Manuel Franco, the Wisconsin 24-year-old who won a $768.4 million Powerball jackpot, stepped out to claim the third-largest jackpot in history.

Manuel Franco said he felt lucky when he purchased five Powerball games last month at a Wisconsin gas station. The 24-year-old West Allis resident’s hunch was right. Franco matched all six Powerball numbers to win the $768.4 million prize, the third-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history. “It feels like a dream,” Franco told reporters at a news conference Tuesday.

A single ticket that matched all six Powerball numbers to win the estimated $768.4 million jackpot — the third-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history — was sold in a Milwaukee suburb, Wisconsin Lottery officials said Thursday. The ticket, worth a cash option of $477 million, was sold at a Speedway gas station in New Berlin, a city of about 40,000...

Lottery officials say the Powerball jackpot has ballooned to $750 million after no ticket matched all six numbers in the most recent drawing. The numbers drawn Saturday night are 24, 25, 52, 60 and 66, with a Powerball of 5.

An unemployed New Jersey man who won last Friday’s $273 million Mega Millions jackpot said he wants to reward the mystery person who returned the tickets to a store where he’d left them a day earlier.

The only winning ticket for the $267 million jackpot in Friday’s Mega Millions drawing was sold in New Jersey, officials said.

Nearly everyone in this small South Carolina town has a theory for the city’s billion-dollar mystery: Who won the $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot announced last October? Maybe the winner was so overwhelmed upon seeing the winning numbers that she or he died on the spot? Maybe the winner is on the run from police and fears a background check?...

Authorities are investigating the apparent sudden food allergy-related death of an 11-year-old boy in Brooklyn, and law enforcement sources confirmed to News 4 that detectives are looking into whether the smell of cooking fish could have triggered a reaction.

Just one winning ticket for the $425 million jackpot in Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing was sold — and once again, the big winner was purchased in New York, according to the state lottery.

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The jackpot for Friday’s drawing for Mega Millions will be an estimated $345 million, considered the ninth jackpot in the lottery’s history according to gaming officials.

No jackpot winner has been drawn in the Mega Millions lottery drawing estimated at $415 million. Virginia Lottery spokesman John Hagerty tells The Associated Press that no ticket matching all six winning numbers was drawn Friday night. Hagerty says Tuesday night’s jackpot will be worth an estimated $449 million. The winning numbers drawn Friday night were 20-41-42- 45-49, with a...

The estimated Mega Millions jackpot has risen to $454 million, making it potentially the 7th largest lottery jackpot in the U.S. The prize increased slightly Tuesday from $449 million. The jackpot will be the largest since a $429.6 million Powerball prize won by a New Jersey family May 7. The largest Mega Millions jackpot ever was $656 million, which was...

The ticket sold at Julian Market and Deli ahead of Friday’s drawing matched five numbers.

NBC 7’s Bridget Naso speaks with locals of the mountain town of Julian where a $1.3 million lottery ticket was sold.

A single ticket sold in Illinois matched all the numbers drawn during Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot, making the ticket worth an estimated $393 million. The prize, which was previously estimated to be the sixth-largest prize at $382 million, is now estimated to be $393 million, moving it up the ranks as the fifth-largest prize in the game’s history. The ticket...

Instead of breaking up a neighborhood holiday block party that was being accused of being a street disturbance, Asheville Police officers Carrie Lee and Joe Jones decided to join in on the fun.

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The Mega Millions jackpot has risen to $363 million after no ticket matched all six numbers drawn Tuesday night. The numbers are 6, 13, 21, 49, 50 plus the Mega Ball 10. The prize grew to $363 million since no winning tickets were selected last Friday night. The jackpot rolled again to an estimated $363 million ($244 million cash) —...