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Kentucky lottery winner wastes no time claiming jackpotNews Story
Won $19.12 million from Saturday night's Powerball drawing Knott County native and Louisville resident Muncie Meade is Kentucky's newest multimillionaire. The 24-year-old lawn service owner today presented a $19.12 million winning Powerball ticket at Kentucky Lottery headquarters. Meade has been lucky at lottery play recently, and another smaller win led to this major jackpot. I bought a $10 scratch-off ticket last week and won $250, he said. I took my winnings and bought a $5 Powerball qu
Dec 14, 2010, 9:17 am - Todd - Lottery News

NY brothers claim $5M win from '06 lottery ticketNews Story
Two brothers kept quiet for six years about the $5 million winning lottery ticket they'd bought at their parents' store in Syracuse. Andy N. Ashkar, 34, of Camillus, and his brother, Nayel N. Ashkar, 36, of Cicero, came forward March 1 of this year to claim the $5 million top prize in the $500,000,000 Extravaganza scratch-off game, lottery officials said. That was 11 days before the prize would've expired. It's unusual, highly unusual, lottery spokeswoman Carolyn Hapeman said Tuesday o
Oct 17, 2012, 9:24 am - Todd - Lottery News

1 PB winner in PAReply
If they make a announcement that the winning ticket was sold in Mount Joy or Columbia, Pa......please come pick me off the floor.I'm holding tickets for both locations.Chas
May 9, 2004, 9:03 am - keystonechas - Jackpot Games Forum

Arizona teacher claims $95 million Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
A substitute teacher from Fort Mohave, Arizona, walked into the Arizona Lottery's headquarters Monday and put two weeks of rumors, speculation and excitement to rest, claiming a $95.3 million Powerball prize. Sheila Verke, 64, held the single prize-winning ticket, but her identity had been a mystery since the Dec. 1 drawing. She accepted a jackpot check in person Monday, accompanied by friends and financial advisers. She took the prize as a lump sum of $49.9 million rather than a 30-yea
Dec 14, 2010, 4:29 pm - Todd - Lottery News

$340 million lottery ticket bought in Oregon gold rush townNews Story
A Powerball ticket worth $340 million was sold in the Gold Rush town of Jacksonville, Oregon lottery officials said today morning.Lottery officials said the winner or winners have not yet stepped forward to claim the largest jackpot in the game's history and the second-biggest lottery jackpot in U.S. history. Jacksonville is near Medford in the southwest part of the state.They said the tickets were sold at one of the two retailers in Jacksonville Ray's Food Place and J'ville Tavern.The store t
Oct 20, 2005, 1:46 pm - Todd - Lottery News

$28.5 million California lottery ticket unclaimedNews Story
California's public schools appeared to be the big winners Monday night when a $28.5 million lottery ticket went unclaimed after six months.This was the 14th - and largest - unclaimed jackpot since the lottery started in 1985, according to lottery officials. All unclaimed money goes to the state's public schools. We were excited about it, but no one's come in, California Lottery spokeswoman Rosa Escutia said shortly after the deadline.Escutia said lottery officials probably will hold a press co
Mar 9, 2004, 4:38 am - Todd - Lottery News

Indiana scores Powerball 3-peatNews Story
State is 1st to have 3 consecutive winners 3 times, officials of multistate game sayThe mystery of the state's nickname Hoosier was surely solved Thursday: It must mean lucky. The announcement of Powerball's third consecutive winning ticket makes Indiana the only state to sell three in a row an unparalleled three times.No one had claimed the $12.8 million jackpot by 5 p.m. Thursday, when the Hoosier Lottery office closed. The earlier back-to-back wins were in October and included Regina Manda
Nov 7, 2003, 4:49 am - Todd - Lottery News

New Jersey Couple Wins $258 Million in Mega JackpotNews Story
What to do with a piece of paper worth $258 million?That was the immediate question that confronted Helen and Harold Lerner last Saturday morning after they checked the lottery numbers in the local newspaper and found that they had bought the winning ticket in the Sept. 16 drawing of the Mega Millions jackpot.First they hugged and kissed. Then they checked the ticket about 500 times, Mr. Lerner said, and all of a sudden we were in a dreamland. They wrapped the ticket in cellophane, put it in
Sep 24, 2005, 11:57 am - Todd - Lottery News

$380 MILLION: Massive sales push Powerball jackpot higherReply
If I recall correctly typically individual states have announced prior to Powerball announcing when said state has sold a winning ticket especially when a large jackpot is up for grabs. For example California or New York might not wait for the national announcement to declare that a winning ticket has been sold. The official amount of the win would not be announced pending results from other states. That's my memory although I may be wrong. Most likely one state is having a glitch thus delayi
Feb 8, 2015, 3:36 am - cartman2478 - Lottery News

Maryland Lottery officials inundated with Mega Millions rumorsReply
News crews have been camped out on Wilson's lawn continuously. When she finally emerged she spoke to one reporter and neither confirmed nor denied she had the winning MM ticket. I am just very confused, I'm trying to make sense of what's going on, I don't know what's happening. When asked if she was still fighting with her McDonald's co-workers about the winning MM ticket she replied, yeah that's a big problem. As Artist77 posted yesterday, she has retained counsel of an attorney,
Apr 4, 2012, 4:26 am - mcginnin56 - Lottery News