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PHOTO CREDIT: MASSACHUSETTS STATE LOTTERY Maria Acevedo Valdez received a wonderful early Christmas present, after she won $1 million in the Massechusetts Lottery. Valdez says that she purchased the ticket while buying her morning coffee on her way to work. She opted to buy a $20 scratch-off ticket and won…

A man in Michigan got the surprise of his year, after an old scratch-off ticket he almost threw away turned out to be worth $2 million! The 29-year-old man scratched the ticket four months earlier, but didn't think he won a prize. When his wife asked him to turn in…

Muscle memory is a miraculous ability, but not when it almost costs someone $50,000. Paul Marshall, from Indiana, went through a frustrating series of events when he tried to cash in a winning Powerball ticket worth $50K at a participating retailer. After a machine instructed him that his total was…

PHOTO: COURTESY VIRGINIA LOTTERY Jennifer Minton from Virginia had the week of a lifetime, after winning an initial $50 thousand while playing the lottery, and later in the same week, won $912,936. “Dang, somebody just hit. They are so lucky!" she told the Virginia Lottery she thought, after seeing…

Penny Reep, 50, won $3 million off of a Pennsylvania lottery scratch-off ticket. First on her agenda? Taking her husband on his dream cruise to Alaska. "My husband has a very rare form of cancer and it's not curable," Reep said. "We don't know how long we have with him.…