Lottery News

Jason Peck is one of two Wisconsin $1 million winners from Saturday's drawing. He is the first to claim his prize.

Two volunteer projects in Bradford have told of their joy at receiving a cash boost of more than A 400,000 between them from the Big Lottery Fund.

Three Kentucky residents became millionaires Monday after they picked up their prize checks from Kentucky Lottery Headquarters in downtown Louisville.

A A 1MILLION prize lottery ticket bought somewhere in Taunton Deane has been given to good causes after its purchaser failed to come forward.

An Illinois man got a real treat from his cookie jar earlier this month -- in the form of a $4.85 million winning lottery ticket.

It pays to underscore this advice because taxes can be a doozy. Time and again winners have trouble paying their taxes or get confused what they are taxed on, especially if they start giving money to charity or family.

Tom Schweers imagines he could have won a Mega Millions lottery worth $95 million had he not instead focused on purchasing a Powerball ticket from the Lukoil Mart on Shrewsbury Avenue.

A Powerball ticket worth $2 million was sold at K Won Mart in the 2800 block of Highway 160 in Fort Mill for Saturday's drawing.

Maryland Lottery officials say a software problem made it impossible for some winners of the Powerball game to claim their prizes for a time over the weekend.

It could be an anxious wait of up to two months for people in a small Florida city to find out who won the highest Powerball jackpot in history: an estimated $590.5 million.

A California woman turned on the TV last week and saw she had the winning numbers in Wednesday's drawing.

It could be an anxious wait of up to two months for people in a small Florida city to find out who won the highest Powerball jackpot in history: an estimated $590.5 million.

As an African-American man, he tells Morehouse's Class of '13, 'I might have been in prison.

After no one picked all five winning numbers and the Powerball, the new Powerball prize for the Saturday, May 18, drawing is an estimated $600 million-the third-largest Powerball prize in the history of the game.

Minnesota State Lottery players won nearly $3.9 million in prizes during the 6 A1 2-week run up to Saturday night's Powerball jackpot drawing.

The sole winning ticket for the $590.5 million jackpot was sold in Florida. But the Wisconsin Lottery says $1 million tickets were sold in Antigo and Milwaukee.

Multimillionaire wannabes nationwide are wondering, "Did anyone win the Powerball jackpot May 18, 2013?" The Powerball winning numbers are 10, 13, 14, 22, 52, and the red Powerball number is 11.

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A man has been charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl in the garage of a Sydney home.

A lottery official says 1 winning ticket has been sold in Florida for a record Powerball jackpot of more than $590 million.