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Iowa lottery offering bonus holiday drawingNews Story
Officials with the Iowa Lottery say those playing holiday scratch-off games shouldn't throw away their tickets if they lose. Terry Rich, the chief executive of the Iowa Lottery, says for the first time this year, holiday tickets that aren't winners are eligible for other prizes. Rich says players can enter the ticket serial number online to play a bonus game. The lottery is calling the promotion Tech the Halls and Rich says electronics and cash prizes are available. Players can enter th
Dec 28, 2009, 11:12 am - Lottery News

El Gordo lottery awards more than $3 billionNews Story
Spain's Christmas lottery showered hundreds of thousand of euros in prize money on the country's capital Tuesday. The top prize of the lottery, ranked among the world's richest, went to holders of tickets bearing the number 78294. The number appears on 1,950 tickets, and each holder stood to win euro300,000 ($430,000). Organizers said the tickets bearing that number were sold in a lottery office in the central Madrid area of Cuatro Caminos. Two of the lucky ticket holders were immigrant
Dec 24, 2009, 2:51 pm - Lottery News

Spain's Christmas lottery is still "El Gordo"News Story
In tough times, Spaniards trim trees, not their lottery ticket purchases Includes video report On the morning of Dec. 22, Spain will be glued to radios and TV sets. A monotonous chant of children's voices will float through the air of homes, cafeterias and offices for hours. It is the lyrical event of the season, a kickoff to Christmas celebrations. Children dressed up in navy blue and gray uniforms sing, not Christmas carols, but the winning numbers and prizes for the Loteria de Navida
Dec 18, 2009, 8:11 am - Lottery News

Michigan lottery players are the big winnersNews Story
Where did the all the Michigan lottery money go? That age-old question is being asked with a little greater frequency these days as local school districts grapple with mid-year state aid cuts of a minimum of $292 per student. Conspiracy theory has long held that lottery proceeds intended to solve all of Michigan's school funding problems have been for decades fiscally diverted by crafty lawmakers in other, non-school programs. Those suspicions might have had more of a basis of support b
Nov 29, 2009, 10:37 am - Lottery News

Arizona Lottery announces raffle with 'Early Bird' drawingNews Story
Early buyers also get free Powerball tickets With Christmas and New Year's Day approaching, the state lotteries are once again preparing their latest holiday raffle promotions. Thursday the Arizona Lottery announced their Holiday Edition of the Millionaire Raffle game that will award more than $3 million in total cash prizes, including one $1 million grand prize and a special Early Bird drawing on Nov. 19 worth $100,000. Tickets for the Arizona Lottery's latest Millionaire Raffle go on
Oct 30, 2009, 7:28 am - Lottery News

UK Lottery looking for £5 million Lotto winnerNews Story
A city was bracing itself for a frenzy of back-of-the-sofa searching and sock drawer ransacking today after details were revealed of an unclaimed 5 million (US$8.2 million) lottery prize. National Lottery operator Camelot said the 4,908,817 Lotto jackpot from Saturday August 29 was won by a ticket bought in the Sheffield area, but no one has so far come forward to claim the prize. Now the search is on to trace the would-be millionaire. A spokeswoman for Camelot said the draw made was du
Sep 15, 2009, 7:21 am - Lottery News

Not "mentally ready", lottery winner waits six months to claim jackpotNews Story
A 48-year-old small businessman from Newcastle, NSW [Australia], has waited six months for the right psychological moment to claim a $2 million (US$1.65 million) Lotto prize won in January. I'm a bit of a crazy sort of bloke. I had the winning ticket in a tin in a safe spot so there was no rush, the winner told stunned NSW Lotteries officials today. I actually thought about leaving it another couple of months. There was something about claiming that much money that I wasn't ready for, I
Aug 22, 2009, 8:26 pm - Lottery News

True love: lottery winner reveals secret only after engagementNews Story
He wore shabby clothes, drove a wreck and took Lisa on cheap dates. Then they got engaged and Joe revealed the truth: having been stung by other women, he'd concealed his 10 million lottery fortune from her. Lisa Johnson treasures a ring given to her by husband Joe even though it is unremarkable, with a tiny stone, and cost less than 200 from High-Street jeweler H. Samuel. It was her Christmas present during their first heady months of dating, and when he presented it to her, she was thril
Jul 11, 2009, 12:53 pm - Lottery News

National Lottery win turned couple into benefits cheats, says judgeNews Story
Brian and Wendy Rushin had lived blameless lives until they won the money in 2002 and became misers . They were so protective of their wealth that they saved it in an array of accounts and used it only once, to buy a new fridge. Mr. Rushin, 74, and his wife, 72, also continued to claim housing and council tax benefits, taking thousands of pounds they were no longer entitled to over three years. The pair were facing prison after admitting a string of fraud charges at Leicester Magistrate
Apr 27, 2009, 10:30 am - Lottery News

N.Y. man scratches way to lottery millionNews Story
Michael Levy will never forget the New York lottery tickets he purchased on Friday, February 13. A 46 year-old security guard, Levy, is no stranger to playing lottery scratch-off tickets, but he never had this kind of luck. He received a prize of $1 million at Tavern on the Green in Manhattan. I buy them to help me stay awake in the early morning hours; and I usually win something so it's worth it, Levy said. Levy was working his routine shift at a Bronx construction site when he got t
Mar 9, 2009, 8:35 am - Lottery News