On Christmas Eve, a Bedford County nurse decided to buy a lottery ticket and keep it in her Bible. Turns out that ticket won her a million dollars.

Manoj Chhetry, from Woodbridge, won a jackpot prize worth $4,303,499 in the Dec. 22 drawing for the Merry Money Mania game, the Virginia Lottery said in a Jan. 22 news release. Chhetry told lottery officials he thought it was a scam at first and had to call his wife to help him verify that he really had won. “I didn’t know what happened!” he said.

A Virginia woman scored a big prize playing Powerball, but it wasn’t her first time to strike it lucky with lottery games, officials said. Jennifer Helfman, from Alexandria, won $100,000 in the Dec. 7 Powerball drawing, about two years after winning $399,392 in an online lottery game, the Virginia Lottery said in a Jan. 21 news release.

A Virginia woman scored $100,000 from a Powerball drawing about two years after she collected $399,392 from an online lottery game.

A Virginia man won a life-changing jackpot prize while playing online lottery games after work, lottery officials said. Keith Girard, who works in finance, had just gotten home when he won about $1.5 million playing the Marvelous Money: Paradise Payout game, the Virginia Lottery said in a Jan. 17 news release.

A Florida lottery player scored a huge windfall — but might not know it yet. The player bought a Fantasy 5 game ticket that matched all the numbers picked in Jan. 28’s evening drawing, making it worth nearly $110,

A Fantasy 5 player won a life-changing jackpot on a ticket they purchased from Publix, lottery officials said. Photo by Dylan Nolte via Unsplash A stop at Publix netted a lottery player a huge jackpot prize in Georgia.

A Florida lottery player tried their luck playing Fantasy 5 — and scored a jackpot prize. The player won $110,217.71 after matching all five numbers in the evening drawing Monda