€126M Euro Millions lottery ticket was purchased online
Euro Million's biggest lottery winner didn't know she had won 126 million (US$170 million) because she was in bed with flu.
The lucky but ill woman was the only jackpot winner of Friday's Euro Millions drawing.
She failed to realize her numbers had come up until she dragged herself to work on Monday to save herself from being fired in recession-hit Spain.
The unnamed 25-year-old, from Majorca, said, I still had flu on Monday but with the crisis we are going through, I decided I had to g ...
May 14, 2009, 7:20 am - - Lottery News forum
NASCAR fan wins $75.6M lottery jackpot
The start of 2009 was not a good one for Joe Denette.
The Thornburg man was laid off in January from his job at Brookfield Homes, where he had worked as a service technician for the last seven years. A message he posted on his Facebook page said it all: You don't work, you don't eat.
But that didn't stop him from participating in two of his cherished hobbies--watching NASCAR races and playing the lottery.
His luck began to change when he won four tickets to the May 2 NASCAR race in Ric ...
May 13, 2009, 9:31 am - - Lottery News forum
One Euro Millions lottery ticket wins €126M jackpot (US$170M)
One lucky lottery ticket from Spain matched 5 lotto numbers plus the two Lucky Stars in Friday's Euro Millions drawing to win a massive jackpot of 126 million (US$170 million).
The huge prize was the result of six successive drawings without a winner in the multi-country European lottery game.
The winning ticket, worth 126,231,764 (US$170,198,287), was sold in a central Madrid lottery sales office.
As one would expect, the winner has not yet been revealed. Government lottery offices nor ...
May 9, 2009, 5:15 pm - - Lottery News forum
Georgia man wins lottery 3 times
Figure the odds: Three winning lottery tickets one of them for $1 million all in the same day.
Michael Warner, 61, of Grayson, Georgia, won the big prize playing the Georgia Lottery instant game World Class Millions, and topped off his winnings with $500 from another instant game, Extreme Green, and $20 from a third lottery ticket.
I could hardly breathe, said the retired Lucent Technologies employee. I was just at the right place at the right time.
On the afternoon of April 19, Warne ...
May 8, 2009, 9:57 am - - Lottery News forum
Lottery-winning deputies going to Disneyland
Two cohabiting Marin County sheriff's deputies are sporting ear-to-ear grins because they're California's newest multimillionaires.
Brian Cabaud, 31, and 24-year-old Anneliese Hansen, who goes by Liese, aren't chasing crooks these days. They're taking some time off, contemplating what life will be like now that they are $75 million richer, thanks to the Mega Millions lottery.
The California winning ticket is one of three tickets to split a $225 million Mega Millions jackpot drawn on May 1. ...
May 7, 2009, 9:00 am - - Lottery News forum
Elderly $144M Powerball lottery winner shows right way to claim jackpot
Winner protects his identity, while D.C. protects its tax revenue
The winner of a $144 million Powerball jackpot has finally stepped forward, nearly three weeks after the lottery drawing, demonstrating one of the best ways for a lottery player to claim a big prize.
The 82-year-old from Washington D.C. had his lawyer claim the prize on Monday on behalf of a corporation set up to keep his identity secret.
The moves frustrates reporters in the media seeking to reveal his personal story, bu ...
May 5, 2009, 7:31 am - - Lottery News forum
3 lottery players share $225M Mega Millions jackpot
Three players, in California, Ohio and Virginia, will share the $225 million jackpot from the latest Mega Millions multi-state lottery drawing, taking about $75 million apiece.
The next Mega Millions drawing, Tuesday night, will feature a jackpot of $12 million.
In addition to the grand prize winners from Friday night's drawing, 21 players, won second prizes of $250,000 apiece: 2 from California, 4 from Illinois, 1 from Maryland, 3 from New Jersey, 9 from New York, and 2 from Texas. The se ...
May 2, 2009, 10:14 am - - Lottery News forum
$220 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot soars
Largest jackpot in more than one year
Lottery jackpot hunters will have a big target this Friday night, when a $220 million jackpot is up from grabs in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game.
It is the largest Mega Millions jackpot since Feb. 22, 2008, when the top prize swelled to $270 million. One ticket sold in Georgia won that prize.
The huge pot came about after no tickets won last night's $181 million jackpot drawing. On Friday, players will attempt to match all five numbers p ...
Apr 29, 2009, 9:00 am - - Lottery News forum
Unemployed woman gets lotto winnings after 4 years
An unemployed woman who won $1 million in a Maine State Lottery game has collected her winnings four years after she bought the scratch ticket in a store that's since burned down.
Brenda Ripton told the Central Maine Morning Sentinel that she had received her $700,000 check from the lottery on Thursday.
Ripton had just learned two days earlier that she won the million-dollar prize in the Texas Hold 'em game. The government took the rest of her winnings for taxes.
Ripton said both she an ...
Apr 19, 2009, 8:39 am - - Lottery News forum
Florida Lottery winner opens nude dude ranch
You've heard of nude beaches, but how about a nude dude ranch?
A multi-million-dollar lottery winner in Florida is riling some by opening up his own. Tim Clements hit a $3.3 million jackpot in 2004, and wanted to return to the farm life he grew up in.
Clements, 50, became fed up with strangers asking him for money in Ormond Beach, Florida, so he bought a secluded ranch on the other side of the state.
He and David Jennings, co-owner of the ranch, say the farm is secluded enough to be in ...
Apr 19, 2009, 8:13 am - - Lottery News forum
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