Lottery, Police | featured news

Of all the luck. A 62-year-old man, who uses a motorized wheelchair, won $500 in the lottery last Friday, only to have most of it stolen minutes later by a cold-hearted thief, WTKR reports.

With no signs of trauma and nothing to raise suspicions, the sudden death of a Chicago man a day after he collected a large pile of lottery winnings was initially ruled a result of natural causes....

Two Syracuse area men who claimed to be holding a $5 million lottery ticket sold at their family store were arrested this morning on charges they conspired to falsely claim the prize as their own.

Authorities have charged the owner of a central North Carolina store after investigators say he kept a customer's winning lottery ticket worth nearly $90,000.

Ten months after a multimillion-dollar Florida lottery winner was last seen, police Wednesday said they fear he has met with "an untimely death."