Powerball

As fervor builds in the Mega Millions and Powerball lottery games, with hundreds of millions up for grabs in each jackpot, the California Lottery is warning the public to be wary of scams.

It could be a profitable weekend for lucky lottery players as two of the largest jackpots in U.S. history will be on the line

Somebody could be starting off the new year with a big pile of cash.

No one won the $550 million multi-state lottery jackpot Wednesday night but a VERY lucky Powerball ticket sold at a gas station in San Diego came close.

Another night, another unclaimed giant lottery jackpot.

After a long stretch of relatively paltry prizes, U.S. lottery players now have a choice of jackpots that offer combined prizes of more than $1 billion

Think you have a chance at winning the Lottery? Well, you do! But its a very, very small chance. Here are some things that are more likely to happen to you.

If you’re one of those people who only buys a lottery ticket when the jackpot climbs into the stratosphere, you could be waiting a while. The Mega Millions jackpot for Tuesday’s drawing is $86 million, and Powerball’s top prize is $91 million for its drawing on Wednesday. While those would be life-changing windfalls for most winners, the amounts pale...

A western Wisconsin man will share his millions in lottery winnings with a longtime friend because of a promise they made to each other nearly three decades ago.

With a little bit of luck and persistence, a Colorado man has hit the jackpot twice after playing the same numbers for 30 years.

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.

The Powerball drawing took place Saturday night, offering players a $495 million jackpot — the 8th largest in the lottery game’s history. The winning numbers are: 30, 34, 39, 53, 67 and the Powerball is 11. The estimated cash option is $300.2 million. The Powerball jackpot was last hit in New York in the Dec. 26 drawing. Since then, there...

With the Mega Millions jackpot at a whopping $900 million, wannabe winners might be pondering how it would feel to come into an amount that’s larger than the entire economy of some small countries. They also should consider how they’d keep their sudden windfall under wraps. While a winner’s instinct might be to shout from the rooftops, experts say that...

The Mega Millions jackpot is now up to $900 million. Lottery officials raised the estimated prize Wednesday, less than a day after another drawing without a winner increased the prize to $868 million. Officials say no tickets matched all six numbers to claim the Mega Millions prize Tuesday night. The numbers were 3, 45, 49, 61, 69 and Mega Ball...

Half a billion no more. The sole winning ticket for Tuesday night’s $522 million Mega Millions jackpot — the fifth-largest prize in the game’s 16-year history — was sold at a California liquor store, lottery officials said. It was not immediately clear who won the top prize. Kewal Sachdev and his family own Ernie’s Liquors in San Jose, where the...