New Hampshire crushes lottery winners with new 10% tax
Two $1M winners rush to get prizes before taxes skyrocket
Will higher taxes have the wrong effect and reduce revenue to the state?
The day before a massive 10 percent state tax on lottery prizes went into effect in the Granite State, two winners claimed separate $1 million jackpots something never before witnessed by a 20-year veteran of the lottery.
Milford High School teacher John Kasparek, 42, of Brookline, took a lump sum cash payment of $650,000 before taxes after a NH Millionaire' ...
Jul 1, 2009, 8:11 pm - - Lottery News forum
Two winners to share record A$106 million Australian lottery
A couple from Queensland state and a man from South Australia will share more than A$106 million (US$86 million) as the only jackpot winners in the nation's record lottery drawn last night.
Holders of the winning Oz Lotto entries, who asked to remain anonymous, will each take about A$53 million in the second-largest single payouts in Australian lottery history. The previous record jackpot of A$58.7 million was won on a single ticket last year.
The first division prize pool, created after 1 ...
Jul 1, 2009, 2:00 am - - Lottery News forum
Calif. man with 3 jobs wins $39M lottery jackpot
49-year-old plans to take wife to Hawaii and hire financial adviser
For 20 years, Clyde Persley of Santa Cruz worked more than 60 hours a week making candy, driving limousines and waiting by the phone to pick up extra hours at a restaurant. He bought lottery tickets and hoped for his big break.
And he got it.
Persley, 49, turned in his winning SuperLotto Plus ticket to the California Lottery office Tuesday night, said California Lottery spokeswoman Cathy Doyle Johnston, and will receive ...
Jun 29, 2009, 1:57 pm - - Lottery News forum
Lottery winners broke, busted
For someone who struck it rich, William Rivenburgh had fairly modest plans about how to spend his lottery winnings three years ago:
Pay off debts, make home repairs and possibly take a family trip to Disney World. Whether any of those things happened is unclear.
What is clear is that the money Rivenburgh has gotten so far from the $1 million scratch-off ticket he won in 2006 seems to have evaporated. He doesn't have enough money to make $5,000 bail after he was arrested May 25 for alleged ...
Jun 25, 2009, 12:57 am - - Lottery News forum
Self-described 'lottery freak' buys $88M Powerball ticket
27-year-old is now a Powerball millionaire
Jeff Wilson, 27, has his lottery freak dad to thank for helping him win the $88 million Powerball. Wilson met the media Tuesday and talked about his winnings.
I don't really know what to say. Does anybody have any questions? he asked reporters as he timidly stepped in front of the cameras. I don't know if I'm gonna wake up in a minute and it's gonna be a dream.
Wilson's dad, Bill Wilson, purchased the ticket at a gas station in Kings Mountain ...
Jun 23, 2009, 2:20 pm - - Lottery News forum
Georgia carpenter wins lottery twice in a week
One week after winning $1,000 in the Georgia Lottery, a 62-year-old carpenter struck it really big.
Earl Fritz took home the top prize of $777,777 in the instant game Super Lucky 7's.
I felt lucky last week, the Augusta resident said. Now I feel a little bit luckier.
He purchased his ticket at Ms. Carolyn's, 2416 Windsor Spring Road, and scratched it. At first, Fritz didn't realize what he had.
I didn't have my glasses on, he said. It looked like a blur.
Fritz's first win came ...
Jun 22, 2009, 9:38 pm - - Lottery News forum
$200,000 Powerball prize awarded on day lottery ticket was set to expire
Mother urged winner to check tickets, having heard news of upcoming expiration
William H. Greer of Philadelphia is the winner of a $200,000 Powerball prize that was set to expire at 4:30 p.m. today.
At Choi's Food and Beer, 3987 Ford Rd, in the Wynnefield section of the city, they knew the ticket sold there that matched all five white numbers (but not the red Powerball number) from last year's June 18th drawing was still out there somewhere.
My mother saw the news about the unclaimed t ...
Jun 18, 2009, 10:30 pm - - Lottery News forum
Euro Millions lottery winner is gardener and 'nice chap'
Onion-growing granddad Brian Caswell will jet to Rio and buy a flash car after claiming a 25 million (US$40.8 million) Euro Millions lottery jackpot.
But the 74-year-old, who won half the Euro Millions jackpot last Friday, said he and wife Joan, 72, would not move far from their modest home in Bolton, Greater Manchester.
CCTV footage captured the happy winner punching the air at his local newsagent on learning he had won on Saturday.
He is Britain's third-biggest Lotto winner ever and t ...
Jun 18, 2009, 10:33 am - - Lottery News forum
Husband, then wife, wins lottery
The Hills were excited when they won $5,000 from the Georgia Lottery. But excited doesn't begin to cover how they felt one week later, when they won again this time a $1 million prize.
I was really ecstatic about the $5,000, Hill said, but then, boom! When I got this one I was just like, 'Wow, I can't believe this. My life is going to change for the better.'
Karen Hill, a 34-year-old mother of two, bought the winning ticket for the World Class Millions instant game at City Chevron, 701 E ...
Jun 11, 2009, 10:30 pm - - Lottery News forum
Lucky grandparents strike it big in Ga. lottery
Apparently, it pays to be a grandparent.
The latest big winners in the Georgia Lottery have a combined 17 grandchildren between them.
Brenda Lee, 60, who works at a lawn-mower assembly plant, won $500,000 in the instant game Jumbo Bucks. The Statesboro woman bought the ticket at Ambe Food Mart and scratched it in her car.
I called my daughter and asked her to come quickly because I couldn't drive, said Lee, who has two children and four grandchildren. I also showed the clerk. I just co ...
Jun 11, 2009, 1:35 pm - - Lottery News forum
