An Australian woman who won a cruise said she would have to pay thousands of dollars to redeem it. Her Virgin Voyages cruise was canceled due to Red Sea tensions, forcing her to rebook. The cruise line offered Europe or Caribbean trips, but she said flights were too expensive. An Australian woman who won a […]
A South Carolina man said he went from the sensation of having a heart attack to “a wonderful feeling in the end,” after winning the grand prize in a South Carolina Education Lottery game, officials said in a news release. “It’s fun,” the grandpa who lives in the Midlands said of winning a $300,000 jackpot […]
A Michigan man couldn’t believe the prize he won after buying an instant lottery ticket while getting groceries. Hugh Leach, of Mason, went to Meijer and bought a Lottery’s Diamonds & Gold lottery ticket, according to a May 10 news release from the Michigan Lottery. “I buy a $20 ticket every two weeks,” he said. […]
A Missouri woman couldn’t believe her prize after playing a new lottery scratch-off ticket. The woman saw the Frogger Scratchers game with the new arrivals at a store in Perryville, according to a Missouri Lottery news release. So she decided to try it out. “I like playing the Scratchers, and it was one of the […]
Saturday was a night to remember for one lucky Hornell shopper. The New York Lottery announced one top-prize winning ticket was sold for the May 11 Take 5 evening drawing. The winning ticket was sold at the Hornell Wegmans store on state Route 36. The prize-winning ticket is worth $36,566.50, the New York Lottery announced […]
The well-known Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was posthumously awarded the Dresden International Peace Prize on Sunday. His widow Yulia Navalnaya accepted the award on his behalf, which is endowed with €10,000 ($10,774), at the eastern German city’s Schauspielhaus theatre. Former German president Joachim Gauck honoured the man who died in prison almost three months […]
A stop at the supermarket led to a life-changing lottery win for a Virginia trucker. Russell Gomes was in need of chicken and stopped at a Food Lion in South Boston on his way home from work, Virginia Lottery officials said in a May 10 news release. Before leaving, he bought a Magnificent 7s scratch-off […]
Winning a scratch-off game’s grand prize won’t deter a Midlands man from buying more lottery tickets in the future, according to South Carolina Education Lottery officials. “I’m not done yet,” the man told lottery officials after he won a $300,000 jackpot, according to a Thursday news release. The man bought what turned out to be […]
A Powerball ticket sold in Michigan won $1 million, narrowly missing out on the $20 million jackpot, lottery officials say. The ticket matched five winning numbers but not the Powerball in the drawing Wednesday, May 8, the Michigan Lottery said. Nobody won the grand prize, which rises to an estimated $36 million, with a cash […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two men who were instrumental in the “craziest idea anyone ever had” of creating a global seed vault designed to safeguard the world’s agricultural diversity will be honored as the 2024 World Food Prize laureates, officials announced Thursday in Washington. Cary Fowler, the U.S. special envoy for Global Food Security, […]
A Maryland lottery player tried his luck at a different store — and won big. The Caroline County man was running his weekend errands and stopped at the Greensboro Tiger Mart to play two Pick 5 games, the Maryland Lottery said in a May 8 news release. He netted a $50,000 prize in the midday […]
A driver on his way to pick up a customer won a $50,000 prize from the Maryland Lottery. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI May 7 (UPI) — A Washington, D.C., man stopped to buy a lottery ticket on his way to work and won $50,000 — his second major prize. The professional driver, identified only […]