Mega Millions Jackpot reaches the eighth of all time in game history ahead of Friday night drawing  WVNS
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ROSEVILLE (WJON News) — There was a lucky lottery winner in Minnesota on Wednesday night.
The Minnesota State Lottery says someone playing the North 5 game won the jackpot prize of $112,948.  The ticket was bought at a Kwik Trip in Anoka.
The jackpot now resets to $25,000 for the next drawing.  North 5 drawings are held daily at 6:17 p.m.  Tickets cost $1 each to play.
Minnesota Lottery prizes above $50,000 must be claimed in person at Minnesota Lottery headquarters in Roseville.
Information regarding Minnesota Lottery prize winners above $10,000 is private data. Unless a winner chooses to opt in to publicity, their name and city will not be released.
The current jackpots for other lottery games are $843 million for Mega Millions, $467 million for Powerball, and $430,000 for Gopher 5.

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Below you'll find the winning numbers for tonight's Euromillions draw and Thunderball as they're drawn. The Euromillions jackpot for Friday, October 24, was a massive £45m.
The Euromillions draw takes place every Tuesday and Friday and a ticket costs £2.50. That includes automatic entry into the UK Millionaire Maker draw which creates new UK millionaires every week. The overall jackpot can rise to €190m (approximately £167m).
If you bought a ticket you can check your numbers below. Good luck!
If you have got two numbers or one number and two lucky stars or better then you are a winner. Players must match all five main numbers and two lucky star numbers to claim the jackpot. The Thunderball draw was also made tonight and the results will also be displayed below. The Thunderball draw takes place at 8pm and the Euromillions draw takes place at around 8.15pm.
In May 2022 Joe and Jess Thwaite, from Gloucester, became the UK's biggest-ever Euromillions winners after netting £184m with a lucky dip ticket. Their record did not last long, though, after another UK winner came forward in July 2022 to claim a jackpot of £195m. However they have not gone public. Prior to Mr and Mrs Thwaite's win the previous record was held by an anonymous winner who scooped £170m in October 2019. On June 4, 2021, a ticketholder in the UK scooped the £111m jackpot in the Friday-night draw, matching all seven numbers to become the country's ninth-biggest lottery winner ever at that stage.
In June 2019 a single ticketholder in the UK won £123m in the Tuesday night Euromillions draw. It was the third-biggest Euromillions jackpot in the UK since the draw launched in 2004. It meant they instantly became as rich as Fifty Shades of Grey author EL James (£127m) and Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page (£125m). June 2023 was a lucrative month for UK players with a ticketholder bagging a £117.1m jackpot on June 2 while another winner scooped the £55m jackpot on June 20. Euromillions is played in nine European countries.
Get the results:
The main numbers are: 7, 8, 25, 31, and 45
The Lucky Stars were: 7 and 12
The main numbers are: 6, 10, 24, 28, and 32
The Thunderball is: 6

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Updated: November 6, 2025 @ 7:47 am
The Academy of Moore County hosted a “Wicked” good time at the Fair Barn on Saturday, Nov. 1, with the annual Purse Bingo event. This was the 10th year for this popular fundraiser, and attendees dressed in all things “Wicked,” from the Emerald City to bubbles and brooms.
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The Mega Millions jackpot has reached $843 million.
It’s now the eighth largest in the game’s history after growing due to no tickets matching all six numbers during Tuesday night’s drawing.
The prize is still up for grabs, with the next drawing scheduled for Nov. 7.
The odds of winning are about one in 290 million. Friday’s drawing will be the 38th since the last jackpot winner.
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Martin Nestor is from the Wooden Canal Boat Society in Ashton-under-Lyne
A National Lottery grant will be spent on preserving Tameside's "unique" heritage, it has been announced.
The Greater Manchester borough will share £200m with up to 20 other areas across the United Kingdom.
Tameside Council will now decide how to spend its share of the money.
One of the borough's best-loved heritage assets is the Portland Basin Museum in Ashton-under-Lyne, home to the Wooden Canal Boat Society (WCBS).
Eleanor Wills is leader of Tameside Council, which will decide how the money is spent
The Portland Basin Museum is housed within the restored 19th Century Ashton Canal Warehouse.
It attracted about 100,000 visitors in 2024.
The WCBS has six canal boats.
One of them, Hazel, was built in 1913 to carry salt but now provides "wellbeing trips" for people.
The WCBS received a previous National Lottery grant in 2014.
Engineer Martin Nestor, 60, said: "Restoring boats is a passion and it gives me a sense of purpose.
"They're all working boats and it gives me so much pleasure."
Eleanor Wills, leader of Tameside Council, said: "What we've got to do is take stock of the heritage we've got and how many more visitors we can have in places like the Portland Basin Museum.
"This is a really big opportunity for us in Tameside to connect people with their communities."
The Portland Basin Museum in Ashton-under-Lyne stands at the junction of three canals
The National Lottery Heritage Fund's Heritage Places scheme aims to better connect people with the past in the places they live, work and visit.
The fund's chief executive, Eilish McGuinness, said: "There are so many heritage treasures to be excited about.
"We are now in a supportive relationship with Tameside Council so we're trying to help them think about their heritage and work with their communities."
Eilish McGuinness is chief executive of the National Lottery Heritage Fund
There are more than 300 listed buildings in Tameside, including Ashton Town Hall, which was home to the Museum of the Manchester Regiment before it closed in 2015.
The museum's collection is now packed away in storage and it is hoped work can begin on restoring the historic building, which opened in 1840.
The town hall's roof has been repaired and Tameside Council has appointed architects to look at options for the building's future.
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Kyrgyzstan is consolidating all private lottery operations into a single, state-controlled system as part of a national initiative to modernize the sector and align it with international standards. The project is being implemented by the Information Security Center in partnership with the state-owned enterprise Kyrgyzloto.
Under the new framework, all types of lottery draws in the country will be brought under state oversight. Authorities say the system will provide full transparency over financial flows, enable real-time monitoring of sales and payouts, and protect citizens from unscrupulous operators.
The Lottery Information Processing Center will manage real-time data collection on ticket sales, draw results, and prize pools. Financial and fiscal oversight will be conducted by the Ministry of Finance and the State Tax Service.
“Our task is to agree on the rules for conducting lotteries and to form a fund for targeted deductions. We intend to unify the draws and channel the proceeds into useful areas,” said Sherik Kasmaliev, director of Kyrgyzloto, during a press briefing.
Government projections estimate that over the next ten years, the national lottery could generate approximately $1 billion in tax revenues and licensing fees.
Officials also believe the launch of a unified state lottery system will provide a legal alternative to illegal gambling, help curb gambling addiction, and return billions of som previously lost to unlicensed foreign platforms back into the domestic economy.
All data processing and storage infrastructure will be located within Kyrgyzstan, which project developers say will enhance cybersecurity and reduce the risk of capital outflows.
Anton Chipegin
Anton was born and grew up in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. He worked as a television correspondent, editor and TV presenter on the main television channels of the republic, such as NTS and MIR 24, and also as an economic observer at international news agencies and other media resources of Kyrgyzstan.
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