@nclottery / Twitter screen shot North Carolina Teenager Wins Major Lottery While on Way to 2nd Job: 'I Think I'll Buy a Brand New Chevrolet Silverado' Imagining what you'd do with lottery money winnings can be fun, but actually winning a major lottery is a very rare event. By Elizabeth Delaney December 8, 2022
William Thomas Cain / Getty Images 'Sounds Suspicious': Mysterious Delay Halts Record $1.9 Billion Powerball Drawing, Putting Players On Edge A record Powerball jackpot of nearly $2 billion didn't happen as scheduled on Monday night, with officials citing a security-related delay. By Ryan Ledendecker November 8, 2022
Charles Krupa / AP PhotoCommentary As Lottery Fever Sweeps America, Former Powerball Winner Warns People to Take the Right Steps Timothy Schultz, who won $28 million in the Iowa Powerball in 1999, has some wise advice for other lottery winners. By George C. Upper III November 7, 2022
Fox 11 Los Angeles / Youtube screen shot LAPD Asks for Public's Help After 'Flash Mob' Takes Over Entire Intersection and Ransacks Store What was at first a disruptive, spontaneous and illegal exhibition of driving morphed into an explosion of violence, looting and destruction. By Matthew Holloway August 19, 2022
AP / Paul Sancya 1 Ticket Wins Historic $1.28B Mega Millions Jackpot The $1.28B prize is for winners who pick the annuity option, paid annually over 29 years. Most winners choose the cash option, which is less. By The Associated Press July 30, 2022
@VirginiaLottery / Twitter screen shot Unheard Of: Man Wins $100,000 Lottery in 2002, Wins Even More 19 Years Later When asked how he has managed to choose the right numbers twice in the span of two decades, he said that he chooses numbers he likes to play. By Amanda Thomason December 21, 2021
ABC7Chicago / TwitterCommentary Man Turned Away After Trying to Cash Winning Lottery Ticket, Days Later His Body Washes Up in Michigan The Michigan man was waiting for a new Social Security card when he disappeared days after hitting the jackpot. By Isa Ryan October 3, 2021
Yuri Cortez - AFP / Getty Images El Chapo's Safe House Will Be Up for Grabs in Mexico's Lottery Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has advertised the addition of seized property to the lottery. By Kaylee Greenlee September 15, 2021
Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Authorities Investigate a Potential Murder-Suicide in Case Surrounding a Lottery Winner and Her Daughter 'Could that have sparked that argument? We’ll never have any way of knowing. But I do know there were times it caused conflict between them.' By Sebastian Hughes August 10, 2021
Jack Guez / AFP via Getty ImagesCommentary 'Vaccine Lottery' Now Being Aimed at Kids; Children 12-17 Have Chance to Win Prize Worth $50K for Getting Jab Colorado is establishing a federally funded scholarship program in an effort to get more young people vaccinated. By Garion Frankel June 20, 2021