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474 keeps coming up in Pennsylvania LotteryNews Story
Wanna make a quick $250? Or maybe more?If recent history is any indication -- which it isn't -- play 474 on today's Daily Number, and you just may beat the long odds. The number has hit four times since May 17, when 474 was drawn as the midday Daily Number. On May 29, the number hit during the evening drawing. And Saturday, the number hit twice, once in the afternoon and again that evening.The odds of that happening are quite literally one in a million. That's better than your odds of hitting a
Jun 15, 2004, 8:06 am - Lottery News

Two tickets win $6 million Florida Lotto jackpotNews Story
Two tickets matched all six Florida Lotto numbers to win a jackpot of $6 million, lottery officials said Sunday.The winning tickets were bought in the cities of Hialeah and Lehigh Acres, officials said.A total of 161 tickets matched five numbers to win $2,423; 6,519 tickets matched four numbers for $48.50; and 117,890 tickets matched three numbers for $3.50.The winning Florida Lotto numbers selected Saturday: 8-11-15-20-22-24.Fantasy 5One winner of the Fantasy 5 game will collect $238,863.37,
Jun 14, 2004, 8:35 am - Lottery News

N.J. Man Wins $35 Million Lottery JackpotNews Story
A Little Egg Harbor, NJ man has come forward with a winning lottery ticket worth an annuity prize of $35.5 million, New Jersey Lottery officials announced Wednesday.John Purdue held the only winning ticket in the May 10 Pick 6 drawing. The prize was the largest in the Pick 6 Lotto since $45.9 million was awarded in the June 3, 2002, drawing.Purdue chose the cash option and received a check for more than $18 million, minus the 25 percent federal withholding tax, according to New Jersey Lottery Ex
Jun 10, 2004, 7:34 am - Lottery News

Florida Lotto ticket purchased in Miami wins $26 millionNews Story
One ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers to win a jackpot of $26 million, lottery officials said Sunday.The winning ticket was purchased at the Publix at 15750 SW 72nd Street, Miami, officials said.A total of 158 tickets matched five numbers to win $4,273; 8,525 tickets matched four numbers for $64; and 149,170 tickets matched three numbers for $5.The winning Florida Lotto numbers selected Saturday: 12-16-24-36-42-53.Fantasy 5Five winners of the Fantasy 5 game will collect $50,281.07 e
Jun 7, 2004, 10:55 am - Lottery News

Mega Millions jackpot increases to $60 millionNews Story
The multi-state Mega Millions lottery jackpot grows to $60 million for Friday's game after there was no big winner in Tuesday night's $50 million drawing.No tickets matched all five lotto numbers and the Mega Ball.Five tickets had all five lotto numbers but not the Mega Ball and pay $175,000: 1 from Georgia, 1 from Massachusetts, 1 from Michigan and 2 from New York.Four tickets sold in Ohio were among 22 that are worth $5,000 apiece for matching four of the five lotto numbers, plus the Mega Ball
Jun 2, 2004, 1:51 pm - Lottery News

Michigan Lottery Players Capitalize on Popular CombinationNews Story
Winners Claim Record-Setting $4,787,650 in Prizes in May 29 Midday DrawingFor the second time in less than two months, the Michigan Lottery Daily 4 game players have broken the bank.On Saturday, May 29, 2004, the number 1-1-0-1 was drawn in the Daily 4 game midday drawing, with 2,416 winning tickets splitting a record-setting $4,787,650 prize pool. That amounts to a prize payout of 1,422 percent of sales for that drawing. This is the highest midday prize payout for the Daily 4 in the games hist
Jun 2, 2004, 11:45 am - Lottery News

Lottery returns veterans to NormandyNews Story
War heroes from the Midlands will this week be returning to the Normandy battlefields thanks to a series of UK National Lottery grants.More than 400 veterans, widows and carers nationwide are being helped back to the D-Day beaches as part of the Heroes Return Fund run by the Big Lottery Fund and the Confederation of British Service and Ex-Service Organisations (COBSEO).Among the ex-soldiers is Laurence Morris, of Birmingham, who served with the Royal Engineers in a workshop unit.Mr Morris's job
Jun 2, 2004, 11:40 am - Lottery News

$52 Powerball Jackpot Won by Ticket Purchased in PennsylvaniaNews Story
For the second time in May a ticket purchased in Pennsylvania won the Powerball jackpot. Saturday night's jackpot was worth $52 million.The winner will now have to decide between the 29-year, 30-payment annuity and the cash option worth $26.9 million. The winner will have 60 days after their ticket is validated to make that decision.In addition to the jackpot winner, 449,694 other Powerball players across the nation won a total of almost $3.8 million in cash prizes.The numbers drawn were: 1, 16
Jun 1, 2004, 12:58 pm - Lottery News

NY resident wins Vermont scratch gameNews Story
A clerk at the back of a North Bennington, Vermont variety store might have thought he was being robbed, when really a customer was just shouting with excitement over winning the lottery. I guess I must have let out a yell after checking the numbers several times, said Scott Harrington, a resident of Eagle Bridge, N.Y., who hit it big over the weekend when he won $55,555 playing the Vermont Lottery's instant game Fortune 5's. Harrington purchased several instant game tickets at the North Benni
Jun 1, 2004, 12:44 pm - Lottery News

Lottery win unites estranged coupleNews Story
A building superintendent who's lived apart from his wife for 26 years will reunite with her - using $1 million he won in the lottery.Jorge Avila of White Plains, who won the Win for Life game, will bring his wife from Ecuador to live with him in the United States.Avila was one of seven instant lottery millionaires introduced in Brooklyn yesterday. We've spent more time apart than we've been together, Avila said. We've been dreaming about this for a long time. Queens grandmother Shirley Fried
Jun 1, 2004, 12:27 pm - Lottery News