David Webb of Stokesdale tried his luck on Digital Instants on Tuesday and won a $545,885 progressive jackpot! Webb played a $1 ticket and won the top level ‘Epic jackpot’ in the Wheel of Bonuses game. Congrats on the win, David! https://t.co/Z2nJCfQIbq pic.twitter.com/BgozR8KMm6

A man had to step away from a holiday party to make sure a Christmas gift from his friend — a lottery ticket — was really a winner. The friend gifted two lottery tickets to a married couple at an annual holiday party shortly before Christmas, according to a Dec. 26 news release from the Maryland Lottery.

DURANT, Okla. (KFOR) — Saturday marks day five of the search for 8-year-old Clara Robinson. The Sherman Police Department said the Robinson family was involved in a crash in an area near Sherman, Texas on Christmas Eve. They were traveling from Oklahoma to McKinney, Texas for the holiday. Authorities say their car was swept away […]

If someone wins the Christmas Eve Mega Millions grand prize, it ill be the largest jackpot ever won in the month of December.

The winning numbers were 3, 7, 37, 49 and 55. The Mega Ball was 6. The jackpot is the fifth-biggest ever in the Mega Millions lotteries.

It’s been a busy month for lottery players. The Mega Millions jackpot now stands at a $1.22 billion ahead of a Dec. 27 drawing, after a Christmas Eve drawing failed to yield a winner. That makes it the largest such prize for either of the two big multistate lottery games — Mega Millions and Powerball — in the holiday-filled month of December,

The Mega Millions jackpot rose to $1.22 billion after no one managed to hit all six numbers on Christmas Eve. The Friday night drawing comes with a cash option of $549.7 million. If it's won,