Powerball

As fervor builds in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game, with hundreds of millions up for grabs for jackpot winning tickets, the California Lottery is warning the public to be wary of scams.

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

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

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

Although there was no jackpot winner in Wednesday night’s Powerball draw, one of two 5/5 winning tickets worth $2.7 million was sold at a market in San Jose, according to the California Lottery.

Another night, another unclaimed giant lottery jackpot.

Although there was no jackpot winner in California for this draw, there was a 5/5 winning ticket sold at Paul’s Market in San Jose worth over $2 million.

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

Between the Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots, nearly $1 billion is up for grabs ahead of the next drawings starting Friday night. Damian Trujillo reports.

Between the Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots, nearly $1 billion is up for grabs ahead of the next drawings starting Friday night.

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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...

A western Wisconsin man will share his millions in lottery winnings with a longtime friend because of a promise they made to each other nearly three decades ago.

With a little bit of luck and persistence, a Colorado man has hit the jackpot twice after playing the same numbers for 30 years.

Someone in the East Bay is $7 million richer after matching five numbers in the Wednesday Powerball draw, according to the California Lottery.

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.