Tag: Jackpots

Dad was told his lottery win was too large to be paid out at his corner shop. Winner Nathan Moody thought he’d struck lucky, scooping a big prize on Saturday’s Lotto draw, but his winnings totaled the grand sum of just £2. 

United Airlines is getting rid of quarterly performance bonuses for its employees, and replacing them with a lottery-style drawing, with prizes including cash, cars, and vacations.

A group of workers from the same Canadian oil refinery has been celebrating becoming overnight millionaires after scooping a C$60m (£34m) lottery jackpot.

Before being sentenced to 25 years in prison, Eddy Tipton apologies in front of the court for his actions. The computer program that a former lottery security official used to rig drawings worth millions of dollars in Iowa and other states was more expansive than investigators first discovered, court records filed last week show.

A lottery jackpot winner will get her money after a legal fight over releasing her identity plays out in court. A judge ruled in favor of a New Hampshire woman allowing the woman to claim the ticket through a trust, although the woman had already signed the ticket herself.