Just down the thruway in Schenectady, one couple just admitted to running a Jamaican-based lottery scam targeting mainly elderly victims all over New York and the United States.
Saturday's Powerball Jackpot reached a ridiculous high of 949.8 million dollars. With no winners in the drawing, those numbers are climbing even higher.
Retired electrician Richard Loveless of Port Byron, New York is no stranger to Lotto luck. He's been rubbing elbows with Lotto millionaires for years but this was his year.
Hitting the lottery once is fortunate. Twice is rare. Throwing the winning tickets away is a disaster. It happened to a Georgia man who thought his numbers didn't match.
How many times have you bought the wrong lottery ticket? Has it ever paid off for you? A man in southwestern Connecticut who mistakenly bought the wrong lottery ticket, is now $30,000 richer.
The Powerball Jackpot for tonight is over $485 Million and the odds of winning are 1 in 175 Million. This is the third largest lotto jackpot in lottery history and it has people in a craze! Those odds are terrible, so much in fact that it made me think of all the other things that could happen before winning the Powerball Jackpot.