Gary Grief

A longtime Texas Lottery watchdog is asking Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to order an independent investigation of the state’s lottery commission finances.

A longtime Texas Lottery watchdog is asking Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to order an independent investigation of the state’s lottery commission finances.

A winning Mega Millions lottery ticket remains unclaimed.

A $1 million winning Powerball ticket expired at 5 p.m. Thursday.

The group that runs the Powerball lottery game approved, then abandoned, changes that would have given ticket buyers more bang for their two bucks than the redesign implemented last year.

Lottery ticket buyers have to suspend their belief in math to drop $2 on an infinitesimal chance to win the Powerball jackpot, but in Nevada, they also have to drive across the desert and wait in lines that can stretch for hours. In Hawaii and Alaska, they need to cross an ocean or mountains to reach a lottery kiosk. As...

Powerball fever grows ahead of tonight’s record jackpot drawing on Jan 13, 2016. Lines wrap around gas stations, shops and markets across the country, with some players even crossing the border in the six states that don’t play the game.

The Texas Lottery is suspending sales of the multistate Monopoly Millionaires’ Club game two months after its launch in 23 states.