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Your step-by-step guide to winning the lottery: Would you know what to do?

What is the first thing you would do if you won the lottery? A New York attorney who says he has represented more than 30 lottery winners has two words of advice: "Stay quiet." Read on for more details!

Lottery sends windfall to cities, towns

Business couldn't be better for the Massachusetts State Lottery, which sold a record $5.29 billion in tickets last fiscal year. That also bodes well for cities and towns that rely on lottery profits to fix potholes, balance budgets and hire new police officers and firefighters. The Lottery ...

A Couple Is Getting $1 Million Just for Selling the Winning Mega Millions Ticket

The owners of the San Jose liquor store that sold the winning Mega Million ticket are sharing the winner’s good fortune. Kewal Sachdev and his wife Kiren, owners of Ernie’s Liquors in San Jose, California sold the sole winning ticket that hit the Mega Millions Jackpot on Tuesday. The ...

Accused Kansas Lottery cheats agree to pay state $28,000

Two Kansas Lottery players accused of cheating the game have agreed to pay about $28,000 in damages and fines, according to Attorney General Derek Schmidt, whose office negotiated the settlement.

New audit shows lottery money not being spent how it should

A new audit shows that funding for education hasn't been at the level lawmakers initially decided when the lottery was created almost two decades ago. Lawmakers agreed money generated from the games would increase funding for education. But when the economy took a big hit 10 years ago, so did ...

New audit shows lottery money not being spent how it should

A new audit shows that funding for education hasn't been at the level lawmakers initially decided when the lottery was created almost two decades ago. Lawmakers agreed money generated from the games would increase funding for education. But when the economy took a big hit 10 years ago, so did ...