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A New Jersey construction worker cheated five co-workers out of a $38.5 million lottery jackpot and must share the winnings, a jury found.

Beware of too much good luck, warns a classic Greek myth – a lesson that a Michigan woman who won a $1-million state lottery jackpot has learned the hard way. Michigan’s Department of Human Services has cut off $200 a month in food aid to Amanda Clayton in the wake of media reports that she had won $1 million in the state lottery in September. To make matters worse for Clayton, who lives in Lincoln Park near Detroit, her case has been turned over to state anti-fraud officials.

Amanda Clayton hit it big playing the Michigan Lottery. Like many winners, she used her $1 million prize to buy a new house.

Louise White, 81, of Newport, R.I., is winner of the third-largest Powerball jackpot in the history of the game: $336.4 million.

The winner of Saturday's $336.4 million Powerball jackpot bought the ticket at a Stop & Shop supermarket in Newport, Rhode Island Lottery officials say. No one has come forward yet to claim the prize, officials said Monday.

Three Connecticut men who work at a startup asset management firm have claimed a $254 million Powerball jackpot.

Andrew Hunter, a 24-year-old restaurant server in Georgia nearly threw away a quarter of a million dollars. Instead, he pulled a $3 winning ticket out of his trash and traded it in for three more tickets — one of which won him $250,000.

Several hundred thousand Connecticut residents were still without power following last weekend's snow storm, but one of them may be holding a Powerball ticket worth $245 million.

An illegal immigrant allegedly swindled out of his $3 million lottery jackpot win will finally collect his prize, the Daily Mail reports. The man won the jackpot after purchasing a lottery scratch card at N&K Quick Pick in Spring Valley, N.Y., on Feb. 3.

A mother and daughter in the Carolinas have three big lottery wins in the last 20 years between them. The Charlotte Observer reports that Kimberly McCauley won $100,000 this month playing a new instant-scratch off game 10X the Money.