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The fifth and final sets of winners of the Massachusetts VaxMillions Giveaway will be announced on Thursday. All of them were lucky to win, but it turns out one is extremely lucky. One of the first eight winners of the lottery wasn’t actually the first to be drawn for the prize they won, a Baker administration official confirmed to...

Lottery players will soon have more opportunities to hit the Powerball as it adds a third weekly drawing to its lineup.

Lottery officials announced the Powerball drawing will expand to three nights a week

Lottery officials say a woman in Germany carried a winning ticket in her purse for weeks without realizing it was worth about 33 million euros ($39 million).

Governments around the U.S. are trying to come up with incentives to encourage people to get a COVID-19 vaccine to help the nation more fully open in the summer…and a lot of them are vices.

Gov. Gavin Newsom introduced incentives to encourage Californians to get their COVID-19 vaccine with a $116.5 million program – the largest vaccine incentive program in the U.S.

Maryland has held the first of its $40,000 lottery drawings for people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19

It is the ninth-largest jackpot awarded in the history of the game, and the largest prize won in the state since 2010.

The time limit for redeeming the winning $26 million California Lottery Super Lotto Plus ticket has expired, and although there are rumors that a Norwalk woman bought the ticket, no one showed up to claim the prize.

The Virginia Lottery says players have won more than $400 million since online game offerings were introduced less than nine months ago

Four people in a suburban Detroit lottery club have won a $1.05 billion Mega Millions lottery jackpot and will share $557 million after taxes

Winning the lottery is a once-in-a-lifetime event, goes the saying. But for Brian Moss of Meridian, Idaho, the more you play, the more you win.

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.

Someone hit it very big in a hard-luck Appalachian coal-mining community, where a jackpot-winning Powerball ticket worth $731 million was sold this week

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