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'Miracle' lottery win to let man visit gravely ill nephew, 7News Story
Conrad Selle's sister in France called Sunday with bad news: If he wants to see his 7-year-old nephew, who is losing a hard-fought battle with leukemia, he should come now. It was weighing on my heart, said the computer systems analyst who still is recovering from being out of work until March. I had no way to pay for it. Then, that night, he won $10,000 in the lottery. Thanks to what he said must be a providential thing, Selle and his son, Lucas, 15, will leave Monday for Paris. Beyo
Oct 14, 2013, 4:41 pm - Lottery News

Britain's record lottery winners go publicNews Story
Includes video report A Scottish couple out of work due to ill health are Europe's biggest ever lottery winners, scooping 161.5 million ( 184 million, or US$260.5 million) in the EuroMillions multi-country lottery game. Colin Weir, 64, and his wife Chris, 55, who have been married for 30 years and live in the seaside town of Largs near Glasgow, claimed the prize after Tuesday's draw which followed a series of rollovers. The prize catapaulted them into 430th place in this year's Sunday T
Jul 15, 2011, 8:40 pm - Lottery News

Lottery ticket frenzy as Euro Millions reaches record highNews Story
By Todd Northrop Europe's multi-country Euro Millions lottery game emerged from Tuesday night's drawing without a grand prize winner, setting the stage for a mammoth record jackpot Friday: an estimated 185 Million (US$264.9 Million, or 166 million). And Euro Millions jackpots are paid as cash not advertised annuity jackpots like the big American multi-state games. If a single ticket wins the top prize, it will create the biggest winner in Europe ever. To win a Euro Millions jackpot,
Jul 6, 2011, 11:13 am - Lottery News

Tennessee's biggest Powerball winner keeps low profileNews Story
Bobbi Hubbard of South Pittsburg, Tenn., keeps busy working on community projects like trying to start a free medical clinic in Marion County. She has lived in the same house for 18 years. On the outside, there's little to show that she hit a $25.5 million Powerball jackpot in 2005, making her the state's all-time big winner as Powerball marks its seventh anniversary in Tennessee. And, unlike some cases in other states where big lottery winners didn't handle their fast fortunes well, Hubbard
Apr 6, 2011, 7:08 am - Lottery News

£84.4M Euro Millions lottery jackpot claimed anonymouslyNews Story
If you see someone looking incredibly smug in the next few days, this could be the reason. The winner of last week's 84.4 million (US$122.7 million) Euro Millions jackpot came forward on Sunday but has decided to remain anonymous. It is not even known whether they are a man, woman or a syndicate. By choosing to keep their identity secret, the record-breaking winner is likely to avoid the pleas that inevitably flood in to those who declare their wins. But with such an enormous sum of
May 18, 2010, 7:36 am - Lottery News

Italian villager wins record $210M lottery jackpotNews Story
A resident of the castle-topped Tuscan village of Bagnone won more than 147 million (US$210.6 million) in Europe's biggest lottery jackpot, and seemed intent on trying to stay unknown. The winner bought the ticket for 2 at a bar in the central Italian town of 2,000, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) northwest of Florence. The lucky inhabitant, who has yet to come forward, can choose to remain anonymous and has 90 days to claim the cash. Local residents popped bottles of sparkling wine at the
Aug 25, 2009, 3:04 pm - Lottery News

Lottery winner buys Fort Myers businessNews Story
Joining the ranks of the idle rich is often step No. 1 for the lucky few who win the lottery. But Jason Fry, 35, has chosen a different path after splitting a roughly $47 million Florida Lottery jackpot in December 2007 with a Bonita Springs man. First, he spent several months traveling and relaxing after leaving his bartending job. Then he had a plan: rejoin the workforce by becoming a business owner. That decision became reality last week when he finalized the purchase of the Batterie
Mar 13, 2009, 9:45 am - Lottery News

Early talks for a joint Powerball-British lottery gameNews Story
Will Powerball marry up with the British lottery or even Euro Millions, creating the largest lottery jackpots on the face of the earth? Maybe. But Charles Strutt, director of the 32-member Multi-State Lottery Association, which runs Powerball from offices in Iowa, said it was still too early to tell. According to Ed Van Petten, Kansas Lottery director and a former chairman of the multi-state Powerball group, talk of a world lottery game has been around since 2000. They've been back at
Feb 12, 2009, 9:57 am - Lottery News

Lottery CEO fired one day after pollNews Story
fThe president of the B.C. Lottery Corporation was fired one day after an internal poll last May showed public trust in the corporation had plummeted in the wake of a warning by the province's Ombudsman of possible fraud by some retailers. However, another poll taken a month later showed tfhe removal of BCLC president and CEO Vic Poleschuk had done little to restore public confidence, and public estimates of ongoing retailer theft had barely changed. The first internal poll, dated May 31,
Oct 16, 2007, 7:50 am - Lottery News

Briton claims UK's biggest lottery winNews Story
Someone in Britain is a lot richer on Tuesday after claiming the country's biggest ever lottery win 35,425,411.80 pounds (US$71 million). The winner matched all five main numbers and both lucky star numbers, 23, 40, 42, 43, 49, plus 2 and 6, to claim the entire Euro Millions jackpot from the August 10 draw. Camelot, which operates the British arm of the trans-European lottery, said the lucky ticket holder had now come forward and the prize had been paid out. It is the largest jackpot
Aug 14, 2007, 10:58 am - Lottery News