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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...

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.

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.

An unemployed New Jersey man who won last Friday’s $273 million Mega Millions jackpot said he wants to reward the mystery person who returned the tickets to a store where he’d left them a day earlier.

The only winning ticket for the $267 million jackpot in Friday’s Mega Millions drawing was sold in New Jersey, officials said.

Nearly everyone in this small South Carolina town has a theory for the city’s billion-dollar mystery: Who won the $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot announced last October? Maybe the winner was so overwhelmed upon seeing the winning numbers that she or he died on the spot? Maybe the winner is on the run from police and fears a background check?...

Authorities are investigating the apparent sudden food allergy-related death of an 11-year-old boy in Brooklyn, and law enforcement sources confirmed to News 4 that detectives are looking into whether the smell of cooking fish could have triggered a reaction.

The 11-year-old boy who died suddenly in an apparent food allergy-related death at his grandmother’s home in Brooklyn was mourned Friday night as a funny, uplifting kid who loved to play football.

The 11-year-old boy who died after suffering an allergic reaction to cooking fish was lovingly remembered by friends and family at a large vigil at his grandmother’s Brooklyn home. Checkey Beckfore reports.

Just one winning ticket for the $425 million jackpot in Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing was sold — and once again, the big winner was purchased in New York, according to the state lottery.

A Brooklyn family is mourning the death of an 11-year-old boy who may have died of an allergic reaction just to the smell of fish. Jummy Olabanji reports.