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A Florida woman has claimed her lottery winnings were "held hostage" after the unemployment office flagged an apparent overpayment of unemployment payments from the start of the Covid pandemic

Denise Rossi, from California, had filed for divorce from her husband Thomas Rossi after 25 years of marriage, 11 days after winning big on a US lottery game

National Lottery has been hit by a slew of scandals in recent years, from break-ups and regrettable investments to being accosted by strangers in the street, fuelling rumours of a jackpot "curse"

Canadian police investigated 355 wins in 2008 and filed 14 charges, with four winners found guilty of unfair tactics. It led to the new rules of the lottery in the country

Jane Park played the lottery for the first time ten years ago and it was a serious case of beginners' luck when she scooped an incredible £1 million jackpot - but it nearly ended in tragedy

The woman was seen hyperventilating and collapsing to her knees in joy outside Palmitas Mini Mart in Los Angeles after claiming to have bought the winning $1.08billion Powerball ticket

A man in Arkansas gave away his $200,000 winning Powerball ticket to his stepdaughter after promising her would if he ever won it. Cally Krisell's stepdad won big on July 17

Raul Nabor Herrera, manager of Las Palmitas Mini Market in Los Angeles, changed the lives of one of his customers overnight by selling the winning Powerball ticket

California Lottery officials had confirmed Las Palmitas Mini Market sold the winning ticket and its owner, Nabor Herrera, will receive a whopping $1million bonus from Powerball

Do you always struggle to pick numbers for the EuroMillions? Well this might help, as below you'll find the most and least commonly picked digits - make of that what you will

Forces veteran Roch Rochester, who was left suicidal and suffered for years with PTSD after being medically discharged said his life was transformed with The Health Lottery funding

Whilst the odds of winning the EuroMillions or National Lottery are slim - they're never quite zero and many Brits pay week in week out to try and pocket the life-changing jackpot

Mark Gardiner and then business partner Paul Maddison split a massive £22,590,829 jackpot when they won the lottery in 1995 - but since he lost millions of his fortune and winded up back working

The lucky California winner, who has not been identified, was seen breaking down in tears and hyperventilating at Las Palmitas Mini Market, the store where the $1billion Powerball ticket was purchased

Tonight’s billion-dollar Powerball drawing – combined with a Mega Millions jackpot that keeps growing – means some lucky winners could become millionaires this week - as some of the biggest prizes in history are yet to be claimed

Gas stations, grocery stores, and bodegas all have another busy day ahead of them selling Powerball tickets as no winners came forward last night, increasing the jackpot to a whopping $1 billion - for the third time in the lottery's history.

The Powerball jackpot has reached an estimated $1 billion (£770 million) after no winning lottery ticket was sold for the latest drawing, making it the third highest in US history

After 37 consecutive drawings where no winners were declared, the jackpot amount available at Monday's drawing is $900 million

Thousands attended the Cambridge Rock Festival (CRF) in 2017 and 2018, and though Adrian Bayford wanted to repeat the music event this year, neighbours shared concerns to the council

Clive Bray, a carer from St Austell, Cornwall, has won £300,000 on a scratch card - but didn't believe he'd won so visited two shops to get confirmation of his large windfall

The Liberal Democrats said the figures revealed the 'stark postcode lottery' for NHS treatment, with waits of a year more far more common in some parts of England compared to other regions

Zoe Carroll was given £1million when her brother Michael Carroll when he scooped £10m on a winning National Lottery ticket in 2002. She was found dead at her home in King's Lynn, Norfolk, in May.

But four in ten gamblers have never actually stepped inside a casino - as over a fifth worry about looking out of place, research finds

The winner of tonight's Set For Life could see £10,000 sent straight to their account for 30 years - a total sum of £3.6million - meaning you could quit your job and change your life

Nessie hunter Eoin O’Faodhagain has caught footage of a dark shadow seeming to chase a boat in the waters of Loch Ness which he says "can only be" the mythical monster