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A huge Powerball jackpot of $92.9 million remains unclaimed in Kansas- two days after being drawn. Kansas has not had a winner of the Powerball top prize since 2012. After the ten-year gap in people scooping the jackpot, the lucky numbers in the draw were 7, 28, 62, 63 and 64 and the Powerball was 10...

A CNN piece on Wednesday spoke with critics knocking the lottery system as a form of systemic racism that targets poor Black and Brown communities across America. The largest Powerball jackpot lottery ticket ever was recently sold in Altadena, California, with one lucky resident winning a historic $2.04 billion. The odds were 1 in 292.2 million. Researchers told CNN that despite the extremely low chance of winning, state lotteries still aggressively market the lottery and sell tickets to low-income communities at higher rates, thus misleading Americans to believe it will help them quickly generate wealth.

The Powerball jackpot has risen to an estimated $1.9 billion for Monday's drawing after no ticket won the world-record pot on Saturday, Powerball said. Monday's drawing has a cash option of $929.1 million, the lottery said.

A man in southern China who won just under 220 million yuan (S$43 million) in the lottery said he had not told his wife and child because he was worried the money could make them arrogant and lazy. The man, identified by the pseudonym Li, bought 40 lottery tickets for 80 yuan in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, and every ticket contained the same seven numbers. According to a report in Nanning Evening News, all seven numbers hit , equalling a payout of 5.48 million yuan per ticket, which means the total arrived at just under 220 million yuan. The man...

One ticket in New York matched all five white balls, winning $1 million dollars, according to the Powerball website. There was also another ticket sold in the state that matched the white balls and included the Power Play option, which ups the winnings to $2 million overall for that ticketholder. Nationwide, there were 10 million-dollar tickets that matched all five white ball numbers, and three that did the same with the Power Play. There were also 134 tickets sold across the country that won a $50,000 prize in Monday night's drawing, and another 23 tickets that won a $150,000 prize....

Former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama commemorated their 30th wedding anniversary in social media posts on Monday. In a message posted on his various social media accounts, the former president said that he felt like he won the lottery the day when they wed. “Miche, After 30 years, I’m not sure why you look exactly the same and I don’t. I do know that I won the lottery that day—that I couldn’t have asked for a better life partner,” Obama wrote in his message, accompanied with pictures of the couple now and on their wedding day. “Happy...

A single ticket bought in a Chicago suburb beat the odds and won a $1.337B Mega Millions jackpot. According to megamillions.com, there was one jackpot-winning ticket in the draw Friday night, and it was bought at a Speedway gas station and convenience store in Des Plaines. “We are thrilled to have witnessed one of the biggest jackpot wins in Mega Millions history,” Ohio Lottery Director Pat McDonald, the current Lead Director for the Mega Millions Consortium, said in a statement on the lottery’s website. “We’re eager to find out who won and look forward to congratulating the winner soon!” The...

Last night I didn’t win the $1.3 b mega million, but I had the mega number plus one other good for $4. So I bought a scratcher at the local Ralphs(Kroger in most of the country). The scratcher won $200. But the store refused to cash it saying they didn’t have enough money. The manager was in the back of the store but the guy who refused to cas my ticket would not let me talk to the manager. I got my money from a smoke shop two doors down. I filed a complaint with California lottery and gave the...

CHICAGO — Someone in a Chicago suburb beat the odds and won a $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpot. According to megamillions.com, there was one jackpot-winning ticket in the draw Friday night, and it was bought at a Speedway gas station and convenience store in Des Plaines. The winning numbers were: 13-36-45-57-67, Mega Ball: 14. “We are thrilled to have witnessed one of the biggest jackpot wins in Mega Millions history,” Ohio Lottery Director Pat McDonald, the current Lead Director for the Mega Millions Consortium, said in a statement on the lottery’s website. “We’re eager to find out who won and...

A giant Mega Millions lottery jackpot ballooned to $1.02 billion after no one matched all six numbers Tuesday night and won the top prize. The new estimated jackpot for Friday’s drawing will be the nation’s fourth-largest lottery prize. The jackpot has grown so large because no one has matched the game’s six selected numbers since April 15. That’s 29 consecutive drawings without a big winner. Tuesday’s numbers were: 07-29-60-63-66, Mega Ball: 15.

