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Nancy Howard of Oswego is set for life after winning the top prizes on New York Lottery's scratch-off game. The newly retired SUNY Oswego cook says the win is a long time in the making. “I’ve played the Set For Life game since it came out and the most I won in the past was $500. When I saw the word ‘LIFE’ under my matching number I almost fainted,” she said.

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.

A retired New York elementary school principal is a millionaire, three times over. Harold Diamond of Sullivan County was the sole winner of the $326 Mega Millions jackpot and he can thank his wife for winning.

Mega Millions fever took over this week, thanks to the two winning tickets sold Tuesday in San Jose, California and Atlanta, Georgia.  Yes, two winners will split the $636 million jackpot.  But what about the Canadian man who won a $40 million lottery jackpot and is giving it all to charity?

The winning Mega Millions numbers for last night's $636 near-record jackpot have been drawn and two people will be splitting the cash.

Is fifty million enough to float your boat?  Apparently not for many...Powerball is not grabbing headlines today because this week's jackpot pales in comparison to the nearly six hundred million available last week.

There are about a million reasons why Jennifer Maldonado has the best coworkers in the world.

With the Powerball jackpot growing to a jackpot in the hundreds of millions, we decided to give you a heads-up.  Here are some strategies for picking the perfect numbers (for entertainment purposes only).

I'd never seen a winning Mega Millions ticket until Tuesday night.  Following the 11PM drawing, I found myself in possession of a winner!

A California woman who won $1 million in a lottery earlier this year is claiming she also won $260,000 last week — but the ticket was stolen.

Amanda Clayton of Michigan won one million dollars in the Michigan State Lottery. But, for some crazy reason she still was receiving food stamps after she won. Clayton was able to buy a new car, a new home, and live an all new life, but apparently thought she was still entitled to assistance.

One would think that winning $1 million in a state lottery would automatically disqualify the recipient from getting food stamps. But one would be wrong.