A Maryland woman said she didn't know she had won a $50,007 lottery prize until her purse got so full that she needed to clean it out. Photo courtesy of the Maryland Lottery March 20 (UPI) --A ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) — On the heels of the failure this week of a gambling bill that would bring both casinos and a lottery to Alabama, another state senator still has hopes of at least making a ...

Harold and Tina Ehrenberg hit the jackpot — literally — as they tidied up their Mandeville, La., home this week while preparing to host a Thanksgiving crowd. On a nightstand in their bedroom, Tina ...

A Louisiana couple cleaning their home ahead of Thanksgiving this week found over one million reasons to be thankful this holiday season—a winning lottery ticket worth $1.8 million—two weeks before ...

A Louisiana couple has claimed a $1.8 million jackpot-winning ticket for the June 6th Louisiana Lottery Lotto drawing. CBS affiliate KLFY-TV reports the couple found the ticket while cleaning the ...

On the campus of Clemson University, a cleaning lady scratched a lottery ticket and won $100,000.She slipped the ticket in her back pocket and went about her day. I buttoned the pocket closed, she ...

A retired Illinois hospice pastor discovered a $1 million winning lottery ticket while cleaning out his desk two months after the prize was announced. Ron Yurcus said he was tidying up his desk to ...

“I was ecstatic when I realized I won,” the Maryland lottery winner said Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared on ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Oregon State Lottery shut down its headquarters Tuesday after a “non-public facing employee” showed flu-like symptoms and was subsequently tested for COVID-19, the agency ...

National Lottery winners have carried out a clean-up on one of Britain’s best-loved beaches. Millionaires joined the environmental good cause, Beach Guardian, and scoured the shoreline at Bamburgh, ...