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If you’re one of those people who only buys a lottery ticket when the jackpot climbs into the stratosphere, you could be waiting a while. The Mega Millions jackpot for Tuesday’s drawing is $86 million, and Powerball’s top prize is $91 million for its drawing on Wednesday. While those would be life-changing windfalls for most winners, the amounts pale...

A man in suburban Detroit was given the wrong lottery ticket

Arizona lottery officials say a sole winning ticket for Tuesday’s $410 million Mega Millions drawing was sold at a convenience store in a Phoenix suburb

If daydreaming about scoring a windfall would help you escape the coronavirus doldrums, you might want to buy a Mega Millions ticket. The lottery game’s jackpot has reached the $200 million mark for the first time in almost three months amid slowing sales. And if all six numbers are matched in Friday night’s drawing, it could be a while...

With a little bit of luck and persistence, a Colorado man has hit the jackpot twice after playing the same numbers for 30 years.

Lottery jackpots are going to shrink as the coronavirus pandemic tamps down lottery sales

One lucky person in New Jersey became a multi-millionaire overnight after winning $202 million in lottery jackpot — but we may never find out who that winner is thanks to a new law that went into effect last month. However, what we do know is that the lucky winner purchased their jackpot-winning ticket at the Quick Stop Food Store in…

Someone in New Jersey has a golden ticket worth more than $200 million, after winning the Mega Millions jackpot. While it is not yet known who the winner is, they aren’t the only lucky ones — the store that sold the ticket gets a nice little lump of cash as well. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

One lucky person in New Jersey became a multi-millionaire overnight after winning $202 million in lottery jackpot — but we may never find out who that winner is thanks to a new law that went into effect last month.

Lottery winners in New Jersey will have the option to remain anonymous under a new law Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, signed Tuesday. The law directs the state lottery commission to set regulations permitting lottery players to keep their identities secret.

The New Jersey law’s sponsors say the bill is aimed at addressing what they called the “lottery curse”

Manuel Franco, the Wisconsin 24-year-old who won a $768.4 million Powerball jackpot, stepped out to claim the third-largest jackpot in history.

A group of skateboarding “superheroes” were honored for making sure a 5-year-old boy with autism had a birthday celebration to remember.

A Midwest man who brought his coworkers bagels sliced like bread, then bragged about it on Twitter, is getting an earful from New Yorkers — including the NYPD.

A single ticket that matched all six Powerball numbers to win the estimated $768.4 million jackpot — the third-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history — was sold in a Milwaukee suburb, Wisconsin Lottery officials said Thursday. The ticket, worth a cash option of $477 million, was sold at a Speedway gas station in New Berlin, a city of about 40,000...

It appears an upstate New York man was not hungry when police say he stole a Little Debbie delivery truck.

No one in the tri-state area hit the monster $768.4 million Powerball jackpot Wednesday night — that luck went to a lone person in Wisconsin — but we still have two million reasons to celebrate.

Lottery officials say the Powerball jackpot has ballooned to $750 million after no ticket matched all six numbers in the most recent drawing. The numbers drawn Saturday night are 24, 25, 52, 60 and 66, with a Powerball of 5.

The Powerball drawing took place Saturday night, offering players a $495 million jackpot — the 8th largest in the lottery game’s history. The winning numbers are: 30, 34, 39, 53, 67 and the Powerball is 11. The estimated cash option is $300.2 million. The Powerball jackpot was last hit in New York in the Dec. 26 drawing. Since then, there...