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One Ticket Wins $11 Million Florida Lotto JackpotNews Story
One ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers to win a jackpot of $11 million, lottery officials said Sunday.The winning ticket was bought in the city of Miami, officials said.A total of 134 tickets matched five numbers to win $3,511; 6,182 tickets matched four numbers for $61.50; and 118,953 tickets matched three numbers for $4.50.The winning Florida Lotto numbers selected Saturday: 4-12-18-25-31-48.
May 17, 2004, 7:36 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery win energizes Pennsylvania neighborhoodNews Story
Not often is a middle-aged woman seen hopping in public, yet there was Mary Ann Seems, bouncing on her toes yesterday in a , her fists quivering in post-lottery fever. This is so exciting! exclaimed Seems, 47, of Titusville, N.J. I don't care who it is; it's in our neighborhood! Seems lives just across the Delaware River from Washington Crossing, where a Cumberland Farms store last week sold the richest winning lottery ticket so fare in Pennsylvania history.Annuity value: $213.2 million.Cash o
May 11, 2004, 7:24 am - Lottery News

Pool players ponder Powerball hypocrisyNews Story
Nobody was betting on $212 million at The Pour House on Friday.A week after Charleston police and State Law Enforcement Division agents raided a pool tournament at the Savannah Highway tavern, three patrons at the bar shook their heads no over their beer. They hadn't bought a $1 chance at the state-sponsored, long-odds Powerball game.The prize at stake in tonight's drawing for the multistate lottery payoff has climbed to more than $200 million for the second time in five months. The last time,
May 8, 2004, 2:10 pm - Lottery News

Burglar wins lottery, but keeps day jobNews Story
Carlos Sola decided to keep his job after he won a Georgia Lottery jackpot $1,000 a week for life.His occupation? Burglar.In April 2002, Sola was awaiting trial for stealing $40,000 in coins and jewelry from an Austell home when he hit it big in the Win For Life scratch-off game.Cobb County Superior Court Judge S. Lark Ingram took note of his good fortune and allowed a plea deal that included three years in prison, provided the first $40,000 of his winnings went to repay his victims.So when Sola
May 8, 2004, 1:59 pm - Lottery News

Michigan man wins $1 million lottery jackpot twiceNews Story
Russell Tanner better stay inside during a thunderstorm, because if somebody has a chance of being struck by lightning, it's him.The 78-year-old Dexter resident won his second $1 million scratch-off lottery game last week the only known two-time winner of the game in Michigan.The retired custodian and factory worker who still lived in a manufactured home following his June 2002 winning ticket, said he was stunned to win again. I couldn't believe that I could be so blessed. It just feels great to
May 7, 2004, 4:44 pm - Lottery News

Birthdays Yield $100,000 Lottery Win After Ticket Rescued From TrashNews Story
When Daniel Brooks, Jr., a HVAC Technician from Shelbyville, Tennessee, purchased his $100,000 winning Powerball ticket, he did so by choosing numbers that were all birthdays and ages of his family members. When he and wife Robin came into the Nashville district office on Thursday to claim their prize, they brought their children so the family could experience the big dvent together.Brooks purchased his winning ticket in late April at the Han-D-Food Market, located at 1629 Bradyville Road in Mur
May 7, 2004, 7:21 am - Lottery News

S.C. lottery to hold $1 million second-chance drawingNews Story
The South Carolina Education Lottery will give away $1 million in a drawing of losing instant game tickets.Players can enter by collecting $20 worth of losing tickets marked with Carolina Millionaire Promotion across the top. Entrants have to fill out the back of at least one ticket and mail them in an envelope to the designated post office box listed on the back of each ticket.The Carolina Millionaire games launch May 4 and include the following instant tickets: Carolina Payout ($10), Cash Ex
May 5, 2004, 7:31 am - Lottery News

Student Loses $18,800 In ScamNews Story
Man Sent Money In Hopes Of Securing Lottery Payoff, Authorities SayAn IUPUI student tricked into believing he had won an Internet sweepstakes lottery was bilked out of more than $18,000, campus police said.Salai T. Ehei, 28, sent money via e-mail, telephone and fax and also Western Union totaling $18,804 over several weeks in pursuit of what he thought would be a big payoff.He told IUPUI police he received a winning notification from a Euro America sweepstakes that promised him a payoff in exc
May 4, 2004, 6:54 am - Lottery News

Virginia lottery winner badly in debtNews Story
Suzanne Mullins used her lottery winnings as collateral for a loan in 1998Eleven years after becoming a millionaire through the lottery, a Roanoke, Virginia woman has seen her fortune turn to debt.A circuit court judge ruled last week that Suzanne Mullins owes $154,146.50 in defaulted payments to a Florida company that gave her a loan six years ago with her lottery winnings as collateral.It seems an unlikely outcome for someone who once purchased a lottery ticket worth $4.2 million.But as with o
May 3, 2004, 9:43 am - Lottery News

Ohio Man Wins $22 Million Lottery JackpotNews Story
A retired aircraft industry worker from Columbus, Ohio was the sole ticketholder of a winning $22 million Super Lotto Plus jackpot earleir this month, the Ohio Lottery announced Wednesday.Marvin Wallace, who is single, opened his newspaper on April 8 and learned that he held the winning ticket for the previous evening's jackpot.He claimed his jackpot on Tuesday in the lottery's Columbus regional office, according to the agency.Wallace, the father of two daughters and a son, said that he thinks h
Apr 29, 2004, 7:49 am - Lottery News