When a Connecticut man lost his lottery ticket, he “didn’t think too much of it.” However, fate had other plans. Looking “for some superstitious fun” on Friday, June 13, Russell Ruff of Somers bought a Powerball ticket for the drawing the next day, Connecticut Lottery officials said in a July 7 news release. The ticket, though, vanished.

The winner hails from Wayne County, and says they plan on using the money to pay off their home and take a trip.

A California woman has known for more than a decade good fortune would come her way. Since she won a $30,000 prize on a Mega Millions ticket in Arizona in 2011, Deborah Trullinger just knew, California Lottery officials said in a July 3 news release.

Let’s rock and roll,” one of the siblings said after his sister called him to tell him about the big win in Maryland.

At first, he scratched off only the barcodes on the tickets, then scanned them with the lottery app, officials said. One of the tickets triggered a message indicating it was a winner — but how much, the app didn’t say.

A Wayne County man is $4 million richer after winning the top prize playing the Michigan Lottery's $4,000,000 Winner instant game.

A 26-year-old Wisconsin woman will serve 10 days in jail after she pleaded guilty to forging lottery tickets, according to court records.

The Atkins man bought a new part for the vehicle and with the leftover money he decided to buy two lottery tickets. That’s when he won $30, lottery officials said. With that $30, he decided to buy one more ticket and was stunned when he saw the prize.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The New York Lottery announced multiple top-prize winning tickets were sold for the July 8 Take 5 evening drawing. Two tickets, each worth $15,321.50, were sold on Staten Island and in Manhattan. The first winning ticket was sold at Liquor City USA, located at 965 Richmond Ave. Suite H in Graniteville.

Two for Tuesday could have two meanings with Florida Lottery big money draw games: two jackpot tickets sold in South Florida and the second jackpot win in the last 11 months for a North Miami-Dade gas station.