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Lottery players stand to win the eighth-largest jackpot in history as two huge Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots are up for grabs this weekend in Illinois

A lottery winner, from the US state of North Carolina, revealed the key reason it took her 131 days to claim her $878million jackpot prize after she purchased the winning ticket in Greenville

The stunned punter now plans to pay off her mortgage after she decided to check the ticket, which was bought back in late September, before finding out she had won the life-changing cash prize

The Mega Millions lottery ticket purchased at a supermarket in Jacksonville, Florida, expired on Sunday with no one coming forward to collect the massive $36million grand prize

Lottery ticket buyers in Louisiana are being told to think back to if they purchased a ticket at a gas station in Denham Springs last year which is worth thousands of pounds

After Alabama was hit by a series of deadly tornadoes in March 2019, leaving 23 people dead, one lottery winner decided that she would share her winnings to help aid in the lottery relief efforts

A Michigan woman has been scammed after her identity was stolen and used by fraudsters who promised to send people across the country money but instead wiped out their savings accounts

A lottery in Maine who won an incredible $1.35 billion in January is suing his daughter's mom, saying she told his parents despite signing a non-disclosure agreement

Gary Thomas lucked out this week when a £4.10 ( $5)scratchcard won him £122,915.30 ($150,000) a year for the remainder of his life. The reality of the situation "is still sinking in"

Lucky winners of tonight's Powerball lottery draw will scoop the world's ninth-largest lottery prize - but there's a chance it might not be claimed

The jackpot for tonight's drawing on Saturday night remains the world´s ninth-largest lottery prize of all time

One particular number has been exceptionally unlucky in Powerball and Mega Millions drawings over the past year, not having been drawn since February and September 2022, respectively

Unsuspecting Powerball lottery and MegaMillions players could be sitting on a ticket worth a fortune but the window to claim the money is slowly closing, leaving them missing out on an opporunity

April Royal and her husband Eric decided to pick up a a $2 Powerball lottery ticket from a Circle K store - and were astonished to come away with a $1million win

Rachel Frye, from Michigan, woke up to find $2million (£1.6m) in her lottery account and thought it was a mistake - but it turned out she correctly guessed almost all of the winning numbers

A lottery winner from Michigan must share nearly half of the $38 million jackpot with ex-wife, despite being in the midst of the divorce process when the ticket was purchased, local reports say.

J Refugio Gonzalez Almeida lives in Utah but regularly drives to Idaho to buy lottery tickets, however after one Mega Millions draw it took an entire month for him to return to realise he'd won big

A Tennessee couple made a strange appearance on the 'Today' show after winning a portion of a historic £1.2billion Powerball lottery jackpot in 2016. Now, a Florida resident is determining what to do with their winnings

The life-changing prize was the third largest in US lottery history and the largest-ever Mega Millions jackpot after the winning ticket was purchased at a Publix store in Neptune Beach, Florida

A player in Florida has won the $1.58 billion Mega Millions jackpot, following nearly four months of increased prizes

The woman was seen hyperventilating and collapsing to her knees in joy outside Palmitas Mini Mart in Los Angeles after claiming to have bought the winning $1.08billion Powerball ticket

Raul Nabor Herrera, manager of Las Palmitas Mini Market in Los Angeles, changed the lives of one of his customers overnight by selling the winning Powerball ticket

California Lottery officials had confirmed Las Palmitas Mini Market sold the winning ticket and its owner, Nabor Herrera, will receive a whopping $1million bonus from Powerball

The California Lottery confirmed the jackpot ticket was sold at the Las Palmitas Mini Market in Los Angeles after the winning numbers in Wednesday's draw e 7, 10, 11, 13 and 24, and the Powerball was 24

Retired soldier Michael 'Hoogie' Hoogerwerf said his three daughters weren't at all convinced by his audacious claim - but found out that for once, their dad wasn't joking