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Courts freeze half of $30 million lottery winner's assetsNews Story
After picking up his $30-million jackpot from the Super 7 lottery last month, Ray Sobeski enjoyed the kind of financial freedom that most Canadians can only dream of: He cancelled his credit cards, bought $28-million worth of GICs, put $640,000 in a cash account, bought a series of airline tickets and wrote substantial cheques to a few close friends.A lifelong car enthusiast, Mr. Sobeski now had the money to buy whatever model he chose. But on May 4, his financial affairs took an unexpected turn
May 24, 2004, 8:43 am - Lottery News

Atlantic Canadian couple wins $10 millionNews Story
A Canadian woman who had just lost her job at a Cape Breton hardware store had a big change in her luck this weekend as she won a $10 million lottery jackpot. It's not hit yet, it really hasn't, Ferne Hawley told the ATV News on Sunday.Hawley was in the kitchen of her modest home in New Waterford when her longtime partner Tom Young returned from walking the dogs and started checking his lottery numbers. I said did you win? He said 'No, but somebody told me that the winner is in New Waterford. H
May 24, 2004, 8:36 am - Lottery News

Lotto winner sits on lucky ticket for weeksNews Story
There are people out there who won't buy lottery tickets unless the jackpot is over $100 million, thinking that anything less isn't worth winning.But one Newark, Ohio man cashed in on a Mega Millions ticket for a cool $175,000, matching five of the six winning numbers from the $20 million Mega Millions drawing April 20. Unbeknownst to him, the winning ticket sat idly in his car for nearly a month.G. Robert Frame stopped at the Beverage Source at 1191 N. Church St. Monday, and decided to bring in
May 21, 2004, 7:44 am - Lottery News

Lotto prediction comes true for Kentucky coupleNews Story
After signing to purchase a new home Friday, Pati and Stephen Kohl said they would have to win the lottery to make ends meet.The next day, they did just that.Stephen Kohl is one of 25 folks who are part a lottery office pool at Wild Flavors Inc. in Erlanger, Ky. The group won Saturdays $12.6 million Lotto South jackpot.Those in the pool chose the lump sum cash option and will receive nearly $177,800 each.This worked out just perfect. We bought a house on Friday and won the lottery on Saturday, s
May 21, 2004, 7:37 am - Lottery News

Maryland Seniors Win $175,000 Mega Millions Lottery PrizeNews Story
The retirement nest eggs for eight Maryland seniors just got a little richer.The Maryland Lottery announced Tuesday afternoon that a lively group of senior citizens collected their $175,000 prize from last Friday's Mega Millions game. Six women and two men comprise the group of seniors, who call themselves The Crazy 8s Club. The seniors matched the first five numbers drawn -- 10, 19, 32, 26 and 46 -- but they missed the Mega Ball, 06. Had they matched the Mega Ball on their ticket, they would
May 20, 2004, 7:34 am - Lottery News

New Jeresey couple wins huge Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
Pure serendipity - a detour around some bridge work and a spur-of-the-moment decision to buy tickets early for the May 8 Powerball drawing - have made Steven and Kristine White multimillionaires.The township couple bought the only winning ticket for the largest jackpot in the Pennsylvania Lottery's 32-year history - a one-time payment of $110,230,721, minus 25 percent in federal tax withholdings.Steven White, a vice president of a small New Jersey meat company, bought the ticket May 5 in Upper M
May 19, 2004, 8:13 am - Lottery News

Group of 22 wins $12 million Lotto South jackpotNews Story
Things are downright wild at the Wild Flavors factory in Erlanger, Kentucky after 22 employees won a nearly $12 million Lotto South lottery jackpot.The smell of money was in the air for 22 employees who are the winners of a nearly $12 million lotto jackpot and they're not the only ones cashing in.What are the odds of two $12 million winning tickets being sold 16 miles apart in the same week. Amazingly someone in Green hills still has not come forward to claim their money.But there was a lot of
May 18, 2004, 7:14 am - Lottery News

UK Lottery Winner Nearly BrokeNews Story
A former dustman who won a 9.7 million (US$17 million) Lottery jackpot has reportedly spent almost his entire fortune within 18 months on extravagant houses, cars and gold bling jewellery.Michael Carroll, 21, who was recently convicted of cocaine possession, has only 500,000 left, it is claimed.He has bought four homes, a holiday villa in Spain, two convertible BMW cars, quad bikes and a stake in a football club. Sources close to him claim Carroll has also wasted untold thousands on alcoho
May 14, 2004, 6:47 am - Lottery News

Tennessee Powerball $100,000 Winner Plans To Build HomeNews Story
Like many people across Tennessee, Matthew and Carolyn Hemby of McMinnville watched closely as the Powerball jackpot numbers were drawn on Saturday, May 8. Matthew, an employee of Federal Mogul, said he and his wife play the Lottery games regularly and on this occasion they were hoping to win the $212 million jackpot.Matthew said the family jumped up and down laughing when they realized they had won $100,000 and that they knew instantly what they planned to do with their winnings: Build a new ho
May 12, 2004, 6:47 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery win energizes Pennsylvania neighborhoodNews Story
Not often is a middle-aged woman seen hopping in public, yet there was Mary Ann Seems, bouncing on her toes yesterday in a , her fists quivering in post-lottery fever. This is so exciting! exclaimed Seems, 47, of Titusville, N.J. I don't care who it is; it's in our neighborhood! Seems lives just across the Delaware River from Washington Crossing, where a Cumberland Farms store last week sold the richest winning lottery ticket so fare in Pennsylvania history.Annuity value: $213.2 million.Cash o
May 11, 2004, 7:24 am - Lottery News