Dave and Erica Harrig stayed true to their values when they won a lottery jackpot of more than $61 million in 2013. It made all the difference. The couple from Gretna, Nebraska, a community on the ...

School advocates have always had a love-hate relationship with the California State Lottery. On the one hand the Lottery has supplied billions of dollars to the schools since it was passed by voters ...

When the winner of a third of the record $656 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot steps before the cameras on Wednesday at a news conference in Red Bud, Illinois, life will be upended and there is a ...

Last Sunday night, in anticipation for Tuesday’s drawing of the Mega Millions, about 20 people on my floor decided to put $5 each into a pool for the lottery. At the time, the winnings had accumulated ...

A Canadian man who asked his girlfriend to claim a large lottery prize on his behalf ended up losing both his money and his love, and has now filed a lawsuit. On June 2 (local time), the UK’s Daily ...

HURRICANE, W.Va. (WCHS/WVAH) — When the lottery jackpot gets to record amounts of money, people start dreaming of striking it rich, but be careful what you wish for, because that dream can become a ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – What do you do after you’ve blown through a huge lottery jackpot that you won as a teenager? You go back to school and start over. That’s what happened to Great Britain’s second ...

If there’s anything the world desperately needs right now, it’s another billionaire—and with any luck (see what I did there?) America’s already immense wealth gap will grow just the teensiest bit ...

Winning the lottery sounds great. Right? You can pay off your student loan, buy a home or set some money aside for the down payment, go traveling, or do many other fun and nice things. Unfortunately, ...

I suspect that most of us would love to have winning lottery numbers. Of course, the odds are ridiculously against us, to the point that it's hardly worth buying a ticket, unless it's simply ...