AUSTIN (Nexstar) — As the Powerball jackpot approaches almost $2 billion, the third-highest jackpot in the game’s history, the Texas lottery is entering into a new era under a different agency.

CARMEL, Ind. — A man from Carmel recently claimed his $583,000 CA$H 5 jackpot at the Hoosier Lottery Prize Payment Office in downtown Indianapolis. According to the ...

Though around 95% of the people who gamble do so safely, around 5% realize that they are being significantly harmed by the habit, Whelan said. Mostly, the harm is financial, but it can also damage ...

For the most part, it’s already known which teams will likely land among the 2026 NBA Draft’s top picks. At least, without unprecedented lottery luck. Teams like the Nets, Wizards, Jazz, and a few ...

Nobody won Powerball’s 10-figure grand prize in Monday night’s drawing, but someone who bought a ticket at a Circle K in South Carolina will receive a significant consolation prize, South Carolina ...

Two grand prize winning tickets were sold prior to last Saturday’s Powerball drawing for a $1.78 billion jackpot, and somebody who purchased a ticket in South Carolina was one number away from making ...

Playing the lottery will lose money most of the time, whereas the stock market rises most of the time. Even investing in the worst S&P 500 stock in 2024 was better than the average lottery ticket ...

A Charlotte woman beat odds of 1 in 1,813,028 to win the coveted “$25,000 a year for life” prize with a $2 North Carolina Education Lottery ticket. However, she technically opted not to take it.

The $2 Lucky for Life lottery ticket was purchased at the Circle K on Central Avenue in Charlotte, officials said. Street View image from May 2021. © 2025 Google A ...

Will a $2 Powerball ticket make you a multimillionaire? As they say in the lottery business, “it could happen to you.” After no one matched all five numbers plus the Powerball in the Wednesday, Aug.

Two tickets from Texas and Missouri will split the second-highest lottery jackpot ever won in the U.S., a $1.79 billion Powerball prize. The Powerball jackpot was won on Saturday, Sept. 6, after ...