CHICAGO (AP) - Eight months after a trio of ticket buyers split a $656 million Mega Millions jackpot to set a world lottery record, Powerball is offering up a prize that would be the second highest. The $425 million jackpot, the largest in Powerball's history, represents a potential life-changing fortune.... more »
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The Louisiana Lottery Corporation reports that nobody won the major jackpots in the Louisiana Lotto and multistate Powerball drawings Saturday night. Louisiana Lotto players matching all six numbers drawn would have won or shared a $500,000 prize. The next drawing will be on Wednesday. None... more »
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Nobody won last night's $575,000 Louisiana Lotto jackpot or the $250,000 Easy 5 drawing. The Louisiana Lottery Corporation says 19 Lotto tickets had five of the six numbers drawn. Each of those is worth $1,648. Saturday's Lotto drawing will be worth an estimated $625,000. Last... more »
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Nobody won last night's $450,000 Louisiana Lotto jackpot or the $140,000 Easy 5 drawing. The Louisiana Lottery Corporation says 10 Lotto tickets had five of the six numbers drawn. Each of those is worth $2,586. Saturday's Lotto drawing will be worth an estimated $475,000. Last... more »
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Nobody won last night's $350,000 Louisiana Lotto jackpot or the $70,000 Easy 5 drawing. The Louisiana Lottery Corporation says 12 Lotto tickets had five of the six numbers drawn. Each of those is worth $2,091. Saturday's Lotto drawing will be worth an estimated $375,000. Last... more »
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A 58-year-old Baton Rouge man's Christmas holiday came with a little something extra - a lottery ticket worth $1.25 million. Louisiana Lottery officials say Ralph Andrews was the sole winner of the state's Dec. 24 Lotto jackpot, which he claimed at lottery headquarters in Baton... more »
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - No one won the major jackpots in the Louisiana Lotto and multistate Powerball drawings Wednesday night. Louisiana Lotto players matching all six numbers drawn would have won or shared a $250,000 prize, which will rise to an estimated $275,000 for Saturday. Meanwhile, Powerball players matching... more »
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A 72-year-old New Orleans man has claimed the $990,648 Louisiana Lotto jackpot from Saturday's drawing. Louisiana Lottery officials said Wednesday that Donald Meilleur (mill-YARE) had the sole, winning ticket for the prize. On Monday, he received $693,453 after state and federal taxes were withheld. The... more »