2 Bay Area Stores Sell Winning Tickets In Saturday's SuperLotto Plus Drawing
Luck was on the side of two Bay Area stores which sold winning tickets in Saturday's SuperLotto Plus drawing, California Lottery officials announced
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Luck was on the side of two Bay Area stores which sold winning tickets in Saturday's SuperLotto Plus drawing, California Lottery officials announced
How many times have you played the lottery and lost? You'd have better luck at the blackjack table. But some people in California are winning hundreds of times, sometimes multiple times a day.
California Lottery officials say they have had a winning year with annual ticket sales surpassing $5 billion for the first time in the state lottery's 30-year history.
A Milpitas woman's once-a-month habit of buying a lottery ticket paid off in a big way last week as she hit the top scratcher jackpot of $5 million.
California's latest multi-millionaire from San Mateo has claimed his massive $228.4 million jackpot.
A lottery ticket worth nearly half a million dollars that was sold by a liquor store in San Leandro last month has now been claimed, California Lottery officials said Friday.
A retired Oakland woman who enjoys buying Scratchers tickets is now a millionaire, California Lottery officials said Tuesday.
California Lottery officials said Monday they are still seeking a person who bought a ticket worth nearly $469,000 in San Leandro a month ago but has yet to claim their prize.
After years of losing revenue, the California Lottery is once again booming and selling tickets at a brisk pace.
California Lottery officials said B. Raymond Buxton, a Northern California retiree, claimed the prize at the California Lottery headquarters in Sacramento. Buxton was wearing a shirt that featured a picture of Yoda and read, "Luck of the Jedi I have," according to lottery officials.
Mahendra KC, a 50-year-old immigrant from Nepal, bought the Mega Million Quick Pick ticket from Huntington Liquor in San Bruno for a dollar, lottery officials said Thursday.
The holders of two winning tickets sold outside California will split Tuesday's estimated $400 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot. Meanwhile, a ticket matching five numbers worth $1.9 million was sold in the Bay Area, according to the California Lottery.
Some brazen thieves thought they could play the numbers and get lucky by stealing an entire Lotto Scratchers vending machine from a Lucky grocery store in Fremont over the weekend, lottery officials said.
A winning ticket for Wednesday night's Powerball lottery jackpot was sold at a gas station in Santa Clara County, according to lottery officials.
The owner of a gift store in East San Jose where a person bought a lottery ticket to split a $648 million Mega Millions jackpot was awarded $1 million by the California State Lottery, a lottery spokeswoman said.
Lottery officials say winning tickets have been sold in the Bay Area and Georgia for the $636 million Mega Millions jackpot, the second-largest lottery prize in U.S. history.
Have you ever had identical quadruplets? Your odds of doing that are 15 times better than winning tonight's mega millions jackpot with a single ticket. Still, the tickets are selling quickly and raising the jackpot to a near-record.
Nobody hit the $425 million jackpot in the Mega Millions lottery game played in California and dozens of other states Friday night, pushing the prize even higher for next week's drawing.
The winning numbers have been drawn for the $448 million Powerball jackpot.
It's a few hundred million short of the record jackpot, but Wednesday's Powerball payoff of an estimated $425 million deserves some serious consideration.
A lottery ticket worth more than $1.1 million was sold at a Milpitas gas station, lottery officials announced.
A San Jose woman who with her husband won a $289,471 state lottery jackpot Sunday said she thought it was another one of his pranks when he started screaming they had won, lottery officials said.
A California Lottery ticket worth $2,623,314 was sold at a San Francisco market, lottery officials announced.
Lottery officials announced the winning numbers in Saturday night's $600 million Powerball drawing.
The numbers sum up the frenzy that has taken over the Golden State since it joined the madness over Powerball, which has seen its jackpot soar to $600 million for Saturday's drawing.
