The Lowcountry woman turned a $3 Cosmic Crossword scratch-off ticket into a $75,000 windfall, the South Carolina Education Lottery announced July 11. “I was in disbelief and shock,” she told lottery officials. The lucky winner bought her ticket at a Saint George convenience store in Dorchester County, according to lottery officials.

After a Maryland woman scanned her lottery tickets, she couldn’t sleep — but for a good reason. The human resources specialist was on her lunch break July 7 and stopped by a Baltimore convenience store, where she bought some lottery tickets per the suggestion of a friend, Maryland Lottery officials said in a July 11 news release.

A lottery player “didn’t feel all that lucky” — then he won a huge prize. “ Life has changed ,” the winner told the South Carolina Education Lottery in a July 10 news release. “I’m trying to stay calm.”

Saturday's drawing offers the largest lottery prize this weekend in Ohio, with Mega Millions at $80 million and Classic Lotto at $5.1 million.

"You can be a conservative person, or you can be a risk taker," a financial advisor said about claiming a top prize ticket.

SANFORD, N.C. (WNCN) — A Lee County man won the first $1 million top prize of a new game, lottery officials said Friday. Ricky Nunnery Jr. of Sanford bought the winning $1,000,000 Triple Play ticket for $10 from Wink Mart on Deep River Road in Sanford, according to the North Carolina Education Lottery.

Let’s rock and roll,” one of the siblings said after his sister called him to tell him about the big win in Maryland.

The government system that provides federally subsidized housing vouchers to help people pay their rent and prevent homelessness can instead cause some of? them to become homeless, some Colorado Sprin

Lottery officials said that two lottery players from Illinois are now millionaires after winning Wednesday's Powerball jackpot.