Canada couple collects $18.5M lottery win
Lightning strikes twice as 6/49 win follows $13,000 slot machine windfall
A Caledon, Ontario, couple have won $18.5 million in the latest Lotto 6/49 draw, right after collecting a $13,000 slot machine jackpot.
Anthony and Antonietta Marrocco were on hand at the lottery offices in downtown Toronto this afternoon, beaming from ear to ear as they accepted the cheque.
The couple, who have been playing the lottery steadily for eight years, could hardly believe their good fortune. Antonietta ...
Nov 12, 2007, 11:45 pm - - Lottery News forum
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
Seven tickets to split record Jersey Cash 5 lottery jackpot
New Jersey Lottery officials say there are seven winning tickets sold for the record Jersey Cash 5 jackpot worth nearly $2 million.
Two of the tickets were sold in Atlantic County. The others were purchased in Cumberland, Essex, Gloucester, Monmouth and Union counties.
The numbers in Tuesday night's drawing were 4, 5, 17, 18 and 21. The total jackpot was $1,964,438.
Each winning ticket is worth $280,634.
Jersey Cash 5's average jackpot is $300,000. Lottery officials say sales fr ...
Oct 25, 2007, 7:39 am - - Lottery News forum
Colorado chalks up its first Powerball winner
A ticket sold in the Denver metro area matched all six numbers in the Powerball jackpot Wednesday night the first time a Powerball winning ticket has been sold in the state.
We're just so excited to have a Powerball winner in Colorado finally, said Kristen Shew, spokeswoman for the Colorado Lottery.
What a year it has been for Colorado the Rockies go to the playoffs, and we get a Powerball winner.
The Powerball jackpot was up to $20 million, and one ticket sold matched the fiv ...
Oct 11, 2007, 8:44 am - - Lottery News forum
Janitorial entrepreneur sweeps up lottery millions
After playing for years, a California woman hit the Mega Millions jackpot for $60 million.
Zorina Kroop, a California businesswoman who helped build up a thriving overnight janitorial service over the past 27 years, cleaned up somewhere new this week: the lottery.
The 63-year-old Sherman Oaks resident will be announced today by California Lottery officials as the winner of a $60-million Mega Millions jackpot.
Kroop found out that she was the big winner in the multi-state game late Wedne ...
Sep 28, 2007, 11:31 am - - Lottery News forum
Office lottery pool wins $61.5M Powerball jackpot
After a decade of pitching in a dollar a week, a Powerball office pool paid off in a huge way yesterday for 22 Kentuckians.
The group of current and former employees of a Bardstown business claimed the $61.5 million Powerball jackpot yesterday afternoon after making their way to Louisville in a white SUV limousine.
When a lady at the lottery claim window asked Jane Shelver if she could help her with something, Shelver's response came quickly and enthusiastically.
You certainly can, S ...
Sep 28, 2007, 11:16 am - - Lottery News forum
Woman plays numbers from TV show about lottery winners - and wins
New Mexico woman plays 'most frequent numbers' on TV show about lottery winners and wins $20,000 in Powerball
TV viewers in other states play and win off same numbers
The TLC Network's broadcast of How the Lottery Changed My Life might not have been DeShundra Jackson's first choice for Sunday night television viewing, but since her mother was already engrossed in the program, Jackson didn't think about changing the channel.
The only thing she changed was her luck.
After the show an ...
Sep 27, 2007, 9:46 pm - - Lottery News forum
$93 million lottery winner has yet to claim her prize
Gas station owner Simon Kim has looked at the photograph of the woman captured on security tape dozens of times since Friday night, when she came into the business and purchased a winning lottery ticket worth a staggering $93 million.
Kim said he recognizes the woman, who visits his Bay Farm Island station at least once a week.
He just doesn't know her name.
Neither do California Lottery officials, who late Thursday afternoon were still waiting for her to come forward to claim the money ...
Sep 7, 2007, 9:11 pm - - Lottery News forum
NJ store waiting for lottery winner to claim jackpot
A Cape May County grocery sold one of four winning tickets that will divide Friday's near-record $330 million jackpot in the multistate Mega Millions Lottery, New Jersey lottery officials said.
The owner of the ticket, expected to be worth $82.5 million in 26 annual installments, had not stepped forward by last evening, lottery spokesman Dominick DeMarco said. Folks take their time sometimes, he said.
For the store, the brush with fortune turned an ordinary Labor Day weekend into an even ...
Sep 6, 2007, 7:40 am - - Lottery News forum
4 tickets win $330 million lottery jackpot
The odds of winning the estimated $330 million Mega Millions jackpot were one in 176 million.
But lottery officials said early Saturday that four people one each in Maryland, New Jersey, Texas and Virginia did just that.
In addition to the grand prize winners from Friday night's drawing, 36 players matched all five numbers but not the Mega Ball number. They will receive second prizes of $250,000 each.
Another 215 players matched four numbers, plus the Mega Ball number - good for thi ...
Sep 1, 2007, 10:28 am - - Lottery News forum
