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Mega Millions Winners to Claim $239 Million Jackpot ThursdayNews Story
Virginia Lottery will announce multiple winners of the record $239 million jackpotThe winners of a $239 million Mega Millions jackpot have come forward more than a month after the winning ticket was sold, the Virginia Lottery said Wednesday.Lottery spokesman Ed Scarborough said the winners' names and other details would not be revealed until a news conference at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond.The $239 million jackpot is the world's second-largest single-ticket lot
Mar 31, 2004, 10:10 pm - Lottery News

North Carolina man wins $100,000 in Virginia lotteryNews Story
It seems that James Lawson's phone has been ringing a lot more these days. Reidsville is a small town, he says. News travel fast around here. The news: the 55-year-old retired tobacco plant worker won $100,000 Friday in the Virginia Cash 5 Lottery.Lawson learned of his winnings while watching golf on television. From his Reidsville home, he is able to pick up a Roanoke television station that broadcasts the lottery numbers at 2 and 11 p.m. every Monday through Saturday.Once the numbers were
Mar 31, 2004, 4:37 am - Lottery News

Wife's Birthday Dinner Ends with £4.3M Lottery JoyNews Story
A man who took his wife out for a birthday meal returned home to find he had won 4.3 million on the lottery.Mike Stone, from Leyland in Lancashire, took his wife Sarah out last Saturday night to celebrate her 46th birthday.When the couple came home, they discovered they had won 4,316,624.They now plan to take their six children Jennifer, seven, Clair, 11, Daniel, 12, Christopher, 14, Michael, 20, and Caroline, 22 to Disneyland in Florida.They also plan to buy a bigger house than their three-be
Mar 31, 2004, 4:33 am - Lottery News

Player wins UK Lottery jackpot buying ticket onlineNews Story
Camelot, the company that operates the UK National Lottery, is trumpeting its first online lotto millionaire.The winner has opted for only partial publicity, meaning all that can be revealed is where they come from - Edinburgh.What has been revealed is that the winning sum totalled 5,935,128 (US $10.8 million). The numbers from the March 20 drawing were 13, 21, 37, 42, 46 and 48.Camelot describes it as the UK's largest ever online gaming win. This is fantastic news for the winner and a great d
Mar 30, 2004, 5:06 am - Lottery News

Ohio man becomes an instant millionaireNews Story
A Grafton, Ohio man instantly turned a $5 investment into $1 million at an Ohio gas station and convenience store on Sunday morning.Rodney Coker, 44, who has worked as a crane operator at Elyria Foundry Co. for more than 20 years, won $1 million in the Ohio Lottery's Thanks a Million instant scratch-off game. It was cardiac arrest, Coker said yesterday.Coker comes into the Citgo at 879 Main St. in Grafton about twice a day, store owner Hazel Rowe said, adding that he just walked in, bought the
Mar 30, 2004, 4:48 am - Lottery News

Vermont Resident Captures $50,000News Story
A Bethel, Vermont resident hit it big over the weekend when he won $50,000 playing the Vermont Lotterys instant game, Big Money Action.Alfred Hill was purchasing gas on Sunday morning and decided to use part of his change to purchase a $5 instant ticket. I scratched the ticket outside the store and didnt think it was a winner at first noted Mr. Hill. Then I looked closer and saw something that looked like a prize. Still uncertain, Mr. Hill reentered the store and asked the clerk to validate t
Mar 26, 2004, 9:25 am - Lottery News

Co-owner of Pizza House claims $100,000 lottery prizeNews Story
Just because Stacy Varellas of North Adams won $100,000 last week, that doesn't mean she'll be leaving the Pizza House business she co-owns with her husband, Jim.In fact, they won't be changing much at all. It's not a small amount, but it's not such a big amount, she said Wednesday while working at the Adams Pizza House. It's not a million, but it's definitely nice. While Varellas sounds calm now, she was ecstatic to hear on the radio last Wednesday morning that she had the winning numbers of
Mar 26, 2004, 9:18 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner tells of lost millionsNews Story
A former ambulance driver in St. Albans who scooped 6m on the UK National Lottery lost his fortune after his new life turned into a nightmare.Tom Papworth, 46, moved to Spain after his 1995 win, but says he was taken in by conmen, swindled, framed, and jailed for cocaine possession.He told BBC's Newsnight programme this week that while he languished in jail for crimes he didn't commit, his new friends emptied his bank account and sold his plush apartment.Mr Papworth claims the man behind the
Mar 23, 2004, 4:43 am - Lottery News

News agency owner wins $259,000 in Penn. lotteryNews Story
Wayde Christophel will soon be smiling all the way to the bank.Christophel, a Waynesboro resident who owns The Waynesboro News Agency on West Main Street with his wife Kim, won the $259,000 jackpot in Friday night's Cash 5 drawing of the Pennsylvania Lottery.He's not a complete stranger to lottery luck, though. Six years ago, he won $5,000 in the former Saturday Night Spin game.Christophel said he plans to file a claim at lottery headquarters today in Harrisburg, so he was unable to provide deta
Mar 23, 2004, 4:39 am - Lottery News

Persistence pays off for Tennessee lottery playerNews Story
Winner of $50,000 Jumbo Bucks jackpot to donate portion for cancer researchShirley Martin says she's spent about $10 a day on lottery tickets since the games started in January. On Sunday night, her persistence paid off - big time.The Benton County, Tennessee woman won $50,000 in the scratch-off game Jumbo Bucks, buying her winning $2 ticket at the Tiger Mart in Bruceton, where she used to work.When the games first started, Martin got hooked after winning $6 on a scratch-off ticket. It just ke
Mar 23, 2004, 4:32 am - Lottery News