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5 greatest movies featuring a lottery winNews Story
Be honest: every time you play the lottery, the same fantasy runs through your head, of you sitting in a bath full of champagne, wearing a top hat and monocle, and throwing wads of cash into the air gleefully. Before you've even left the shop, you've spent half the money that you're almost definitely destined to win, no matter what the actual odds. Feeding this fantasy is the many, many movies that have involved lottery wins, and the results for the winners. They are invariably everyman chara
Oct 9, 2013, 2:15 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Maryland Powerball winner laughing all the way to the bankNews Story
LOL! Includes video report An elated Maryland Powerball winner even has the cameraman laughing with her as she celebrated her win from behind her giant $1 million check. The joyful winner hit it big on the July 3 Powerball drawing but didn't even know she was Maryland's newest millionaire until a few days ago. The July 4 holiday came, life got busy and she simply forgot to check her numbers. Just back from a long weekend family visit, the woman said she suddenly remembered having bou
Jul 25, 2013, 1:12 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Ireland Lottery doesn't have enough cash to pay €94m mystery winnerNews Story
The mystery winner of the 94m Euromillions jackpot is not expected to claim their prize until next week because the Ireland National Lottery does not have enough money in the bank to pay them. As of close of business Thursday, the lucky holder of the winning ticket in Tuesday's Euromillions draw had not turned up at the National Lottery headquarters in Dublin. That's unsurprising given that lottery officials said they won't have the money in the bank until next week, when all participating
Jun 30, 2013, 9:14 am - Todd - Lottery News

$260 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot surgesReply
There was no jackpot winner in the Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Powerball drawing, but 3 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $1,000,000 prize holy crap , i was way off, thinkin 25 2nd winners this thing had only 3, freaking 3 5-0 winners , last it had 16 due to bday numbers wow this jackpot does Not want 2 be won,and u was close with your 315 guest, also with max tax rate of 39.6 taken into it if u taken the cash, u have over 119m left atfer tax;'s that'
Mar 21, 2013, 12:26 am - joshuacloak - Lottery News

Brooklyn teen wins $1,000 a week for lifeNews Story
Having one of the family cars stolen turned out to be the luckiest break of his life. A Brooklyn teen who was riding with his mom and uncle to claim their stolen car from an impound lot bought a lottery ticket when they stopped for gas that will pay him $1,000 a week for the rest of his life. We went to go pick up the car and stopped here for some gas, 18-year-old Rob Salo, 18, said this morning at Coney Island Convenience on Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn, where he plunked down $2 for t
Jun 13, 2012, 10:19 am - Todd - Lottery News

NJ Lottery sets new sales record of $2.6BNews Story
The New Jersey Lottery has set a new sales record. Officials say the agency pulled in about $2.6 billion in the last fiscal year. That's $31.5 million more than the previous year, and marks the fourth straight year with sales over $2.5 billion. It's been on the rise consistently for 40 years, lottery spokeswoman Judith Drucker said. Of course, having record-breaking, historic Mega Millions jackpots doesn't ever hurt. Prize winners get most of that money, but the lottery generated $930
May 7, 2012, 12:17 pm - Todd - Lottery News

$241 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery frenzy ramps upNews Story
By Todd Northrop The multi-state Mega Millions lottery game once again enters the spotlight, as lottery players across the United States will vie for a Mega-jackpot Tuesday that promises to radically change one lucky winner's life. After nobody won Friday night's Mega Millions drawing, the $201 million jackpot 'rolled over', and the new estimate for Tuesday's drawing is a massive $241 million. The cash value the most important factor for many jackpot-watchers stands at a staggering $170
Mar 17, 2012, 8:04 am - Todd - Lottery News

Toddler picks out winning NY lottery ticketNews Story
This little girl has the Midas touch. Two-year-old Anaya Hussain picked the New York Poker ticket that made her mother an instant millionaire. She touched it, an excited Afsheen Ahsan said Tuesday as she and eight other Lottery winners collected their winnings. If she didn't touch it, I wouldn't have taken it. She's lucky. A stay-at-home mom from Bay Ridge, Ahsan said she had just popped into the Top Convenience store in Brooklyn on Jan. 30 when her daughter reached over and placed he
Mar 14, 2012, 7:40 am - Todd - Lottery News

Idaho's biggest lottery winner knew he would winNews Story
Brad Duke held the luckiest piece of paper in Idaho history inside a Jackson's food store near Orchard and the interstate. This was some place someone had to dig around for three hours? Duke asked an Idaho Lottery spokesman, gesturing to what he held in his hand. Seven years before, the ticket with which Brad posed, Wednesay, won him $220.3 million. No Idahoan and only 17 Americans has ever won more. But if you ask Brad, those lucky numbers didn't do the work. He did. And luck had noth
Feb 19, 2012, 2:17 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Irish $16M lottery winner still claiming over $6,000 a year in benefitsNews Story
An Irishman is still claiming disability benefits in the UK after winning over $16 million in the lottery. Michael O'Shea, who grew up in Co. Kerry and resides in Nottingham, made headlines in October 2005 when he and his wife Jean won 10.2 million on the Euro Millions lotto jackpot. Since becoming a millionaire overnight, the father of three has been paid almost $50,000 ( 31,500) in disability benefits, the Daily Mail reports. However the 72-year-old retired builder is doing nothing il
Feb 8, 2012, 10:15 am - Todd - Lottery News