Shamus Harmon is a young man who tries his luck with the lottery. When he bought Win for Life, Mega Millions and Powerball tickets at the Fred Meyer on Market Street NE, he did not realize how one of those tickets will change his financial standing. 

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A retired glass worker from Modesto has hit the big time.  Elfred Meitzenheimer, who’s known as ‘ Uncle Boo’, just won a prize of $1.4 million from the Powerball lottery.  

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Dennis Farmer initially thought his Virginia Lottery “Winner Take All” scratcher ticket had only won $10.  He handed it to his girlfriend who thought he won $10,000. 

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Another syndicate won big in the Powerball lottery, their win worth $1 million.  The group of Bethlehem city park workers who work on the top floor call themselves the Penthouse 10, and only contribute money for lottery tickets when the jackpot is high.

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A Powerball jackpot that had snowballed after 15 draws without a winner was finally won in Wednesday’s draw.  A single ticket sold at a Chevron station in Milpitas snagged the huge $425 million jackpot. 

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Robert Winburn was convinced he had a system for picking a Powerball lottery winner;  heuses numbers that correspond to the letters in his last name.  Such was his faith in his set of numbers that he consistently bet on it for more than two decades. 

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Gary Baldwin Jr., a gas truck driver from Pikeville is convinced that what goes around comes around.  He believes that he is living proof of it. 

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This time the winners are retired casino workers who’ve seen a lot of big winners walk past them.  During that time they looked forward to the day when it would be their turn to win. 

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Jean Swatman so loved making doughnuts that she was reluctant to leave her job.  Even after a lucky dip ticket had given her a windfall of £2,021,379, she continued to come in at 6:00 am to start a day of baking. 

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To say László Andraschek was down on his luck a few days ago would have been a gross understatement.  He had been unemployed, in debt, and living in the streets of Hungary. 

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