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The winner has already claimed his earnings and told the Michigan Lottery he plans to use the extra money to pay bills and will use what’s left to invest.

A Texas woman with a winning $83.5 million lottery ticket may never get her ... The mystery female winner said that her case is very different, given that she fairly paid $20 to play rather ...

California lottery officials announced the lucky winner of the huge Mega Millions jackpot at Monday's news conference from Cottonwood.

The biggest lottery prize of the year so far has been a $328.5 million Powerball jackpot won by a ticket buyer from Oregon.

A woman who won a $83.5million lottery jackpot may end up empty-handed because of an app she used to purchase her ticket. The woman used the Jackpocket app, which lets users purchase lottery and scratch-off tickets remotely and charges a service fee.

A woman who won a $83.5million (£64.5m) lottery jackpot may never receive her winnings as officials investigate her "suspicious" win. The woman, from Austin, Texas, who remains anonymous, purchased her winning ticket for the February 17 draw using Jackpocket,

Here are the numbers for the Wednesday, March 26, Powerball jackpot worth an estimated $484 million with a cash option of $228.1 million.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning.