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.
A lucky Western New Yorker bought a 42.5 million-dollar winning lottery ticket, and that got Matt and Naomi thinking... Would you quit your job if you won the lottery?
Truly nothing says "Get Well Soon" like $7 million. That's the winning amount of a New York Lottery scratch-off card a man from downstate Rockland County mailed to his son.
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.
I've seen the billboards for the NY Lottery and their Monopoly scratch-off game. Seeing this billboard about 'advancing to the Catskills,' got me thinking about what streets in Utica would be our Boardwalk and Park Place.
A new series of commercials from the New York Lottery features the song 'Thank You For Being a Friend.' The theme of the commercials is 'thank you' from New York schoolchildren as schools receive NY Lottery profit.
If you scratched off a winning lottery ticket worth $5 million dollars what would you do? See a lawyer? An investment counselor? A tax adviser? Sure, but how long would you wait to cash it in? The New York State Lottery has announced that a Camillus man, Andy Ashkar, scratched off a $5 million dollar winner in 2006 and waited 6 years to cash in. Why the hold up you may ask?