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Man gives $500K Michigan Lottery ticket to his brother

After winning $500,000 on a Michigan Lottery instant game, a Macomb County man shocked his brother by giving him the ticket. “My brother came home from the store and gave me the ticket to look over,” the winner, who chose to remain anonymous, told the Michigan Lottery.

She bought her first lottery ticket on her 18th birthday — and now she’s set for life

Talk about luck! To celebrate her birthday, Canadian teen Charlie Lagarde went out and bought a bottle of wine and a $4 scratch-off lottery ticket. Despite the 1 in 6 million odds, she won the lottery's grand prize which allows the winner to pick between a $1 million lump sum or $1,000 a week ...

Class Action Suit Seeks Money For Lottery Players Who Allegedly Had No Chance at Winning

"How do you go about rigging a lottery?" asked Gus Fritschie at DEF CON 25. "Obviously, you become a lottery developer, write code, and have your friends buy the winning numbers," he continued, answering his own question. That's what Eddie Tipton did, but he got caught, in ...

If you win the $421 million Mega Millions jackpot, here's what you should do

Whenever a lottery's jackpot grows to certain size, many of us start imagining what, exactly, we would do if we were to ever win so much money. While paying off debt, buying a house in an exotic destination, or traveling the world are normally high on the list, many people don't consider ...

Lottery tickets are nice, boss, but I could really use my bonus instead

It seemed like an epic blunder: United Airlines announced that it was replacing a standard bonus with a lottery that would give nothing to most of its roughly 90,000 workers while awarding lavish prizes, such as US$100,000 in cash and Mercedes-Benz sedans, to a few lucky winners.

Detroit woman worried about future wins over $200,000

Talk about perfect timing. A Detroit woman concerned about the future of her job won a Fantasy 5 lottery jackpot worth $213,481. "There’s never a bad time to win a jackpot, but I’m facing some uncertainty with my job, so the timing couldn’t have been better," the winner ...