Lottery officials say a woman in Germany carried a winning ticket in her purse for weeks without realizing it was worth about 33 million euros ($39 million)

Kenneth Morgan, 54, found a $1 million lottery ticket from the April Powerball drawing while cleaning his house.

Elizabeth Johnson of Lucama, North Carolina, bought her ticket too late on May 19, but was still eligible for the May 22 drawing on Saturday when she hit the $2 million jackpot.

A Massachusetts woman who accidentally tossed out a $1 million lottery ticket eventually collected her winnings thanks to the kindness and honesty of the owners of the store where she bought it

$500M Mega Millions jackpot ticket sold in Pennsylvania.

The winner of a $26 million California Lottery prize may have literally washed the chance of a fortune down the drain

The rules state the winner has 180 days to claim the prize, otherwise the money will go to California public schools. The gas station selling the ticket received its $130,000 bonus.

A Tennessee man was able to turn his luck around after finding his missing $1 million winning lottery ticket in a parking lot

The lucky winners will each get roughly $139 million after state and federal taxes.

Money doesn’t grow on trees but it comes awfully close for a man in Idaho who won the lottery -- for the sixth time.

A winning Mega Millions ticket for the third largest jackpot in U.S. history was sold at a grocery store in the small town of Novi, just outside of Detroit.

One lucky person is taking home the Mega Millions jackpot cash.

The Mega Millions lottery winner won the billion-dollar jackpot but has yet to come forth to claim the prize.

The winning ticket was purchased in Novi, Michigan.

The winner scored the second largest jackpot in Mega Millions history.

A mysterious winning ticket for Wednesday's Powerball was sold in the small Maryland town of Lonaconing.

An unidentified person in Maryland bought a ticket that hit all six numbers in last night’s Powerball drawing, which is worth $730 million and is the fifth largest jackpot in U.S. history.

Someone hit it very big in a hard-luck Appalachian coal-mining community, where a jackpot-winning Powerball ticket worth $731 million was sold this week

Lottery players are getting another shot at the third-largest jackpot in U.S. history

The two giant jackpots just keep growing.

One of the largest jackpots in U.S. history is growing larger

A COVID-19 nurse at a long-term care facility in North Carolina has won a $1 million prize in the state lottery.

Both the Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots have grown to over $1 billion-worth of winnings combined.

Lottery players will have a shot at the eighth-largest jackpot in U.S. history, thanks to months without a winner of the big prize

Many Americans have lottery fever, and the temperature keeps rising alongside the size of the jackpots.

It's only the third time in history that both Powerball and Mega Millions have had a jackpot of over $400 million at the same time.

More than $800 million combined is now up for grabs after there was no winning tickets for last night's Mega Millions drawing.

The Mega Millions drawing could pay out $305 million if the winner chooses a cash option, as Saturday’s Powerball surged to $384 million.

Fifty people won the Massachusetts lottery game Mass Cash on Sunday, a record according to the state lottery agency

There were cries of fraud after 20 people won South Africa's national lottery with the numbers 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.

Some mistakes are costly, but not this one

A woman who won $1,000 in a second chance lottery drawing isn’t getting her prize because the certified letter she sent to the Florida Lottery’s headquarters never arrived

Jason Kurland was charged in a conspiracy scheme to swindle millions of dollars from major lottery winners.

Jason "Jay" Kurland, once considered the go-to lawyer for jackpot winners, was charged with wire fraud.

A western Wisconsin man will share his millions in lottery winnings with a longtime friend because of a promise they made to each other nearly three decades ago

The coronavirus has rattled state lotteries across the country

Arizona lottery officials say a sole winning ticket for Tuesday’s $410 million Mega Millions drawing was sold at a convenience store in a Phoenix suburb

The Quick Stop Food Store in Edison sold the winning Mega Millions ticket for Tuesday's drawing.

A lucky lottery player in New Jersey won Tuesday's $202 million jackpot, officials announced Wednesday.

A South Carolina man is counting his lucky stars after almost making a very expensive mistake when he threw away his winning $100,000 lottery ticket.

Having two sets of twins in one calendar year? You're probably more likely to win lottery.

Somebody in Ohio is going to have an incredible holiday season after they won $372 million in Tuesday’s Mega Million jackpot.

An unidentified lucky winner who used the quick pay feature at Giant Eagle in Mentor, Ohio, won the jackpot with a cash payout of $251 million.

A winning Mega Millions ticket worth $372 million was sold at a Giant Eagle supermarket in Mentor, a suburb of Cleveland

A national lottery group was rocked by an insider’s jackpot-rigging conspiracy.

The ticket was bought from a lottery machine inside the Missouri bar.

Ronnie Foster, of Pink Hill, North Carolina, found out that he'd won a $200,000 lottery prize as he made his way to his final cancer treatment.

A North Carolina man won $200,000 on the way to his last round of chemotherapy.

The couple plans to share the money with their seven children and 21 grandchildren.

A mystery person has won a $227 million Texas Lottery Mega Millions ticket.