Lottery officials said a state law and a glitch will prevent them from handing out winnings of up to $500 to winners on about 71,000 Christmas Day tickets. It was a Christmas miracle, until it wasn't.

Lottery officials said a state law and a glitch will prevent them from handing out winnings of up to $500 to winners on about 71,000 Christmas Day tickets. It was a Christmas miracle, until it wasn't.

Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A Michigan woman bought a stack of scratch-off lottery tickets to give as gifts and the only one she kept for herself turned out to be a $1 million winner. The 66-year-old Clinton ...

(Michigan Lottery) “I scratched the ticket off on Christmas, which also happens to be my birthday, and thought I won $50,000,” Hickox told officials with the Michigan Lottery.

"I scratched the ticket on Christmas and thought I won $1,000 because I didn't count all the words right away," she said. "I scanned it on my lottery app and was in complete and total disbelief ...

(Michigan Lottery) “I scratched the ticket off on Christmas, which also happens to be my birthday, and thought I won $50,000,” Hickox told officials with the Michigan Lottery.

(Gray News) – A woman in Indiana won the top prize of $500,000 on a scratch-off ticket from the Michigan lottery she ended up with during a white elephant gift exchange on Christmas. Emily Hickox, who ...

(Gray News) – A woman in Indiana won the top prize of $500,000 on a scratch-off ticket from the Michigan lottery she ended up with during a white elephant gift exchange on Christmas. Emily Hickox, who ...