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The future of a Shipley -based befriending project has been secured thanks to a A 287,639 slice of funding from the Big Lottery Fund.

"Jackpot prizes are paid in 30 annual payments," according to the California Lottery Commission .

Q. Please explain where Illinois lottery proceeds really go. We keep hearing they are used for education.

"I told him that we won, and he didn't believe me," Richardson said. "We had to look it over about three times."

A Janesville gas station sold a winning ticket for Friday's Wisconsin Lottery, carrying a jackpot valued at $34,500.

Are you wondering if anyone won the Powerball jackpot? The Powerball winning numbers for the June 15, 2013 drawing were 28, 36, 40, 48, 55, and the red Powerball number was 1. On Monday, June 17, Missouri Lottery officials announced one Powerball winner won a huge $1 million prize! The Missouri Powerball winner matched five out of six Powerball ... (more)

A woman from Queensbury will receive her $1 million prize at the lottery's headquarters in Schenectady.

A Gastonia fireman hit the jackpot in the North Carolina Education Lottery last week.

AUSTRALIANS are losing more than $93 million a year in online scams, many aimed at shoppers and mobile phone users.

Kallie Cart Web Producer: Heath Harrison Reported: Jun. 16, 2013 8:13 PM EDT Updated: Jun. 16, 2013 9:03 PM EDT Fewer people are buying lottery tickets in West Virginia.

The winning Climate Lottery numbers for winter 2013 were 41/23/80 with a Power Ball number of 38. The Power Ball number for spring 2013 for the lower 48 states was the 38th coldest on record for any spring since 1895.

The jackpot in the Florida Lotto game has grown to $24 million after no one matched the six winning numbers in the latest drawing, lottery officials said Sunday.

The California Lottery 's SuperLotto Plus winning numbers for the June 15 drawing are No.

A Springfield store where players have won more than $2.8 million in prizes the last three years is among one of the best places in the state to hit the lottery.

But the odds that the lottery held for about two decades now will survive no longer appear great as the measure encouraging diversity in US legal immigration may become a tradeoff for a new bipartisan immigration reform package being debated by legislators on Capitol Hill this month.

Players matching all five numbers and the Powerball would have won or shared the $85 million jackpot.

Feeling lucky tonight? You should be, because the Powerball jackpot is a whopping $85 million! To win, all six Powerball winning numbers must be on one ticket.

A federal magistrate sentenced seven men to prison time for poaching bears and deer and other illegal hunting activities in national forests in North Carolina and Georgia.

Robeson County may be one of the poorest counties in the state, but when it comes to the North Carolina Education Lottery, it's a big spender.

Since it was established, residents in one of the most impoverished counties in North Carolina, and perhaps the poorest, have spent $124 million - an average of about $1,000 for each person - trying to hit that elusive jackpot.