An Aiken County man is feeling is like a million bucks…The man won $1 million from a lottery ticket he bought from Ye Olde Grocery Store, in North Augusta.

Powerball and Mega Millions have agreed in principle to cross-sell tickets to their big-jackpot lottery games. If the South Carolina lottery commission approves, South Carolinians would be able to buy Mega Millions tickets early next year. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more.

The world will soon find out who bought the winning ticket in last week’s $260 million Powerball drawing. South Carolina Education Lottery spokeswoman Stephanie Hemminghaus says the winner will be at a news conference Tuesday afternoon in Columbia. UPDATE: The winner has been identified as South Carolina Department of Revenue retiree Solomon Jackson, Jr.

Thanks to a WJBF News Channel 6 viewer in Thomson, we’ve got a scam alert to warn you about. The scam starts with a phone call. The caller says you’ve won a lottery…thousands of dollars. In order to get the money, however, you’re told to send a check to them for processing.

A Savannah Republican has introduced a measure to ban video lottery terminals that is aimed at silencing a $450 million proposal to build a casino in downtown Atlanta.

A western Ohio mayor says a group of city employees who pooled their money bought the single winning ticket worth $207 million in the latest drawing of the multistate Mega Millions lottery.  The only ticket to match all the winning numbers from Friday night’s drawing was sold at a Kroger supermarket in Piqua.

A single winner has taken the $207 million jackpot from the latest drawing of the multistate Mega Millions lottery.  The only ticket to match all the winning numbers from Friday night’s drawing was sold in Piqua, Ohio.  The next Mega Millions drawing will be on Tuesday night with a jackpot of $12 million.

Check scam targets Wilkes County community. Residents are warned to be careful. WJBF News Channel 6’s Renita Crawford has the details.

South Carolina lottery officials say sales are up in the state despite the economic downturn.

A new computer system at South Carolina Education Lottery retailers had glitches that caused it to misread some winning tickets as losers, frustrating players. The lottery switched over to the new system November 5 after two years of planning. WJBF News Channel 6’s Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more.