Lottery News

With the majority of possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone is almost sure to win the game's highest jackpot during Saturday night's drawing, a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars -- and that's after taxes.

Jay Patel, owner of Broadway Deli & Grocery in Bayonne, holds a printout of the current estimated New Jersey Lottery jackpots, including $260 million for the Powerball, on Tuesday, March 19, 2013.

It's been less than 10 months since the world record for a lottery prize. On Saturday night, it could conceivably fall once again.

It's been less than 10 months since the world record for a lottery prize. On Saturday night, it could conceivably fall once again.

The lucky owners of a $3.2-million winning lottery ticket sold in Cape Breton's Victoria County have come forward.

Steven Miller will have to answer to a Republican-run committee today about why conservative groups were targeted by the agency.

In workplaces across the nation, Americans are inviting their colleagues to chip in $2 for a Powerball ticket and a shared daydream.

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- Holly Lahti of Rathdrum, Idaho, won one of the biggest lottery jackpots in U.S. history, and then seemed to disappear off the face of the earth.

The multi-state Powerball jackpot has risen to $600 million, with a cash value of $376.9 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association.

Wednesday night's lottery $360 million, and the winning numbers 2, 11, 26, 34 and 41.

The numbers sum up the frenzy that has taken over the Golden State since it joined the madness over Powerball, which has seen its jackpot soar to $550 million for Saturday's drawing.

After no one picked all five winning numbers and the Powerball, the new Powerball prize for the Saturday, May 19 drawing is an estimated $550 million-the third-largest Powerball prize in the history of the game.

The lottery was set up as a way to give anyone a chance at the "American dream." But the new plan will focus instead on adding more highly-educated workers in science, technology, engineering and math.

Mohave County officials are crying foul after the Arizona Senate released a budget bill that would restore lottery funds to some but not all counties in the state.

Ontario's gambling expansion, which is crucial to the Liberal government balancing the books without raising taxes, is in disarray after Paul Godfrey's removal from the helm of the province's gaming agency.

No one won Wednesday night's Powerball drawing, which is good news for somebody: There will be an even bigger drawing on Saturday night.

For years, numerous Jamaican fraudsters have conned mostly elderly Americans out of their retirement savings by promising that they've won millions in an international lottery but they need to wire a payment to cover taxes.

OUTSIDE CHICAGO, IL -- "I can't believe I had $4.85 million in a cookie jar for over three months!" said Ricardo Cerezo after recently checking some old Lottery tickets and discovering he had won a jackpot prize of $4,850,000 in the Feb.

This wouldn't be that unusual except that it was the fourth time the same man has won the lottery.

Millions of people across the country had their fingers crossed, in hopes of winning Wednesday night's massive Powerball jackpot.