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Check your Take 5 ticket from the New York Lottery. Someone purchased a ticket from a a convenient store in Rotterdam Junction for last night's drawing and whoever won is sitting on some pretty serious money right now and they may not even know it.

Check your tickets if you play the Take-5 game from the New York State Lottery. There was a huge payout that someone can claim if you bought the ticket at a certain Cumberland Farms convenience store in Rensselaer County.

There was a winning lottery ticket sold in Saratoga County last week and the winner has yet to come forward. Check your numbers. It could be you.

A Powerball jackpot of $768.4 was won last month by a twenty four year old man in Wisconsin. Although there was only one winner of the top prize, there was also one winner in New York state of one million dollars.

We all dream of winning the big lottery jackpot and talk about what we would spend all of that money on. We say we would pay off debt, travel the world and help out those in need. So I decided to ask what my 8 year old son, Ryan, would spend the jackpot on. Here's what he said.

I always say that someday I will win a ton of money on either a scratch-off or in the lottery. It seems that more Capital Region residents are cashing in. There was another winner that scratched their way to $5 million.

With a grand prize estimated at nearly one BILLION dollars, tonight's lottery jackpot will  be the largest in the history of Mega Millions. While odds of winning are an approximate - and astronomical -  300 million-1, it's still worth a few bucks.  How do you select your 'lucky' numbers?

Here we go again! Your chance to win a half a billion dollars tonight in the Mega Millions drawing. You probably shouldn't even play because it is my turn to win the big money.

I play the lottery every so often and hope for that big win. Actually, I believe that someday I will hit a huge jackpot. But for now, there is someone in the Capital Region that is holding onto a big winner.

Back in November, Katrina Bookman was playing her favorite slot machine at Resorts World Casino in Queens, New York when she thought she hit a 43 million dollar jackpot. Her actual prize: a steak dinner and $2.25 as casino officials claimed the slot machine was malfunctioning at the time it doled out the massive payout.  She declined the offer and now is suing the casino for 43 million dollars.  W

I don't really gamble. Aside from spending $20 on slots once or twice a year and a few scratch-offs, I don't do it. Well, unless this happens.

The jackpot for Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing is only getting bigger. The big prize has reached $364 million.