A poker player ended up hitting a big jackpot at a Las Vegas casino with the rarest hand in the game. Now, she’s $279,376 richer. The Baltimore woman was visiting Horseshoe Las Vegas on Monday, Jan. 20, the casino said in a Jan. 21 news release. She sat at an Ultimate Texas Hold’em poker table and ended up with a royal flush.

The New York Lottery announced one top-prize winning ticket — worth $32,512 — was sold for the Jan. 23 TAKE 5 evening drawing. It was sold at Buy-Rite Pharmacy, located at 11 Chatham Square, in Manhattan. The winning numbers are: 3, 9, 11, 18, and 35.

A woman in southeastern North Carolina beat odds of 1 in 1,354,380 to be the first jackpot winner in the aptly named $1,000,000 Money Rush game. Barbara Jenkins, of Richlands, paid $10 for the scratch-off ticket, which means she got a $100,000 return for every buck she spent.

A ticket sold in Pensacola won a $111,892.95 prize in the Fantasy 5 evening drawing Jan. 22, and another player netted $107,178.78 in the game’s Jan. 21 drawing after purchasing

North Carolina lottery prize was identified as Michael Bach. The Cary man kept $78,925 after taxes, the N.C. Education Lottery wrote in a news release. The original story is below. A lottery player has a big reason to celebrate after scoring a life-changing win in North Carolina.