LANSING, Mich. – A Sterling Heights Lottery club got the surprise of a lifetime when they found out the Powerball ticket they’d forgotten about was worth $1 million.

David Richie, of Ooltewah, Tennessee, was nearly speechless when he arrived at the Tennessee Lottery’s headquarters in Nashville to claim his seven-figure Powerball prize won from the June 11, 2022, drawing. And who can blame him? The lucky retiree purchased the winning ticket at a Publix grocery store in Ooltewah. Congrats to David!

RALEIGH – Jone Buadromo from Bayboro won a $100,000 prize playing Powerball, but he delayed collecting it for almost two months because he wanted to tell his wife the good news on her birthday.

“I waited until the end of May because I wanted to surprise her on her birthday with the win,” Buadromo said.

LANSING, Mich. – A Royal Oak woman is still in a daze after winning a $500,000 Powerball prize from the Michigan Lottery. 

Deborah Berschbach, 54, matched the five white balls – 14-22-38-56-60– in the May 7 Powerball Double Play drawing to win a $500,000 prize. She bought her winning ticket at Star Market, located at 1806 West 13 Mile Road in Royal Oak.

RALEIGH – A group of eight FedEx workers teamed up several years ago with hopes of winning a big lottery prize, and their dreams came true Monday when they won $2 million in the Powerball drawing.

RALEIGH – A tradition of playing the lottery together as a group led to 22 people winning $100,000 playing Powerball on April 2.

“It was a little close to April fool’s so some of them didn’t believe me,” Neil Ellis, a spokesman for the group, said. “I guess they believe me now.”

MURFREEESBORO — Winning $50,000 was a complete shock to Stacy Reed, whose husband encouraged her to check her Tennessee Lottery Powerball ticket the day before April 1, 2022. Even though she saw that the ticket matched four out of the five white balls drawn plus the red Powerball, Stacey thought of April Fool’s Day.

LANSING, Mich. – A Kent County woman is planning a trip to Hawaii after winning a $100,000 Powerball prize from the Michigan Lottery.

Baltimore – “No guts, no glory,” is what a 64-year-old Anne Arundel County, Maryland resident said about his recent brush with Lottery luck. “This happens to be the glory.”

RALEIGH –Steven Coleman of Fayetteville plans to take his daughter to Disney World after winning a $100,000 prize in Wednesday’s Powerball drawing.

“She’s very excited to go,” Coleman said about his daughter. “We’ll probably go this summer.”