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Mega Millions, it's the lottery game that has slightly better odds than the Poweball lottery and now has a jackpot worth more than a half a billion dollars!

Most of us play the lottery at one time or another and, while very few of us ever win the big money, sometimes it pays off big. Texas lottery officials say a ticket that was sold in Bedford matched all six numbers drawn last Saturday (9-19-28-41-45-51) worth $20...

File this under "whoops."

Well, this guy's New Year is sucking so far.

Talk about spreading the wealth.

There are about a million reasons why Jennifer Maldonado has the best coworkers in the world.

On Wednesday, the Powerball lottery reached a record $587.5 million. So far two winning tickets have been announced, one in Arizona and one in Missouri. But there's at least one more guaranteed winner: the Internal Revenue Service. Lottery winners can take their prize in the form of a lump sum or an annuity paid over the next 29 years...

According to a new survey from CouponCabin.com of 2,570 adults, 50 percent play the lottery. And of that percentage, 65 percent would continue to live frugally it they happened to win big. But would a frugal life include keeping their job and continuing to draw their salary?

Merle and Patricia Butler, a retired couple in their 60s from the small town of Red Bud, IL, stepped forward on Wednesday to claim their share of the record-breaking $656 million Mega Millions jackpot.

Ryan Kitching’s mom had been nagging him to clean his room, as moms tend to do. When the 19-year-old from Midlothian, Scotland finally relented and attacked the mess, he found 12 old lottery tickets. Figuring they must all be losers, he thought about throwing the tickets out with the rest of the junk. But then he had a “strange feeling” that he should check the numbers, and when he did, he was ne

Tyrone Curry doesn't have to wake up at 4 a.m. and mop the floors at Evergreen High School in Seattle. Not after the custodian won the Washington State lottery to the tune of $3.41 million five years ago.

Doing your taxes is a pain, and many people put off their preparation until right before the mid-April filing date. Chicago man Irving Przyborski is certainly grateful he got a bit of a jump on his 2010 taxes . That's because when Przyborski went into his tax files last week, he found a lottery ticket he had bought almost a year before among the paperwork. When Przyborski checked the numbers, he