As Pennsylvanians line up for this year's raffle, a winner from last year still hasn't come forward
By Kate Northrop
Three major Pennsylvania Lottery prizes are expiring next month, including one of the four top prizes of $1 million in last year's Millionaire Raffle game.
There were four Pennsylvania lottery players lucky enough to win one of the coveted $1 million grand prizes in last year's Millionaire Raffle, and the prospect of one of those unclaimed prizes is looking bleak.
The Wyoming Lottery announced the upcoming launch of Pistol Picks: a family of four different draw games that offers Wyoming's take on Fast Play-esque games.
On Friday, the Illinois Lottery launched its own iteration of Cash Pop, giving in-state players a shot at one of the fastest draw games to spread across state lines over the past few years.
Sales for the famed Montana Millionaire raffle have been postponed while the Montana Lottery figures out the "technical issues" affecting their central gaming system.
A Massachusetts-based trust had a spud-tacular day Thursday when they claimed a $29.71 million Megabucks lottery jackpot — the largest prize in the game's history since its inception in 1982.
Raffle season is back, and several state lotteries are going bigger than ever. Minnesota is doubling its million-dollar winners, Montana is adding another $1 million prize, and Idaho is celebrating 20 years of its holiday tradition. With a fixed number of tickets in every game, these drawings still offer some of the best odds around of becoming a millionaire.
A Michigan man was unknowingly walking around with a million dollars in his pocket for nearly two months before he discovered that he had a $1 million winning Powerball ticket in his wallet.
The Florida man who ran a gambling addiction helpline for the past year and a half has been sentenced to nearly ten years in prison for embezzling $1.4 million to fund his own gambling activities.
After an Ohio couple came up with a code phrase they’d use in case they’d ever won the lottery, and when one of them won a $1 million prize, it went by the wayside.
A California lottery player who nearly forgot about his $20 Powerball ticket won the amount he predicted at the counter prior to purchasing his ticket.
