A Maryland Lottery player recently got her big break with a little help from an unlikely source. After finding smaller successes with the game Pick 4 — including a $5,000 prize — a woman from ...

In high school, many of us read Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery.” The piece, published first in a 1948 edition of New Yorker, is about a small, rural community that comes together ...

For The Lottery and Other Dark Tales, as well as previous Shirley Jackson projects for The Folio Society, I begin by ...

A Texas woman’s lottery win is under investigation after she used a lottery courier to purchase the ticket (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) ...