Lottery News

By Thursday, May 16th, WEAR-TV had purchased 50 Powerball lottery tickets for the Powerball lottery scheduled for Saturday, May 18th with plans to share at least $10,000 in prize money they had a chance of winning in the lottery with three followers of their official Facebook page chosen at random, according to an administrator for the station's ... (more)

Long ago there was a British miniseries about a family named the Braithwaites. The mother wins 38 million pounds in a lottery and they all try to keep it a secret.

Did anyone win the Mega Millions jackpot May 24, 2013? Friday's Mega Millions winning numbers are 4, 5, 16, 18, 53, the Mega Ball number is 28, and the Megaplier is X 4, lottery officials announced .

Four tickets won $1,646 for picking 4-of-4; 28 tickets won $515.50 each for picking 3-of-4 plus the Mega Ball number; 1,040 tickets won $41 each for picking 3-of-4; 1,291 tickets won $23 each for picking 2-of-4 plus the Mega Ball; 10,550 won $2.50 each for matching one number plus the Mega Ball; 28,761 tickets won $2 each for picking 2-of-4; and ... (more)

The 47-year-old from Jacksonville said he came to the United States in 1985 and didn't speak a word of English.

At a New York Lottery ceremony Thursday in Brentwood, two Long Islanders picked up "keepsake" checks -- one for $26.5 million, the other for $5 million.

A $2 million winning Powerball ticket that was purchased at Ogdensburg's Kinney Drugs, 700 Canton St., has been claimed.

Someone purchased a winning Powerball ticket worth $1 million in Bothell for the May 18 drawing and has yet to come forward.

Winning lottery ticket sold in Tinton Falls: A Tinton Falls Lukoil sold a Mega Millions lottery ticket worth $95 million.

THE CREATION of a Concorde Museum in Filton is closer than ever after the Trust behind the ambitious project was awarded nearly A 250,000 in lottery funding today, with a potential A 4 million more to come.

A partnership led by housing charity Shelter could receive up to 10 million from the Big Lottery Fund for a project to support vulnerable people in Manchester.

An Orangeburg man won $200,000 on a lottery ticket. That was six months ago. He cashed in the Aces High scratch-off earlier in the week.

Eleanor Duckitt, 66, from Cayton near Scarborough, said she was over the moon after her numbers came up in the Thunderball draw last Saturday.

Retired postal worker Melvyn Wilson is probably one of the luckiest men on earth, because on Wednesday, he picked up his fourth winning lottery check, and this time, it was for a whopping $500,000, reports The Washington Times .

BEIRUT: Mondays and Thursdays are busy days for the Sbeity Bookshop in Karakol al-Druze in Beirut.

The winner of a $2.3 million Powerball prize stepped forward Wednesday to claim his prize, having matched all numbers except the Powerball number, lottery officials said.

Two winning Powerball tickets - one from Baltimore City, one from Calvert County , and each with a second-tier prize of $1 million - were pulled from Wednesday night's drawing, said the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency on Thursday.

A Powerball ticket sold in Rapid City is worth $10,000 in the latest drawing. South Dakota lottery officials say the ticket matched four of five white ball numbers and the Powerball to win the game's third prize.

WAUPACA, Wis Wisconsin has its third million-dollar Powerball winner in the last week.

Wanda Ruiz Padilla, a factory worker from Arden, plans to use the $200,000 she won playing the Power 7's scratch-off game to fix up her mother's home, pay bills and take her first vacation in six years.