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Father's tardiness nets son $20,000 lottery winNews Story
Mark Peters can partially scratch up his recent bout of luck to waiting for his father, Mick, to show up at a Bandon convenience store.While waiting for his dad at the Bandon Quick Mart last Friday, the 30-year-old bought a newspaper and an Oregon Lottery Scratch-it ticket, something he does a few times a month.Quickly rubbing off the metallic areas on the ticket, Peters discovered he hadn't won a penny.But Mick Peters still hadn't showed up at the store.Mark pulled out the $2 he had left in his
Aug 29, 2003, 4:26 am - Lottery News

Friends in lottery club win $175,000News Story
Ten women who have been pooling their money to buy lottery tickets for about eight years finally have something to show for it -- $175,000.The women, who call themselves The Millionaire's Club of Jackson, matched five numbers in the Aug. 15 drawing of Mega Millions, lottery officials announced Tuesday. The group didn't match the Gold Mega Ball number, which would have given them the $12 million jackpot. I started jumping up and down with excitement when I discovered we had really won, Della Swa
Aug 28, 2003, 4:28 am - Lottery News

Kansas Lottery Winner to Stay AnonymousNews Story
If you won almost $2 million playing the lottery would you want everyone to know who you were?Kansas Lottery officials have honored the request of the record-setting winner of the Super Kansas Cash drawing Wednesday to stay anonymous. The winner, a woman from Manhattan, Kansas, is $1,935,001 richer after Wednesday's Super Kansas Cash drawing.The woman, who purchased the ticket at the Shop Quik at 3108 Anderson Ave., also earned the store $1,000 bonus for issuing the winning ticket. She matched
Aug 26, 2003, 8:39 am - Lottery News

Pembroke Pines hits Lotto jackpot for a 4th timeNews Story
Who said lightning can't strike twice?It hit in this city for the fourth time in 11 years on Saturday when a Florida Lotto ticket, a Quick Pick, matched all six numbers in the $27 million drawing.Because it was the only ticket in Florida with the right combination, 7-8-16-19-47-52, the person who bought the ticket in S.K. Ali's convenience store will get the entire pot.Ali late Sunday didn't know which of his customers beat the 22,957,480-to-1 odds, but the 40-year-old manager of the Columbus Fo
Aug 25, 2003, 3:31 am - Lottery News

Lottery Answers PrayersNews Story
Doris Rabik was tickled pink.Watching the Powerball numbers roll across her TV screen Saturday, it looked as if she had four of the five numbers - worth $400! - on the ticket she bought at a Murrells Inlet Scotchman. I went on to bed because I thought I only had four numbers, she said.The next day, she pulled the ticket out again. Rabik, who lives in a public housing complex in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, didn't just have four matching numbers.She had all five - worth $500,000. It really didn
Aug 22, 2003, 9:14 pm - Lottery News

Family double as father scoops lotto windfallNews Story
A retired father of three is celebrating an 85,248 Lotto windfall - just two months after his son scooped 179,137.Anthony McDonnell was presented with his cheque by his son Ian after the family double, which is estimated to have defied odds of 339 billion-to-one.Mr McDonnell, 59, from Bridgnorth, Shropshire, matched five numbers and the bonus ball in last Saturday's National Lottery draw - eight weeks after Ian, a 34-year-old finance worker, did the same.Mr McDonnell senior told a press confer
Aug 21, 2003, 3:19 am - Lottery News

Surrey man wins Keno Viper live on City TVNews Story
Terry Fisher of Surrey, British Columbia won a 2003 Dodge Viper live on City TVs Breakfast Television Friday morning. Terry and his wife Sharon were special guests on the show along with 10 other finalists from across the province. Each of the 10 finalists had entered the Keno Viper contest by purchasing a $10 Keno ticket between June 22 July 27, 2003. Fisher entered the contest after playing Keno at the Wheelhouse Neighbourhood Pub on 96th Ave. in Surrey.Last Friday 10 names were drawn from ove
Aug 20, 2003, 3:32 am - Lottery News

Pensioner woozy after near-win lottery sagaNews Story
An Italian pensioner felt faint and had to be taken to hospital when he realised he had forgotten to hand in a lottery ticket that could have won him 66-million (US$73.4 million). He was so busy organising his daughter's wedding that he forgot to take his slip to the lottery office when Europe's biggest-ever jackpot was up for grabs last week. When he realised he had guessed the correct six-figure number, he felt faint and had to be admitted to a hospital near Rome, Italian news agencies s
Aug 20, 2003, 3:21 am - Lottery News

Uniondale Woman Hits JackpotNews Story
This is Henrietta Henderson's reaction to winning $34 million in the Mega Millions drawing: I didn't really have a reaction. The 71-year-old single mother of five from Uniondale was handed a check Tuesday morning for holding the ticket with the six winning numbers in the July 11 jackpot. Henderson stoically accepted a lump sum of $20.6 million in front of the Quick Pick Deli in Uniondale, where the winning ticket was purchased for $1.These are her plans for her share of the cash: none.The first
Aug 20, 2003, 3:14 am - Lottery News

Record Italian Jackpot Scooped by Single TicketNews Story
One lucky gambler won Europe's biggest-ever jackpot on Wednesday, pocketing nearly 66 million euros (US$75 million) and ending an almost six-month Italian lottery drought. Italy's lottery officials did not name the person who had correctly picked the six numbers in Wednesday's Super Enalotto but said the winning ticket had been bought in a bar in the northern Italian town of Veduggio con Colzano, near Milan.The day before the six-number draw, ticket sales in Italy had been up 25 percent from a w
Aug 13, 2003, 2:00 pm - Lottery News