TORONTO, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- A convenience-store clerk has claimed a $1 million Ontario lottery prize, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. said Friday.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Jan. 19 (UPI) -- A Florida man who won a legitimate lottery jackpot after being convicted of counterfeiting lottery tickets has died in a mysterious killing.
HYANNIS, Mass., Nov. 28 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts man who won a $1 million state lottery prize can't collect his first installment because of his criminal record for robbing two banks.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 18 (UPI) -- The Florida Lottery is investigating a possible printing error on a winning Gold Rush Scratch-Off ticket.
LONDON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- The operator of England's lottery said it could create as many as 100 millionaires a month with a proposed world lottery.
MADRID, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Thousands of Spaniards took home a slice of the world's largest lottery totaling $1.34 billion, El Pais newspaper reported Friday.
NEW DELHI, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- A privately-owned group that has run Indian lotteries for more than 30 years is preparing to expand into Britain.
CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 28 (UPI) -- North Carolina will get its first taste of Powerball this Tuesday as tickets for the multimillion, multistate lottery go on sale for the first time.
RALEIGH, N.C., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- North Carolina has already reaped scandal from its new lottery, and income from the program is still several months away.
BLACKSTONE, Mass., Oct. 16 (UPI) -- An 83-year-old Massachusetts man says he found a $1 million scratch-off lottery ticket in a convenience store trash bin.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., May 6 (UPI) -- Illinois authorities say state lottery officials solicited items like airline ticket vouchers and video game systems as incentives for employees.
WASHINGTON, April 22 (UPI) -- In an effort to boost sales of lottery tickets, several U.S. states are looking at the possibility of doing so through the Internet, reports USA Today.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Illinois state Sen. John Cullerton says the cash-strapped state education fund would get a shot in the arm with Internet sales of lottery tickets.
ROYAL OAK, Mich., Feb. 4 (UPI) -- A missing $3.8 million winning Michigan WinFall lottery ticket has been claimed, but the identity of the winner will remain a mystery.
BUCHAREST, Romania, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Stancu Ogica, once jailed in Romania for two years for claiming he was robbed of lottery winnings, has now won $33,000 for real from the Romanian lottery.
