Lottery

“We are going to head straight to Golden Corral and eat everything they’ve got,” Jerry Hicks said.

At the Old South Diner on Nantucket, you can some pizza, Chinese food — and if you’re lucky — a big-winning lottery ticket. The convenience store and takeout restaurant has perhaps become the luckiest place in Massachusetts over recent months — since March, three lottery tickets sold there have won a $1 million or more. “It’s been crazy,” manager Binod…

A great-grandmother from Pennsylvania who recently completed radiation treatments for breast cancer won $5 million on a scratch-off state lottery ticket.

A Massachusetts man accused of trying to extort his coworker for a share of a $3 million lottery prize had an arrest warrant issued just days before his trial was slated to begin. Joseph Reddem of Raynham was nowhere to be found for his final pretrial conference hearing on Monday inside Plymouth County Superior Court. When his attorney did not…

Days before his trial was set to begin, a Raynham man accused of trying to extort his coworker for lottery winnings is nowhere to be found.

The Powerball jackpot has risen to an estimated $865 million — making it one of the largest Powerball prizes ever ahead of Wednesday night’s drawing.

The stars have aligned in the lottery universe like never before, with two jackpots totaling nearly $2 billion.

Attorney Andrew Stoltmann has represented 12 lottery winners, many of whom lost all their winnings through bad investments, reckless spending and greedy relatives. “Unfortunately, the people who win the lottery think at that point, the journey is over. And what they don’t realize is that the journey has really just begun,” says the Chicago-based Stoltmann.

Someone who bought a Mega Millions ticket in Quincy, Massachusetts, for Tuesday’s drawing, is now a millionaire. The lucky ticket was sold at Kam Man Food, located at 219 Quincy Ave., and matched five numbers. The winning numbers drawn Tuesday night were 2, 16, 31, 57, 64 with a Mega Ball of 24. The Megaplier was 3X. Another $1 million ticket was…

The lucky ticket was sold at Kam Man Food in Quincy, Mass.

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The sixth largest Mega Millions jackpot ever is set to be drawn Friday night.

The Mega Millions jackpot increased to an estimated $687 million after no one beat the odds Tuesday night.

A request from one marijuana store to be allowed to also sell Massachusetts Lottery tickets has sparked a broad conversation at the Cannabis Control Commission about where to draw the line on the sale of non-cannabis products as the legal marijuana industry matures to include establishments beyond standard retailers. State law and the CCC’s regulations neither explicitly allow nor...

A Washington, D.C., man is suing Powerball and the D.C. Lottery for refusing to pay a $340 million prize last year after, the lawsuit claims, his numbers came up on the D.C. Lottery’s website. 

A Massachusetts store clerk embroiled in the unique case involving a $3 million lottery ticket admitted Friday that she tried to cash in on the winnings, despite knowing they belonged to someone else. The NBC10 Boston Investigators have been closely following the case, and produced a 30-minute documentary, “$3 Million Mistake.” Carly Nunes, 24, had a choice when she discovered the…

The winning ticket was sold at American Legion Morrisette Post 294, located at 81 Liberty Street in Quincy.

Someone somewhere in Massachusetts is waking up to a $1 million lottery ticket win. The Massachusetts Lottery Commission drew its first winning number in the special New Year’s Day Mass Millionaire Holiday Raffle.  The winning number is 0083128, the commission announced. The winning ticket was sold at American Legion Morrisette Post 294, located at 81 Liberty Street in Quincy. The post…

The Powerball jackpot has reached an estimated $760 million, the sixth-largest prize in the game’s history. Here’s what the winner should do first.

One lucky person who stopped at a grocery store in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, won $1.74 million in Monday night’s Megabucks drawing. The ticket, which matched all six numbers, was sold at Roche Bros. supermarket, located at Campus Plaza, Route 18. The winning numbers Monday, Dec. 18, were 9-10-16-28-29-34. The cash option on the prize is $1.22 million. Megabucks prize winners...

Millions, if not billions, are up grabs once a winning lotto ticket goes unclaimed. What to know about who gets to keep it.