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2011 Lottery Results Almanac PublishedNews Story
Latest edition of highly-regarded annual lottery reference book U.S. and Canada editions published simultaneously The latest edition of Lottery Post's highly-regarded lottery results reference book officially went on sale today. Lottery Post 2011 Lottery Results Almanac, United States Edition (ISBN 978-0-9826272-4-2), written by the founder of the popular Lottery Post web site and published by Speednet Group, is available for purchase immediately online at the publisher's web site (http
Jan 24, 2012, 9:15 pm - Lottery News

$50M Ontario lottery winners face scrutinyNews Story
An Ontario, Canada, couple who won a $50 million Lotto Max jackpot last week said they expected to have trouble collecting their winnings. Jo Ann and Gaetan Champagne have received a barrage of questions from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission: Did you buy the Lotto Max ticket? How did you come up with the numbers? Where did you get the ticket from? The Champagnes said they aren't fazed. We know the rules, said Jo Ann. I remember leaving the convenience store and we both looked
Jan 6, 2012, 8:00 am - Lottery News

Ireland TV network red-faced after huge lottery numbers blunderNews Story
Ireland's national television broadcaster is hoping the country's newest Lotto millionaire hasn't thrown away their winning ticket after watching the live drawing broadcast on Saturday night. RTE was forced to rectify a huge mistake on air, after broadcasting the wrong numbers for two draws, including the main Lotto results. Many people from Northern Ireland also play the Republic's lottery, as well as the British National Lottery, to increase their chances of instant riches. Lotto head
Dec 20, 2011, 7:34 am - Lottery News

Dropping out of lottery pool costs teacher millionsNews Story
Dave Johnston is kicking himself for pulling out of a lottery pool that's about to cash in a lucky ticket for $30 million. The steam-fitting instructor at Red Deer College in central Alberta, Canada, used to play regularly with plumbing teachers he sat with in the school's lunchroom every day. But he pulled out over a year ago. It's hard to stay in, said Johnston, who added he kept putting in his cash but the pool wasn't winning big. He eventually decided it just wasn't going to happen
Nov 25, 2011, 3:10 am - Lottery News

Iowa man claims $7.5M Hot Lotto jackpotNews Story
Checks numbers, calmly says, I won Waterloo, Iowa, retiree Wally Markham said he wasn't able to keep it secret for long in Smitty's bar on Sunday that he was the jackpot winner in Saturday's Hot Lotto drawing. Markham, 65, who retired in 2001 after 36 years working at the Deere plant in Waterloo, said he confided to the bartender that he was in line to claim the $7.54 million grand prize. From then on in, it cost me a fortune. On Wednesday, Markham collected a fortune at Iowa Lottery
Nov 9, 2011, 7:41 pm - Lottery News

$7 million lottery winner doesn't change a thingNews Story
Played same numbers for 21 years After realizing he had won $7 million in a Canada Lotto 6/49 draw three weeks ago, Eddie Uy of Richmond, British Columbia, did what not many big lottery winners would do. He ate his breakfast, packed a lunch, as usual, and went to work at the Burnaby cardboard-box factory where he has been employed for the last 19 years. Uy, 59, actually waited three weeks before letting British Columbia Lottery Corp. know he was the winner of the Aug. 3 jackpot, but he
Sep 9, 2011, 8:04 am - Lottery News

Lottery fraudster denied, real winner foundNews Story
The lottery gods have handed a man more than $90,000 in winnings but only after an alleged ticket thief was denied the same prize. In a strange case the likes of which lottery officials say they haven't seen in more than 10 years, a gas station clerk has been arrested and charged with stealing a customer's Lotto 6/49 tickets then tried to claim the prize after one ticket hit it big. There's some incredible uniqueness to this one because a ticket that was stolen ended up with a prize in ex
Sep 1, 2011, 12:08 pm - Lottery News

Canadian couple claims $40M Lotto Max jackpotNews Story
By Todd Northrop A Saskatchewan couple from the village of Paradise Hill won the top prize of $40 million from a Lotto Max draw one week ago. Claiming the huge jackpot Friday, John and Darlene Kinzel have won the largest lottery prize in provincial history after taking home $40 million in last Friday's Lotto Max draw. John bought the ticket at the Fas Gas Northside Service in Lloydminster, Alberta, and says he picked all the numbers randomly. While his picks weren't planned, John might
Aug 29, 2011, 12:58 pm - Lottery News

Winning Lotto ticket survives washing machineNews Story
A four-week-old Lotto ticket survived a trip through the washing machine to net $250,000 for its Christchurch, New Zealand, owner. The ticket bought at Pak'n'Save in Moorhouse for the July 9 Lotto draw shared the First Division prize with tickets bought in Auckland, Waitakere and Hastings. The winner, who wants to stay anonymous, said he found the ticket last weekend after he washed an old pair of jeans. I went through the wet pockets and realised I had washed a Lotto ticket in the jea
Aug 6, 2011, 7:56 am - Lottery News

Canadian woman who gave away lotto winnings diesNews Story
A central Nova Scotia woman known for donating nearly all of a huge lotto jackpot died last weekend. Violet Large, who suffered from cancer, died Saturday morning at a hospital in Lower Truro, according to an online obituary posted by a funeral home. She was 79. Large and her husband of 37 years, Allen Large, cashed in a winning Lotto 649 ticket last summer and collected $11.2 million. They went on to give most of it away to relatives, friends, charities, hospitals, schools, churches and f
Jul 19, 2011, 8:02 am - Lottery News