Ten members of a city park crew are set to share a million dollar lottery bounty and a woman won $200,000 on her birthday.  A safety trainer’s finances got a boost with a $1000 a week for life win, and a man was caught speeding on the way to claim his prize at the lottery HQ – can’t really say I blame him.

Last Thursday Scott Lowe of Rockland almost had one ticket too many.  After purchasing lottery tickets Home Spirits on Columbia Road in Hanover, he discovered a $50,000 win. 

Premier Lotteries Ireland – a consortium involving An Post and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, owner of UK operator Camelot, has Signed a contract that will pay the government €405 million for the National Lottery. 

A Scotch Plains woman won the fist of ten $1 million prizes on the New Jersey Lottery’s $150 Million Cash Spectacular instant game.  Sylvia  Vasquez uncovered the top prize in one of ten lottery tickets she bought from W’s Freshmart on Route 22 in East Union, last 11 February. 

What happens when a man rejects a $10 million winning ticket?  In the case of Lancaster man Jerry Kajfas, he went back for the $20 Win for Life Spectacular ticket and promptly scratched his way to a $10,000 a week for life stipend.

A North Carolina woman won a $200,000 jackpot while playing the lottery on her birthday.  The woman was understandably elated but says she will never be this lucky again. 

Shamus Harmon is a young man who tries his luck with the lottery. When he bought Win for Life, Mega Millions and Powerball tickets at the Fred Meyer on Market Street NE, he did not realize how one of those tickets will change his financial standing. 

A retired glass worker from Modesto has hit the big time.  Elfred Meitzenheimer, who’s known as ‘ Uncle Boo’, just won a prize of $1.4 million from the Powerball lottery.  

Dennis Farmer initially thought his Virginia Lottery “Winner Take All” scratcher ticket had only won $10.  He handed it to his girlfriend who thought he won $10,000. 

Inspiring stories of lottery success this week include a man  whose kind deed causes a string of lottery luck, two sisters who each win a lottery jackpot, and a big lottery winner who takes just ten minutes to decide to purchase a £3.5 million mansion.