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Someone bought a winning ticket for the $1.05 billion Mega Millions jackpot at a grocery store outside of Detroit

The Mega Millions top prize climbed to an estimated $1 billion ahead of Friday’s drawing. It is only the third time in lottery history that a national jackpot game tops the $1 billion mark. The current Mega Millions record is $1.536 billion, sold in Oct. 2018.

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,…

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

The Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots keep growing. Jen DeSalvo reports.

Somebody could be starting off the new year with a big pile of cash.

Another night, another unclaimed giant lottery jackpot.

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

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…

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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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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

If daydreaming about scoring a windfall would help you escape the coronavirus doldrums, you might want to buy a Mega Millions ticket. The lottery game’s jackpot has reached the $200 million mark for the first time in almost three months amid slowing sales. And if all six numbers are matched in Friday night’s drawing, it could be a while...

Manuel Franco, the Wisconsin 24-year-old who won a $768.4 million Powerball jackpot, stepped out to claim the third-largest jackpot in history.

Manuel Franco said he felt lucky when he purchased five Powerball games last month at a Wisconsin gas station. The 24-year-old West Allis resident’s hunch was right. Franco matched all six Powerball numbers to win the $768.4 million prize, the third-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history. “It feels like a dream,” Franco told reporters at a news conference Tuesday.