport England funding.