A Set For Life ticket allowed Dana and Leslie Graffunder to retire in their dream home early.

After Leslie bought the lucky ticket at Stewart’s Shop on South Main St.

When Paul and Sue Rosenau won a Powerball jackpot worth $180 million back in 04 May 2008, they knew what they had to do.  After they received a one time payment of $44 million net of taxes, they used $26.4 million to establish The Legacy of Angels Foundation dedicated to finding a cure for Krabbe disease which claimed the life of their grandchild five years earlier.

It is believed that 22 members of a syndicate composed of Dublin bus drivers have won a EuroMillions jackpot of nearly €24 million.

The syndicate who are said to all work at the Broadstone garage in North Dublin have bagged €23,845,060 from the Friday EuroMillions draw. 

Camelot has been busy keeping up with the latest technology.  In the latest upgrade to the Lottery App, the lottery operators have added a ticket scanning capability.

Taxi driver Gordon Rees plays the lottery regularly.  But on the day he won, he had changed one aspect of his play by buying his lucky dips from the co-op where he had also bought a pint of milk.

Kerry and Dianne Carmichael have been playing the lottery for more than 30 years, and they have been handsomely rewarded for it.  The couple have won big twice:  a $2.5 million Pick Jackpot Kerry won in 1995 and a $1 million Powerball payout for Dianne just before their annuities from the first ran out.

People usually travel after they win substantial amounts in the lottery;  retirees Joseph and Anetia Roseman are a bit different.

The couple were traveling, on a visit to friends in North Carolina when they decided to try their luck on a Mega Millions quick pick ticket from the S.M.

This week saw an Irish woman interrupt her football watching to discover a 500,000 euro win and a dozen Tesco workers in the UK have bagged a million pound win.

A NY cop found that the secret to winning big in the lottery is to follow his wife’s orders; sort of.

Back in January when the Powerball Lottery’s jackpot had rolled over to a huge $1.6 billion, Vito Viola’s wife asked him to buy Powerball tickets. 

When the Powerball Lottery’s jackpot neared $1 billion in January, Nancy Viola dreamed big.  But apparently, the lottery has other plans.

Viola’s husband bought Powerball tickets from the 2520 Foodmart in Willowbrook at her bidding.