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Canada couple collects $18.5M lottery winNews Story
Lightning strikes twice as 6/49 win follows $13,000 slot machine windfall A Caledon, Ontario, couple have won $18.5 million in the latest Lotto 6/49 draw, right after collecting a $13,000 slot machine jackpot. Anthony and Antonietta Marrocco were on hand at the lottery offices in downtown Toronto this afternoon, beaming from ear to ear as they accepted the cheque. The couple, who have been playing the lottery steadily for eight years, could hardly believe their good fortune. Antonietta
Nov 12, 2007, 11:45 pm - Lottery News

Office lottery pool wins $61.5M Powerball jackpotNews Story
After a decade of pitching in a dollar a week, a Powerball office pool paid off in a huge way yesterday for 22 Kentuckians. The group of current and former employees of a Bardstown business claimed the $61.5 million Powerball jackpot yesterday afternoon after making their way to Louisville in a white SUV limousine. When a lady at the lottery claim window asked Jane Shelver if she could help her with something, Shelver's response came quickly and enthusiastically. You certainly can, S
Sep 28, 2007, 11:16 am - Lottery News

Woman plays numbers from TV show about lottery winners - and winsNews Story
New Mexico woman plays 'most frequent numbers' on TV show about lottery winners and wins $20,000 in Powerball TV viewers in other states play and win off same numbers The TLC Network's broadcast of How the Lottery Changed My Life might not have been DeShundra Jackson's first choice for Sunday night television viewing, but since her mother was already engrossed in the program, Jackson didn't think about changing the channel. The only thing she changed was her luck. After the show an
Sep 27, 2007, 9:46 pm - Lottery News

Texas lottery winner invests in unusual historical motelNews Story
A bit of American history quirky and curious, but history nonetheless huddles next to old U.S. 59, past the tractor dealers and the rice mills, just before a green sign that proclaims Wharton's population of 9,237. It's easy to miss. But it is there, just around the bend: a row of 10 freshly painted, sand-colored tepees. As in the Tee Pee Motel, a throwback to the 1940s and '50s, when taking a drive was still in style and roadside businesses used gimmicky architecture like a gas stat
Sep 24, 2007, 11:56 am - Lottery News

Tickets for new Washington Lottery raffle go on sale SundayNews Story
Feeling lucky? Try Washington State Lottery's new lottery game. Lottery officials announced a brand new game in honor of its 25th anniversary. Starting this Sunday, the odds of becoming an instant millionaire is about to go way up. You've never seen a Washington lottery ticket like this one. Each raffle ticket will have a number printed on it that will be your number and it will be between one and 375,000, said Jacque Coe, Washington State Lottery. When they're sold out, they're g
Sep 19, 2007, 3:34 pm - Lottery News

Ohio lottery winners say they won't go crazyNews Story
Prize will allow couple to take it easy, travel When Gary VanHooser won $2 on his scratch-off lottery ticket, he figured he'd re-invest it in a Ohio State Lottery Rolling Cash 5 game. His ticket turnout to be the $421,000 winner. I just had the machine pick out numbers. I didn't even check them that night I play the lottery when I'm in town and I have some extra cash to spend on it, said the 74-year-old Sam's Club associate. I didn't even check the numbers until the next day. Wh
Sep 12, 2007, 4:40 pm - Lottery News

Lucky couple wins second NY Lotto jackpotNews Story
A former Bronx, New York, couple has won the New York Lottery's 6-number Lotto game for the second time in 11 years, twice overcoming odds of more than 22 million to 1. It's a great feeling, said Eugene Angelo Sr., 81, after learning that he and his wife Adeline, 74, had the sole $5 million winner i the twice-weekly Lotto game. In December 1996, the family bought one of four winning jackpot tickets and received the lump-sum payout of $2.5 million after sharing a $10 million jackpot with
Aug 31, 2007, 6:58 pm - Lottery News

South Dakota adds new raffle gameNews Story
The first-ever state lottery raffle will be held later this year to mark the 20th anniversary of legalized lottery games in South Dakota. Lottery Advertising and Public Relations Director Mike Mueller says 100,000 of the $10 tickets will go on sale September 30th. The drawing for the top prize of $250,000 will be held on New Years Eve unless the tickets sell out much earlier. There will be five prizes of $25,000 and 250 prizes of $500. Mueller says the state stands to make $309,000 from
Aug 24, 2007, 10:22 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner: 'Kind of exciting, I guess'News Story
Dorothy Elliott stays low-key. She just won the lottery $1,000 a week for the rest of her life. But when the 68-year-old Norfolk resident met with the media this morning at the 7-Eleven store where she bought the fateful Win For Life ticket, she seemed completely unfazed by her good fortune. When I looked at the numbers in the paper, I had to read them a couple of times to make sure they matched, she said. It was kind of exciting, I guess. In the Win for Life drawing on June 13, t
Jun 20, 2007, 11:20 am - Lottery News

Tennessee couple wins Powerball lottery 10x promotionNews Story
A Murfreesboro, Tennessee, couple struck it rich over the weekend from a Powerball promotion that turned a $200,000 second-prize win into a $2 million jackpot. Nita and Merwin Scruggs came forward Monday to collect their check and become millionaires. We still can't believe it, said 59-year-old Merwin Scruggs, a manager at Graves Metal Products Inc. in Shelbyville, on Monday in a news release. We didn't sleep at all last night. The winning Powerball Power Play ticket, which was pur
Apr 17, 2007, 7:40 am - Lottery News