David Stevenson, a CPA in South Carolina, says he can't think of a good reason why whoever bought an enormous lottery ticket in tiny Simpsonville hasn't cashed in.

The Mega Millions ticket worth more than $1.5 billion was purchased in October. It will be worthless in about two months if no one comes forward to claim the cash.

"I could understand there might have been tax advantages to wait until 2019," Stevenson said Thursday. "But I see no purpose in waiting now. Honestly, I think it's lost."

The winner could walk into lottery...

New Hampshire on Friday became the first state to legally challenge last month's U.S. Department of Justice decision to revise the Federal Wire Act, filing a federal lawsuit that would halt enforcement of the opinion that could keep the state from selling lottery tickets online.

The state is asking a U.S. District Court judge to vacate the 23-page opinion from the Department's Office of Legal Counsel, confirm that the Wire Act does not apply to state lotteries, and permanently keep the Justice Department from acting on the opinion.

New Hampshire's lottery, which supports public education in the state, generated $87.5 million in net profits that went toward funding public schools, according to a statement from Governor Chris Sununu.

Talk about a lucky day. 

A Lansing woman recently won three big Michigan Lottery prizes on the same day and one of them was worth $250,000.

The 42-year-old woman, who chose to remain anonymous, won the three Keno prizes on three different tickets for the same drawing.

On one ticket, she matched 10 of the 22 numbers drawn Feb. 5 to win a $250,000 prize. Her winning numbers were: 7, 11, 40, 66, 71, 74, 76, 78, 79, and 80.

The numbers she selected were a combination of birthdays and random numbers, she told the Michigan Lottery.

A 48-year-old father of two from Owen Sound, Ontario, won just shy of $33.4 million (US$25.2 million) in the Feb. 2 Lotto 6/49 draw, Ontario's gaming operator announced Monday.

A lottery winner in Jamaica who seemingly wanted to remain anonymous chose quite the mask to conceal his face.

The New Hampshire Lottery is contemplating a lawsuit after the U.S. Justice Department deemed online lottery sales illegal.

A debt-ridden Scottish store clerk stole $2,000 worth of lottery scratch tickets from the store where he worked, and didn't win a single penny.

A family Christmas tradition of giving Connecticut Lottery tickets turned into a $3 million win.

Calgarian Alfonso Buonomo's first reaction to learning he'd won a Lotto 6/49 windfall was to go grocery shopping.

On Wednesday the Iowa legislature began what will likely be a long conversation over legalizing sports gambling in Iowa.