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(AUSTIN) – Paul McDowell of Ravenna (located in northeast Texas) visited Texas Lottery® headquarters in Austin today to claim the $40 million advertised jackpot from the May 29 Powerball® drawing. McDowell’s Quick Pick ticket was the only ticket sold to match all five numbers drawn (9 – 14 – 17 – 49 – 57) and the Powerball (2)...

We'll probably never be this excited, even if Ben & Jerry's comes out with that Jeff Goldblum-themed ice cream we've been dreaming of. This is video of a man who is just realizing he won the massive $587.5 million dollar Powerball Jackpot. Apparently he went around showing everybody because he actually couldn't believe his eyes. The ticket was bought in Arizona, but the video taken is from Mar

So you didn't win the Powerball last night. If you did, you'd be on a private jet to Bora Bora right now - not sitting here reading this and debating whether to go to Burger King or McDonald's for lunch. Winning tickets for the record $580 million jackpot were bought in Arizona and Missouri...

Tonight is the record $500 MILLION Powerball drawing. And your odds of winning are one in 175 million. Those aren't very good. Fortunately, we've got a little advice here that might increase those odds just a little bit. Here are five expert tips for winning tonight's Powerball. Of course, we...

The odds of picking winning lottery numbers are remarkably slim — let alone doing it twice with the exact same numbers. Yet that’s what happened to a Virginia woman who won a $1 million Powerball lottery twice on the same day.

And here we go. Less than four days after the record Mega Millions drawing, we're already heading toward our first lawsuit.

The much anticipated $640 million Mega Millions drawing for Friday, March 30, 2012 is all said and done. The winning numbers drawn are:

On Monday, the deadline passed for an unknown $77 million lottery winner in Georgia to claim the prize. Unbelievable as that may have been, officials in Iowa had a similar situation — days before the deadline, a Hot Lotto ticket worth $16.5 million was still unaccounted for. But no more. In a squeaker of epic proportions, an attorney for the unnamed winner stepped forward with the valuable little

Since 1993, Joan R. Ginther has hit the lotto jackpot four times, to the tune of $2 million, $3 million, $5.4 million and $10 million. The chances of this happening are one in 18 septillion. For a point of reference, there are about one septillion grains of sand on earth.