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The winner of Saturday's $336.4 million Powerball jackpot bought the ticket at a Stop & Shop supermarket in Newport, Rhode Island Lottery officials say. No one has come forward yet to claim the prize, officials said Monday.

Three Connecticut men who work at a startup asset management firm have claimed a $254 million Powerball jackpot.

Andrew Hunter, a 24-year-old restaurant server in Georgia nearly threw away a quarter of a million dollars. Instead, he pulled a $3 winning ticket out of his trash and traded it in for three more tickets — one of which won him $250,000.

Several hundred thousand Connecticut residents were still without power following last weekend's snow storm, but one of them may be holding a Powerball ticket worth $245 million.

An illegal immigrant allegedly swindled out of his $3 million lottery jackpot win will finally collect his prize, the Daily Mail reports. The man won the jackpot after purchasing a lottery scratch card at N&K Quick Pick in Spring Valley, N.Y., on Feb. 3.

A mother and daughter in the Carolinas have three big lottery wins in the last 20 years between them. The Charlotte Observer reports that Kimberly McCauley won $100,000 this month playing a new instant-scratch off game 10X the Money.

A Michigan Lottery $2 million jackpot winner from last year is eligible and collecting some food stamp assistance under a loophole state officials have been working for months to close.

Seven New Yorkers claimed a $319 million jackpot in the multistate Mega Millions lottery Thursday.

One lucky winner in upstate New York chose the right numbers in Friday night's Mega Millions lottery, which has a jackpot of $312 million, the New York Lottery said Saturday.

McDonald’s is the last place you’d expect to find a millionaire. But at a McDonald’s store in Cardiff, you’re likely to be served by one. Luke Pittard won £1.3 million in the UK National Lottery and quit his job at the fast food chain soon after.