Powerball

Lottery players will soon have more opportunities to hit the Powerball as it adds a third weekly drawing to its lineup.

Lottery officials announced the Powerball drawing will expand to three nights a week

An anonymous group that nicknamed themselves “The Power Pack” has stepped forward to claim the largest prize in the Maryland Lottery’s history.

While the big Powerball winning ticket was sold in Maryland, two convenience stores in New Jersey sold winning tickets as well. NBC10’s Cydney Long has the details.

Someone hit it very big in a hard-luck Appalachian coal-mining community, where a jackpot-winning Powerball ticket worth $731 million was sold this week

There has been a jackpot winner in the $730 million Powerball, the first to get the top prize in months.

The odds are great to hit the Mega Millions jackpot and it’s showing as no one has hit the jackpot again as it nears $1 billion.

Lottery players are getting another shot at the third-largest jackpot in U.S. history

You’re more likely to get attacked by a shark or date a supermodel than win the Powerball, but that didn’t stop scores of dreamers from buying tickets Saturday. NBC10’s Steven Fisher reports.

The Powerball jackpot will grow to an estimated $730 million after there were no winners Saturday for the lottery’s top prize

Both jackpots total nearly $1.5 billion, and haven’t been this high for a few years. NBC10’s Steven Fisher spoke with a few people about how they would spend their winnings if they won.

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.

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.