SAN FRANCISCO — A Bay Area woman cleaning her house found a California Lottery ticket worth $202,556 and turned it in yesterday, lottery officials announced.

Derren Brown’s latest TV stunt in which he claimed to have predicted the six winning Lottery numbers has sparked an online guessing game.

Lottery players around the United States hoping to win big by betting on all nines may have come up empty when they got to the lottery terminal.

The Ohio Lottery says too many people thought the calendar would make nine a lucky number.

$250,000 lottery prize won by Riverside man

Derren Brown’s apparent success in predicting last night’s national lottery numbers on live television has sparked a massive nation-wide sleuthing mission.

ATLANTA — George Carswell of Macon is celebrating a lottery win. The 54-year-old won a $628,008 Fantasy 5 jackpot prize from matching all five winning numbers in the Sept. 3 drawing.

LITTLE ROCK, ARK. — Arkansas Lottery officials said Wednesday that they plan to use some of the games’ startup funds in the coming months to train addiction counselors and set up a treatment network for problem gamblers.