When Shirley Jackson’s short story ‘The Lottery’ was published in the New Yorker in June 1948, some of its readers, incredibly, believed it to be fact. Set in a village of three hundred people, it ...

Victoria Washington was on her way home from a day of teaching when she decided to stop to grab a lottery ticket. The $1 Cash ...

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A Midlands man bought what turned out to be a grand-prize winning lottery ticket, but he didn’t know it for days because his wife took the scratch-off game and kept it in her purse before revealing ...

The winner, 67-year-old Gail Riola of North Port, bought a ticket at a Circle K in Port Charlotte. She opted to play the 500X ...

“I never thought I’d see the day where I held a winning Lottery ticket worth that much — it felt like a scene from a movie,” ...

It’s not every day this Maryland man buys a lottery ticket. But, with his father’s words sitting at the back of his mind, he ...

Jacksonville Today reader Mark L. wonders how much revenue from the Florida Lottery is supporting public education, like ...

Whether sparked by a gut instinct, like a $5 impulse buy in a local market, or habitual actions such as grabbing coffee, ...

See her story and how to watch The first event of the three-year Jackson residency will take place from Nov. 7 to 9, 2025. In total, approximately 300 artists, musicians, dancers, storytellers and ...