Baltimore – A loyal Maryland Lottery player enjoyed a welcome surprise when he took his Powerball and Mega Millions tickets into a Royal Farms in Baltimore during a recent stop to buy gas.

Baltimore – An excited “Power Couple” from Gaithersburg, Md. eagerly claimed a major Powerball prize after seeing their love of jackpot games pay off big time.

LANSING, Mich. - A Shelby Township woman has a store clerk to thank after winning a $1 million Powerball prize from the Michigan Lottery.

Richard Payne likes to choose his own numbers when he plays Powerball. One of his sets of numbers, consisting of birth dates and ages of loves ones, recently netted the St. Louis man a $50,000 prize.

Payne won the $50,000 prize by matching four white-ball numbers plus the Powerball for the June 1 drawing. He checked his tickets the next evening using the Missouri Lottery Official Mobile App.

Travis Sauer won $50,000 after matching four out of the five white-ball numbers, plus the Powerball number drawn in the May 25 drawing.

Sauer said he purchased the ticket on the Saturday of the drawing but didn’t check his ticket until the following Monday. Upon realizing he had won, he immediately called his father.

RALEIGH – A 66-year-old grandfather from Cumberland County has come forward to claim his $344.6 million Powerball prize, making him the largest jackpot winner in state history.

Baltimore – Robert Harnek has the good fortune of having a serious Maryland Lottery player for a best friend. The Harford County engineer rarely buys Lottery tickets, except when the two hang out, and then he only plays Powerball and Mega Millions.

RALEIGH – Just as many other lottery winners, Steve Lax of Archdale says his win – a $250,000 Powerball prize − couldn’t have come at a better time.

CLIVE, Iowa — A Des Moines-area man said he called person after person after realizing he’d won a $2 million Powerball® prize, and no one believed him – not even his wife or his dad. Rob Maser of Urbandale said he quickly realized that he must have a reputation as a jokester.

Baltimore – Milton Price of Maryland has big plans for when he hits the jackpot in a Powerball or Mega Millions game: “I’m going to open up a shelter. I want a church, a place where the homeless can come to shower, rest and eat.”