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Kira Enders and her boyfriend Dakota Jones allegedly attempted to trick lottery officials into giving them a $1 million prize with two torn scratch-off tickets spliced together to form a winning ticket, according to authorities. The two tickets were ripped horizontally with the top half of one ticket and the bottom half of the other then “carefully pieced together” to show the $1 million prize winner, according to a police report cited by the Pensacola News Journal.

We're not really sure how to categorize the latest craziness out of the state of Washington. Is it government incompetence? The dangers of artificial intelligence? 'Come to Seattle for hot, sexy singles'? Maybe we should just go with 'all of the above.' (OK, not that last one, that wasn't nice.) Yes, just when you thought the state that brought us 'CHAZ' back in 2020 couldn't get any more batpoop insane, a new report from local radio host Jason Rantz shows us that Washington has not yet begun to plumb the depths of its depravity. EXCLUSIVE: Washington Lottery was forced to...

The billion dollar Powerball is still up for grabs after no ticket matched all six numbers, launching the lottery to a grand prize of $1.09 billion for Wednesday's drawing. If a player wins the jackpot in Wednesday’s drawing, they will have the choice between an annuitized prize worth an estimated $1.09 billion or a lump sum payment estimated at $527.3 million. Both prize options are before taxes. If the winner selects the annuity option, they will receive one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments that increase by five percent each year.

A Washington DC man who thought he won a jackpot worth $340m (£270m) has sued Powerball and the DC Lottery, who claim they published his numbers by mistake. John Cheeks said he felt "numb" when he first saw Powerball's winning numbers matched his ticket in January 2023. But when Mr Cheeks presented his ticket to the Office of Lottery and Gaming (OLG), his claim was denied. "One of the claims agents told me my ticket was no good, just to throw it in the trash can," he told the BBC. Instead, Mr Cheeks held on to that ticket and found...

Following a bombshell $83.3 million award against Donald Trump, his rape accuser E. Jean Carroll, whose case was bankrolled by his enemies, couldn’t remember basic facts of her own claim, once described rape as “sexy,” and whose “off the rails” tweets weren’t allowed to be shown to the jury – just put on an absurd display. When asked by MSNBC‘s Rachael Maddow on Monday night how she’ll spend “Trump’s money” to help “women’s rights,” Carroll did her best impression of a “Price is Right” winner – like rape victims do, telling Maddow: “First thing Rachel, you and I are gonna...

LOS ANGELES - Two Southern California residents are bound to be feeling very lucky today. According to the California lottery, two Mega Millions jackpot tickets were sold at the same Encino gas station on Friday night. The Chevron gas station is located on Ventura Blvd near Lindley Ave. The two tickets held the winning numbers of 21-26-53-66-70 with a jackpot number of lucky 13. The unique win earned the ticket holders a grand prize of $395 million to share.

A lucky Brooklyn man went on a joyride in a pricey, brand-spanking-new silver Range Rover on Friday morning after having just won $10 million in the lottery — again. Wayne Murray, 63, was spotted leaving his $800,000 East Flatbush home in the luxury top-of-the-line wheels after scoring $10 million on a scratch-off ticket this week — and having previously won $10 million playing the New York Lottery just a little over a year ago. Murray, whose home rings in at $815,400 on Zillow, drove off in a 2024 Range Rover SV, which start at $209,000 and can top over $234,000,...

New York’s luckiest man strikes again. A Brooklyn man won $10 million on a scratch-off this week — a little over a year after he won his first $10 million playing the New York Lottery, the lottery said. Wayne Murray got a top prize Tuesday while playing the New York Lottery’s 200X scratch-off game. Last year, he won $10 million playing the Black Titanium game, lottery officials said. Both of his winning tickets were purchased at the same store, H&A Gas & Convenience on Avenue H in Flatbush. For his latest win, Murray opted to take home his cash prize...

A Massachusetts father and his two sons used a covert network of convenience stores and tax-shy scratch-off winners to defraud the lottery of more than $20 million, officials said. Ali Jaafar, 63, of Watertown, had tried to pass off his winning streak as luck — but the lottery commission launched an investigation into the “factually or statistically improbable” results, according to the Boston Globe’s reporting on the saga Tuesday.

Edwin Castro, who won Powerball’s record-breaking $2 billion jackpot this February, isn’t quite done spending his newfound cash on luxury real estate. The lucky lotto player has already purchased at least two other California mansions since coming into the money this past winter — and now he has splurged yet again, this time on a $47 million compound in Bel Air. Castro’s newest crib brags seven bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, and an infinity pool with panoramic views of Los Angeles, the Daily Mail first reported. The 31-year-old’s newest home further boasts DJ turntables, a champagne tasting room, a suspended glass walkway,...

