In this week’s top stories a Louisiana man’s dreams come true as he bags a $1.5 million jackpot, and a man on a visit to his father wins a huge £250,000 annual payout for the next fifteen years.

At just sixteen Callum Fitzpatrick is not old enough to take a drink, yet he is old enough to play the lottery; in fact he has just scooped a big jackpot. 

The Texas Lottery says it will remove the Fun Five’s scratchoff card from circulation.  The move came as about 300 players complained of ambiguous wording on the cards that lead to confusion.

How much can a lottery ticket change a person’s financial situation?  A lot, if you ask a person named Ana Rodriguez.

Rodriguez used to be just like the majority of working-class people; financially hard-up and finding a hard time making ends meet. 

What does it take to win the lottery?  In Lousiana, lottery players must not be less than 21 years old, and must claim their winnings within 180 days of the draw. 

Those who don’t play the lottery have absolutely no chance of winning a lottery jackpot.  But those who use their intuition to play using money they have won, increase their winning chances.

Most people throw losing tickets away, but many in Colorado don’t do that – instead they keep them for some time.  They have good reason not to throw away those tickets, because the Colorado Lottery gives non-winning tickets a second chance drawing.

Have you ever noticed how so many lottery players posted wins just when they really need it?  Such is the case with Ana Rodriguez, who had been working at the Quincy House dining hall of the Harvard University for the last 30 years.

Six builders from the town of Barnsley, South Yorkshire have struck it big on their first try as a lottery playing syndicate.  And it was only by chance that they decided to play as a group.