A Columbia truck driver who tossed out a ticket he thought wasn't a winner was shocked when he grabbed his discarded ticket ...

Yet the scratch ticket as a consumer item has only existed for fifty years. Not so long ago, the idea of an instant lottery, of gambling with a little sheet of paper, was strange. Scary, even.

Three scratch-off lottery tickets worth at least $1 million were sold in New Jersey in the past week, including one valued at ...

Since March, three scratch tickets bought at the island eatery have won patrons $1 million or more, according to the Massachusetts State Lottery Commission. The first Old South Diner winning ...

It was last April when a lucky Dorchester woman won the first $1 million prize on what was the Mass Lottery's newly-released "Jaws" scratch ticket. Solange Villard claimed the first $1 million ...

A new scratch ticket is bound to send Boston Celtics fans into a frenzy. The Massachusetts State Lottery is paying tribute to the team's title run last season with the launch of the Celtics ...

Four people were indicted by a grand jury on charges of stealing and redeeming hundreds of Colorado Lottery scratch tickets worth more than $150,000 from stores across the state, the Colorado ...

The Pennsylvania Lottery announced this week that two winning scratch-off lottery tickets, totaling $8 million, were sold at two different retailers in Philadelphia. One person won $5 million on a ...