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D.C. lottery ticket wins $144M Powerball jackpotNews Story
One lottery ticket sold in Washington, D.C. matched all 6 numbers in the Wednesday evening Powerball drawing, and is now worth $144 million to the lucky ticket-holder. The holder of the winning ticket will now have to decide whether to take the 29-year, 30-installment annuity, or the one time cash lump sum amount of $79,681,116. There were a total of 903,448 additional winning tickets in America's Game Wednesday evening. Those tickets won prizes totaling $8,450,412. The numbers drawn We
Apr 9, 2009, 9:03 am - Todd - Lottery News

Auto workers collect lottery winningsNews Story
There haven't been many happy stories involving Indiana auto workers lately, but one family is an exception. A mother and her two daughters, one retired from General Motors and two who work for Delphi in Kokomo, cashed in Monday, claiming an $11 million Hoosier Lottery prize. It was the biggest check Jill Carver, of Kokomo, and daughters Brenda Carver and Ronette Kelley had ever received. While Delphi has struggled, along with all of the American auto industry, Carver and Kelley have cl
Mar 17, 2009, 7:37 am - Todd - Lottery News

Powerball lottery to have larger jackpot, but harder to winReply
I could be wrong (it happened once before), but it seems to me that these matrix changes could be brought about by too many people winning major prizes too often. If that's the case, then it's just barely possible that some of those systems out there actually work the way they're supposed to. Regardless of their reasons, I'd like to read the agreement the MUSL signed with Florida to see what types of incentives were offered to change the location of the drawings. My guess is that the MUSL w
Dec 29, 2008, 3:02 pm - jim695 - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot up to $81M for Wed.News Story
The jackpot in America's Game continues to move, as the game itself moves closer to it's eventual overhaul. In January the Powerball game matrix will be changed to 59 numbers in the primary ball set (up from 55), and 39 numbers for the Powerball (down from 42). In the same month, Florida will join the Powerball game, to increase the total number of participating states to 30, plus the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands. Saturday evening did not witness the awarding of the gran
Sep 3, 2008, 12:42 am - Todd - Lottery News

$275 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot raised againNews Story
The Powerball jackpot continues to build, now exceeding the level attained by Mega Millions last month before it was won by a Georgia couple. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers the jackpot grew to an estimated $275 million for Saturday night's drawing, with a cash option of $135.7 million. It is the largest American jackpot in nearly seven months. The last jackpot to reach this level was a $330 Million Mega Millions jackpot on August 31, 2007. That was right after a $314 mi
Mar 13, 2008, 8:21 am - Todd - Lottery News

Michigan lawmaker wins $2M lottery jackpotReply
Ok, explain this- Fact Port Huron is not that big of a Town Fact Port Huron is near a lot of Canadian Population Fact the company that prints the Instant tickets is Canadian owned Fact the Canadian lotteries have been notoriously crooked and corrupt as indicated by stories here on lottery post Fact the big prizes in the scratch offs are really rare Fact within the last 6 months or a year or so a lady in Port Huron had a big scratch winner ($10,000 or more) and within the same m
Mar 4, 2008, 9:35 pm - Think - Lottery News

Member of "Watertown 34" wins lottery againNews Story
Athena Rush of Watertown, South Dakota, claimed the $200,000 Powerball prize she won in the drawing of November 10th. Rush matched the five white balls, but not the red Powerball to win the game's second prize. Rush missed the jackpot by one number, but said the excitement isn't any different than winning the jackpot. She would know. Rush was a member of The Watertown 34, the group of Minnesota Rubber workers that won a $50.9 million Powerball prize nearly five years ago. My feet still
Nov 27, 2007, 11:32 am - Todd - Lottery News

Will the Michigan Lottery shut down tomorrow?Reply
This is very odd, why dont I ever hear about any of this in the local newspapers? We'll actually I haven't read the newspaper nor watched television recently so maybe I missed it! You would think this would have been international news. I have noticed every time that I come to lottery post something criminal is going on with some lottery in the United State. Texas, Georgia, Indiana, Michigan and more. I almost start to think that the lottery wants to look like crooks so no one will
Sep 30, 2007, 1:51 am - nanolike - Lottery News

Single winner in $314M Powerball lottery drawingReply
For Immediate Release From Uncle Jim 9/10/2007 Who Cares Who's Got the ticket? - Uncle Jim offers helpful advice for the $314 million Powerball winner LOTTERY POST - Ticket, ticket, who gives a rip who's got the ticket? Only the mooches, thieves and con artists really want to know who's the owner of the Powerball ticket worth $314.3 million which is still unclaimed. If you know who it is, here's a handy dandy plan to help that person arrange to redeem their prize and protect themsl
Sep 10, 2007, 10:59 pm - Uncle Jim - Lottery News

$325 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery nears record highNews Story
Last night Mega Millions became the second United States lottery game in less than a week to cross the $300 million jackpot level. On Saturday one single ticket from Indiana scored a $314 million Powerball win, and now the lottery-playing public will get another shot at an even bigger prize. Because none of the tickets sold for Tuesday's $250 million drawing matched all five lotto numbers and the Mega Ball, the jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game grew to $325 million for
Aug 29, 2007, 8:48 am - Todd - Lottery News