Still missing: two lottery winners have weeks remaining
By Kate Northrop
By the end of the month, two large lottery prizes won in Massachusetts will no longer be eligible to claim: a $100,000 Mass Cash prize and a $50,000 Powerball prize.
It's been nearly a full year since someone in Massachusetts won a $100,000 Mass Cash lottery prize and, separately, a $50,000 Powerball prize, but no one's come forward to claim either one.
By the time September rolls around, they'll be long gone.
On Aug. 29, 2025, someone purchased a Mass Cash ticket at T Square Food Shop on North Franklin Street in Holbrook and beat the odds of 1 in 324,632 to win the game's top prize of $100,000.
An Italian woman who accidentally threw out a winning €1 million (US$1,155,580) winning lottery ticket is probably one of the luckiest players alive after trash collectors were able to sift through tons of garbage and find the discarded slip of paper still intact.
A Michigan family not only gifted a father a winning lottery ticket worth $8 million, but they gave him the distinction of setting a new lottery record as well.
An undocumented mother living in California said she won a $2 million prize in the lottery and entrusted her uncle to claim it on her behalf, but now she believes he's run off with the money.
A United States Postal Service Office employee was arrested after stealing a Florida lottery player's winning $2,600 Pick 4 ticket and attempting to cash it in.
The $167 million Powerball lottery winner, who has made an infamous name for himself over the numerous criminal charges filed against him since his win, has been arrested yet again.
An Irish lottery winner who picked up a £10.2 million (US$15.5 million) National Lottery jackpot in 1996 spent a chunk of the change within a matter of weeks, but his journey from bus driver to local businessman tells a different story.
The Massachusetts Lottery's online platform for digital ticket sales officially went live on Monday, which means Massachusetts players have a new way to buy their tickets and play online exclusive draw games.
The U.S. government has introduced a piece of legislation that would require gambling platforms to utilize facial recognition software as a deterrent against underage betting.
