A Kentucky woman learned she won an $80,000 top prize in a lottery game, but only after accidentally throwing her ticket away ...

A Kentucky woman is celebrating an unexpected windfall after nearly discarding an $80,000 winning lottery ticket.

A Kentucky woman has won the state lottery after nearly losing the winning ticket by throwing it in the trash. Pamela ...

SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. (WJW) — Her family calls her lucky. Kentucky’s own Pamela Howard-Thornton continued to prove them right ...

That strategy worked for a Shepherdsville woman, who recently claimed the top prize of $80,000 on the Kentucky Lottery's $5 ...

Pamela Howard-Thorton, of Shepherdsville, told Kentucky Lottery officials she had been eyeing the $5 Flamingo Bingo ...

Howard-Thorton’s final prize will be $57,600 after taxes. She plans to buy herself a new car, pay bills and toss some of her ...

Luck was on the side of a Kentucky woman who won $80,000 from playing a scratch-off lottery game whose ticket she ...

A Kentucky woman rescued an unscratched lottery ticket from the trash and discovered it was an $80,000 winner.

In Flamingo Bingo, players scratch caller’s numbers along the top of the ticket, hoping for a bingo across four grids. Prizes range up to the top $80,000 mark, though most are between $5 and $20.