For the past few years, Ronnie McDonnell from Knocklore in Ardee, County Louth, has been driving to Jonesborough twice a week to buy tickets to the Euromillions Lottery. 

Half brothers Ira Sharp, and  Charles Thomas Meehan were as close as can be until they won a million dollars on a scratch-off ticket while drinking at a bar.

The Michigan Lottery has set aside plans operate on the internet after lawmakers blocked nearly $3.4 million in funding requested by Gov. Rick Snyder  for the project originally set to launch in 2014.

Jesse J. Maxey Jr., won the  latest Florida Lottery Mega Money jackpot of $500,000.  He purchased his winning ticket from a Publix in Flagler Beach, marking the second time since 2004 that a Mega Money jackpot has been sold in Flagler County.

Psychologists Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton claim that instant riches, such as winning the lottery, might not lead to lasting happiness.

In their new book ‘Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending’, they state that for most people, more money does not always equate to happiness. 

A person from Huddersfield, who bought a lottery ticket won the EuroMillions Millionaire Raffle prize Christmas day of 2012, has missed out in collecting a £1m jackpot. 

Now there are birthday presents, and then there are huge lottery wins to claim on a birthday.  Such luck visited Glasgow midwife Michelle Drayton-Harrold who collected her €1,000,000 win in The BiLLe Lotto, ($1.3M/£850,000) exactly on her birthday.

Lottery officials have announced that a powerball ticket, whose number combination successfully matched five white balls and the red powerball in Saturday’s drawing, had been sold in Federal Beer, a beer distributor in the Point Breeze section of South Philadelphia.

What would you do if your horoscope says you’ll be lucky at 11:00 a.m. today?  Ella Vedder took her horoscope advice literally on the way to a big win.

The results of the big EuroMillions rollover draw for Tuesday 25th June 2013 are in… and the jackpot has finally been claimed.

Two tickets share the jackpot, each winning €93,968,807.