Lottery

A Gilbert couple in Arizona claimed millions after they purchased the winning $473 million ticket to the Powerball drawing a day before numbers were picked. The couple claimed permanent anonymity.

Josh Buster believes a mistake at a local convenience store made him a millionaire.

It's not every day you win $10 million by accident.

It got messy for a Virginia woman who had to dig through the trash to find a winning lottery ticket that was worth $110,000.

Wilbur Brown of Oregon purchased his winning multi-drawing lottery ticket on Christmas Eve in 2021 and forgot about it until February 2022. That’s when he found out he won the $8.9 million jackpot.

“I ignored the phone calls and emails for a few days, and then eventually I decided to log in to my online The Lott account. It all started to make sense when I discovered I’d won $100,000!,” the Australian woman said.

A Long Island man who says he's "still trying to spend the $10M I won in '19" has won a $10M lottery for the second time.

“We started running around the house,” winner Gabriel Fierro said, “screaming like a bunch of banshees.”

At $421 million, Friday’s jackpot is creeping closer to being in Mega Millions’ 10 most valuable jackpots of all time.

"I haven't even told my wife yet," the Plant City man said. "I'm going to surprise her by walking into our house with this oversized check and when she doesn't believe me -- I'm going to tell her to check our bank account!"

Laura Spears, 55, said she saw the e-mail that she had won the prize while looking for a missing e-mail in her spam folder.

Two winning tickets for the $632.6 million Powerball jackpot were sold in California and Wisconsin. The winners will split the prize.

Here are the winning Powerball numbers for Wednesday, January 5, 2022. The Powerball jackpot has climbed to an estimated $630 million, the seventh-largest jackpot in the game’s history.

2022 comes with another shot at winning the massive Powerball lottery after no winners on Monday. 

The jackpot has now climbed to an estimated $522 million and will be up for grabs again Monday night at 10:59 p.m. ET.

Dennis Willoughby stopped at a 7-Eleven store in Richmond to buy the drinks and to buy a $1 million Platinum Jackpot scratch-off ticket.

The Powerball jackpot is now worth an estimated $500 million for the Jan. 1, 2022, drawing, with a $355.9 million cash value before taxes.