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State May Allow Lottery Games

AP | BOB MOEN | Posted 02.12.2013 | Business

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- Wyoming residents who dream of hitting the jackpot will no longer have to drive across state lines to buy lotto tickets under a prop...

Man Wins Lottery Twice In 4 Months

The Huffington Post | Caroline Fairchild | Posted 02.01.2013 | Business

A man in South Carolina has just taken luck to a whole different level. A Rock Hill, S.C., resident has won the lottery twice in the past four mont...

Powerball Jackpot Soars

The Huffington Post | Ryan Grenoble | Posted 01.18.2013 | Business

If you've been holding on to a lucky $2 bill, now may be the time to let it go. The Powerball Jackpot is edging back up, and since nobody claimed ...

Do You Play The Lottery? (POLL)

Posted 11.30.2012 | MarloThomas

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Store Managers' Lucky Lotto Wins

Reuters | Posted 01.29.2013 | Small Business

* "A total surprise" * "Nothing ever happens in Dearborn" (Adds Missouri to identify winner on Friday, California to join Powerbal...

Powerball Hopefuls Cross Borders To Buy Tickets For $550 Million Jackpot

The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 11.28.2012 | Home

Lottery hopefuls can't purchase Powerball tickets in several states including Alabama, Nevada, and Utah, but that hasn't stopped them from crossing st...

Lottery Problems Reported

AP | JEFF MARTIN | Posted 01.26.2013 | Home

ATLANTA — As the Powerball jackpot soars, the Georgia Lottery is making progress in repairing some of its machines that are taking a long time t...

Brothers Allegedly Stole $5 Million Lottery Ticket

AP | Posted 01.13.2013 | Home

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Two brothers from central New York who claimed a $5 million lottery ticket sold at their family's store have been accused of sc...

Brothers Wait Six Years To Claim $5 Million Prize

AP | Posted 10.17.2012 | Home

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Two brothers from central New York have claimed a $5 million lottery prize for a scratch-off ticket they bought at their parents' Sy...

New York Teen Wins Lottery, Plans To Buy A Car And His Mom's House

The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 09.28.2012 | Teen

A Rochester, N.Y., teenager won $3 million in an instant lottery game by using $10 he won playing a different instant game. "That's one hell of ...

Lotto Sales Spike

Time Moneyland | Posted 10.24.2012 | Home

While it's possible to make the argument that there are worse ways to waste your money than playing the lottery, there's no denying that money spent o...

Lotto Winner Wants Her Money Back (After She Gave It Away)

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.17.2012 | Home

Million-dollar lottery winner Emily Leach is not giving up her claim on a second jackpot worth $260,000. The 31-year-old Nevada resident told ABC News...

Lotto Jackpot Winner Is Still Unnamed

Reuters | Posted 08.20.2012 | Home

By Aileen Wingblad LAPEER, Mich., Aug 16 (Reuters) - Sam Odish co-owns the Sunoco gas station and convenience store where the single winning ticket...

In It To Win It

Catherine New | Posted 10.16.2012 | Home
Catherine New

Some men bring women flowers on a first date. I bring my dates lottery tickets. What better way to potentiate a lifetime of romance and wonderment than by winning $80 million, or more, together?

Lottery Jackpot Reaches New High

AP | Posted 08.13.2012 | Home

ATLANTA -- The Powerball jackpot has grown to $305 million for Wednesday's drawing. The prize grew after no one matched all six numbers in the multi-...

Winning Lottery Ticket Stolen From 77-Year-Old Great-Grandmother

Posted 08.02.2012 | Home

There's no shortage of cashiers-turned-crooks in the retail world and the probability gets even higher when there's a lottery ticket involved. The ...

WATCH: Did Clerk Take Man's Winning Lotto Ticket?

Posted 07.28.2012 | Home

A man in Newport News, Virginia, who thought of employees at a nearby convenience store "like family" is upset after he says one of them shortchanged ...

Brooklyn Teenager Wins $1000 A Week For Rest Of His Life

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 06.13.2012 | Teen

Robert Salo, an incredibly lucky 18-year-old high school student from Brooklyn, New York, has won one thousand dollars a week for the rest of his life...

Lottery Winner May Have Helped Woman Steal Car

The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 06.12.2012 | Home

Back in March, when John Ross Jr. won the California lottery's "Set for Life" scratch-off game, which promises $70,000 after taxes every year for the ...

Lottery Winner Who Threw Away Ticket: 'It's My Money. I Deserve The Money'

The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 05.14.2012 | Home

An Arkansas woman who threw away a $1 million winning lottery ticket told the "Today" show Friday that she does not feel bad for Sharon Jones, the wom...

Bummer! Lotto Ticket Misprint Fools Man Into Thinking He's A Millionaire

The Huffington Post | Emily Cohn | Posted 05.10.2012 | Home

Imagine holding what you believe to be a winning lottery ticket worth $1 million, only to find out that the ticket was printed in error and is worth n...

What We Could Have Spent All That Money On

AP | PAUL WISEMAN | Posted 05.30.2012 | Home

WASHINGTON — Americans are expected to spend $1.46 billion on Mega Millions lottery tickets. So how far does $1.46 billion go? How much of the ...

Doug's Dozen: 12 Things I'll Do As Soon As I Win That $640 Million in the Lotto

Doug Molitor | Posted 05.30.2012 | Comedy
Doug Molitor

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.

Mega Millions: Why We Buy Into The Lotto

The Huffington Post | Laura Schocker | Posted 03.31.2012 | Healthy Living

Americans have come down with a serious case of lotto fever. Symptoms, we've found, include a suspension of statistical reality, extreme optimism and ...

Why Felix Salmon Is Buying A Lottery Ticket

Reuters | Felix Salmon | Posted 03.20.2012 | Home

Have you bought your lottery ticket yet? The jackpot’s up to $241 million! An interesting thing happens, when the jackpot gets this big: if you a...