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A Massachusetts man was recovering from open-heart surgery when a friend gave him a get-well card with three scratch-off tickets earlier this month. One of those scratch-offs contained the $1 million prize, CNN reports. Alexander McLeish received three “$5,000,000 100X Cashword” instant tickets, a crossword-style game where players are given letters in order to build words. The first […]
A Michigan man was found dead along a private beach Friday morning with a winning lottery ticket that he was never able to cash in his wallet, WLUC reports. Gregory Jarvis, 57, was playing the Club Keno add-on game The Jack at the Blue Water Inn on Sept. 13 when he won the $45,000 jackpot. Jarvis was unable […]
On Monday, a 19-page indictment was unsealed in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts that charged a father, Ali Jaafar, along with his sons, Mohamed and Yousef Jaafar, with more than a dozen counts of fraud, money laundering and tax evasion over an alleged ticket-cashing scheme that primarily involved scratch-off lotto tickets sold at convenience stores. Prosecutors say the trio took […]
A man allegedly killed his wife and daughter in Oklahoma just nine months after his wife won $2 million in the lottery in California. John Donato, 42, his wife Tiffani Hill, 31, and their daughter Leanne were all found with gunshot wounds to the head at their Calera, Oklahoma home on July 30, according to KXII. The husband […]
A Springfield, Massachusetts woman who accidentally threw away a $1 million lottery ticket was able to collect her winnings after the store owners were kind enough to track her down, People reports. Per the Massachusetts State Lottery, Lea Rose Fiega won $1 million in the state’s “Diamond Millions” instant game on March 30, a pre-tax cash prize she […]
One Michigan resident took a chance this week and it paid off big time. The 29-year-old man— who kept his identity anonymous— purchased a Lucky 7’s lottery ticket at a grocery store before picking up his kids, just a year after he lost “everything” in a devastating flood, according to a release from the Michigan Lottery. The $20 ticket […]
Nick Slatten is a lucky man. After getting off of work on March 10, the Tennessee resident went to a grocery store to purchase a beverage and Tennessee Cash ticket before heading home. Slatten checked the winning numbers the following morning and discovered he was holding a winning ticket worth $1,178,746. “I was stunned. I couldn’t believe it,” […]
So far, it seems 2021 is on track to be a DJ Khaled mixtape remix of 2020. But, there is at least one lucky person who already has something to smile about this year. A very fortunate Michigan lottery player hit it big on Friday night when they won the $1 billion Mega Millions jackpot, organizers tell NBC News. […]
You have a better chance of being struck by lightning than winning the lottery, but lightning struck twice for one Michigan man who accidentally purchased two lotto tickets with the same numbers. Dearborn Heights, Michigan resident Samir Mazahem walked away with $2 million after mistakenly purchasing an extra ticket. The 56-year-old said he was saving […]
Sue Burgess, of Ridge Manor, Florida, had to forfeit the $1,000 she won in a Second Chance Lottery drawing because the U.S. Postal Service lost her winning ticket, according to Tampa’s NBC affiliate TV station WFLA. Burgess found out she won on July 29, and typically, she would go to her local lottery office in […]
