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Oklahoma couple claims $106M Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
Don Harvey's long-haul truck had almost two million miles on it when its engine died this week. Now he's planning to ride the road in style, thanks to a $105.8 million Powerball ticket bought by his wife. Absolute disbelief and shock, was how Joyce Harvey described her reaction when she checked her computer Thursday night and found she had the winning ticket. Basically, I just broke down and cried, she said. The Harveys, from Muldrow in eastern Oklahoma, said they will pay off bills
Jun 30, 2007, 9:31 pm - Lottery News

Georgia man celebrates $5 million lottery jackpotNews Story
A Columbus man has netted a win worth millions. David Huff, 46, won $5 million playing the Georgia Lottery instant game Georgia's $500 Million Club. Circle K Stores #6678, 215 Fourth St. in Columbus, sold the winning ticket. The father of four scratched the ticket just outside of his car. What he discovered, Smith said, was unbelievable. I broke my glasses trying to look at the ticket, he said. I was sure of what I saw, so I had to take a deep breath. Smith, who likes to go fish
Jun 1, 2007, 1:17 pm - Lottery News

One year later, Powerball still treats them wellNews Story
Mike Terpstra could dream with the best of his lottery-playing co-workers at a Lincoln ham-processing plant. What, they wondered, would they do if they won? Terpstra fantasized about buying a remote tropical island, like one that actor Marlon Brando owned, or purchasing the Christina O, the luxury personal yacht in the fleet of the late shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. Either would be a warm escape from the chilly conditions in the ConAgra Foods plant. But a year after he and seven
Feb 19, 2007, 10:26 am - Lottery News

Wyoming lottery bill killed once againNews Story
Casper resident Larry Griffith thought surely this was the year for Wyoming to finally join a multi-state lottery. Griffith has been buying Nebraska lottery tickets for years, and said Wyoming is losing big money to adjacent states. So Griffith was not happy when the state House on Monday voted 31-27 to kill yet another attempt to legalize a lottery in the state. I think it's pathetic, he said. After a half-dozen previous attempts to legalize lottery by the state Legislature, this
Feb 7, 2007, 11:09 am - Lottery News

Florida landscaper claims $9M Lotto jackpotNews Story
A Melbourne, Florida, landscaper from Costa Rica has come forward to claim his $9 million Florida Lotto jackpot. Feliciano Aragon purchased the winning ticket Tuesday at a Melbourne convenience store and was the lone player to match all six numbers, according to lottery officials. The winning numbers were 9-14-25-37-42-52. The ticket is the 31st sold in Brevard County to win the jackpot since the Lotto began 20 years ago. Aragon chose the one-time lump sum payment option for hi
Dec 3, 2006, 4:10 pm - Lottery News

Wisconsin couple wins $15.4M Megabucks lottery jackpotNews Story
The winners of the biggest Megabucks jackpot won in Door County were introduced Monday in Fish Creek. The shock of winning still hasn't gone away for the lucky couple. Nearly 30 years of playing the lottery made Pat and Chuck Stage occasional winners. Monday's trip to the Fish Creek BP made them multi-millionaires. Pat's played the same numbers for years but never heard them all on the news until two Wednesdays ago. She started checking the numbers, and I heard a blood-curdling scream,
Oct 31, 2006, 7:18 am - Lottery News

Dad, son step up as $1 million lottery winnersNews Story
Weeks of small-town speculation ended yesterday when the Pennsylvania Lottery Commission confirmed a West Pennsboro Twp. family won $1 million on a ticket sold at the local pharmacy. Matthew Campbell and his father, Alvin, who live less than a half-mile from the MGM Pharmacy, snagged the prize during the July 4 drawing of the Millionaire Raffle. The identity of the winner had been the talk of the community since word filtered out that a winning ticket had been sold at MGM. For lit
Jul 21, 2006, 11:39 am - Lottery News

In 25 years, Arizona Lottery raised $5.5BNews Story
It was created in 1981, backed by businessmen looking for a tax break. Twenty-five years later, the Arizona Lottery has made hundreds of people millionaires while awarding $2.9 billion in prizes. It has contributed more than $1.8 billion to state and local projects and programs, far surpassing the annual revenue hopes of that original group of businessmen. From new roads and bus shelters to programs for neglected children and funding for state parks, lottery dollars have touched the liv
Jul 18, 2006, 11:06 am - Lottery News

S.D. couple claim Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
Beating 1-in-146 million odds to become South Dakota's latest multimillionaires, Pierre couple Lan Bill Nguyen and his wife, Tina, stepped forward Tuesday with the winning ticket for a nearly $117 million Powerball lottery jackpot. The couple declined to participate in the usual news conference that large jackpot winners attend to answer reporters' questions and be photographed with a blown-up replica of their check. Norm Lingle, executive director of the South Dakota Lottery, said the N
Jun 6, 2006, 6:34 pm - Lottery News

A look at hot spots for sales of N.C. lottery ticketsNews Story
A busy road helps; so do fishing worms North Carolina's leading sellers of lottery tickets sit along busy interstates, or on major thoroughfares, or they have extra ways of drawing their players in. The very top stores have all three. Dunn's Gas and Grocery in Four Oaks in Johnston County, the top seller in the Triangle so far, is along U.S. 301, about a mile from Interstate 95. And it gets plenty of locals by offering more than gas and candy bars. We have fishing worms and ice crea
Apr 11, 2006, 9:24 am - Lottery News