Wyoming is one step closer to starting a state lottery or joining a multi-state game like Powerball.
Cynthia Stafford visualized winning $112 million, then won exactly that amount. Today she is one of California’s biggest philanthropists.
It was a close call for a Maryland lottery player who won $250,000 in the Mega Millions drawing, but spent 90 minutes looking for the winning stub in the trash.
In a year of tight state budgets, more than a dozen states are looking to fill the gap by adding games and increasing lottery options.
Lawmakers in Arizona have sent the Governor a bill to keep the state lottery when the current game expires in 2012.
A California couple, who were making ends meet with part-time jobs, won $7 million in the SuperLotto Plus. John and Patricia Estrada were planning on moving to more affordable housing, but will now be able to stay in their Desert Hot Springs home.
After scratching off a $10m ticket – the largest instant prize in the country – a Stoneham woman is planning for an unusually fun holiday with her family.
A family that lost its home in a recent flood has it’ll buy a new house after winning a quarter-million dollars on a George Lottery instant ticket.
The New Mexico Lottery in August launched "Red vs. Green," an instant game that was designed by a 22-year-old graphic designer who attended UNM on a Legislative Lottery Scholarship.
A struggling 22-year-old actress, who made ends meet by playing Snow White at DisneyLand, won $5.2 million on the California Lottery show “Make Me a Millionaire.”