Another syndicate won big in the Powerball lottery, their win worth $1 million.  The group of Bethlehem city park workers who work on the top floor call themselves the Penthouse 10, and only contribute money for lottery tickets when the jackpot is high.

A Powerball jackpot that had snowballed after 15 draws without a winner was finally won in Wednesday’s draw.  A single ticket sold at a Chevron station in Milpitas snagged the huge $425 million jackpot. 

Robert Winburn was convinced he had a system for picking a Powerball lottery winner;  heuses numbers that correspond to the letters in his last name.  Such was his faith in his set of numbers that he consistently bet on it for more than two decades. 

Gary Baldwin Jr., a gas truck driver from Pikeville is convinced that what goes around comes around.  He believes that he is living proof of it. 

This time the winners are retired casino workers who’ve seen a lot of big winners walk past them.  During that time they looked forward to the day when it would be their turn to win. 

Jean Swatman so loved making doughnuts that she was reluctant to leave her job.  Even after a lucky dip ticket had given her a windfall of £2,021,379, she continued to come in at 6:00 am to start a day of baking. 

Florida State Lottery’s scratch-off games are enjoying unprecedented popularity.  Lottery officials say that it has sold more than $8.5 million worth of instant tickets in the second week of February, setting a new weekly sales record. 

Excitement is fast growing among Powerball players as the jackpot rose to an estimated $400 million.  The jackpot had only been $330 million for Saturday’s draw but when nobody won, frenzied ticket buying saw a $70 million rise almost overnight. 

To say László Andraschek was down on his luck a few days ago would have been a gross understatement.  He had been unemployed, in debt, and living in the streets of Hungary. 

What’s better than hearing that your sister won $25,000 while playing instant lottery games?  For Lisa Norton of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, it was winning a scratcher prize herself.