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 ›

A duo of con-artists have been duping Spanish-speaking victims in the Harbor City, Wilmington, and San Pedro communities with a Lotto scam since January, according to a Los Angeles Police Department release. Six victims have fallen prey, and detectives are cautioning the public to "beware of strangers approaching them and claiming to have a winning lottery ticket." 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 ›

A winning lottery ticket in the amount of $340,608 was purchased two months ago from Al's Market in Westminster yet the winner has not yet stepped forward to bask in lotto winning glory, according to LA Now. The ticket matched five of six numbers missing the "mega number" 43, but $340k is nothing to shake a stick at so folks are wondering where the winner may be and the California Lottery is asking all lotto players "in and around Westminster to check all their tickets." Could it be you? Check your pockets. Check your wallets. Check everything. Lotto winers have 180 days to claim the prize and 60 of those have already passed. The clock is ticking... 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 ›

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 ›