Powerball, the ubiquitous lottery game, finally arrived in California on Monday, and began to spread its enticing message of easy, instant fortune to residents of the Golden State.
We now know what killed Urooj Khan, the Chicago lottery winner who died in July 2012, one day before he planned to collect $425,000 of his winnings. We just don't know who killed him.
After his death was originally attributed to "natural causes," Chicago resident Urooj Khan's body was revealed today to have contained cyanide at the very untimely time of his death.
We know you were hoping for a Powerball winner to hate, with the first winning couple turning out to be the sweetest ever, but the second person, who has finally claimed the prize, doesn't want to go public.
Lottery officials say that two tickets had the winning combination in last night's record-busting Powerball drawing—one in Arizona and one in Missouri—halving the second-biggest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.
Finally, finally, our time of great suspense is over. All three of the lucky Mega Millions winners (groups or individuals) have come forward to claim their prizes. And we have names for at least two of them.
The third and final winner of last month's record Mega Millions jackpot has come forward in Illinois, the only one of the three who won't be protected by anonymity laws
The anticipated storyline of the actual Maryland MegaMillions winners didn't turn out to be very dramatic, but they're really nice-sounding folks so we'll forgive them.
Whoever the mystery person is who claimed a share of the largest-ever lottery prize on Monday, he or she wants to stay quiet about it. Maryland's lottery, however, has a flair for the dramatic, and promises to share the winner's "storyline," if not name, on Tuesday.
One of the three mystery Mega Millions lottery winners has finally come forward, and it's not Mirlande Wilson.
The truly weird story that has captivated our attention for some unknown reason this week is that of McDonald's employee Mirlande Wilson, who on Monday claimed she won Maryland's Mega Millions Lottery ticket.
While we wait breathlessly for the announcement of who actually won the Mega Millions lottery, there's plenty to keep us entertained
The Mega Millions is already tearing people apart, and its biggest winners have yet to come forward.
The biggest lottery jackpot in the history of mankind -- $640 million smackeroos -- has a winner. Rather, it has three winners.
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense
As America continues in its frenzy over the now $640-million jackpot up for grabs in tonight's Mega Millions lottery, we feel it is our duty to inform you that actually, you really probably don't want to win the lottery.
With tonight's Mega Millions jackpot ballooning to more than $540 million, some people are waiting more than four hours in the desert sun for a (slim) chance at glory.
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense
The nation-wide Mega Millions lottery jackpot is expected to reach at least $476 million on Friday, which would set a record for the largest prize in U.S. history.
A woman in Michigan won $1 million from a state lottery game, but is still collecting state food assistance, a fact that is sure to open another front in the ongoing class war.
It turns out the "Greenwich asset managers win the $245 million jackpot to the chagrin of everyone" story may be more complicated: the people you see slightly smiling pictured may have just been collecting the money for a client, according to a neighbor who has talked with plenty of media outlets.
In today's feel-bad story of the day, three asset managers, two of whom live in Greenwich, Connecticut, won a $254 million jackpot in the Powerball lottery, the Associated Press reports.
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