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The prize for Saturday’s Powerball drawing has soared to a mind-blowing $1.6 billion — the largest in U.S. lotto history.

It’s a well-worn tale – families thrust into conflict when good fortune comes their way in the form of a lottery win.

Suspect Joevani Vale, 26, allegedly randomly first slugged a woman, slashed another female stranger and then followed and ambushed elderly Ramon Cintron -- all in less than one horrific hour in Saturday's Boerum Hill crime spree, cops said.

"If I was to see him, I would go at him,'' prior victim Isaac Alvarez said of slay suspect Joevani Vale.

On Thursday, thousands of Australians will be scrambling to get their hands on a last-minute entry into this week’s massive $100m Powerball draw, but the dream turned out to be a nightmare for Joshua John Winslet.

An Aussie woman has won $2.58 million in the lottery with a ticket she didn’t even buy.

Tacoma deliveryman Joseph Waldherr believes he lucked out on the jackpot because he rescued a kitten near his workplace.

A British woman who squandered more than $2.2 million in lottery winnings in just eight years said she doesn’t regret how she spent her cash and “had a great time.” Nearly 20 years later after collecting the prize, Lara Griffiths, a mother of...

The lucky lotto player has already purchased at least two other California properties -- but now, he has a Bel Air crib to add to his growing portfolio.

"If God wants me in jail for my own ticket -- Oh well, that's what he wants. But Imma fight until the end."

“I rang the family. I said, ‘pack up, we’re going on a holiday!’”

She bought the ticket on Nov. 16 at a liquor store in Romeo, Michigan, about 40 miles north of Detroit.

New York City will slash its long-standing practice of giving local residents first dibs on new affordable apartments in their neighborhoods after settling a landmark federal lawsuit that argued the Big Apple's current housing lottery policy promoted...

For those looking to pick their own numbers in the hopes of increasing their chances, here are some of the luckiest picks.

Some people have all the luck.

A group of 30 current and former employees of a Kentucky middle school who won a $1 million Powerball jackpot hid the winning ticket in a math textbook.

One Belmont man was put into a spin after he almost lost $2.8 million when he forgot to take his division one winning Saturday Lotto ticket out of his trouser pockets.

She's got a lotto luck.

Smoke 4 Less in Newburgh, New York sold two million-dollar winning lotto tickets this week -- marking the seventh and eighth the shop has sold in just the last year and a half.

This Florida couple allegedly tried to fake it big. Kira Enders and her boyfriend Dakota Jones allegedly attempted to trick lottery officials into giving them a $1 million prize with two torn scratch-off tickets spliced together to form a winning...