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Weak bond market lowers lottery annuity jackpotsNews Story
Situation serves as reminder of how jackpots are calculated The nation's financial crisis is causing a dip in one of the optional jackpots offered in Wisconsin's Megabucks lottery game. The lottery said Tuesday that the annuity option which has a jackpot paid in installments over 29 years will decline for the first time because of a weak bond market. State lotteries fund their annuity options by using ticket revenue to buy conservative, government-backed bonds. For the Wisconsin lott
Oct 29, 2008, 9:06 am - Lottery News

Wisconsin couple win in lottery -- again!News Story
The Mount Horeb couple who made headlines earlier this week because they held two of only four winning tickets sold in Wisconsin for Saturday's SuperCash drawing, turn out to have the other two as well. Verlyn Adamson, 69, and his wife, Judith, 69, of Mount Horeb, turned in the other two tickets and it turned out they are the only winners in Saturday's drawing and are now $1.4 million richer. Lottery spokesman Andrew Bohage was surprised when the Adamsons held the first two winning tickets
Aug 22, 2008, 8:49 pm - Lottery News

His and Hers: Wisconsin spouses win identical lottery jackpotsNews Story
This couple won't have to argue about how to spend their lottery winnings. That's because the Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, husband and wife each won their own $350,000 jackpots in this weekend's SuperCash state lottery. Lottery officials said Verlyn Adamson bought his winning ticket at a Mineral Point gas station and his wife Judith bought hers from a convenience store in Barnevald. Verlyn Adamson is an accountant who says he's a big fan of math puzzles. He claims he developed a secret formula
Aug 19, 2008, 8:23 pm - Lottery News

$100,000 Wisconsin lottery ticket going unclaimedNews Story
A Wisconsin lottery ticket worth $100,000 will be worthless if no one claims the prize in the next 10 days. The ticket for the Holiday Millions Raffle was purchased more than six months ago in Neenah and was one of 10 that won $100,000 in a New Year's Day drawing. But it's the only one that hasn't been used to claim the prize, and the 180-day claim period runs out June 27. Lottery spokesman Andrew Bohage says officials are hoping someone just forgot about the ticket and can still claim
Jun 20, 2008, 9:21 am - Lottery News

$1M Wisconsin lottery ticket sold on 'Miracle Mile'News Story
On New Year's Day, Phil Moses was atop a ladder, putting some big news up on the marquis outside Ma Pa's Grocery Express in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Another winning $1 million lottery ticket was sold at the legendary little store located at 506 S. Main St., along a strip dubbed The Miracle Mile. I don't want to sound arrogant, Phil quipped, but I seriously don't understand why people buy lottery tickets at any other location. A $100,000 winning ticket was also sold at Pick 'n Sa
Jan 2, 2008, 2:15 pm - Lottery News

U.S. Congressman wins lottery againNews Story
Sensenbrenner is a foe of illegal aliens U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, known for his strong opposition to illegal immigration, won the lottery for the third time last week, the Associated Press reported Friday. The Republican already a millionaire hit it big in 1997 with a $250,000 jackpot in the District of Columbia lottery. Then, last spring, he won $1,000 prize in the Wisconsin lottery, and he won another $1,000 in that lottery last week, the AP said. Sensenbrenne
Sep 7, 2007, 8:27 pm - Lottery News

Cheese factory workers win lottery againNews Story
Some of the cheese factory workers who won a $208.6 million Powerball jackpot last summer have won again this time a $10,000 jackpot. Wisconsin Lottery spokesman Andrew Bohage says seven of the original 100 Miracles who won last August matched 4 of the five regular numbers plus the Powerball in the July 11th Powerball jackpot and won $10,000. Fifteen people won in all. Last year, 100 workers at Sargento Foods Incorporated in Plymouth said they had been playing for three years before w
Aug 24, 2007, 1:34 am - Lottery News

Wisconsin man claims $14.4M lottery jackpotNews Story
Terry Peters, of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, became a millionaire Tuesday. Peters validated the sole winning ticket from Saturday's $14.4 million Megabucks drawing at state lottery offices. Earlier on Monday, Peters had stopped by the store where he purchased the ticket to check if he was a winner. He chose to take the lump sum cash payment of $7.6 million. He will receive about $5.4 million after taxes. Peters will take part in a news conference at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the GV Unimart in
Jul 18, 2007, 12:01 pm - Lottery News

Winning Powerball lottery ticket sold in WisconsinNews Story
The winning Powerball ticket in the weekend drawing was purchased in Stoughton, Wisconsin, lottery officials said Sunday. It said the ticket worth $40.7 million was bought at the Food Pantry/Diamond Jubilee there. The regular numbers drawn Saturday night were 2, 5, 16, 36 and 40 and the Powerball was 36. The holder of the winning ticket has 180 days to claim the prize, lottery spokesman Andrew Bohage said. Once it is claimed, the winner has another 60 days to decide whether to take it i
Apr 2, 2007, 12:17 pm - Lottery News

Wisconsin Lottery to hold raffle draw May 1News Story
Raffle-mania speads to Wisconsin as tickets are selling at a rapid pace The Wisconsin Lottery is rolling the dice on a new lottery game called Million Dollar Draw, but with so many states profitting handsomely from the popular style of game, it is hardly a risk at all. It's a big-ticket game with what state lotteries call the best chance to win a million dollars because the odds of winning the jackpot are much better than traditional lotto games like Mega Millions or Powerball. The lo
Mar 22, 2007, 2:12 pm - Lottery News