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You're odds are 1 in 292 million, but totally worth taking the chance!  The Powerball grand prize is at $450 million for tonight's drawing.  Are you in?

B Raymond Buxton came forward on April Fools day to claim his $425 million dollar prize. He asked that the media leave him alone, that the public leave him alone, and that he is allowed to live in private. Is that acceptable in today's society?

Talk about dumb luck.

The winner of the largest Powerball prize ever, $590 million, is Gloria C. Mackenzie, 84, of Zephyrhills, Florida. Lottery officials made the announcement in a news conference Wednesday afternoon.

Nobody won the Powerball drawing from last Saturday, so now the prize grows to $425 million, the largest jackpot ever for the game. What is the first thing you would do or buy if you had the Jackpot?

In a new study from CouponCabin.com, nearly 40 percent of Americans reported playing the lottery sometimes, with 13 percent saying they try regularly to hit it big. Are you one of these people. Be careful, make plans, but make smart plans.

According to a new survey from CouponCabin.com of 2,570 adults, 50 percent play the lottery. And of that percentage, 65 percent would continue to live frugally it they happened to win big. But would a frugal life include keeping their job and continuing to draw their salary?

Since 1993, Joan R. Ginther has hit the lotto jackpot four times, to the tune of $2 million, $3 million, $5.4 million and $10 million. The chances of this happening are one in 18 septillion. For a point of reference, there are about one septillion grains of sand on earth.

For about $35, couples in England who are having trouble conceiving can purchase a lottery ticket that could win them customized fertility treatments in one of the nation's top clinics. Britain's Gambling Commission approved of this bizarre game late last month. As of now, the tickets can be purchased online, but they may soon also be available at newsstands.

Tyrone Curry doesn't have to wake up at 4 a.m. and mop the floors at Evergreen High School in Seattle. Not after the custodian won the Washington State lottery to the tune of $3.41 million five years ago.

Doing your taxes is a pain, and many people put off their preparation until right before the mid-April filing date. Chicago man Irving Przyborski is certainly grateful he got a bit of a jump on his 2010 taxes . That's because when Przyborski went into his tax files last week, he found a lottery ticket he had bought almost a year before among the paperwork. When Przyborski checked the numbers, he