louisiana lottery

With tomorrow night's Powerball jackpot valued at $343 million dollars, it becomes a focal point for a lot of us.

Who would have thought people other than Erin buy Lotto tickets?

Tickets were bought at stores in Gramercy and Des Allemands.

If there are any winners of Saturday's Powerball drawing, they are looking at a cash value of $243.8 million.

A local man wins a big prize. The Louisiana Lottery Corporation says Jeremy Small of Shreveport won a $100,000 prize from a "Fire & Ice" scratch-off ticket. He bought the ticket at Murphy USA on Airline Drive in Bossier City. The 31-year-old says he plans to celebrate his good fortune with his family. F ...

Do you have a non-winning $5 New Orleans Saints 2011 scratch-off ticket you haven't mailed in to the Louisiana Lottery yet? You've still got some time to do that...the deadline to send those in is April 30th. That'll get you in the second-chance drawing for a 2012 Saints Prize Package that comes with season tickets or official autographed Saints merchandise...

There were no jackpot winners for last night's $170,000,000 Powerball drawing. The next Powerball drawing on Saturday February 4, 2012 and will have an estimated jackpot of $200,000,000.

A Keithville woman is among three lucky New Orleans Saints fans who will be attending this Sunday's matchup against the Detroit Lions in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome -- thanks to their non-winning Louisiana Lottery scratch-off tickets. I caught up with Debra Nolte to get her reaction:

Fans of the lottery are getting a new option today, since Louisiana is taking part in the multi-state Mega Millions drawings. Louisiana Lottery spokeswoman Kimberly Chopin says Mega Millions tickets cost $1 per play by selecting five numbers from a field of 56 and one yellow Mega Ball number from a field of 46...

Lottery officials say someone in Minden purchased the winning Louisiana Lotto ticket for last night's drawing while the winning easy 5 ticket was purchased in Gretna.