Florida landscaper claims $9M Lotto jackpot
A Melbourne, Florida, landscaper from Costa Rica has come forward to claim his $9 million Florida Lotto jackpot.
Feliciano Aragon purchased the winning ticket Tuesday at a Melbourne convenience store and was the lone player to match all six numbers, according to lottery officials.
The winning numbers were 9-14-25-37-42-52.
The ticket is the 31st sold in Brevard County to win the jackpot since the Lotto began 20 years ago.
Aragon chose the one-time lump sum payment option for hi ...
Dec 3, 2006, 4:10 pm - - Lottery News forum
Florida Lottery holiday raffle game sold out
10 players will win $1 million each on New Year's Day
At 10:33 pm Thursday night the last of the 1.25 million Holiday Millionaire Raffle tickets was sold. Players who purchased tickets will need to hold on to them for the New Year's Day drawing to see who will become the Florida Lottery's first 10 millionaires in 2007.
The winning numbers will be posted to the Florida Lottery Web site by 3:00 pm, January 1, 2007. The numbers will also be posted at Lottery Post.
Holiday Millionaire Raf ...
Dec 3, 2006, 3:59 pm - - Lottery News forum
Florida Lottery raffle tickets almost sold out
Holiday Millionaire Raffle tickets could be sold out by the end of this week based on the current rate of sales, the Florida Lottery reports.
As of 1 p.m. Tuesday approximately 956,000 of the tickets had been purchased statewide - meaning almost 77 percent of the tickets sold in just eight days.
Only 293,500 (23 percent) of the 1.25 million tickets remain available.
Holiday Millionaire Raffle will provide a total of 130 cash prizes worth $13 million.
There will be 10 prizes of $1 mil ...
Nov 29, 2006, 9:12 am - - Lottery News forum
Florida Lotto jackpot rolls over to $9 million
No ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers, resulting in a rollover that produced an estimated $9 million jackpot for the next drawing, lottery officials said Sunday.
A total of 69 tickets matched five numbers to win $5,468.50; 3,755 tickets matched four numbers for $81.50; and 82,212 tickets matched three numbers for $5.
The winning Florida Lotto numbers selected Saturday: 10-11-12-35-41-52.
Nov 27, 2006, 8:21 am - - Lottery News forum
New Florida Lottery raffle will make 10 millionaires
The Florida Lottery's newest game could be just the ticket to brighten up someone's holiday season, but the game won't be for everyone. That's because if you wait too long to buy a ticket, you could be shut out of the game.
This week, the Florida Lottery unveiled its new Holiday Millionaire Raffle game, but it's only selling 1.25 million tickets so when they're gone, they're gone.
The $20 tickets go on sale Monday, and will be sold through Dec. 30. But if they sell out before then w ...
Nov 18, 2006, 11:39 am - - Lottery News forum
Florida man claims $6 million Lotto jackpot
A trip to Publix netted a North Port man $6 million.
Even after buying the winning ticket, Ronald Tourville forgot to check the numbers. He had forgotten about his tickets until Sunday night when he opened his wallet and saw them. He then logged onto the Florida Lottery's Web site to check his numbers and discovered he was the winner.
According to lottery spokeswoman Shelisha C. Durden, Tourville, 48, claimed the estimated $6 million Florida Lotto jackpot. Instead of accepting payments ove ...
Sep 12, 2006, 8:51 am - - Lottery News forum
16 nurses split $6 million Florida Lotto jackpot
Sixteen Southwest Florida Regional Medical Center employees apparently are $6 million richer after picking all six of Saturday's winning Florida Lotto numbers.
The employees, who have not yet been identified, purchased the only winning ticket at the 7-11 at 12100 Three Oaks Parkway in Estero.
Margaret Chabris, spokeswoman for 7-11 stores, said a regular customer picked up the winning ticket on behalf of the employees and the group is planning to speak with the media after they pick up thei ...
Sep 5, 2006, 11:03 am - - Lottery News forum
Florida lottery backs GTECH-Lottomatica deal
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 forum
One ticket wins $40 million Florida Lotto jackpot
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 forum
$204 Million: Saturday Powerball Jackpot
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 forum
