Discover the tragic stories of 25 unfortunate lottery winners whose jackpots led to ruin, crime, and despair. See why sudden ...

Is the lottery curse real? To find out, USA TODAY tracked more than 30 Powerball winners from the past decade. Here's what we found.

A person has a 1 in 300 million chance of hitting a jackpot. The lucky ones seem to be living the dream, but for some, the big bucks changed their lives forever—and not for the better. People ...

The Powerball jackpot is now at $119 million ahead of the drawing on Saturday, Aug. 29.

Another Powerball drawing came and went Wednesday night, and once again America's growing army of lottery dreamers woke up without a jackpot winner. That means the jackpot is climbing even higher ...

If the Powerball jackpot gets much bigger, Americans may need to start saying a word they haven't heard in a while: billion. After months of nobody hitting the winning combination, the grand prize has ...

PLAINFIELD, Ill. — A trip to a grocery store in Plainfield proved to be a highly lucrative decision for one lucky Illinois Lottery player who struck it big during a weekend drawing. According to ...