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Florida lottery backs GTECH-Lottomatica dealNews Story
The Florida lottery has agreed to the planned takeover of U.S. lottery operator GTECH Holdings Corp by Italy's Lottomatica, Lottomatica said on Wednesday. Lottomatica plans to buy GTECH in a $5 billion deal that would create the world's biggest lottery operator. One of the deal conditions laid down by Lottomatica is that it would not lose GTECH's lottery operating concessions in the United States. Lottomatica said in a statement that GTECH had been informed of Florida's backing for the dea
Aug 16, 2006, 12:18 pm - Lottery News

One ticket wins $40 million Florida Lotto jackpotNews Story
For a brief moment, one of the two men who run Food R Us convenience store in Palm Springs, Florida, had their hands on a slip of paper worth $40 million. Then they passed it to one of their customers. The small, neighborhood store on Congress Avenue sold the sole winning ticket for Saturday's Florida Lotto jackpot. The winning numbers passed through our hands, said Raj Sam Savdas, who managers the store with Nicholas Azavedo. We are wishing them good luck. We have a lot of good cu
Aug 7, 2006, 10:45 am - Lottery News

$204 Million: Saturday Powerball JackpotNews Story
Largest lottery jackpot in the world; $164 million more than second-largest jackpot The Powerball jackpot continues to grow to unbelievable heights. The multi-state game's $204 million jackpot is $164 million more than the next-largest worldwide lottery jackpot Florida Lotto's $40 million grand prize. (Both games will conduct their drawings tomorrow at 11:00 PM Eastern Time.) Even though the grand prize was not awarded Wednesday, three lucky tickets in DC, Iowa, and North Carolina ea
Aug 4, 2006, 4:10 pm - Lottery News

Florida store clerks say regular won LotteryNews Story
Workers at a Palm Coast convenience store said a local man was shaking after he came inside the store Sunday morning to check the winning Lotto numbers and discovered he'd won $10 million. Don Baiga, clerk at the Kangaroo Express on Palm Harbor Parkway, said the man pulled out his five Quick Picks, which are randomly selected by the lottery machine, and Baiga proceeded to read him the numbers. The man, whom employees did not know by name, then handed over one of the tickets and asked the cler
Jun 5, 2006, 8:00 am - Lottery News

Fla. Fantasy 5 lottery player wins $241,000News Story
One winner of the Florida Lottery's Fantasy 5 game will collect $241,009.50, a lottery official said Wednesday. The winning ticket was bought in the city of Zephyrhills, lottery officials reported. The 344 tickets matching 4-of-5 numbers will collect $113 each. The 11,015 tickets matching 3-of-5 won $9.50 each, and 106,251 tickets won a Quick Pick ticket for picking 2-of-5. The numbers drawn Tuesday night were 1-5-9-30-34. Tonight's Florida Lotto jackpot is $6 million.
May 31, 2006, 11:45 am - Lottery News

Winning Florida Lotto ticket sold in Spring HillNews Story
One ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers to win a jackpot of $3 million, lottery officials said Thursday. The winning ticket was bought in the city of Spring Hill, officials said. Other prizes included: 71 tickets matched five numbers to win $3,9184,282 tickets matched four numbers for $52.5079,724 tickets matched three numbers for $4 The winning Florida Lotto numbers selected Wednesday were: 03-12-19-23-28-35. Fantasy 5 One winner of the Fantasy 5 game will collect $
May 25, 2006, 4:57 pm - Lottery News

Florida woman claims $11 million Lotto jackpotNews Story
Just what do you do with $6.1 million? Titusville neighbors now have a chance to ask one of their own after 54-year-old Della Nelson claimed the state's coveted Florida Lotto prize Tuesday morning in Tallahassee. Nelson chose a one-time lump sum of $6.1 million before taxes nearly a week after purchasing the winning ticket in the $11 million drawing, officials said. She came forward this morning, said Leslie Steele, a Florida Lottery spokeswoman. Nelson purchased her winnin
May 18, 2006, 8:42 am - Lottery News

One ticket wins $11 million Florida Lotto jackpotNews Story
One ticket sold in Titusville matched all six numbers in Saturday's Lotto drawing from the Florida Lottery. The ticket with the numbers 1-5-12-27-33-52 is worth an estimated $11 million. Other prizes to be awarded: 99 tickets matching five numbers are worth $4,777 each,5,755 tickets matching four numbers are worth $66.50 each, and,119,152 tickets matching three numbers are worth $4.50 each. The estimated jackpot for Wednesday's drawing is $3 million. Five split Fantasy 5 prize
May 15, 2006, 7:39 am - Lottery News

Man reports $7,000 scam by 'lottery winner'News Story
A good Samaritan was taken for a ride he won't soon forget after he reported being scammed $7,000 by a man who said he won the lottery. Here's what happened, according to the victim and a North Miami police report: The victim, a 68-year-old Aventura, Florida, resident, was walking in the parking lot of Home Depot, 12055 Biscayne Blvd., at about 10:30 a.m. on a recent Wednesday when he was approached by a man who said he was an undocumented worker from Honduras and needed help finding a law
May 8, 2006, 11:59 am - Lottery News

Florida Lottery had big winners this weekendNews Story
Two Florida Lotto players share $12 million jackpot Two tickets matched all six Florida Lotto numbers to share a jackpot of $12 million, lottery officials said Sunday. The winning tickets were bought in the cities of Tampa and North Miami, officials said. Other prizes included: 145 tickets matched five numbers to win $3,571 each8,339 tickets matched four numbers for $50 each140,060 tickets matched three numbers for $4 each The winning Florida Lotto numbers selected Saturday were
May 1, 2006, 9:15 am - Lottery News