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Lottery winner hangs self 7 years after collecting winNews Story
Seven years ago, Gerald Muswagon was all smiles as his troubled life took a fairy-tale turn when he won a $10 million lottery jackpot.On Sunday, Mr. Muswagon hanged himself in his parent's garage.It was a shocking end for a man who appeared to have the world at his fingertips, yet clearly never could grasp the instant fame and fortune he was handed through his lucky $2 Super 7 ticket. People are very upset, and this is all very surprising, said his cousin, Mike Muswagon. But he had been very d
Oct 5, 2005, 9:31 am - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery employees return to work day after fireNews Story
Employees at the Iowa Lottery headquarters in Des Moines were able to return to their building Wednesday after an electrical fire the day before forced an evacuation.Repair crews were able to restore electrical service to the building Wednesday, and workers were on site to clean up fire damage, said spokeswoman Mary Neubauer.No one was injured in the fire, which was contained to the lottery s basement. Officials said the fire was caused by electrical equipment, and employees had reported hearing
Aug 25, 2005, 2:51 pm - Lottery News

Explosion, fire, shut down Iowa Lottery HeadquartersNews Story
An explosion and smoky fire Tuesday has forced the evacuation of the Iowa Lottery Headquarters building in Des Moines.Lottery spokesperson Mary Neubauer was in the building at the time. She said they were working this morning when all of the electricity went out. At that time, people working in the basement heard some load pops and saw some sparks flying from the electrical equipment. We're just thankful that no-one was hurt, Neubauer said.Neubauer said they won't get the office running again
Aug 23, 2005, 7:21 pm - Lottery News

French family win lottery twice with same numbersNews Story
In a feat that will have statisticians shaking their heads, a French family have twice won a national lottery using the same numbers each time.The lucky clan, who were not identified, picked up 1.5 million (US$1.84 million) in an August 3 lottery using the same selection of numbers they mark down every week, said Beatrice Vandersype, the wife of the tobacconist who sold the winning ticket.She added that those same numbers netted the family 900,000 French francs back in 1978, a sum equivalent
Aug 17, 2005, 8:48 pm - Lottery News

Lottery scores triple-zeros twice in one dayNews Story
Missouri Lottery players with an affinity for the number zero won big Wednesday, when the winning Pick 3 numbers in both the afternoon and evening drawings were 0-0-0.Triple numbers have never been picked twice in one day, said Scott White, the lottery's online product manager. But statistically, he said, they are all random events. We are as likely to draw triple zeros the next five draws. Triple numbers are popular Pick 3 bets.The lottery collected $60,071 among Pick 3 players during the mi
Jul 28, 2005, 1:30 pm - Lottery News

Fortune cookie bet made Powerball lottery players richNews Story
Powerball lottery officials suspected fraud: how could 110 players in the March 30 drawing get five of the six numbers right? That made them all second-prize winners, and considering the number of tickets sold in the 29 states where the game is played, there should have been only four or five.Many different brands of fortune cookies come from Wonton Food's Long Island City factory.But from state after state they kept coming in, the one-in-three-million combination of 22, 28, 32, 33, 39.It took s
May 11, 2005, 11:23 am - Lottery News

Chinese man jailed for selling newborn to buy lottery ticketsNews Story
A father who sold his newborn son to raise money to buy lottery tickets was sentenced to 10 years in prison in China's latest baby-trafficking case, a newspaper reported Monday.The man, identified only by the family name Zhang, sold his baby boy for 9,000 yuan, the equivalent of about $1,350, because he had dreams of becoming rich overnight, the Beijing Daily Messenger reported. Evil father sold his own son to buy lottery tickets, the headline read.The Fugou County Court in central China's He
May 9, 2005, 10:57 am - Lottery News

Man finally wins lottery claim from washed-up ticketNews Story
A Spaniard has won a six-year court battle to claim the equivalent of about $50,000 US from a winning lottery ticket that went through a washing machine and came out in pieces.The organization running the lottery, the National Organization of Blind Spaniards, had refused to pay out on grounds the pieces might stem from a scam - a bunch of tickets washed intentionally and then snippets put together to look like a ticket with the winning five-digit number.But a Madrid court ruled Thursday that pla
Mar 18, 2005, 11:06 am - Lottery News

Singapore man wrongfully jailed while claiming lottery jackpotNews Story
A Singaporean man who was wrongly detained while collecting a US$1.2 million lottery prize has finally received his winnings after a woman who claimed to be the rightful winner was jailed.A spokesman for the state-linked betting firm Singapore Pools told AFP Tuesday that the 48-year-old winner collected his cheque last week.The Straits Times newspaper reported Tuesday that the man, identified only as Mr. Ho, had been arrested in December while collecting his prize because a woman had informed po
Mar 1, 2005, 1:00 pm - Lottery News

Leader who pushed to start the ND lottery can no longer playNews Story
The leader of a petition drive to legalize the lottery in North Dakota can no longer play the game.Rep. Andy Maragos, R-Minot, can no longer play the North Dakota lottery because his wife, Sherry, was hired by the North Dakota Lottery on Feb. 14.State law prohibits immediate family members of lottery employees to play the game. Sherry Maragos was hired on as a customer relations specialist with the North Dakota Lottery, which is a division of the attorney general's office. Andy Maragos said joki
Feb 28, 2005, 12:08 pm - Lottery News