Next Estimated Jackpot,$1.02 Billion

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Is $810 million worth $2? That’s a good question, given it costs $2 to buy a Mega Millions lottery ticket that could pay off with an estimated $810 million prize — the nation’s fourth-largest jackpot — after the game’s next drawing Tuesday night. ISN’T IT AN OBVIOUS QUESTION? Not really. To start with, your chance of winning the grand prize is minuscule, at one in 302.5 million. You have better odds of a smaller payoff, such as winning $1 million for matching five regular numbers but missing the Mega Ball. STILL, A SHOT AT $810...

WARREN, Mich. (AP) — While the growing expansion of casinos and state-sanctioned sports betting steal the spotlight, state lotteries have nearly doubled in size over the past two decades, driving a multibillion-dollar wealth transfer from low-income U.S. communities to powerful multinational companies. A nationwide investigation of state lotteries by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland found that lottery retailers are disproportionately clustered in lower-income communities in nearly every state. The investigation’s analysis of cellphone location data shows that the people who patronize those stores come from the same kinds of communities.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — A Bonita Springs man cashed in his top prize-winning scratch-off ticket worth $25 million from the Florida lottery. George Demetriades claimed his $25 million prize at the Lottery’s Fort Myers District Office on May 11. Demetriades bought his 500x THE CASH scratch-off ticket from the Circle K located at 10460 Bonita Beach Road in Bonita Springs. The retailer will also receive a $50,000 bonus commission for selling Demetriades the Scratch-Off ticket. This $25 million prize is the largest ever offered on a Florida scratch-off game, according to the Florida lottery.

Is it a sin to buy a lottery ticket? What about making a bet at a casino – so long as it's a budgeted amount of money and made responsibly? How about dropping a sports bet? Is it a sin to gamble? Some people would argue there is nothing sinful about it. Recently, after posting on Facebook one of my editorials against the legalization of sports betting in the Tar Heel state, a woman said in the comments section: "I've never found any basis in the Bible to oppose gambling specifically, even though I have searched." Another woman wrote, "Nowhere...

One very lucky guy just collected a six-figure lottery win in Virginia, after all 264 of his tickets came up winners in two separate drawings, Virginia Lottery officials say. Yes, 264 tickets. Jalen Taylor of Charlottesville won $132,000 when each ticket proved to be worth $500, Virginia Lottery officials said in a Feb. 3 news release. The prize came after Taylor went big and bought two large batches of Pick 3 tickets over a two-month span. The first was 104 tickets with the numbers 960 he got for the Nov. 18 drawing, and the second was 160 tickets with the...

Nearly 10,000 winners of the FY 2020 Diversity Visa Program, better known as the visa lottery, who were frustrated by their failure to obtain consular interviews to process their U.S. immigrant visas on time, won a court battle this week. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on Wednesday that the U.S. Department of State, which administers the immigration program, must process 9,905 visas that were allocated in the DV-2020 lottery. U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta ordered the Department to “commence processing the 9,905 DV-2020 visas as soon as is feasible and to conclude such processing...

A Michigan man won $45,000 in a lottery game – but drowned with the ticket in his wallet before he was able to cash it. Gregory Jarvis, 57, was at the Blue Water Inn in Caseville on Sept. 13 when he played the Club Keno add-on game “The Jack” — and hit the jackpot, WJRT of Flint reported. “Very nice guy, he was here every day,” joint owner Dawn Talaski told the news station. “Somebody said someone just won ‘The Jack’ and he said, ‘Great,’ and someone asked him, ‘Was it you?’ and it was, so he was super excited.”...

From fully vaccinated people with no symptoms to those suffering from long Covid, Australians who caught the virus have a unanimous message: get the jab Melissa Davey Melissa Davey Medical editor @MelissaLDavey Sat 31 Jul 2021 16.00 EDT Mark* did everything right. He followed public health measures, and as someone who works in health promotion, he was fully vaccinated against Covid-19 by the end of April, having booked in as soon as he became eligible. The 26-year-old, who lives in the Canterbury-Bankstown area in Sydney’s south-west, wore a mask, washed his hands and kept his distance. But last Saturday, despite...

BERLIN -- Lottery officials say a woman in Germany carried a winning ticket in her purse for weeks without realizing it was worth about 33 million euros ($39 million). Lotto Bayern said Wednesday that the 45-year-old woman was the sole winner of a draw on June 9, having correctly guessed seven fields on a German lottery ticket. It said she plans to use her lucky windfall to live a healthy life and do more for the environment.