The South Dakota Lottery office says it has been contacted by the apparent winner of the $232.1 million Powerball jackpot.

A winning Powerball lottery ticket worth $400,000 sold in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, last year was set to expire today. But just hours before the deadline, Lottery officials announced that a winner came forward.

An Australian student worried about her parents’ money problems rifled through a pile of her lottery tickets Thursday and discovered that she had won 13 million Australian dollars ($10 million) 10 months ago, a state lottery agency said.

KINGSTON – Americans sent more than US$30 million ($48 million) to this Caribbean island last year to claim winnings in a Jamaican lottery. The trouble is there was no such contest. Scam artists are making Jamaica a new centre…

KINGSTON – Americans sent more than US$30 million ($48 million) to this Caribbean island last year to claim winnings in a Jamaican lottery. The trouble is there was no such contest.

A convenience store owner in Whitehorse’s Porter Creek neighbourhood will be in court Friday, requesting it stop the Yukon Lottery Commission from taking away his lottery terminal and licence.

An Australian student worried about her parents’ money problems rifled through a pile of her lottery tickets Thursday and discovered that she had won $10 million 10 months ago, a state lottery agency said.

Concerned about her family’s finances, a university student in Australia cashed some long-forgotten lottery tickets this week — hoping the money would help her parents.

U.S. and Jamaican authorities have formally announced a new joint task force to break up lottery scams based on the Caribbean island.