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$590M Powerball winner still shops at WalmartNews Story
Shopping at Walmart and toting takeout from a local diner, it doesn't seem like life has changed that much for Gloria Mackenzie the 84-year-old great-grandmother who won a record $590.5 million Powerball lottery jackpot. Although she could be shopping in Chanel, Gloria who is the biggest single lottery Powerball winner in U.S. history instead joined her son Scott, 57, and his boyfriend Jerry Cruz, 65, for dinner at a crab shack near their Florida home. Gloria who is sharing her fortune wit
Jun 13, 2013, 8:32 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner faces murder trial in Detroit landlord's deathNews Story
Witnesses: Father shot Australian in dispute over daughter's rent A Michigan Lottery millionaire was ordered on Thursday to stand trial for first-degree premeditated murder. Freddie Young, 62, whose 13-member lottery club hit a $46.5 million Mega Millions jackpot in February, was bound over by 36th District Judge Patricia Jefferson on charges related to the May 7 slaying of his daughter's landlord in an alleged dispute over two months' unpaid rent. Witnesses testified at a preliminary e
May 27, 2011, 2:12 pm - Lottery News

Detroit lottery millionaire charged with murderNews Story
A man who was part of a U.S. Postal Service employees group who won a share of the $93 million Mega Millions Jackpot in February is now accused of killing a Detroit landlord from Australia. In a bizarre twist to the tragic death of Greg McNicol in Detroit, police said suspect Freddie Young won a $1.8 million slice of $93 million Mega Millions lottery. Young allegedly shot McNicol during an argument over just a few hundred dollars in overdue rent money Young's daughter owed. It didn't m
May 17, 2011, 7:37 am - Lottery News

Michigan gets second multi-state lottery winner in a weekNews Story
First-ever Powerball win in Michigan $128.6 million Powerball win comes just one week after $140 million Mega Millions jackpot won in same state By Todd Northrop The USA's two biggest multi-state lottery games produced $100 million+ jackpot winners within the same week both in the state of Michigan. Mega Millions was the first to turn out a grand prize winner. On Oct. 29, one lucky ticket sold in Michigan's Upper Peninsula region matched the first five numbers plus the Mega Ball numb
Nov 7, 2010, 10:42 am - Lottery News

Powerball, Mega Millions lotteries both have big winnersNews Story
By Todd Northrop The USA's two biggest multi-state lottery games produced jackpot winners this weekend. Mega Millions was the first to turn out a grand prize winner. Friday night, one lucky player from New York matched the first five numbers plus the Mega Ball number to win it all. The jackpot was worth $54 million, or $36.7 Million if awarded as one lump-sum cash payment. Both amounts are before taxes are withheld. The winning numbers for the Sept. 17 Mega Millions drawing were 3, 4
Sep 20, 2010, 4:27 pm - Lottery News

A rank amateur takes on the stars in poker’s world championshipNews Story
Chris Moneymaker had plenty on his mind a new mortgage, serious credit card debt and a newborn daughter. But at the moment, he was concentrating on the beefy Costa Rican across the poker table from him. Humberto Brenes had just deposited four neat stacks of blue thousand-dollar chips in the middle of the green felt.Raise, $70,000.Moneymaker studied him again through his sunglasses. Brenes was one of the best no-limit Texas Hold 'em players in the world. Moneymaker was a rank amateur who'd never
Aug 24, 2003, 6:58 am - Lottery News