One woman’s lottery luck could have spelled trouble for her village. But the husband was too professional to leave without a proper replacement.

John Dixon has been a long-time water plant operator when his wife Rita won $3.3 million after taxes from a scratch off ticket.

While it’s good to follow a routine, sometimes a small variation is all that’s needed for good things to happen. That’s something Joseph Corsello learned from experience.

When Michigan woman Amanda Dietz delivered a speech about paying off student debt, she had no idea that luck was about to visit her.

In her speech she mused about how nice it would be to win the lottery to be able to pay off her debts.

Katrina Vosler was only too happy to spend $100 to $200 a month playing the lottery. One time when she went to visit the Four Winds, a customer of her cleaning business, she bought a ticket thereby mixing business with pleasure.

Rachel Lapierre has lived the good life. She had once been Miss Quebec, worked as a glamorous model, and later ran her own modelling school. But there was one thing she wanted to do most – help other people.

This week produced really big lottery winners. One of them was a man who does not check his tickets regularly and ended up walking around with almost a million dollars for months.

If there are people grannies love most, it has to be the grandchildren. That’s why it shouldn’t be a surprise when grandchildren benefit most from their granny’s lottery winnings.

A hundred dollars was the most a couple from Waterford had ever won from the lottery. But when news came out that someone from their area won half of the $42 million jackpot, Stephanie Blake became so excited she woke up her husband Kevin.

Tommy Parker has developed a routine since he retired. Buy a newspaper at 9:30 in the morning and then also purchase lottery tickets which he kept under a biscuit barrel.

The week’s top stories include two sets of winners who seem to have proven the superstition about Friday the 13th wrong. A railroad worker in the UK posted a £1 million win on a Friday the 13th and a syndicate composed of 14 neighbors in Canada managed to win $10 million on the same day.