BERLIN—Lottery officials say a woman in Germany carried a winning ticket in her purse for weeks without realizing it was worth about 33 million euros ($39 ...

Stephen C. Toto of Framingham, Massachusetts, made a last-minute decision to buy a lottery ticket, and for the second time in his life, collected a $1 ...

A North Carolina woman is $1.4 million richer after buying a lottery ticket for a drawing she was not trying to enter.

SOUTHWICK, Mass.—A Massachusetts woman who accidentally tossed out a $1 million lottery ticket eventually collected her winnings thanks to the kindness and honesty of the owners ...

The COVID-19 vaccination rate in Ohio has surged after Gov. Mike DeWine announced that five residents will win $1 million each as a monetary incentive for ...

Governors are looking to ramp up vaccinations, so much so that they’re willing to put you in line for millions of dollars—if you’re lucky. New York ...

NORWALK, Calif.—The winner of a $26 million California Lottery prize may have literally washed the chance of a fortune down the drain. The winning SuperLotto Plus ...

Ohio state will give five residents $1 million each as a monetary incentive for getting vaccinated against COVID-19, Republican Gov. Mike DeWine announced on Wednesday as ...

A year after losing everything in a flood, a Michigan man won $2 million from a scratch off lottery ticket, according to lottery officials.

A North Carolina man who won $5,000 with a scratch-off lottery ticket said he was “extremely happy and surprised” to learn he’d won another $100,000 just ...

An unlucky start to a North Carolina man’s day turned upside down when he discovered he won a $2 million lottery prize hours after hitting two ...

DES MOINES, Iowa—Lottery players have another chance to win big next week since there were no winners of the top prize for both the Powerball and ...

Persistence pays. After playing the same set of numbers for 26 years, one North Carolina couple finally hit the jackpot. Terry Coggeshall of Durham and his ...

The chances of winning the lottery are slim to none, but one man’s luck has defied the odds. Michael Christiansen of Norfolk, Nebraska, hit the jackpot ...

A 24-year-old man from Michigan has hit a $1 million lottery ticket that he bought at a gas station just days after he received the reward ...

CANTON, Ga.—A suspect in Georgia left his good luck behind when he abandoned a winning lottery ticket while fleeing sheriff’s deputies. The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office ...

It took 50 years, but an Australian man’s lucky lottery numbers finally came through to win him $1 million. The Brisbane man, who chose to remain ...

A New York man who calls himself the "Lottery Lawyer" and three of his associates have been charged with defrauding lottery winners out of $107 million.

After around 40 stores and four hours of searching, one North Carolina man finally struck gold. Kevin Clark, of Candler, North Carolina, played a hunch and ...

A man in suburban Detroit was given the wrong lottery ticket. But there was no mistake about the result: a $2 million winner.

SOUTH ROCKWOOD, Mich.—How does he do it? For the second time, a southeastern Michigan man has won a $4 million lottery game, officials said Monday. Mark ...

Someone has won the jackpot prize of $28 million by playing the SuperLotto Plus in California.

A man from a bushfire-ravaged town on the south coast of New South Wales won AU$2.5 million in Australia’s national lottery, Saturday Lotto Superdraw.

One lucky lottery winner from New Jersey may be able to relish all that money in secret—thanks to a new law that went into effect just ...

The lucky holders of ticket number 26590 struck it rich in Spain on Sunday when they won the top prize in the nation’s bumper Christmas lottery.

Someone won a $14.6 million lottery jackpot in Arizona. That would be really exciting—if they had claimed it. Tickets expire after 180 days. The winning ticket ...