In case you hadn't heard, there's a Mega Millions Lottery drawing tonight, and the big prize is worth $640 million. We took a look at what people have been saying about what they want to do with their imagined winnings. more ›

You've thought about it, haven't you? Your course of action once you discover that you've won the lottery, that you'll never have to work again, that you're finally and deservedly very, very rich. Well, one lucky winner who purchased Saturday's $15 million Super Lotto ticket in Echo Park apparently did not rehearse his victory dance and is taking his time to claim his prize. more ›

Elida Betancourt has an awfully big bone to pick with the Fresno Bee. The paper sent the Fresno County woman on an emotional ride on Wednesday morning after it reprinted the previous Friday's winning lottery numbers in lieu of the Tuesday drawing. Her morning went from "OMG!!! You just won $54 million!!!" to "Wait, no you didn't. Oops. You win nothing. Carry on." more ›

What would you do if you won $51 million? A truck driver from Bakersfield is about to find out. Ronnie Orender, who is near retirement, found out Tuesday that he won the $51 million Mega Million jackpot, reports the Daily news. The odds, they note, were 176 million to one. more ›

The cheese stands alone. There is only one jackpot winner for Sunday's $10 million SuperLotto Plus and the golden ticket was sold at La Paz Liquor, 4101 W. Magnolia Blvd., according to state lottery officials, reports CBS Local. The owner of the store where a winning ticket is sold is also eligible for half of 1 percent of the winnings. more ›

Long Beach's City Council held a lottery yesterday to determine which proposed marijuana collectives can move forward in the permitting process, according to the Daily Breeze. more ›

Someone got really, really, really lucky last night. The Mega Millions lotto prize of $266 million was bought by someone at a Pico Rivera store, according to KNX1070. There's been no official word on who won, but according to a source who asked for anonymity, it was a NBC4 employee. more ›

The Emmys are still over a week away, but the time to start thinking about the Oscars is now. Beginning Monday at noon and continuing for about a week, anyone from around the world may enter into a random drawing for one of the 700 available seats at the 82nd Academy Awards red carpet (we sat there last year, here are our photos). more ›

The owners of Alcon Liquor, a store on Saticoy Street in Canoga Park, are anxious to meet one of their recent customers again: The winning SuperLotto Plus ticket, matching all six numbers and worth $11 million, was sold there, according to cbs2.com. more ›

If one person wins tonight's Mega Millions jackpot, they'll be taking home $8.15 million over the next 26 years, or $138 million if taken in one lump sum, according to a California State Lottery official. Of course, these numbers could be higher depending on sales today (and if you are going to buy, you must by 7:45 p.m. as the drawing will be 10 minutes later). And since today is election day, it should be noted that on May 19th--our next election--we will be voting on Prop 1C, otherwise known as the Lottery Modernization Act. If passed, it would allow the state to borrow (or "raid" as some would say) $5 billion from lottery revenues for purposes other than education. The lottery currently raises $1 billion for schools annually. more ›

So it's not a million dollar lottery ticket, but $174,575 is still good money. A Mega Millions lotto ticket purchased on January 29 at a 7/11 store in Corona still has not been claimed and today is the last day to do so. However, it's not a first. The state says it has donated as much as $50 million a year in unclaimed lotto ticket prizes to California's educational funds. more ›

They keep piling on. Today, "the governor placed a $900 million bond measure on the ballot to provide low-interest home loans to returning veterans of current and recent wars," reports John Myers at KQED's Capitol Notes. And there could be more to come, he says. Three of them could be a water bond, a budget reform proposal and a reform of the lottery initiative to raise money for the state budget. Now that's fifteen props and there's still talk a possibility of more, up to eighteen. Eeek! Talk about a few months with lots of commercials, flyers and debate. more ›

When an Orange County woman asked her husband to go clean the car, he came back with some old lottery tickets. Turns out one was worth $1, another was $3 and the final ticket was $198,468. The woman had bought the tickets back in March at a Fountain Valley liquor store and forgot about them until her husband came up with them. more ›

The MTA will be testing a new 65-foot-long prototype bus - which can hold up to 131 sitting and standing passengers - on the Orange Line busway for one year starting this week. Nicely done: L.A. City Councilman Richard Alarcon drafted a measure 2 months ago that would've drastically reduced traffic congestion on one block of one street in Panorama City - namely the one where his house is located. Who's down with Gov.... more ›

Tonight the multi-state lottery Mega Millions will pick the numbers for their $267 million jackpot. Fortunately California is one of the states where you can get tickets for this lottery, so we ask you, if you win tonight, what are you gonna get? If we won, we'd use it as a down payment on a beachside condo in Venice. Update: Here are the results, good luck! 14, 21, 33, 35, 51 Mega Ball =... more ›