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Pronto Pizza in midtown made a millionaire out of somebody. John Chandler reports.

How many pizzas can you buy with $432,000,000? One lucky lottery buyer in New York City may be thinking about that question or what to do with that kind of money because Tuesday’s Mega Millions winning ticket was sold at a pizzeria in Midtown Manhattan.

How many pizzas can you buy with $432,000,000? One lucky lottery buyer in New York City may be thinking about that question or what to do with that kind of money because Tuesday’s Mega Millions winning ticket was sold at a pizzeria in Midtown Manhattan earlier that day! The person who bought the ticket with the numbers 36, 41, 45,…

The person who bought the ticket with the numbers 36, 41, 45, 51, 56 with the mega ball 13 at Pronto Pizza on West 48th Street had beat the odds of one in 302 million.

It is the ninth-largest jackpot awarded in the history of the game, and the largest prize won in the state since 2010.

Four people in a suburban Detroit lottery club have won a $1.05 billion Mega Millions lottery jackpot and will share $557 million after taxes

Someone bought a winning ticket for the $1.05 billion Mega Millions jackpot at a grocery store outside of Detroit

Two lucky people who purchased Mega Millions tickets in New York City may not have won the grand prize $1 billion Friday night, but they did snag the lottery’s second-tier prize. Lottery officials confirm at least two tickets sold in Brooklyn and Queens are worth $1 million. One ticket was sold near Sheepshead Bay, the other in Astoria. Another $1…

As the country is swept up in the Mega Millions madness, with a jackpot of $1 billion, one group of people teamed up to buy tickets as well as do raise money for good causes in their community. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

The Mega Millions top prize climbed to an estimated $1 billion ahead of Friday’s drawing. It is only the third time in lottery history that a national jackpot game tops the $1 billion mark. The current Mega Millions record is $1.536 billion, sold in Oct. 2018.

New Jersey is on a lucky streak — at least as far as the lottery is concerned. Three $1 million second-tier prize Powerball tickets were sold in the Garden State Wednesday. They matched all five of the five white balls. One single ticket won the mind-boggling $731.1 million jackpot; that was sold in Maryland’s Allegany County, state lottery officials said….

There has been a jackpot winner in the $730 million Powerball, the first to get the top prize in months.

There were no winners of the big Mega Millions jackpot Tuesday night, but at least two tickets sold in New Jersey won $1 million each — for the second time in less than a week. Officials say those two second-tier prizewinning tickets were sold at the Lucky Spot Convenience Store in Somerset County’s Somerville and a 7-Eleven on Pacific Avenue…

Lottery players are getting another shot at the third-largest jackpot in U.S. history

The Powerball jackpot will grow to an estimated $730 million after there were no winners Saturday for the lottery’s top prize

There were no winners of the big Mega Millions jackpot Friday night, but at least three tickets sold in New Jersey and New York won $1 million each. Officials say those three tickets claim the lottery’s second-tier prize and were sold in Bergen and Sussex County in New Jersey, as well as in Nassau County out on Long Island. No…

The winning numbers for the $750 million Mega Millions jackpot, the fifth-largest ever, were announced Friday night. The winning numbers: 3-11-12-38-43 with a Mega Ball of 15 and a Megaplier of 4. The $750 million jackpot refers to the winnings of those who opt for annuities paid out over 30 years. Nearly all jackpot winners actually take the cash option,…

A craze over lottery tickets has developed as the reward is record high. Reporter Lynda Baquero covers the excitement.

It could be a profitable weekend for lucky lottery players as two of the largest jackpots in U.S. history will be on the line

Somebody could be starting off the new year with a big pile of cash.