Hedra Dawod was in a convenience store with his roommate Marko Matta decided to try his luck in the lottery.

Being a believer in lucky numbers, he asked the clerk for a ticket that matched number 041 on the roll. 

When Holly Lahti became one of two people to share a $380 million jackpot in 2011, reporters turning up at her home at all times so scared her that she fled with her daughters to a coastal area far from Idaho.

Raymond Lillington’s wife Gayle always told him that betting on the lottery was a waste of money.   But Raymond of Dingwall, Nova Scotia, continued buying lottery tickets, a habit, he says that has lasted forty years, and never gave him any major winnings.

After having been forced pay taxes on a PT Cruiser he won in a raffle in 2007,  Sherman W. Friend of Pennsylvania vowed never to pay taxes on winnings again.

California Lottery officials are excited as lottery fever hits the state that has just recently joined the multi-state Powerball last month.

This developed as the estimated jackpot for this Saturday’s Powerball draw rose to $550 million, making any payout rank among the top 3 biggest jackpots in the US ever.

How does it feel to find a forgotten fortune in a cookie jar?  I would say sweet – especially to a man facing foreclosure on his home.

A fan of the lottery, Frank Frakas voted his support of several bills to expand the Florida State Lottery while he was still a state lawmaker. 

As the Powerball jackpot builds up, people who dream of winning are flocking to ticket outlets they consider “lucky” hoping to land the big one.  And big does not begin to describe a jackpot that estimates put at approximately $360 million and still growing by the minute.

Bruce and Monique Willman of Manitoba knew just what they wanted when they found out they set to receive a huge $17 million payout from the lottery:  in Bruce’s words “I just knew that two minutes after I read the winning numbers, I retired.”

They say good fortune comes in threes.  Melvyn Wilson considers himself a very lucky man, having won $500,000 in November 2004, $25,000 in March 2005, and then $1 million from a scratch-off  in September 2005.