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There has been a jackpot winner in the $730 million Powerball, the first to get the top prize in months.

Lottery players are getting another shot at the third-largest jackpot in U.S. history

The Powerball jackpot will grow to an estimated $730 million after there were no winners Saturday for the lottery’s top prize

The winning numbers for the $750 million Mega Millions jackpot, the fifth-largest ever, were announced Friday night. The winning numbers: 3-11-12-38-43 with a Mega Ball of 15 and a Megaplier of 4. The $750 million jackpot refers to the winnings of those who opt for annuities paid out over 30 years. Nearly all jackpot winners actually take the cash option,…

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.

It wasn’t the enormous jackpot that has been building for months, but someone is holding a Mega Millions ticket worth more than $900,000 that was sold at a Burbank liquor store.

Lottery players still have a shot at Mega Millions’ massive $750 million jackpot after Tuesday night’s drawing ended without a winner.

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

A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, in Friday’s drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery was sold at a supermarket in National City and is worth $576,869, the California Lottery announced. California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis. There were no tickets sold with all six numbers and…

The winning numbers for the Mega Millions jackpot worth of an estimated $520 million were announced Friday night. The winning numbers: 3-6-16-18-58 and the Mega Ball number is 11 with a Mega Plier number of 2. The $520 million prize refers to the annuity option. Most winners opt for cash, which for Tuesday’s drawing would be $383.4 million. The jackpot has…

A lucky lotto player in the East Bay is holding a Mega Millions ticket worth $2.3 million after getting five of the six numbers in Tuesday night’s draw, according to the California Lottery.

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The Mega Millions lottery game climbed to an estimated $447 million jackpot for Tuesday’s night’s drawing.

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There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in Friday’s drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery and the estimated jackpot for Tuesday’s drawing will grow to $432 million.

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...

Arizona lottery officials say a sole winning ticket for Tuesday’s $410 million Mega Millions drawing was sold at a convenience store in a Phoenix suburb