Britain’s youngest Euromillions winner has revealed she is planning to take legal action against lottery bosses for negligence. Jane Park, who won £1m at the age of 17, said winning the windfall had “ruined” her life and she often thought things would have been better if she had never won. Ms Park, now 21, argued that someone of her age should not have been allowed to win such a substantial sum of money. She said 18 should be the minimum age for winning the lottery and suggested the current limit of 16 was too young.

Lois Olsen, who has lived in a small farming village in Alberta for about 50 years, planned to buy a new car with money she said would have been useful years ago. It wasn’t until the late 1960s – when Lois Olsen moved into a newly built house in her small farming village in Alberta, Canada – that she got her first taste of life with indoor plumbing. “I thought I was in heaven, I had running water and I had a telephone,” she recalled.

Is buying a lottery ticket irrational? Is any gambling rational? What makes one bet fair while another is a sucker's bet?

A lottery vendor for years manipulated drawings to enrich himself and associates by installing software code that allowed him to predict winning numbers on specific days of the year, Iowa investigators alleged Wednesday. Authorities called the newly obtained forensic evidence a breakthrough in the investigation of alleged jackpot-fixing scheme by Eddie Tipton, former security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association. A jury convicted him last year of rigging...

Six people have been charged so far in connection with a scheme to manipulate Connecticut Lottery terminals to produce more instant winning tickets in the 5 Card Cash game, authorities said Tuesday. Additional arrests are possible as state Department of Consumer Protection criminal investigators continue their probe, authorities said. Former lottery retailers from Bloomfield and Windsor were identified Monday as being among...

Remember when your parents used to tell you to be nice to your siblings? Maybe it was because one day you both would grow up and win the lottery, except one of you would win the jackpot and the other would win $7. As improbable as that sounds, it happened to a Pennsylvania judge who just wrapped up a monthlong fishing vacation in the Florida Keys, the Florida Lottery said.

A recent winner of the Georgia Lottery was killed during a home invasion overnight on Thursday, reports CBS affiliate WRBL. 20-year-old Craigory Burch, Jr. won more than $400,000 in November 2015. Authorities from Ben Hill County say Burch died from gunshot wounds. Burch's girlfriend told local TV station WALB that Burch pleaded with three masked men before they shot and killed him.

Whoever might win the Powerball lottery this week, assuming someone draws the right set of numbers, will claim about $1.5 billion before taxes. That’s the equivalent of a year’s worth of work at gross wages of $720,000 per hour. It’s enough, should the winner choose to invest in real estate, to afford to buy all of the residential property in the town of Heber City and have enough left over to buy each and every resident of that city a new car worth $30,000.

Today's $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot will provide a windfall for state governments, which often justify lotteries by saying they raise money for education. The truth is far more complex.

The US Powerball lottery jackpot is expected to rise to at least $1.3bn (£895m) after a 19th draw without a winner on Saturday night. No one matched the numbers - 32, 16, 19, 57, 34 and Powerball number 13 - for the prize of almost $950m  (£654m) which was up for grabs on Saturday.

To grasp how unlikely it was for Gloria C. MacKenzie, an 84-year-old Florida widow, to have won the $590 million Powerball lottery in May, Robert Williams, a professor of health sciences at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, offers this scenario: head down to your local convenience store, slap $2 on the counter, and fill out a six-numbered Powerball ticket. It will take you about 10 seconds. To get your chance of winning down to a coin toss...

The largest U.S. lottery jackpot in history could easily grow to $800 million by Saturday night’s Powerball drawing – and even $1 billion next week if no winner is drawn. A record-breaking $700 million is at stake Saturday after eighteen draws went by without a jackpot-winning ticket. That figure grew Thursday by $25 million and is expected to increase further before the lucky numbers are selected as states continue to see surges in ticket sales...

The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292 million. But someone has to win, right? This simulator can play a huge amount of draws in a split second to remind you about the chances you really have. You will most likely lose everything. Share your results if you can.

The allegations read like a movie plot: a lottery industry insider installs undetectable software giving him advance knowledge of winning numbers, then enlists accomplices to play those numbers and collect the jackpots. And they secretly enrich themselves for years — until a misstep exposes them.

A 41-year-old spirit medium with a reputation for accurately predicting winning numbers was gunned down near his shrine in Nakhon Si Thammarat [Thailand] on Wednesday, and police suspect angry underground lottery operators ordered the murder.

It's a lottery designed to improve voter turnout. Non-profit media organization the Philadelphia Citizen announced Thursday that a random voter will be selected on election day to win $10,000 just for voting. The lottery is sponsored by the Pamela and Ajay Raju Foundation, and is meant to encourage voter turnout in a city that has seen very low voter turnout in the last few years. The Mayoral election in 2007 brought out only 29% of eligible voters...

Winners of more than $600 will just have to wait to buy that big house or fancy car. The cash-starved Illinois lottery lowered the boom even harder on its players on Wednesday, saying anyone with a winning ticket worth $600 or more will face delays collecting prizes until the state’s long-running budget impasse ends. Since July, the state has not been making timely payments to players who have won $25,000 or more, triggering a class-action lawsuit...

Ardella Newman claimed she hit it big but was denied her prize. However the Virginia Lottery now says she may face charges. On Aug. 22, Newman claimed she purchased a $2 scratch-off ticket that matched the number 16, making it worth $20,000. “When I saw that $20,000, you don’t know how excited I was,” she told WJLA. However, Virginia Lottery officials told her there had been a mistake and the ticket was issued in error.

People don't play the lottery because they expect to get rich. They play the lottery because it's fun to indulge in the fantasy that, one day, their lives could suddenly get easier.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A new scratch-off game is sizzling for the Hoosier Lottery this summer, and it smells pretty good too. It’s the lottery’s new “bacon-scented” scratch-off game. The lottery has teamed up with the Indiana Pork Producers Association for the promotion. Each scratch-off comes with a big breakfast bacon smell and a pork trivia…