Lottery News

TALLAHASSEE - The Florida Lottery announced today that three players matched all five winning numbers in the Thursday, July 2, FANTASY 5 drawing and will share a $212,714.85 top prize.

Vermont officials say the state's newest lottery game starts Sunday. Those who play Hot Lotto select five white ball numbers from 1 to 39, and one Hot Ball number from 1 to 19.

State Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks fashioned a campaign platform for governor that calls for taxes on the gambling industry and the creation of a state lottery to provide tax cuts for Alabama families and college scholarships for their children.

Anil Shah and his wife, Varshe, stand next to a replica of the $1 million lottery ticket Shah sold on Monday at the couple's Route 31 Pantry and Liquors in West Dundee.

With talks all but broken down over a new, two-year state budget, the Democratic House and Republican Senate appear to be casting the other side as the villain in the budget standoff.

Gov. Ted Strickland continues to defend his gambling proposal as a way to balance the state's budget and says Ohio is in company with many other states struggling with financial problems.

Winning $2.3 million in the Hoosier Lotto nearly seven years ago apparently wasn't the end of Michael Dalton's run of luck.

I'm 57, a native and resident of Sanford and a 6th generation Floridian who has covered and played Florida Lottery games since the first scratch-off tickets went on sale at 12:01 a.m. Jan.

None of the tickets sold for the Powerball game Wednesday night matched all six numbers drawn, which were: Powerball: 15 Power Play: 2 Players matching all five numbers and the Powerball would have won or shared the $20 million jackpot.

Sydney - Two Australian households were in shock on Wednesday after winning the nation's biggest-ever lottery jackpot, worth more than AU$100-million . An estimated 10 million people purchased tickets for Tuesday night's much-anticipated Oz Lotto draw, with frenzied sales driving the scheduled AU$90-million top prize to more than AU$106-million, ...

Entertainment Tonight Headlines An attorney representing the Jackson family says that Michael Jackson had a will and it is to be filed in court, according to a new report from the Associated Press .

A 54-year-old father of five from East Rochester is one million dollars richer after winning the New York State Lottery's Stinkin' Rich instant game.

Today is Arkansas lottery director Ernie Passailaigue's first official day on the job, and it will entail his asking the Arkansas Lottery Commission to accept an invitation for the state to join the multistate Powerball group.

There has been another rollover in the grand prize for the multistate Mega Millions lottery -- to $113 million.

A Warren woman won $250,000 on the day she was training an employee on the lottery machine, the Ohio Lottery Commission announced Tuesday.

A Gold Coast couple are $53 million richer after winning half of Australia's biggest ever lotto draw.

A Syracuse man is about to receive $1,000,000 for the rest of his life! Wea re not sure who he is, just yet.

Ticket frenzy ... some newsagencies were forced to put up barricades to control crowds buying tickets in last night's draw.

Several South Africans who have had their lifelong dreams fulfilled after winning the national lottery have instead found their lives turning into nightmares.

Two young men wept and shouted for joy yesterday after a jury acquitted them of murdering Allen Benn in retaliation for warning a lottery winner that he might be robbed.