Lottery ticket purchased in Fort Lauderdale wins $279,490 top prize
One winner of the Florida Lottery's Fantasy 5'' game will collect $279,490.42, lottery officials said Sunday.
The winning ticket was bought in Fort Lauderdale, lottery officials reported.
The 382 tickets matching four numbers won $118 each. Another 12,134 tickets matching three numbers won $10 each, and 120,796 tickets won a Quick Pick ticket for picking two numbers.
The numbers drawn Saturday night were 6-21-23-25-28.
Lotto jackpot rolls over to $14 million
Meahwile, the jackpot ...
Nov 12, 2007, 7:25 am - - Lottery News forum
Some States Consider Leasing Their Lotteries
As chief operating officer of the California Department of Finance, Fred Klass gets pitches from Wall Street bankers as often as the rest of us might get cold calls from telemarketers or insurance agents. But when Kathleen Brown of Goldman Sachs came to his office earlier this year and suggested privatizing the state lottery, Mr. Klass listened closely.
It wasn't merely because Ms. Brown happened to be a former state treasurer as well as the daughter of one famous California governor and the ...
Oct 16, 2007, 10:05 am - - Lottery News forum
Fight over lottery ticket heads to court
In a Bartow, Florida, courtroom, two men are dreaming of being a millionaire, but only one will.
Michael Ford and Abraham Shakespeare were once good friends and partners at work. Now they are battling over a winning $30 million lottery ticket.
Ford is suing Shakespeare because he says Shakespeare stole the lucky ticket from him.
Ford is being represented by long-time Tampa attorney Arnold Levine.
During opening statements, Levine told jurors they should question Shakespeare's truthfu ...
Oct 16, 2007, 8:38 am - - Lottery News forum
Is the lottery shortchanging schools?
According to the North American Assoc. of State and Provincial Lotteries, 42 states and the District of Columbia run lotteries, and more than half claim the games boost funding for education. But CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian found that lotteries aren't exactly providing a windfall for schools.
If you listen to state lottery ads, we're supposed to believe that all the numbers are supposedly adding up to more and more money for education.
Lotteries help, but n ...
Sep 19, 2007, 12:38 pm - - Lottery News forum
Florida Gov. suggests selling the lottery
Selling the state's lottery and some of its highways, such as Alligator Alley, to private companies may help solve Florida's financial dilemma, Gov. Charlie Crist said Tuesday.
Crist said he wants lottery and transportation officials to examine the potential of going private but cautioned that doesn't mean he's sold on the idea.
I don't know if it's good or bad at this point, but I think it's important to continue to be innovative, Crist said. It's merely an idea. It's not something I'm ...
Sep 5, 2007, 8:24 am - - Lottery News forum
Lottery winner goes from rags to riches to rags
For David Lee Edwards, winning the lottery was a wild rocket ride
In the fall of 2006, David Lee Edwards and his wife, Shawna, decorated their front door for Halloween. But if trick-or-treaters made it to the couple's home, a storage unit in Riviera Beach, no plastic ghost was as scary as what they'd have found inside: two pale, withered junkies from Kentucky living amid dirty clothes, rotting food, and their own filth.
And these were lottery winners.
Today, with David on what could be ...
Aug 22, 2007, 9:57 am - - Lottery News forum
Down on his luck, Florida man wins $33M lottery jackpot
West Palm Beach resident Ezequiel Perez has had his share of tragedy in recent weeks. His father died early Monday morning in Cuba. His home was heavily damaged by a fire earlier this month.
On Saturday night, he got some good news.
Perez, 51, of West Palm Beach, was the winner of Saturday's $33 million Florida Lotto jackpot.
He bought his Quick Pick-winning ticket Saturday at a Lake Worth supermarket and hit the 1-in-23 million chance.
Perez wasted no time claiming his winnings, acc ...
Jul 24, 2007, 10:28 pm - - Lottery News forum
Cops say co-worker killed Lotto winner
A burly Orange County, Florida, tree trimmer won $10,000 last month and some are saying it may have cost him his life.
Employees found their crew boss dead on the floor with empty pockets Monday morning at Gator Tree Experts near West Fairbanks Avenue.
Suspicions quickly focused on Dwayne Ricardo Smith, a missing co-worker with a history of violent crimes, according to Orange County sheriff's reports.
Within hours, Smith's best friend began telling detectives about a night that began wi ...
Jul 11, 2007, 8:27 pm - - Lottery News forum
Employees hit Florida Lottery raffle jackpot
A group of lucky workers from a distributor of electronic components will celebrate Independence Day much differently next year.
Sandra Pope-Guerriero of Pinellas Park, who works at Cross Components Inc. claimed a $1 million prize for herself and seven coworkers who pitched in to buy 16 Florida Lottery Firecracker tickets.
Pope-Guerriero bought the winning ticket at Rockwell's Pub Liquors on Starkey Road, one of two lottery retailers in the same shopping plaza that sold winning tickets.
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Jul 11, 2007, 2:45 pm - - Lottery News forum
Florida Lottery Firecracker Millionaire Raffle results
The Florida Lottery's latest raffle-style game, Firecracker Millionaire Raffle, was drawn today, and will make twelve instant millionaires.
The winning numbers can be found here:
http://www.lotterypost.com/fl-lottery-raffle-2007-07-04.asp
Firecracker Millionaire Raffle is a raffle game offered by the Florida Lottery, with a limited number of $20 tickets.
With only 1,500,000 tickets sold for the raffle, Millionaire Raffle offers the best odds to win $1 million of any Florida Lottery g ...
Jul 4, 2007, 8:45 pm - - Lottery News forum
