Powerball

On the fence about buying a Mega Millions ticket for tonight's drawing? If you live or work in New York, your odds of winning are actually pretty great.

The drawing for the $1.9 billion Powerball jackpot on Monday, November 7 was delayed and lottery officials have explained why.

According to the New York State Lottery, 189 lottery winners have scored between $100 dollars a day for life, up to $126 million dollars.

Winning the lottery is the dream of everybody who's ever heard of the lottery, and somebody in Utica, New York just picked up a $2 million ticket.

Three tickets were sold with all of the winning numbers in the record-breaking $1.6 billion Powerball drawing. None of the big winners was sold in New York state. But, lottery officials say, five tickets purchased in the state are worth $1 million because they matched five of the numbers in Wednesday night's drawing...

Lottery officials report there are at least three winning tickets for the January 13 $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot, one in California, one in Tennessee and one in Florida.

The numbers have been drawn for the largest Powerball jackpot in the history of the 42-state lottery. The numbers drawn Wednesday are: 5-16-22-23-29 and Powerball 6. The jackpot amount rose to nearly $580 million due to the influx of ticket purchases before the 11 p...