In July, Tony Corso made a run to Walmart to pick up his wife’s medication for her recent heart attack. He passed a Pennsylvania Lottery machine on his way out. On a whim, the Masontown resident bought $20 in tickets, figuring historically “there’s a lot of winners” at the South ...

Visions of sugar plums may be dancing in a lot of heads right now, but for some people they are being accompanied by visions of mansions, sports cars, pricey vacations and comfy retirements. It’s all due to the fact that the Powerball jackpot has reached $1.2 billion after Monday’s ...

Norma Sherwood hasn’t typically purchased lottery tickets. But when the cook at Wavie and Jane’s Emporium in Connellsville saw that the Powerball jackpot had soared past $1 billion, she decided to make an exception. “I don’t play the lottery, but I bought a Powerball ticket last ...