Lottery

A New Jersey woman just entered the millionaire club. The state’s lottery program announced that Stacey Fiore, an MTA supervisor stationed on Staten Island, won the Powerball prize last weekend. Fiore plays the Mega Millions and Powerball lotteries weekly, according to lottery officials. She ran into her local Quick Stop last Saturday and pulled a quick pick, which turned...

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

In a coastline New Jersey community, there’s a mystery unfolding that no one seems to know the answer to: why hasn’t the big jackpot winner come forward?

Adam Harding reporting on the search for the winner of the billion-dollar jackpot. 

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

A NJ resident won the biggest jackpot in history! NBC New York Checkey Beckford reports.

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.

Did you literally just hit the jackpot after playing Mega Millions? The winning $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpot ticket was sold in Neptune Township in New Jersey, according to New Jersey lottery officials. So once you have a winning ticket in any New Jersey lottery game, what do you do next? How do you claim the prize? If the prize…

It’s the fifth-largest jackpot in the game’s history. Tracie Strahan reports.

As the saying goes, anything can happen in New Jersey. Someone in the Garden State overcame the odds Tuesday night and won the $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpot, becoming the game’s first big winner of 2024 and smashing a winless streak that dates back to December. The lucky ticket-holder matched all six numbers drawn – the white balls 7, 11,…

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

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.

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. 

The Powerball jackpot has reached an estimated $760 million, the sixth-largest prize in the game’s history. Here’s what the winner should do first.

The Powerball jackpot reached a whopping $760 million, and will likely keep climbing, after no one matched all the numbers for Wednesday’s drawing. But two lucky people in two lucky boroughs got a lot richer – and they’re not alone. One third-place prize-winning ticket, worth $50,000, was sold at Cruger Deli and Candy on Allerton Avenue in the Bronx, according…

Millions, if not billions, are up grabs once a winning lotto ticket goes unclaimed. What to know about who gets to keep it.

A Michigan clerk’s error turned out to be a big win for an Illinois man purchasing a lottery ticket in New Buffalo.

The Powerball jackpot is at $1.7 billion and players are hoping luck is on their side. Melissa Colorado reports.