After hearing a June 8 Lotto drawing had a $4.6 million unclaimed prize, a couple decides to check their own stash of lottery tickets.

Richard and Leslie Crosby went through their unchecked tickets and found the winning ticket, verifying it at 11:17 p.m., less than an hour before the prize payout was set to expire.

Two Oregon couples are the winners of the second-biggest jackpot in U.S. lottery history: $340 million.

Lottery officials confirm Steve West, his wife, Carolyn, and his in-laws, Bob and Frances Chaney, are the owners of the winning ticket in the Oct. 19 Powerball drawing.

A postcard mailed to a retirement home on the Baltic island of Gotland finally reaches its destination, 50 years after being mailed from the Swedish mainland.

Sent in October 1955, it arrived last month bearing a lottery number. The card, sent to a former employee at the Avallegarden retirement home in Klintehamn, was mailed by a friend in Finspang, some 90 miles away.

Some just have the luck, while others simply don't. New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg is one of them, having won a $853,000 piece of the $340 million jackpot after having bought his ticket on a whim.

Gregg, a 58-year-old Republican from Rye, New Hampshire, announced his lucky win at a news conference on Thursday. The Politician says he usually doesn't play the lottery, but was intrigued by the huge jackpot and dropped $20 worth of numbers at a gas station in Washington, D.C.

Some just have the luck, while others simply don't. New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg is one of them, having won a $853,000 piece of the $340 million jackpot after having bought his ticket on a whim.

Gregg, a 58-year-old Republican from Rye, New Hampshire, announced his lucky win at a news conference on Thursday. The Politician says he usually doesn't play the lottery, but was intrigued by the huge jackpot and dropped $20 worth of numbers at a gas station in Washington, D.C.