Winner winner, chicken dinner! It’s an age-old cheer, but certainly one that applies to a lucky Maryland family, whose recent trip to a grocery store turned ...

Why do you think they’re called fortune cookies? After his weekly meal at a Chinese restaurant, a North Carolina man used the numbers in his fortune ...

MADISON, Wis.—Powerball tickets sold in Wisconsin and California were winners of the latest jackpot and will split $632 million, officials said. The Wisconsin Lottery didn’t immediately ...

There was no winner in the first Powerball drawing of 2022 … which is why I’m still here at my job, writing this story. But hey! ...

A North Carolina man wasn’t sure if he had bought a ticket in the state’s Lucky for Life lottery drawing, so he filled out the online ...

DES MOINES, Iowa—A man serving a 25-year prison sentence for conspiracy to commit theft by rigging computers to win jackpots for himself, friends and family is ...

DES MOINES, Iowa—After 40 drawings without a big Powerball winner, maybe Monday night’s 41st attempt will be different. Thanks to nearly four months of futility, the ...

DES MOINES, Iowa—The biggest lottery prize in months grew larger after no ticket matched all five numbers and the Powerball drawn on Saturday night. The estimated ...

CULIACAN, Mexico—The house former drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán fled in 2014 when Mexican marines had him surrounded underwent some changes recently as the Mexican ...

A few states held vaccine lotteries to ramp up vaccinations. The last checks have been passed out in Michigan, but those millions of dollars weren’t as ...

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 ...