BALTIMORE -- A woman who has claimed to have Maryland's winning Mega Millions ticket now says she has lost it. Wilson had previously said she hid the...
Doug Molitor | Posted 05.30.2012
If I won Mega Millions, I'd buy a $40 million house... with a $600 million wall to keep all you envious poor people out.
AP | Posted 05.28.2012
ATLANTA — The Mega Millions jackpot is now the largest in U.S. lottery history. Georgia Lottery officials say the jackpot reached $500 million ...
Scientific American | Garth Sundem | Posted 05.12.2012
So goes popular opinion: the lottery's an egregious societal evil implemented and overseen by shape-shifting, blood-drinking reptilian aliens. And tha...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 01.07.2012
Somewhere in Chicago live a modest, middle-class couple with two teenage children and a $30 million secret. They recently won the Illinois Lottery,...
AP | NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS and JESSIE L. BONNER | Posted 05.25.2011
EPHRATA, Wash. — The suspense over who bought the two winning tickets in the $380 million Mega Millions lottery focused Wednesday on two small t...
Huffington Post | Nicole Larson | Posted 05.25.2011
Hundreds of people in Southern California have lined up since early Tuesday morning to buy Mega Millions tickets before tonight's $355 Million drawing...
AP | TAMMY WEBBER | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — Two private companies were named as finalists Monday for a lucrative, first-of-its-kind contract to manage Illinois' lottery and will ...
Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011
You can see why bailouts fail. Wall Street and lottery winners have a common bond. They have access to easy money without restraints.
AP | PAUL J. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011
BISHOP, Texas — The odds that Joan Ginther would hit four Texas Lottery jackpots for a combined nearly $21 million are astronomical. Mathematici...
AP | CHARLES WILSON | Posted 05.25.2011
INDIANAPOLIS — Hoosier lottery players have been digging through their trash, scouring their cars and bringing fistfuls of old tickets, some in ...
Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011
http://www.youtube.com/user/mcnayonthemoney#p/a/u/0/t-nYOCaF2cM Here's a video of my comments on the death of Florida Lotto winner Abraham Shakespe...
AOL | Melanie S. Welte | Posted 05.25.2011
The nation's two biggest lottery games are talking about cross-selling tickets in U.S. lottery jurisdictions with the potential for a national lottery...
AP | KELLEY SHANNON | Posted 05.25.2011
AUSTIN, Texas — A 25-year-old convenience store clerk pocketed a customer's $1 million winning lottery ticket, claimed the prize and skipped tow...
AP | MEGHAN BARR | Posted 05.25.2011
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay f...
New York Post | Posted 05.25.2011
ALBANY -- It's makeover or bust for New York's classic Lotto game. The state Lottery Division has laid the groundwork for a new version of its flagsh...
wsj.com | JASON ZWEIG | Posted 05.25.2011
Based on recent headlines, you might think that Americans are finally saving again. Want to bet? In 2007, the latest year for which final numbers are...
nydailynews.com | By Henrick Karoliszyn and Katy Bolger | Posted 05.25.2011
The mystery winner of the $133 million Mega Millions lottery has yet to come forward and collect the prize. Officials said that the winner let the com...
Andrea Chalupa | Posted 05.25.2011
It's great to see that, finally, someone got some money out of this Madoff crisis, even if it is only $1,500, about the price of one of Bernie's designer loafers or a manicure for Ruth.
Minyanville | Cory Bortnicker | Posted 05.25.2011
I'll admit it - a few weeks ago, I bought a $1 scratch ticket. I thought, "Why not?" I ended up winning $7, and proudly announced the news to the Miny...
Bloomberg | Michael Quint | Posted 05.25.2011
Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The New York Lottery is proposing a gamble where the odds aren't always in its favor -- moving its $1.3 billion prize fund into...
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 11.17.2011
I hadn't thought about it much before, but it makes a huge amount of sense: Don't give lottery tickets to children. That's what the National Council on Problem Gambling is telling parents and doting relatives.
Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 11.17.2011
I'm not one to normally buy lottery tickets. I've bought fewer than 25 in my lifetime, all of them scratch cards I impulsively selected based on my ...
AP | Posted 04.07.2012