A longtime Maryland Lottery player made a trip to Maryland Lottery headquarters in Baltimore on Sept. 13 to collect his third five-figure prize in two decades.

This time, he brought his wife and friends to experience the round of applause and royal treatment that big winners get when they enter the Winner's Circle at Lottery headquarters.

The happy grandfather found his latest top-prize win with a Super Bonus Bucks scratch-off. The 67-year-old visited one of his favorite Lottery retailers, Newtown Market in Pocomoke City, and bought just one of the $5 games.

Several D.C. Council members are asking whether the $215 million lottery and sports gambling contract the council approved this summer fulfills local business subcontracting requirements. This week, they got an answer from a high-level District staffer: Everything's fine.

"Yes, the contract is compliant" with D.C. law requiring companies with large public contracts to subcontract some of the work to local businesses, Kristi Whitfield, director of the department responsible for monitoring compliance with the law, wrote in a letter Monday to D.C. Council Member Elissa Silverman (I-At Large).

Ever since he won $500 in the lottery 20 years ago, one 65-year-old New Castle, Delaware, man has been playing the same numbers over and over, hoping they'd pay off again. 

On Sept. 9, they finally did, winning him $25,000 per year for life in the Lucky for Life drawing. 

The man, who wished to remain anonymous, purchased the ticket at Dave's Liquors in New Castle, the state lottery office said. He matched all five numbers. 

"I thought I was dreaming," the man said when he learned that he had won. "I was one away from the big one (matching 5 numbers and the Lucky Ball), but that's okay. This is still such a great win!"

A Florida man who won a $52 million lottery jackpot in 2010 wants to use some of his millions to breathe new life into the streets of Sistrunk, a historically black northwestern section of Fort Lauderdale.

An Oregon cancer survivor's lucky streak continued this month with a $4.6 million lottery win, according to state officials.

Though officials say the vast majority of the 10,500 Michigan lottery retailers deal honestly with both the agency and their customers, a few are always looking for a new way to game the system. It's the job of the lottery agency's eight-person security unit, which handles about 1,500 cases a year, to investigate those offenders, and, if necessary, shut them down.

A Missouri couple who won a $3.7 million lottery prize in 2007 saw their luck heat up a second time last week, narrowly missing out on another multi-million dollar prize.

A website that was set up for people with losing tickets to seek refunds under a $4.3 million lottery scam settlement is now functioning.

A California grocery store manager will need to fill a new employee opening after one lucky worker won a $9 million jackpot and quit.

A Michigan couple who won $500,000 on a state lottery scratch-off ticket in 2016 has been charged in a string of burglaries.