Lottery

“We are going to head straight to Golden Corral and eat everything they’ve got,” Jerry Hicks said.

One lucky lotto player in the U.S. won a whopping $800 Mega Millions jackpot after matching all six numbers drawn Tuesday night.

One lucky lotto player in the U.S. won a whopping $800 Mega Millions jackpot after matching all six numbers drawn Tuesday night.

A last-minute gift turned into a big lottery win for a suburban Chicago family — and now they’re planning to use their winnings to fulfill a longtime dream.

A great-grandmother from Pennsylvania who recently completed radiation treatments for breast cancer won $5 million on a scratch-off state lottery ticket.

A suburban Chicago woman won $1 million on a lottery scratch-off she recently purchased at an Illinois Walmart — only this lottery ticket was extra special and she believes there was more behind how it ended up in her hands.

A suburban Chicago woman won $1 million on a lottery scratch-off she recently purchased at an Illinois Walmart — only this lottery ticket was extra special and she believes there was more behind how it ended up in her hands.

The lucky Illinois Lottery player who scored a $552 million Mega Millions jackpot prize last week has come forward and claimed their prize, according to officials.

An Illinois lottery player won a massive $552 million jackpot prize this week, but unlike some of the state’s previous big prizes, there was no store listed for the winning sale.

An Illinois resident wakes up to a life-changing $560 million windfall after their Mega Millions ticket matches all six numbers.

A $560 million winning Mega Millions ticket has been sold in Illinois, lottery officials announced Wednesday.

The growing Powerball jackpot. No one matched all the winning numbers last night making it worth more than one billion dollars.

The Powerball jackpot has risen to an estimated $865 million — making it one of the largest Powerball prizes ever ahead of Wednesday night’s drawing.

The stars have aligned in the lottery universe like never before, with two jackpots totaling nearly $2 billion.

Are you feeling lottery fever yet? The Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots continue to climb. Patrick Fazio reports.

Attorney Andrew Stoltmann has represented 12 lottery winners, many of whom lost all their winnings through bad investments, reckless spending and greedy relatives. “Unfortunately, the people who win the lottery think at that point, the journey is over. And what they don’t realize is that the journey has really just begun,” says the Chicago-based Stoltmann.

The sixth largest Mega Millions jackpot ever is set to be drawn Friday night.

The Mega Millions jackpot increased to an estimated $687 million after no one beat the odds Tuesday night.

If you’ve played the lottery before, there’s a very high chance you left the experience feeling disappointed and unlucky, watching dreams of a lavish lifestyle quickly drift away with each wrong number.

A Washington, D.C., man is suing Powerball and the D.C. Lottery for refusing to pay a $340 million prize last year after, the lawsuit claims, his numbers came up on the D.C. Lottery’s website.