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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...