Jacqueline Mangus, who works as a nurse in Moneta, won $1 million in the New Year’s Millionaire Raffle, the Virginia Lottery said in a Jan. 29 news release. “I was tickled to death,” she told lottery officials.

An unknown lottery winner has a choice between $1,000 a week for life or $1 million up front, according to the Missouri Lottery. The winning ticket for the multistate Cash4Life game was sold by a Casey’s convenience store in Cole Camp, Missouri.

I went running to tell my husband and when I got to him, he thought something was wrong,” the woman told Michigan lottery officials.

A player in Johns Creek won $163,145 in the $25 and $50 Frenzy Quick Win Game, netting 50% of the rolling progressive jackpot, the Georgia Lottery said. The winning ticket was purchased at the Nesbit Ferry Food Mart in Johns Creek, about a 30-mile drive northeast from downtown Atlanta, according to the lottery.

Someone won $50,000 playing Mega Millions after matching four numbers and the Mega Ball in the Jan. 28 drawing, just missing the estimated $44 million jackpot, the Georgia Lottery said. The winning ticket was sold at a Kroger fuel station in Tucker, according to lottery officials.

The New York Lottery announced one top-prize winning ticket — worth $31,423.50 — was sold for the Jan. 29 TAKE 5 evening drawing. It was sold at Cold Cut City, located at 230A Atlantic Ave. #A, in Oceanside, New York.

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,