MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) – One lucky New York City lottery player won big over the weekend. A jackpot-winning ticket worth $3.4 million was sold at a store on 57th Street and Second Avenue on Saturday, according to the New York Lottery. The next drawing is on Wednesday, but the jackpot is now only $2 million […]

A Walmart employee who received a last-minute call to work on a holiday bought a lottery ticket after her shift and won the top prize.

A Los Angeles woman who got called into work on her day off left as a millionaire that same day, all thanks to a lucky lottery scratcher ticket.

Rebeca Gonzalez works at a California Walmart and got a last-minute call to come in. She bought a lottery ticket on her way out and won $1 million.

Rebeca Gonzalez, a Walmart employee, wins $1 million from a lottery ticket after covering a shift on her day off.

Getting a last minute call to work on a day off has its unexpected perks when one woman wins $1 million on a scratcher.

Despite her win, Gonzalez told lottery officials she has no plans of quitting and continues to put “in her hours at Walmart.” City of Industry is about a 20-mile drive southeast from Los Angeles.

One Walmart employee was called into work on her day off and then bought a winning lottery ticket on her way home, per a California Lottery press release.

A California Walmart worker who covered a coworker's shift wound up walking out of the store $1 million richer thanks to a lucky lotto purchase. Rebeca Gonzalez was enjoying her Labor Day weekend when she got a phone call from the City of Industry Walmart where she works as the store was short staffed during the busy holiday and needed an extra hand.

Rebeca Gonzalez got the call no retail worker wants on a weekend they’re scheduled off — the store was short-staffed and her manager needed her to work. It would be a shift that would