The Powerball jackpot swelled to an estimated $1.55 billion for Monday night’s drawing after weeks with no grand prize winner. The new mammoth prize up for grabs Monday ranks as the third largest Powerball jackpot and fourth largest among US lottery jackpots, according to Powerball’s website. If a lucky player matches all six numbers to win the jackpot, they will have the choice between an annuitized prize worth an estimated $1.55 billion or a lump sum payment estimated at $679.8 million – both before taxes, Powerball said. The grand prize grew Saturday after no ticket matched all six numbers drawn,...

Cash Out Value - $679.8 Million. Take home pay after 37% federal income tax - $428 Million. State and local income taxes may apply.

NEPTUNE BEACH, Fla. – The winning ticket in Tuesday’s $1.58 billion Mega Millions drawing was sold at a Publix in Neptune Beach. The prize was the largest in Mega Millions history, and now everyone is just waiting for the winner to come forward. Prizes must be claimed within 180 days of the drawing, and because the prize is more than $1 million -- much more -- it must be claimed in person at Florida Lottery headquarters in Tallahassee -- even if the person who bought the ticket is from out of state. If the winner wants the single-payment cash option,...

I don't know what it feels like to win this much money. I imagine it feels, you know, pretty stinkin' good. A Powerball player in California won the massive $1.08 billion jackpot, the lottery game's third-largest prize, Wednesday night. The winning numbers were 7, 10, 11, 13, 24, and the red Powerball 24. Hey! I was going to pick those numbers myself! I knew those would be the ones! Well maybe I'll play them next time. In any event, this lucky guy — or gal — will be allowed to take the $1 billion sum as a gradual payout or...

(CNN) — A Florida mother won $2 million in the lottery, just days after she finished paying off her daughter’s cancer treatment. Geraldine Gimblet, a resident of Lakeland, won $2 million from a $10 scratch-off lottery ticket, according to a news release from the Florida Lottery. She claimed her winnings as a one-time lump-sum payment of $1,645,000 last Friday, the April 7 news release says. Gimblet told the Florida Lottery she bought the last lottery ticket at her local gas station. “At first, the gas station clerk thought there were no tickets left,” she recalled, according to the news release....

Man asks ChatGPT for numbers, strikes Toto ChatGPT or Cai Shen Ye (God of Fortune)? One man in Singapore recently took the use of the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to a whole new level, after he randomly asked ChatGPT to generate some lottery numbers for him. To his (and everyone's) surprise, it was a lucky strike — though not quite the jackpot. In a TikTok video posted on Friday (May 5), Aaron Tan shared how he "decided to ask ChatGPT for a set of nice seven numbers" for the Toto draw on May 4. The question he posed to the...

One of California’s newest millionaires was homeless just six years ago. Lucia Forseth recently bought a California 2023 Scratchers ticket at a Walmart in Pittsburg while getting an oil change when she scratched the top prize, lottery officials announced Wednesday. “I only bought one ticket,” Forseth told the California Lottery. “I closed my eyes and picked that one, and it won! I first thought I’d won a free ticket, but I checked, and it said I won $5 million!” Mega Millions drawing tips offered by lottery expert Back in 2017, Forseth said she was homeless. This year she said she...

The winner of the $2 billion California Powerball, Edwin Castro, has just dropped $25.5 million on a luxe Hollywood Hills mansion, The Post can confirm. Castro, who claimed the winning ticket just last month, opted for the onetime lump sum payment of $997.6 million, lottery officials said. (He also had the option to accept payment in an annuity, which would get doled out in 30 graduated payments over 29 years.) And it looks like he wasted no time putting his new money into some new real estate. Made up of five bedrooms and seven bathrooms, the sprawling property occupies more...

Dec. 21 (UPI) -- A Michigan woman said losing a debate about who would go to the store to buy a Thanksgiving turkey led to her winning a $4 million jackpot from a scratch-off lottery ticket. The 49-year-old Oakland County woman told Michigan Lottery officials she had not originally intended to visit the Kroger store on North Coolidge Highway in Troy on the day before Thanksgiving. "It was the day before Thanksgiving, and my husband asked if I could run to the store and buy a turkey since he didn't have time to," the player said. "After going back and...

How a Michigan real-estate broker became convinced he had cracked the lottery—and how he tricked his investors into financing his scheme This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. One june morning in 2017, an Albanian American real-estate broker named Viktor Gjonaj parked outside a strip mall in Sterling Heights, a small suburb on the outskirts of Detroit. He hurried past a halal-meat shop, through a waft of spices from an Indian grocery store, and into...