Is it you or you? The Virginia Lottery says a Powerball ticket was sold at a 7-Eleven store in McLean, Virginia. Someone is a millionaire. The 7-Eleven McLean store matched the first five numbers and missed only the Powerball number for one-million dollars. The winning ticket for the nearly 430-million dollar jackpot was sold in […]

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Marie Holmes, the North Carolina mom who won a $188 million Powerball lottery jackpot last year and has spent millions bailing her boyfriend out of jail, now has legal challenges of her own.

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As the Powerball jackpot prize grows to an all-time U.S. record of $700 million, it’s important to remember that all that glitters is not gold.

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Griffey was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He hit another milestone by having the highest voting percentage ever.

Marie Holmes is one of three winners of Wednesday’s Powerball, adding $188 million to her bank account. Holmes is a unemployed mother of four and…

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Winning the lottery once in a lifetime is pretty lucky. Winning the lottery twice in the same day? Virginia Pike is one of the few people that can describe that feeling. The Berryville, Va., resident had two tickets that matched five of the six Powerball numbers in an April 7 drawing so that each ticket […]

Louise White, 81, of Newport, R.I., is the winner of the third-largest Powerball jackpot in the history of the game-$336.4 million, reports AP. White came forward Tuesday accepting the money on behalf of the Rainbow Sherbert Trust. White’s $3 ticket was the only ticket that matched all 6 numbers: 1-10-37-52-57 and Powerball 11. It was […]

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Get ready to pay more for Powerball: Ticket prices are going up to $2. Lottery organizers hope the price change will entice more people to play because jackpots are getting bigger and the odds of winning are improving. The move is a strategy to differentiate the game from Mega Millions, another big-money, multi-state lottery game […]

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Talk about being born under a good sign. The winner of a $107 million Powerball lottery jackpot is the son of the millionaire president of Marriot hotels, according to reports. Brian McCarthy, 25, bought the winning ticket on a whim after stopping at a Herndon, Virginia, grocery store to hit the ATM. His father, Robert […]