Tax office workers win Powerball lottery jackpot
Eight female employees of the Monongalia County sheriff's tax office in West Virginia won Saturday night's $276.3 million Powerball jackpot, officials said today.
Reportedly, the women will take a lump sum payment amounting to about $17 million each.
All of them showed up for work today at the courthouse in Morgantown, according to MetroNews.
Chief Tax Deputy Linda Famico was bombarded with phone calls from media outlets from the time the office opened at 9 a.m.
Famico told a reporte ...
Mar 17, 2008, 11:35 am - - Lottery News forum
$275M Powerball lottery jackpot goes to W. Virginia player
There is a one in 146 million chance that someone would match all six numbers drawn in a Powerball game.
One of the tickets sold in West Virginia for the Powerball game Saturday night beat those astronomical odds to win the $276.3 million jackpot.
The game's cash option, should the winner choose it, is worth $139,421,731.
The ticket matched all six numbers drawn, which were: 6, 22, 42, 43, 47 and 16 as the Powerball. The Power Play number was 2.
Nearly 2 million other players won ...
Mar 16, 2008, 8:28 am - - Lottery News forum
$220M Mega Millions lottery jackpot advice offered
Hit the Mega Millions jackpot? Here's some advice on what to do next
A drool-inducing $220 million is up for grabs in Tuesday night's Mega Millions lottery drawing. Before all that green goes to your head, we asked three Atlanta-based experts what should be the first five things on a lottery winner's to do list.
Barry Berlin, managing director of the Atlanta office of Atlantic Trust, a private wealth management firm and subsidiary of Invesco:
Cold call successful people and ask them to ...
Feb 19, 2008, 11:27 pm - - Lottery News forum
Tennessee Lottery creates four instant millionaires
The Tennessee Lottery held its second-ever Million $ Madness raffle drawing yesterday, which instantly created four millionaires.
The winning numbers can be found here:
http://www.lotterypost.com/tn-lottery-raffle-2008-01-22.asp
In addition to four $1 million top prizes, Million $ Madness also awards ten $10,000 prizes and 500 $100 prizes.
There were also seven Early Bird drawings conducted in November and December. Each Early Bird drawing awarded one $1,000 prize and nine $100 pr ...
Jan 23, 2008, 11:21 am - - Lottery News forum
$1M Wisconsin lottery ticket sold on 'Miracle Mile'
On New Year's Day, Phil Moses was atop a ladder, putting some big news up on the marquis outside Ma Pa's Grocery Express in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
Another winning $1 million lottery ticket was sold at the legendary little store located at 506 S. Main St., along a strip dubbed The Miracle Mile.
I don't want to sound arrogant, Phil quipped, but I seriously don't understand why people buy lottery tickets at any other location.
A $100,000 winning ticket was also sold at Pick 'n Sa ...
Jan 2, 2008, 2:15 pm - - Lottery News forum
New Year's Eve lottery raffles from around the USA
In addition to celebrating the new year last night, lottery players from around the United States were checking their raffle tickets to see if they would start 2008 as a new millionaire.
Raffle-style lottery drawings were held in several states, including Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Virginia. (Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania drew their raffles a couple days ago.)
T ...
Jan 1, 2008, 10:25 am - - Lottery News forum
Pennsylvania Lottery Millionaire Raffle results
The Pennsylvania Lottery's latest raffle-style game, Millionaire Raffle, was drawn Saturday, and made five instant millionaires.
The winning numbers can be found here:
http://www.lotterypost.com/pa-lottery-raffle-2007-12-29.asp
Millionaire Raffle is a raffle game offered by the Pennsylvania Lottery, with a limited number of $20 tickets.
With only 625,000 tickets sold for the raffle, Millionaire Raffle offers the best odds to win $1 million of any Pennsylvania Lottery game.
This ra ...
Dec 30, 2007, 2:04 pm - - Lottery News forum
$3 million Florida Lottery ticket expires Monday
A lottery winner has one last chance to claim a $3 million Florida Lotto prize.
According to Florida Lottery officials, a winning jackpot ticket bought in Jensen Beach for the June 27 drawing is still unclaimed, and the 180-day limit to claim the $3 million prize expires at midnight Monday.
The Quick Pick winning ticket was sold at the Ocean Breeze Liquor Pub in the 1800 block of Northeast Jensen Beach Boulevard.
The winning numbers for that drawing were: 08-13-14-32-43-48.
If th ...
Dec 21, 2007, 3:10 pm - - Lottery News forum
Small-town store sells 2 big Powerball tickets
A convenience store in the tiny eastern Oklahoma town of Watts is becoming a Powerball powerhouse of sorts, with two tickets sold weeks apart worth a total of $800,000.
Before the Nov. 24 drawing in the multistate Powerball lottery, Edward Proctor of Springdale, Ark., bought a ticket at Station 2 that became worth $200,000 after it matched the first five numbers.
Proctor said he plans to use a portion of the money to pay for his son's college education.
A Powerball ticket sold for last ...
Dec 13, 2007, 9:14 am - - Lottery News forum
Winning $151M Powerball lottery ticket sold in Rhode Island
One lucky person from Rhode Island is holding the winning ticket from last night's $151 million Powerball drawing. Lottery officials aren't sure who the lucky winner is yet.
Donald J. Cataldi, a sales manager for the Rhode Island Lottery, confirmed that the winning ticket had been sold at Warren Mart on Child Street.
Someone's going to have one heck of a Christmas, Mr. Cataldi said. Rhode Island players have been lucky lately. We had a million dollar player a month ago.
Tony Elhaj ...
Nov 29, 2007, 11:35 am - - Lottery News forum
