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It could be a profitable weekend for lucky lottery players as two of the largest jackpots in U.S. history will be on the line

Somebody could be starting off the new year with a big pile of cash.

NBc10’s Keith Jones and Erin Coleman talk about lottery fever after no one hit the Powerball jackpot Wednesday night. Mega Millions also continues to grow.

Another night, another unclaimed giant lottery jackpot.

Tuesday night’s Mega Millions drawing is worth a whopping $625 million while Wednesday’s Powerball jackpot has swelled to $550 million. NBC10’s Steven Fisher spoke with locals who are hoping to win and looking to put their lottery winnings to good use.

After a long stretch of relatively paltry prizes, U.S. lottery players now have a choice of jackpots that offer combined prizes of more than $1 billion

Nearly $1 billion combined is on the line as the Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots keep growing ahead of the next drawings. NBC!0’s Miguel Martinez-Valle talks to some lottery dreamers about how they would spend the money. Miguel even has his own island dream.

Think you have a chance at winning the Lottery? Well, you do! But its a very, very small chance. Here are some things that are more likely to happen to you.

If you’re one of those people who only buys a lottery ticket when the jackpot climbs into the stratosphere, you could be waiting a while. The Mega Millions jackpot for Tuesday’s drawing is $86 million, and Powerball’s top prize is $91 million for its drawing on Wednesday. While those would be life-changing windfalls for most winners, the amounts pale...

A western Wisconsin man will share his millions in lottery winnings with a longtime friend because of a promise they made to each other nearly three decades ago.

With a little bit of luck and persistence, a Colorado man has hit the jackpot twice after playing the same numbers for 30 years.

One Philadelphia woman reached out to NBC10 Responds when something seemed off with an email offering millions in winnings

Veronica Saunders received an email scam pretending to be from the Powerball lottery, which offered her one point five million dollars. The web page asked for personal and confidential information. Harry Hairston from NBC10 responds helped her detect the impostor scam.

Manuel Franco, the Wisconsin 24-year-old who won a $768.4 million Powerball jackpot, stepped out to claim the third-largest jackpot in history.

Manuel Franco said he felt lucky when he purchased five Powerball games last month at a Wisconsin gas station. The 24-year-old West Allis resident’s hunch was right. Franco matched all six Powerball numbers to win the $768.4 million prize, the third-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history. “It feels like a dream,” Franco told reporters at a news conference Tuesday.

A single ticket that matched all six Powerball numbers to win the estimated $768.4 million jackpot — the third-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history — was sold in a Milwaukee suburb, Wisconsin Lottery officials said Thursday. The ticket, worth a cash option of $477 million, was sold at a Speedway gas station in New Berlin, a city of about 40,000...

Powerball fever is hitting the Philadelphia area, with the next drawing promising a $750 million jackpot.

Lottery officials say the Powerball jackpot has ballooned to $750 million after no ticket matched all six numbers in the most recent drawing. The numbers drawn Saturday night are 24, 25, 52, 60 and 66, with a Powerball of 5.