Associated Press – June 6, 2009 10:35 AM ET NEW YORK (AP) – Proceeds from the New York Lottery are funding college scholarships for more than 1,200 students statewide.

Broke cowboy lassos a fortune with $232m lottery win

A fraudster has been jailed after fleecing the alcoholic former husband of a Shropshire lottery winner out of more than half a million pounds by keeping him “holed up and boozed up”.

A cowboy who had his trailer repossessed and couldn’t pay his taxes lassoed one of the biggest lottery jackpots in history – a $232.1 million Powerball prize.

PIERRE — A 23–year–old rancher whose family has fallen behind in their taxes and recently had a mobile home repossessed claimed a $232.1 million Powerball jackpot on Friday, one of the largest undivided jackpots in U.S. lottery history….

If this were a movie, nobody would believe it: A rancher struggling to eke out a living in one of the poorest corners of America claimed one of the biggest undivided jackpots in U.S. lottery history Friday — $232 million — after buying the ticket in a town by the name of Winner.