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Happy Independence DayNews Story
From the staff of Lottery Post, have a happy and safe Fourth of July! Enjoy the holiday, and feel free to use this as an open thread to tell us what you have planned for the day.
Jul 4, 2014, 9:35 am - Lottery News

Lottery legend Joan Ginther known as bigtime ticket buyerNews Story
By Peter Micha, Philly.com People confirm what statistics suggest: Lottery legend Joan Ginther bought thousands of high-priced scratch-off tickets on her way to winning millions of dollars four times. A store clerk named Victoria said she sold Ginther countless tickets, entire rolls of $50 scratch-offs at a time, according to a report by Houston TV station KPRC. And that was at just one of eight stores in and around Ginther's home town of Bishop, Texas, where she won 28 prizes ranging f
Jul 2, 2014, 3:59 pm - Lottery News

Man's ex-wife wins lottery and makes him a millionaireNews Story
Milkman John Hay reckons his ex-wife is the cream of the crop after she made him a millionaire when she scooped the Lotto jackpot. Doreen Hay was married to John for 12 years until they divorced in 1987 after growing apart . But they stayed best of friends, meeting up every week for Sunday lunch. So when Doreen, 70, and their son John Jr., 38, scooped 7.5 million in the UK's Lotto game, she called her ex immediately. John, 59, said: When she rang after the win I was thrilled for her.
Jan 24, 2014, 5:57 pm - Lottery News

S.C. woman nearly threw away $250,000 winning lottery ticketNews Story
A Bluffton, South Carolina, woman nearly threw away $250,000. She was cleaning her car more than a month ago when she noticed a lottery ticket she had purchased at the Publix on Buckwalter Place Boulevard. She thought the ticket, which was stuffed under the seat, was worthless. Before tossing it out, she marked off a few unscratched numbers and realized she'd hit the jackpot: $250,000 on a $250 Grand ticket. I was shaking, the woman, who declined to be named or interviewed, told S.C. E
Jan 9, 2014, 8:18 am - Lottery News

UK lottery winner recounts downsides of winningNews Story
Over the past 20 years Mark Gardiner has accumulated pretty much all the paraphernalia one might associate with a lottery winner. There's the sprawling listed mansion with manicured grounds and kidney-shaped swimming pool, the gleaming Aston Martin in the garage, and the exotic holidays when he fancies them. As he puts it: People write a list of what they'd do when they win the lottery, don't they? New house, flash car, lovely holidays, private jets. Well, I've ticked them all off. But
Dec 27, 2013, 11:53 am - Lottery News

Police issued lotto tickets during Christmas traffic stopsNews Story
Motorists caught speeding to grandma's house in Melbourne, Florida, were greeted with a bittersweet Christmas Day surprise as officers doled out warnings and tickets alongside scratch-off lottery games. The unique move was an added touch Melbourne police officers wanted to put on the normally quiet holiday traffic. By 1 p.m. Christmas Day, more than 30 scratch-off game tickets were handed out to speeders and other traffic violators in a bid to spread holiday cheer while keeping the roads s
Dec 26, 2013, 8:20 am - Lottery News

$550 MILLION: Mega Millions holiday bonanza!News Story
Half-billion jackpot is 4th-largest of all time By Todd Northrop What a wonderful Christmas miracle it will be for some lucky lottery player this year! After 21 drawings without a jackpot winner, the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game now boasts a swelling jackpot of more than a half-billion dollars that could instantly put someone among the wealthiest people on the planet. After nobody won Friday night's grand prize, the Mega Millions jackpot grew to an estimated $550 million th
Dec 14, 2013, 1:17 am - Lottery News

Indiana man takes home third major lottery winNews Story
Claimed $1 million prize Thursday Roger Douglas is, in a word, lucky. The Fort Wayne, Indiana, man took his third trip to the Hoosier Lottery claims office Thursday, this time to turn in the grand-prize winning ticket for the Million Dollar Holiday Scratch-off. Douglas has previously won two other major lottery prizes: In 2001, he won $250,000 on a Hoosier Lottery Polar Express Scratch-off, and in 2006, he won $25,000 on a holiday raffle game. The odds are so against winning in the
Nov 22, 2013, 7:40 pm - Lottery News

Single mom finds €258,528 lottery ticket in her garbage canNews Story
A single mother from Galway, Ireland, nearly lost out on a 258,528 (US$351,482) lottery win all because she tossed her winning ticket into a garbage can. But Lady Luck smiled on her when she eventually discovered the all-important ticket buried in the household garbage. The Galway woman began a frantic search for the discarded EuroMillions ticket and eventually found it at the bottom of the garbage can. She toasted her double whammy of good luck on Tuesday at the National Lottery HQ in
Oct 3, 2013, 8:18 am - Lottery News

Struggling UK family facing a bright future after lottery winNews Story
A young family on the verge of losing everything have scooped a 5.8 million (US$8.9 million) lottery fortune. Tracy Tyler, 37, and Adam Young, 30, from Epping, in the County of Essex, England, were struggling to make ends meet this time last week, after Mr. Young lost his job in June. On Saturday night they paused the television program they were watching, as they do every week, to check their lottery ticket. One-by-one, mother-of-two Miss Tyler circled the numbers, before looking up in
Jul 26, 2013, 10:30 am - Lottery News