Lottery News

The new director of Arkansas' lottery says he wants to focus on boosting ticket sales and that he does not plan to hire vice presidents for the commission.

An 82-year-old Waterloo man won his second top prize of $100,000 in Iowa's $100,000 Cash Game.

CRANSTON, R.I. — The winning ticket in Saturday’s $336.4 million Powerball jackpot was sold at a Stop & Shop supermarket in Newport, but no one has come forward yet to claim the prize, Rhode Island lottery officials said Monday.

BROOKFIELD, Wis For the first time the Powerball jackpot is at its new, higher minimum of $40-million for Wednesday night.

"You got to play to win," said Amanda Moore, Sage's mother. "Every day's a gamble.

When changes were made to the Powerball lottery a couple weeks ago, officials were banking on the fact that the larger prizes would outweigh the increased price in the eyes of ticket buyers.

A probe by Public Protector Thuli Madonsela into the National Lotteries Board will be the first step in ensuring lottery funds are used for poverty alleviation, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday.

The new multimillionaire has not stepped forward and the lottery has not said where the winning ticket was sold.

The Louisiana Lottery Corp. says a ticket bought in Rhode Island won the $325 million multi-state Powerball jackpot, but nobody won the top prizes in Louisiana's Lotto or Easy 5 games.

CLEVELAND, Ohio - One person in Rhode Island is waking up a winner this morning, after picking the winning numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing.

Lottery officials say there is a winning Powerball ticket and it's going to make one person in Rhode Island very rich.

LOTTO good idea! Sheffield residents have come up with the idea of holding a city lottery scheme to help raise extra cash for council services.

Taylro Edrington owns Royal gorge Anglers, which he just took over from his dad, who is not a fan of the Christo project.

The Arkansas Lottery Commission tonight at 7:45 p.m. named William Bishop Woosley as the new Director of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery.

"What we really need in our search for truth is a commodity that used to be at the heart of good... The Ohio Lottery says tickets sold at a gas station in Minster in western Ohio and a supermarket in East Cleveland each matched the five regular numbers on Friday but missed the Mega Ball number.

The ticket for the Gopher 5 game was sold for Friday's drawing. The ticket matched the winning numbers of 3, 4, 17, 29, and 34.

Barbara Kimes buys her ticket early for this weekends Florida Lottery POWERBALL drawing with an estimated jackpot value of $310 million.

'I know I'll never get a penny of his fortune': Estranged mother of 45m lottery winner says she hopes huge win won't ruin his life Feud: Matt Topham's mother Julie, 49, said she hopes the huge win dosn't ruin the lives of her son and his girlfriend The mother of 45m EuroMillions jackpot winner Matt Topham said today she hoped the money wouldn't ... (more)

Last week, he ate a spoonful of cinnamon. This week, he bought a $2 Powerball ticket at a Chicago liquor store.

Holladay a On their 10th attempt, Vitalina and Harold Lazarus finally won the immigration lottery to come to the United States from Ukraine.