An Illinois man won a $9.2 million Lotto jackpot after a lottery vending machine error prevented him from playing his intended game.
The Massachusetts Lottery has revealed new developments related to online play, including a revised timeline for online ticket sales and the future ability to buy scratch-off games through lotter...
Last year, a New Jersey-based group essentially "bought" a $95 million Lotto Texas jackpot by purchasing all the possible number combinations. Now state legislators are eying possible measures to...
While in Michigan, a South Carolina man opted to play the lottery over going to a casino and ended up winning a $2 million prize.
The deadline to claim an Illinois Lottery Lucky Day Lotto ticket worth $250,000 is frighteningly close, just in time for Halloween.
A Canadian man was having the worst day when one lottery ticket ended his string of bad luck, winning him a $1 million (US$724,795) prize.
A New Jersey couple won a nearly $900,000 Jersey Cash 5 lottery jackpot after their superstition led them to a different retailer than usual.
Whoever won in an Ohio Lottery Pick 4 drawing last week had a chance to win again using the same numbers, with two drawings in a row producing the same results.
Mega Millions has officially confirmed that several new game changes are on the way, including a ticket price increase from $2 to $5.
D.C. Lottery officials welcomed back a Washington, D.C. man who brought in his second of two $25,000 a year for life Lucky for Life winning tickets after having originally lost it.
If it wasn't official before, it is now. $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot winner Edwin Castro will unequivocally get to keep his prize after a California judge ruled in his favor.
A Texas trust has stepped forward to claim the record-breaking $800 million Mega Millions jackpot, the largest prize ever paid out to a single Texas lottery player.
Someone in North Carolina won a $156,060 Cash 5 jackpot, but whoever is holding the winning lottery ticket must come forward within a week or risk losing it all.
Lottery players in Michigan have been remarkably lucky this past week, with five big lottery wins in Powerball, Lucky for Life, and Lotto 47 occurring within mere days of each other.
Texas Lottery officials are breathing a sigh of relief now that the winner of a $2 million Powerball prize has finally stepped forward to claim it just days before it was set to expire.
An Iowa retiree is looking forward to feeling the wind on her face again, having decided to use a $50,000 Iowa Lottery prize to honor her late husband by purchasing a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
A Michigan woman decided to skip a weekend getaway, and as a result, was in the right place at the right time to win a $500,000 prize in the lottery.
A Kentucky woman follows a personal tradition of playing the lottery on paydays, and it paid off to the tune of a $250,000 top prize.
Two D.C. Lottery DC 4 drawings, held on consecutive days, resulted in over one million dollars in prize payouts after the drawings produced winning numbers 8-8-8-8 and 2-2-2-2.
A Nebraska man beat the family record of the largest lottery prize won after winning $120,000 two months after his own son won $100,000.
A California woman is skipping to the bank and brushing aside the naysayers after winning a $1 million prize in the lottery.
Tonights Powerball drawing for the $223 million lottery jackpot will not take place at the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee as usual, nor will it be broadcast live due to Hurricane H...
A supermarket worker is facing prison after getting caught scamming the UK National Lottery of nearly £50,000 (US$66,993) using winning lottery tickets.
A 21-year-old from Michigan is now well-positioned to buy a new home after winning a $498,607 Fast Cash lottery jackpot.
Four individuals were arrested on Tuesday after they allegedly plowed a truck through a California convenience store to steal lottery tickets.
An Iowa woman who immigrated from Laos to the United States when she was young was thrilled to win a $1 million Powerball lottery prize.
A Maryland man bombarded with scam text messages turned the unwanted solicitations into $50,000 after using the phone numbers to win a Pick 5 prize in the lottery.
In what appears to be a recent statewide epidemic of unchecked or lost tickets, the Oregon Lottery is the latest state lottery to announce that three major prize-winning tickets are expiring over...
A Washington, D.C. U.S. Postal Service worker who dedicated 30 years to his role has his eyes set on retirement after winning a $1 million prize in the lottery.
Time is running out to claim a $2 million Powerball prize in Texas, with just three weeks left for the winner to come forward.
A three-person lottery club from Michigan relied on recycling cans to purchase lottery tickets and won a $1 million Mega Millions prize.
A Canadian couple is celebrating two life-changing events winning the $70 million (US$51.5 million) Lotto Max lottery jackpot and the birth of their newborn baby, all within days of each other...
An Ohio lottery winner who survived stage 3 cancer will use his $1 million prize to give back to the chemo center where he received treatment.
The Connecticut Lottery has awarded the state's first top prize from a $50 scratch-off game, worth $4 million.
A Kentucky preschool teacher was only two weeks into playing the lottery when she won a $178,919 jackpot online with just a tap.
A brother and sister defied the odds by each winning $25,000 a year for life in the same Lucky for Life lottery drawing.
After a run of 27 drawings without a jackpot winner, the 28th drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game produced a single $800 million winner last night when one ticket sold in Texas ...
A Florida ex-con was arrested in August after being caught stealing around $1,500 worth of lottery tickets at a convenience store, but it was not her first encounter with the law.
A Floridian has claimed a massive scratch-off lottery prize that propels them toward millionaire status.
A Virginia father gave his son a $1 million winning Cash4Life lottery ticket as a wedding gift to help two newlyweds move out of his basement.
An Arkansas woman took a break from caring for her grandmother to play the lottery and won a $350,000 prize on a feeling.
Five separate winners will be splitting a $130,000 Ohio Lottery Rolling Cash 5 jackpot, with each winning ticket having been sold in five different places.
An Ohio woman told the man in front of her while waiting in line that she was going to buy the same lottery ticket as him and ended up winning a $500,000 top prize.
A North Carolina man credits his car troubles for a $379,747 lottery jackpot win, saying that if it weren't for needing repairs, he would have never bought the winning ticket.
A former pizzeria employee is accused of stealing over $100,000 worth of lottery tickets from the business over the course of two years.
Online lottery ticket sales are coming to Kansas, offering residents one more outlet to play and giving the Lottery an additional source of revenue.
The numbers are in the Virginia Lottery broke sales records this fiscal year, and perhaps even set a new precedent, after it reported that its online sales outpaced in-store retail sales for t...
Someone in Texas bought a Mega Millions lottery ticket worth $1 million, but they'll soon lose out on the prize money if they don't claim it in the next couple of weeks.
A Virginia Army veteran initially dismissed the news that someone had won a $958,740 Cash 5 jackpot, but what he did not know was that he was the winner.
A Maryland man is Olympic-bound after winning a second-chance prize in the lottery, giving him his own "medal-stand moment."