Lottery

The Illinois Lottery is doing it right.

A Quad Cities man struck gold when they won in the Super Crossword scratch game.

Another Iowa Lottery winner in eastern Iowa.

Stealing is never good, especially at your own work but this Illinois Lottery employee thought he could get away with it.

As of this writing, tonight's Mega Millions lottery jackpot stands at $660 million, which makes the 10pm drawing now the 3rd biggest jackpot ever. Only two billion-dollar jackpots have ever been higher; $1.537 billion won in South Carolina on October 23rd, 2018, and $1.050 billion won in Michigan on January 22nd, 2021.

MegaMillions had to suspend payouts after its TV host called a wrong number, the jackpot was worth $86M.

After reading about Clark Gas, a Loves Park gas station selling a winning Lucky Day Lotto ticket worth $400,000 a couple days back, I thought it might be fun to see who's won the big money and how much they walked away with (pre-tax).

The Better Business Bureau (BBB) just released the results of an investigative study they did that explores sweepstakes, lottery, and prize scams. The amount of money being scammed from people is pretty stunning.

Have you ever been on vacation and you're feeling such high vibes you press your luck? That's exactly what happened to 43 year old Danelia Flores-Garcia when she traveled to Florida recently. Danelia found her trip to Florida was quite the lucky endeavor when she won a $1 million jackpot from a scratch-off lottery ticket. Accor...

Maybe I don't eat enough fortune cookies because I can't quite figure out why so many people are using them to help them out with the lotto.