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Someone who bought a lottery ticket in Yakima just became an instant millionaire.

Mega Millions: Better Odds of Winning in California, Oregon, or Washington?

The current Mega Millions jackpot amount is the 5th largest in Mega Millions history and the 9th largest overall in U.S. history. How much is that?

According to the National Endowment for Financial Education, about 70 percent of people who have won large lottery jackpots or fall into the possession of large sums of money all at once, wind up going broke and as much as one-third of them file for bankruptcy.

Have you caught Lottery Fever? Remember a few weeks ago, a winning Washington State Lottery Ticket worth an estimated $2.7 Million was sold to someone in Sunnyside? It could happen, even though odds are against it, and it could be you if you buy a ticket...

The jackpot for Powerball has risen to $750 Million dollars and the next drawing takes place this evening. Celebrities work years to make the bread you could own

Marvin Koop of Yakima recently bucked the 18.5 million-to-1 odds and scored a cool million bucks with his winning Mega Millions ticket in Washington's Lottery.

KENTWOOD, Mich. (AP) — Good thing Linda Tuttle didn't toss out her pile of old mail. The Michigan woman won a $1 million jackpot in the May 26 Mega Millions drawing but didn't know it. Lottery officials say she started looking for her ticket after a store clerk told her a winning ticket had been sold there...

I scanned my ticket from Tuesday's drawing at a local retailer.  I knew that there was no big winner, and that the current jackpot is at $500M. But what about a smaller prize?

The latest Mega Millions jackpot is projected to be a half a billion dollars. What are the right things to do if some lucky ticket buyer in Yakima hits it big?