The Mega Millions lottery is coming to Pennsylvania. Lottery officials say Pennsylvania residents can start buying tickets for the multistate jackpot on Sunday.

JOHN C. WHITEHEAD/The Patriot-News James Bailey, 72, of Harrisburg, said he was excited the Mega Millions lottery has arrived in Pennsylvania. Starting today, tickets to another giant lottery jackpot will be as close as your neighborhood convenience store.

PENNSYLVANIA — The Pennsylvania Lottery will begin selling tickets for the Mega Millions multi-state jackpot game on Sunday, January 31.

The body of a former truck driver’s assistant who won $17m in a lottery in 2006 is found buried under a concrete slab in a backyard in Florida.

Gladys Aponte says she’s generally not willing to give up a dollar for a lottery ticket — except when the Mega Millions jackpot surpasses $100 million.

Winning $30 million in the Florida Lottery should have been the best thing that ever happened to Abraham Shakespeare. But with his newfound wealth came a string of bad choices and hangers-on who constantly hit him up for money. Nine months ago, he vanished. Friends and family hoped he was on a beach somewhere in the Caribbean. On Friday, detectives confirmed that a body buried under a concrete …

Police identified human remains buried under concrete as missing lottery millionaire Abraham Shakespeare.