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Forty-five states plus Washington, D.C., participate in the Mega Millions drawings. Find out which state has hit the jackpot the most and what numbers seem to come up most often.

People across the state were packing into lottery locations to buy tickets for Tuesday night’s massive Mega Millions jackpot drawing.

Is $810 million worth $2? That’s a good question, given it costs $2 to buy a Mega Millions lottery ticket that could pay off with an estimated $810 million prize, the nation’s fourth-largest jackpot.

The July 19 drawing will offer an estimated $530 billion prize, or $304.7 million cash, after nobody won Friday night’s jackpot drawing, according to organizers.

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

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

Someone bought a winning ticket for the $1.05 billion Mega Millions jackpot at a grocery store outside of Detroit

The Mega Millions jackup is up again – this time to $1 billion – and buyers are  clamoring at the chance to get a cut of the cash. “It’s definitely worth a couple of tickets,” said John Fitzgerald, a lotto buyer from Rocky Hill.  If the jackpot is won Friday night it would be the third-largest lottery prize ever, below…

Lottery players still have a shot at Mega Millions’ massive $750 million jackpot after Tuesday night’s drawing ended without a winner.

Are you feeling lucky?

The Mega Millions lottery game climbed to an estimated $447 million jackpot for Tuesday’s night’s drawing.

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.

Arizona lottery officials say a sole winning ticket for Tuesday’s $410 million Mega Millions drawing was sold at a convenience store in a Phoenix suburb

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.

A single ticket that matched all six Powerball numbers to win the estimated $768.4 million jackpot — the third-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history — was sold in a Milwaukee suburb, Wisconsin Lottery officials said Thursday. The ticket, worth a cash option of $477 million, was sold at a Speedway gas station in New Berlin, a city of about 40,000...

Lottery officials say the Powerball jackpot has ballooned to $750 million after no ticket matched all six numbers in the most recent drawing. The numbers drawn Saturday night are 24, 25, 52, 60 and 66, with a Powerball of 5.

The Powerball drawing took place Saturday night, offering players a $495 million jackpot — the 8th largest in the lottery game’s history. The winning numbers are: 30, 34, 39, 53, 67 and the Powerball is 11. The estimated cash option is $300.2 million. The Powerball jackpot was last hit in New York in the Dec. 26 drawing. Since then, there...

The only winning ticket for the $267 million jackpot in Friday’s Mega Millions drawing was sold in New Jersey, officials said.

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A lottery winner just minutes away from losing out on a chance to score a big Powerball payout managed to make it with minutes to spare when she first bought her ticket at a Southern California 7-Eleven.