Some Wake County leaders say they’re getting less lottery money by keeping local taxes low. One state lawmaker says he has a plan to change that, but his idea could meet resistance. Currently, money ...

A South Carolina lottery player used a “highly secret formula” to pick his numbers — and it paid off big time. The man hit the jackpot after the five numbers on his ticket matched those chosen in a ...

A Wisconsin man's claim of developing a winning lottery formula isn't likely, area mathematics professors say. Verlyn and Judith Adamson, a Dane County couple, each claimed two $350,000 jackpots this ...

Under a proposed House bill, a school district's financial needs and attendance growth would be factored into whether it receives lottery proceeds. The state's lottery money distribution formula could ...

The odds of winning the jackpot Sept. 3 are 1 in 292.2 million. But that hasn't stopped people from playing a numbers game.

This week the folks who run the Mega Millions lottery explained why it's become so popular: They've made the game more popular by altering the odds. Now you have a smaller chance of winning. Before ...