A 21-year-old Florida student who supports herself by waiting on tables says she will not stop working even after winning a cool million dollars.

Alexandra Chaar of Clearwater Beach, Florida just allowed herself the luxury of a single day off to claim her $700,000 prize (after taxes). The following day saw her reporting for work as usual at the Mexican restaurant called Casa Tina.

Chaar says she will set aside the money for her studies.

Every household in the town of Sodesto, Spain  has made off with roughly USD130,000 except one man who forgot to buy his share of the El Gordo Lottery ticket bought by the townsfolk in December.

Film maker Costis Mitsotakis was the only among 70 households in Sodesto who did not participate in the town's lottery ticket pooling. They won a $950-million lottery jackpot in Spain's Christmas lottery.

Iowa state legislators said they were pleased with how lottery officials handled the mystery "Hot Lotto" jackpot claim last week.

Sen. Tom Courtney, D-Burlington, expressed this sentiment after lottery officials walked members of the Legislature’s Oversight Committee through a 13-month saga.

A Hot Lotto ticket valued at up to $16.5 million matched the grand-prize numbers drawn on Dec. 29, 2010. The claim was submitted 2 hours before the deadline by a New York-based lawyer who said that he was representing an investment trust in Belize.

When asked to reveal the identity of the winners or forfeit the claim, the lawyer chose to withdraw their claim for the million dollar prize and kissed the winning ticket away.

With the cancellation of the controversial Cash WinFall lottery game last Monday, plans are afoot for a new multi-state game in New England this March. Cash Winfall was cancelled due to loopholes in the game which paid out large sums when players wagered huge amounts at the right time.

The last Cash WinFall draw had a $2,253,177 jackpot, but there was no ticket matching all six numbers. The jackpot was divided between all the tickets winning lesser prizes. Winning tickets can be claimed up to one year after the draw date.

One day before the assigned deadline set by Iowa Lottery officials, the New Year lawyer representing a corporation in the country of Belize, has withdrawn his claim on the $10.3 Million Iowa Lottery jackpot prize.

Lawyer Crawford Shaw , of a New York-based law firm,  withdraw his clients' claim on the prize after Iowa Lottery officials pressed him to reveal their identities and contact details.

The Big Lottery Fund has announced that will be giving more than £1 million for the 2013 celebration of Derry’s City of Culture year.

Big Lottery Fund’s UK Chair, Peter Ainsworth said the culture accolade promises to be a historic event for the city.

A UK-based couple who won almost £41million on the Euro Millions lottery says a new landing carpet is on top of their shopping list.

The couple is still in disbelief after winning Friday's Euro Millions draw. Their winnings amount to £40,627,24, which is the seventh highest win in Britain and makes Gareth and Catherine Bull the 1,647th richest people in the country.

Iowa Lottery announced yesterday that will not pay out the multi-million dollar prize unless the New York attorney who turned in the winning ticket offers more information by Friday, January 27th.

Lottery are asking for the name and contact information of the actual person who bought the winning ticket at a Des Moines gas station in December 2010.

A South Dakota grandfather has won a new car from a scratch lottery ticket.

Dale Pastian won a Chevrolet Camaro in South Dakota Lottery’s Camaro Cash instant scratch game.

His first $5 ticket didn’t win him the car, but he won enough to buy a second ticket, which was the big winner.

Iowa lottery officials and the attorney representing the still anonymous winner of the $7.53 million Hot Lotto Jackpot won almost a year ago finally sat at the negotiating table today to start the process of verifying the lottery winnings.

Crawford Shaw of Bedford, N.Y., the trustee for Hexam Investments Trust, met personally with lottery officials for about one and a half hours,  a news release revealed.


Shaw is representing a trust that turned in the winning Hot Lotto ticket on Dec. 29, 2011 less than two hours before the one-year deadline.