A father and daughter team from New York has just scored a hefty lottery win. Suffern’s Frank Rivera and his daughter Laura Rivera-Sachs will share a $15.8 million prize.

It is no secret that people join lottery playing syndicates to increase their chances of winning big jackpots. The bigger chance of winning comes at a price though – every win has to be split with the other members of the group.

An Irishman was watching his country’s Six Nations loss to Scotland last Saturday when he thought about checking his Euromillions ticket from a previous draw. While the man is expected to be disappointed with his side’s loss in the rugby match, he had some consolation from the National Lottery.

There are always stories people deciding to retire right after winning big lottery jackpots – it’s just something most people do. But in the case of a woman from Denver, she quit her job a few days before winning the lottery!

The debate about releasing winners’ names centers on the balance that needs to be struck regarding the right to privacy and transparency. If the winners’ names are released, they may be harassed or pestered by people who want to ask for dole-outs or worse, get robbed.

Tim Nash thought he needed a change of fortunes so he plays the lottery from time to time. This one time, he went to the Community Mini Mart on Pigeon Run Road in Gladys and bought two instant tickets which he promptly took home.

Among this week’s top stories, an airline employee is up in the clouds over a $5 million lottery win at the young age of just 28, and a woman had to cut short a salon visit when she learned she had won a cool million dollars!

Joey Hunter was about to go to a hair appointment when she remembered something rather important. She had not checked her lottery tickets and there was talk that a $1 million winning ticket was sold at the Kwik Trip in Coon Rapids.

Patrick Clarke of Queens, who works as a ramp agent for Delta Air Lines, is a very lucky fellow. At only 28 years young, he is already financially well off.

It is always entertaining to hear of the many ways people try to find luck, or lucky numbers to be more precise. In Roi Et province in Thailand people have been flocking to the yard of Soontorn Saichue to visit a particularly heavily laden banana tree.