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Irish NY lottery winner's estranged husband wants halfNews Story
Patricia Daly, an Ireland native from Tullamore, Co. Offaly, struck gold with a Quick Pick in the New York State Lottery in January but now faces a battle to hold onto her winnings, with her estranged husband launching a legal bid for what he claims is his rightful share. (See Long Island waitress wins $21.5M Lotto jackpot, Lottery Post, Jan. 28, 2011.) Daly, 40, is a single mother of three who emigrated to New York in 1995. She was one of eight players who won a combined $32.5 million, cl
Sep 7, 2011, 4:30 pm - Lottery News

Michigan Lottery holds annual Millionaire Raffle drawingNews Story
By Todd Northrop The Michigan Lottery conducted its fifth annual holiday-time Millionaire Raffle drawing today, the state's 17th raffle drawing overall since 2007. The complete list of winning numbers for the latest raffle draw can be found on Lottery Post's Michigan Lottery Results page. The $20 raffle tickets went on sale Nov. 8, 2010, and a total of 600,000 were available for the drawing. Unlike most previous Michigan raffle drawings, the game was not sold out: more than 90,000 ticke
Jan 19, 2011, 10:51 am - Lottery News

Virginia Lottery raffle creates 3 millionairesNews Story
By Todd Northrop The Virginia Lottery's annual holiday raffle game, New Year's Millionaire Raffle, was drawn Saturday, and made three instant millionaires. The winning numbers for all raffle prizes can be found on Lottery Post's Virginia Lottery Results page. A total of 330,000 of the $20 tickets were available for purchase. According to the Virginia Lottery, all of the tickets were sold out prior to the drawing. Lottery spokesman John Hagerty says the last $20 ticket was sold shortl
Jan 1, 2011, 3:53 pm - Lottery News

Kansas Lottery raffle winner claims prize within minutes of drawing!News Story
State employee purchased number of tickets in a wide distribution area A woman from Topeka who works for the state of Kansas had her holiday dream fulfilled Thursday when she discovered she had the winning ticket in the Kansas Lottery's $1 million Holiday Millionaire Raffle. The woman, whose identity wasn't released, will take home $700,000 after 30 percent of the winnings is withheld for state and federal taxes, said Sally Lunsford, director of communications for the Kansas Lottery. Kansa
Dec 30, 2010, 5:00 pm - Lottery News

Kansas Lottery draws state's holiday raffleNews Story
State's second-ever raffle creates millionaire By Todd Northrop The Kansas Lottery held its second holiday raffle drawing today, creating one millionaire and several more happy, lucky lottery winners. The winning numbers for Kansas Holiday Millionaire Raffle can be found on Lottery Post's Kansas Lottery Results page. Holiday Millionaire Raffle is a raffle-style game offered by the Kansas Lottery, with a limited number of $20 tickets. With only 150,000 tickets sold for the raffle,
Dec 30, 2010, 4:26 pm - Lottery News

States look for winning formulas to spur lottery salesNews Story
Buy a scratch lottery ticket in Georgia, and you can win music downloads or a seat at an Atlanta Falcons game. In New York, one of the top sellers is an all-black ticket as sleek as an Armani suit. And in Texas, where they brag that everything is bigger, a single ticket goes for $50. With state budgets in crisis and lottery-financed programs like prekindergarten being considered for cuts, the pressure is on to make lottery tickets more attractive to casual scratchers and people who may have n
Dec 23, 2010, 7:37 pm - Lottery News

Idaho Lottery offers free ticket dealNews Story
Special deal is for Tuesday and Wednesday only Just in time for the late holiday season shoppers, the Idaho Lottery is offering a two-day special for players on Tuesday and Wednesday this week only. All day on Tuesday, December 21, 2010 players that purchase a $10 Idaho $1,000,000 Raffle ticket will receive a free Mega Millions ticket and a have chance at that night's $145 million jackpot. All day Wednesday, December 22, 2010, players that purchase a $10 Idaho $1,000,000 Raffle ticket w
Dec 21, 2010, 7:48 am - Lottery News

Man wins £2.6M lottery jackpot, but doesn't wake wifeNews Story
A British couple had two great reasons to celebrate last week firstly it was their ruby wedding anniversary, marking 40 years of marriage, and secondly they won 2.6 million (US$4 million) on the Lotto. But after realizing that he had a winning ticket, Philip Sawyer, from Shard End, simply sipped his cup of tea, read his book and didn't wake his wife, Sandra. The 60-year-old former car salesman was convinced that his wife had played a practical joke on him and made her check the numbers her
Sep 15, 2010, 2:19 pm - Lottery News

Pick 3 'triple' pays out record $2.88M to N.C. Lottery playersNews Story
By Todd Northrop Triple digits paid off in a big way for North Carolina Pick 3 players in the Monday, Sept. 6 evening drawing. The 2-2-2 combination resulted in a record-setting prize payout of $2.88 million to more than 11,000 winning tickets. This record payout is the highest since the Dec. 25, 2009 drawing, which paid out more than $2.28 million to players who chose the 5-5-5 combination. Monday's drawing was the first time the 2-2-2 combination has been drawn since Pick 3 sales b
Sep 8, 2010, 3:50 pm - Lottery News

Lottery winner has lucky numbers tattooed on his armNews Story
It's not something most of us would need reminding about, but delighted Wayne Hughes has immortalized his 1.1 million (US$1.7 million) lottery win by having it etched on to his arm. Shop worker Hughes, 34, marked the windfall with a tattoo that reads, Sat 7th Aug 2010 along with his lucky numbers, 13, 16, 22, 25, 31, 39. Hughes found out he was a winner after his mother checked his ticket and called him with the good news. He raced over to her house and checked and double checked his ti
Aug 14, 2010, 10:36 am - Lottery News