Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder wants to overhaul Detroit’s troubled state-run school district and divide its operations to address the “crushing” debt he says is hurting education in the city. Under the plan unveiled Thursday, an entirely new Detroit school district would be created to handle the academic operations of the city’s public schools.

Harvey Masonson of Accord is among 16 employees at a biotech company in New York City who will share $58 million in state lottery winnings. Masonson, who could not be reached for comment, will collect $1.65 million after taxes and the 16-way split.

New York State Lottery officials said Thursday the colleagues call themselves the Lucky 16 Trust and pooled their money before the March 24 drawing. Most of the employees come from New York and New Jersey.

MAJOR ecological improvements could be made to some of East Lancashire’s watercourses as part of a A 1.6 million project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Campaigners from the Ribble Rivers Trust have been awarded A 371,500 by lottery chiefs to work up proposals which would create ‘healthier waters’ across their catchment area.

A postal worker says he couldn’t eat or sleep for three days because of something in a container of flour. The YGS Group provides digital and printed reprint services for Daily Herald.

The Louisiana Lottery Corporation says nobody won the two major jackpots in the Louisiana Lotto and multistate Powerball drawings on Wednesday night. Louisiana Lotto players matching all six numbers drawn would have won or shared a $525000 prize, which will rise to an estimated $550,000 for Saturday.

Sixteen Manhattan biotech workers who pooled their cash to buy Mega Millions lottery tickets have hit a $58 million jackpot A staffer at Carlton Cards on the Penn Station concourse hangs a celebratory sign proclaiming that a $58 million New York Lottery Mega Millions ticket was sold there March 24. Sixteen Manhattan biotech workers who pooled their money will share in the jackpot. A group of 16 workers at a Manhattan biotech company who pooled their cash to buy Mega Millions tickets have won a $58 million jackpot, lottery officials announced Wednesday.

A woman who was the victim of a Jamaican lottery scam told a federal jury Wednesday that she received a postcard in June 2012 at her Madison, South Dakota, home from a company called American Cash Awards asking for $10 to enter a sweepstakes. What followed was a yearslong nightmare that has wiped out most of their savings and an inheritance from Kathy Erickson’s mother.

In this Feb. 15, 2015 file photo, Kristen Wiig attends the SNL 40th Anniversary Special in New York.

Pennsylvania Lottery players can hear the latest winning numbers by calling the toll-free results hotline, 1-877-282-4639. Day and evening drawing results are offered.

A woman who died in a suspected suicide had been struggling to cope after winning the lottery, an inquest has heard. Helen Ford was hit and killed by a train in January after she walked onto tracks near her home in the United Kingdom.

NANTUCKET – Something unusual will be happening soon on Nantucket: 15 affordable homes will be made available to moderate-income residents. Applications are due by May 21 to participate in a lottery for one of the homes planned for the first phase of the Sachem’s Path affordable housing development.

It’s shaping up to be a history-making week in Alabama’s legislature. A Republican Senator is drafting a bill to implement a lottery in Alabama, and allow slot machines and table games at four facilities in the state.

A retired school teacher from Florida said Tuesday that she lost most of a $100,000 inheritance in a Jamaican lottery fraud and was threatened by scammers who never produced her prize of $1 million and a Mercedes. Lois Bronson, 84, of Hallandale, Florida, testified in the trial of Sanjay Williams, 25, of Montego Bay, Jamaica, who’s accused of buying and selling lists of potential victims in a scheme that allegedly bilked dozens of mostly elderly people out of retirement money.

On Tuesday, swaths of East and West Baltimore erupted in flames amid riots that followed the funeral for Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old man who died a week after suffering a critical spine injury while in police custody. In a startlingly segregated city struggling with failing schools, failing infrastructure, a failing economy and a police department under federal investigation, it seemed only a matter of time before this side of Baltimore boiled over.

The potential winner of a $50 million lottery ticket that was sold in Langley in March, 2014 apparently wants to stay anonymous. The source went on to say that the ticket holder has retained a lawyer and will be fighting in court for the right to remain anonymous.

Some people have all the luck! Dos Santos bought the ticket at a 7-Eleven located at 1501 University Ave. in Berkeley. A Berkeley man can consider himself lucky after winning a prize from a California Lottery Scratchers ticket for the second time in two months.

A 24-year-old St Elizabeth man charged under the anti-lottery scamming Act was granted $1 million bail when he appeared in court yesterday. It is alleged that in March, Thompson was in Santa Cruz to acquire a wrecker to tow a vehicle when he was approached by a plain clothed policeman.

A SCOTS lottery winner owes his love and his millions to his partner’s best friend after scooping more than A 7.5million from the lottery. Philip Dunning was getting ready for bed when he got the phone call from pal Sandra Easton telling him he had hit the jackpot on Saturday.

One lucky couple will get a rare happy storyline when they buy a lottery scratchcard and discover that they have scooped A 1 million. The scenes are due to air next week and the storyline is said to be an antidote to harrowing events such as the murder of Lucy Beale and Dot Branning’s trial after the death of her son, Nick.