Woman stops for gas, leaves with 6-figure lottery prize: 'It felt so unreal'

$2 million scratcher sold at Jefferson City Walmart vending machine

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Missouri shopper became a millionaire after buying a scratch-off ticket from a vending machine at the Walmart on Stadium Boulevard in Jefferson City, according to a Friday press release from the Missouri Lottery. The winner – who was not identified in the press release – learned he won $2 million after scratching off the ticket in his car in the parking lot. The ticket was the "$2,000,000 Jackpot Fortune."  “I can just use…

Woman stops for gas, leaves with 6-figure lottery prize: 'It felt so unreal'

Natalie Vega stopped at a gas station in Archdale, North Carolina, and decided to buy a $5 scratch-off Prize Link Multiplier ticket.

Definitely, a person from the United States has been very lucky on last Wednesday, May 21. I say this without fear of being wrong because that day he won a million dollars in Powerball. While I cannot reveal his name to you, because it has not come to light, I am in a position to inform you in what state of America he bought his lucky ticket. Interested in receiving that information? Prepare to read it. As in the first paragraph of this note I m…

30 Years Ago--May 25, 1995

Joseph Gates had always told his wife, Juanita, and their nine children that he would buy Juanita a new car if he won the Missouri Lottery. So when he came home from work on May 14 and announced that a new car was her Mother’s Day present, his family immediately knew what had happened. A SHOW ME 5 ticket that Gates had bought matched all the numbers drawn on May 12 for the $25,000 tax-paid top prize. He purchased the ticket at Muehlbach Apple Ma…