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$2 billion Powerball lottery winner Edwin Castro's Malibu mansion destroyed in LA Palisades FireNews Story
Lottery winner's house is one of thousands of homes decimated by horrific fires By Kate Northrop $2 billion Powerball lottery winner Edwin Castro's $3.8 million Malibu home was one of the many homes flattened in the Palisades Fire disaster that has been ravaging Los Angeles County since Tuesday. The ongoing Palisades Fire has utterly decimated residential areas in Los Angeles County, erasing more than 10,000 homes and other structures. One of those homes is a $3.8 million Malibu mans
Jan 11, 2025, 9:46 am - Lottery News

Cash 5 winner's chance meeting with New Jersey Lottery official confirms $678,674 jackpot prizeNews Story
What are the odds? By Kate Northrop A Jersey Cash 5 jackpot winner was skeptical of their $678,674 win, but a coincidental run-in with a New Jersey Lottery official assured them that it was entirely real. The odds of winning the lottery are high enough, but simultaneously winning the lottery and running into an off-duty New Jersey Lottery official and having them confirm the win must certainly be an astoundingly rare sequence of events. The odds of winning the Jersey Cash 5 jackp
Jan 10, 2025, 9:20 am - Lottery News

North Carolina woman starts off 2025 with $1 million Powerball lottery prize on New Year's DayNews Story
Soap opera enjoyer enters the New Year with a million-dollar win By Kate Northrop A North Carolina woman entered the New Year with a $1 million Powerball prize, having bought her ticket on New Year's Eve for the New Year's Day drawing. Grace Landon of Albemarle started off the New Year with a million-dollar Powerball prize, effectively crossing off winning the lottery from her bucket list for 2025. Landon has been a regular Powerball player for 20 years, and it was on New Year's
Jan 7, 2025, 9:24 am - Lottery News

$139 million goes up in smoke as Ohio Powerball ticket expiresNews Story
Life-changing sum of money quietly expires over the New Year By Kate Northrop The $139 million Powerball jackpot from the July 3, 2024 drawing, won by a single ticket purchased in Ohio, quietly expired amid the excitement of the New Year. The deadline for one lone Ohio winner to claim a $139 million Powerball jackpot from July 2024 has passed. Last month, the Ohio Lottery made a final push to locate the winner of the multi-million-dollar prize. Today, the Lottery announced that n
Jan 3, 2025, 9:59 am - Lottery News

$1 million Powerball lottery prize claimed by Indiana winner five hours before expiration deadlineNews Story
Couple discover winning ticket at the last minute in Christmas miracle By Kate Northrop After a month's worth of attempts from the Hoosier Lottery to locate the missing winner of a $1 million winning Powerball lottery prize, one Indiana couple stepped forward just five hours before it was set to expire to claim it. Everyone is breathing a sigh of relief after an anonymous couple came forward to claim a $1 million winning Powerball lottery ticket in what can only be described as a Chr
Dec 31, 2024, 10:13 am - Lottery News

One California ticket wins $1.269 billion Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
Fifth $1 billion+ jackpot won in California Updated with final jackpot totals By Todd Northrop After a run of 30 drawings without a jackpot winner, the 31st drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions game produced a single $1.269 billion winner last night when one lottery ticket sold in California matched all five numbers plus the Mega Ball. It was the 12th time a lottery jackpot had grown to more than $1 billion, and the 11th time a single ticket won $1 billion or more. For C
Dec 28, 2024, 8:08 am - Lottery News

$1.15 BILLION: Mega Millions keeps rolling after no winner TuesdayNews Story
Now the 9th-largest lottery jackpot in history By Todd Northrop After nobody won a billion-dollar Christmas Eve jackpot, lottery players around the country are lining up for an even larger jackpot set to draw Friday. Tuesday night nobody won the Mega Millions multi-state lottery drawing, triggering another jackpot rollover that created a Friday jackpot estimated at $1.15 billion with a cash value of $516.1 million. Based on past multi-state lottery jackpots, that estimate may get
Dec 26, 2024, 8:01 am - Lottery News

New Jersey lottery winner claims $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
Lottery officials verify that the winner has come forward with the winning ticket By Kate Northrop The New Jersey lottery winner of the $1.128 billion Mega Millions jackpot drawn on March 26 has officially submitted the winning ticket and started the claims process. New Jersey Lottery officials announced today that the winning ticket for the $1.128 billion Mega Millions jackpot has been validated and that the claims process has begun. After nine months, one anonymous winner final
Dec 23, 2024, 4:58 pm - Lottery News

$944 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot set to make holiday wishes come trueNews Story
Biggest jackpot in 9 months closes in on a billion dollars By Todd Northrop Nine months after Mega Millions delivered a $1.13 billion jackpot to one ticket sold in New Jersey, the multi-state lottery game is back with a jackpot to be drawn Tuesday that is also nearing the $1 billion mark. When nobody won Friday night's $862 million grand prize, the Mega Millions jackpot grew to an estimated $944 million the largest since a March 26, 2024 $1.128 billion Mega Millions jackpot was won b
Dec 21, 2024, 7:41 am - Lottery News

$825 MILLION: Massive Mega Millions drawing set for FridayNews Story
13th-largest lottery jackpot in history By Todd Northrop The Mega Millions multi-state lottery game continued its jackpot run last night when no tickets matched all six numbers. Last night nobody won the Mega Millions lottery drawing, triggering another jackpot rollover that created a Friday jackpot estimated at $825 million with a cash value of $382.2 million. To get to this massive size, the jackpot has been growing since it started on September 13 as a $20 million prize now 28
Dec 18, 2024, 8:26 am - Lottery News