Florida store clerks say regular won Lottery
Workers at a Palm Coast convenience store said a local man was shaking after he came inside the store Sunday morning to check the winning Lotto numbers and discovered he'd won $10 million.
Don Baiga, clerk at the Kangaroo Express on Palm Harbor Parkway, said the man pulled out his five Quick Picks, which are randomly selected by the lottery machine, and Baiga proceeded to read him the numbers. The man, whom employees did not know by name, then handed over one of the tickets and asked the cler ...
Jun 5, 2006, 8:00 am - - Lottery News forum
Fla. Fantasy 5 lottery player wins $241,000
One winner of the Florida Lottery's Fantasy 5 game will collect $241,009.50, a lottery official said Wednesday.
The winning ticket was bought in the city of Zephyrhills, lottery officials reported.
The 344 tickets matching 4-of-5 numbers will collect $113 each.
The 11,015 tickets matching 3-of-5 won $9.50 each, and 106,251 tickets won a Quick Pick ticket for picking 2-of-5.
The numbers drawn Tuesday night were 1-5-9-30-34.
Tonight's Florida Lotto jackpot is $6 million.
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May 31, 2006, 11:45 am - - Lottery News forum
Winning Florida Lotto ticket sold in Spring Hill
One ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers to win a jackpot of $3 million, lottery officials said Thursday.
The winning ticket was bought in the city of Spring Hill, officials said.
Other prizes included:
71 tickets matched five numbers to win $3,9184,282 tickets matched four numbers for $52.5079,724 tickets matched three numbers for $4
The winning Florida Lotto numbers selected Wednesday were: 03-12-19-23-28-35.
Fantasy 5
One winner of the Fantasy 5 game will collect $ ...
May 25, 2006, 4:57 pm - - Lottery News forum
Florida woman claims $11 million Lotto jackpot
Just what do you do with $6.1 million?
Titusville neighbors now have a chance to ask one of their own after 54-year-old Della Nelson claimed the state's coveted Florida Lotto prize Tuesday morning in Tallahassee.
Nelson chose a one-time lump sum of $6.1 million before taxes nearly a week after purchasing the winning ticket in the $11 million drawing, officials said.
She came forward this morning, said Leslie Steele, a Florida Lottery spokeswoman.
Nelson purchased her winnin ...
May 18, 2006, 8:42 am - - Lottery News forum
One ticket wins $11 million Florida Lotto jackpot
One ticket sold in Titusville matched all six numbers in Saturday's Lotto drawing from the Florida Lottery.
The ticket with the numbers 1-5-12-27-33-52 is worth an estimated $11 million.
Other prizes to be awarded:
99 tickets matching five numbers are worth $4,777 each,5,755 tickets matching four numbers are worth $66.50 each, and,119,152 tickets matching three numbers are worth $4.50 each.
The estimated jackpot for Wednesday's drawing is $3 million.
Five split Fantasy 5 prize
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May 15, 2006, 7:39 am - - Lottery News forum
Man reports $7,000 scam by 'lottery winner'
A good Samaritan was taken for a ride he won't soon forget after he reported being scammed $7,000 by a man who said he won the lottery.
Here's what happened, according to the victim and a North Miami police report:
The victim, a 68-year-old Aventura, Florida, resident, was walking in the parking lot of Home Depot, 12055 Biscayne Blvd., at about 10:30 a.m. on a recent Wednesday when he was approached by a man who said he was an undocumented worker from Honduras and needed help finding a law ...
May 8, 2006, 11:59 am - - Lottery News forum
Florida Lottery had big winners this weekend
Two Florida Lotto players share $12 million jackpot
Two tickets matched all six Florida Lotto numbers to share a jackpot of $12 million, lottery officials said Sunday.
The winning tickets were bought in the cities of Tampa and North Miami, officials said.
Other prizes included:
145 tickets matched five numbers to win $3,571 each8,339 tickets matched four numbers for $50 each140,060 tickets matched three numbers for $4 each
The winning Florida Lotto numbers selected Saturday were ...
May 1, 2006, 9:15 am - - Lottery News forum
Lottery scammer busted by Border Patrol
A woman accused in Illinois and Florida scams and featured on the TV show America's Most Wanted was arrested in El Paso, Texas, a report said Wednesday.
Maria Gomez, 49, was among 16 illegal aliens U.S. Border Patrol agents detained when they were spotted crossing a river near the U.S.-Mexican border.
The high-profile arrest occurred Monday evening when Border Patrol agents witnessed a group of people crossing the river four miles from the Zaragoza Bridge, trying to sneak into the Unite ...
Apr 26, 2006, 6:50 pm - - Lottery News forum
Lucky store! So who's the Florida Lotto winner?
A steady stream of customers has been coming through the Cumberland Farms store in Port St. Lucie, Florida, buying potato chips and gum and trading rumors.
The store was identified early Thursday as the location where one of two winning tickets was sold in Wednesday's $82 million Florida Lotto drawing.
Everybody's been talking about it, Yesenia Quevedo, 18, a customer-service associate, said. A lot of people have asked for the Lotto.
No one has presented a winning ticket, said Alf ...
Apr 23, 2006, 10:24 am - - Lottery News forum
One of two winning Florida Lotto tickets from Port St. Lucie
The Cumberland Farms store on Floresta Drive was a revolving door of media and frequent customers who had heard the news Thursday morning that one lucky Florida Lottery player bought the winning ticket there.
By 11:30 a.m., store clerk Keri Frosch stopped curious people short and just said with a smile, No, we don't know who it is.
But she does know that receipts show about 4,000 people bought tickets Wednesday night alone.
When it's that high it happens, Frosch said, referring to h ...
Apr 21, 2006, 7:42 am - - Lottery News forum
