Lotto

Winning Powerball ticket sold in Florida supermarket

2013-05-19 08:42:00

It was California's first time in a huge Powerball jackpot. But the winner ended up being in Florida. Someone in the Sunshine State managed to nail all six numbers in Saturday night's $600-million Powerball jackpot. That golden ticket was sold at a...

Powerball: Long lines as $600-million jackpot grows

2013-05-18 17:35:00

Powerball fever continued Saturday as people purchased $2 tickets ahead of this evening's� Powerball draw that is expected to exceed $600 million. WINNING NUMBERS: Powerball drawing Lines were forming for much of the day at places with a history of...

Powerball winning numbers drawn after long lines, anxious wait

2013-05-18 20:38:00

[Update: The winning numbers in Saturday's $600-million Powerball drawing are: 10, 13, 14, 22, 52 with a Powerball of 11. As of 8:30 p.m., the Powerball website, which briefly went down about the time of the 8 p.m. drawing, reported that drawing results...

Powerball: Thousands line up for $600-million-plus jackpot

2013-05-18 14:16:00

Tens of thousands of people lined up at lottery outlets across California on Saturday, scooping up $2 tickets in anticipation of a Powerball draw later in the day with a jackpot of over $600 million. � The draw, scheduled to take place in Tallahassee,...

At $550 million, Powerball pot could break record by Saturday draw

2013-05-17 07:09:00

Powerball fever is taking California by storm as officials expect the jackpot to keep growing before Saturday's drawing that could break its November 2012 record of $587.5 million. Right now, the jackpot is estimated at $550 million, not only the...

Labor advocates say farmers discriminate against Americans

2013-04-01 06:00:00

The U.S. needs guest workers because Americans won’t work on farms -- at least, that's the argument made by many in agriculture as they negotiate over the controversial H-2A program, which allows farmers to bring in predominantly Mexican laborers to...

Hasidic counselor sentenced to 103 years in N.Y. child sex case

2013-01-22 14:59:00

A self-described counselor connected to an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn was sentenced Tuesday to 103 years in prison for molesting a girl who had gone to him for solace, prosecutors said. Nechemya Weberman, 54, was convicted in December of...

Lotto winner reburied; cyanide poisoning mystery still unsolved

2013-01-21 17:31:00

Urooj Khan, the Chicago lottery winner who likely died of cyanide poisoning,� has been buried for a second time, but it could be a long time before the mystery around his death is put to rest. Khan, 46, was reburied Monday afternoon following his...

Disturbed felon had gun permit, arsenal, Minnesota police say

2013-01-22 16:28:00

Christian Philip Oberender killed his mother with a shotgun in 1995, when he was 14. He was committed to a state hospital after being deemed mentally ill and a possible threat. He's since been released, and in May, he got a legal gun permit in...

Hitman convicted in Fountain Valley machete attack

2012-11-01 19:33:20

$23-million Lottery winner was down to last few dollars

2012-11-03 08:22:42

Woman's $23-million lottery ticket sat in car for 6 months

2012-11-04 08:03:39

Ricardo Cerezo of Geneva was facing foreclosure when he stumbled upon a $4.85 million winning lottery ticket among others that had been accumulating in a cookie jar.

2013-05-16 00:00:00

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The advertised prize is paid out in a 30-year annuity, but 48 of the 50 Florida Lotto winners from 2010 to 2012 took the money up-front, even though they got about a third less.

2013-01-11 13:15:00

The largest unclaimed Florida Lotto jackpot, an estimated $53.7 million, expired on Nov. 11, 2003, after the 180-day redemption deadline.

2013-01-11 12:37:00