After a Maryland woman scanned her lottery tickets, she couldn’t sleep — but for a good reason. The human resources specialist was on her lunch break July 7 and stopped by a Baltimore convenience store, where she bought some lottery tickets per the suggestion of a friend, Maryland Lottery officials said in a July 11 news release.

There's just one $100,000 prize left in this $2 lottery game after someone in Massachusetts claimed a grand prize on Thursday.

Lottery officials said that two lottery players from Illinois are now millionaires after winning Wednesday's Powerball jackpot.

Saturday's drawing offers the largest lottery prize this weekend in Ohio, with Mega Millions at $80 million and Classic Lotto at $5.1 million.

A $40,000-winning Keno ticket was drawn Wednesday, July 9, according to the CT Lottery. The winning ticket was sold at A & D Package Store on 38 South Turnpike Road in Wallingford, according to the CT Lottery’s website.

A Michigan man won a $500,000 lottery prize thanks to his local store being sold out of the ticket he had originally intended to buy.

Many lottery players have shared their experiences discovering a lost ticket. In June, a Kentucky woman, Pamela Howard-Thornton, won the state lottery after nearly losing the winning ticket by throwing it in the trash.

"You can be a conservative person, or you can be a risk taker," a financial advisor said about claiming a top prize ticket.

A lottery player “didn’t feel all that lucky” — then he won a huge prize. “ Life has changed ,” the winner told the South Carolina Education Lottery in a July 10 news release. “I’m trying to stay calm.”

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.

A Michigan man is plotting how to spend and save his fortune after winning a $4 million prize from a scratch-off ticket. The man, who has chosen to remain anonymous, played the Michigan Lottery’s $4,000,