Cheryl Nettingham cautiously told her husband about her jackpot win, worth nearly $900,000, the Virginia Lottery said in a March 14 news release. “I have something to share with you,” Nettingham told her husband. “You might want to sit down.”

A Wilton resident claimed a winning "Lotto!" ticket with a prize of $7,785,757 purchased at PVC Gulf convenience store on Danbury Road.

Rhiannon Saegert is a McClatchy Real-Time reporter covering the midwest from Southern Nevada. She’s an alumna of The University of North Texas, and has written for local newspapers like Waco Tribune-Herald and the Las Vegas Sun as well as Eater and other online publications.

The last $500,000 prize from a $5 lottery game was claimed in Massachusetts on Wednesday. The $500,000 prize was from “ Big Blue Bonus Cashword 2023 .” The $5 scratch ticket game was released on Aug. 28, 2023. This was the fourth and final grand prize to be claimed in the game as of March 13.

A lottery player spent $10 on a ticket — and won an “epic” jackpot prize in North Carolina. The player bought a ticket that scored the top prize in the Wheel of Bonuses game on March 9, making it worth $466,415, the N.C. Education Lottery wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

A lottery player from Massachusetts won $1 million from a crossword-style scratch ticket game. The $1 million prize was from “ $2,000,000 Diamond Cashword ,” a $10 game released Jan. 7. This was the first $1 million prize to be claimed in the game, leaving nine to be claimed as of March 10, and four $2 million grand prizes.