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NC man almost chokes on his food after winning $150,000 jackpot
Winning the lottery can be dangerous
By Kate Northrop
Winning the lottery certainly came as a shock for a North Carolina man, who nearly choked on his meal after playing a scratch-off ticket over dinner.
Rocky Mount resident Donald Bauer sat down to eat his food at a fast-food joint and whipped out the Extreme Cashword scratch-off ticket he had bought earlier. Likely expecting a calm meal before he headed off to work, he had quite the shock and reaction when his crossword-themed scratch
May 21, 2021, 8:50 pm - Lottery News
Michigan man who lost everything in a flood wins $2 million
Lucky scratch-off turns the tables
By Kate Northrop
A Michigan man turned his life around when he won a $2 million top prize from a scratch-off a year after he lost everything in a flood.
The feeling of instant karma was immense for the anonymous Midland County player, 29, who played the Michigan Lottery's $2,000,000 Lucky 7's scratch-off game and took home a $2 million top prize.
Last year, I lost everything in a flood, so to win this prize is so overwhelming to me, he told the Lot
Apr 27, 2021, 11:38 am - Lottery News
Florida considers partial lottery winner anonymity
Bill passes in the House, moves to the Senate
By Kate Northrop
Florida lawmakers introduced a new bill that could grant lottery winners of $250,000 or more a three-month period of anonymity before their identity is revealed to the public.
A bill granting temporary anonymity to lottery winners of big prizes passed Wednesday in the House by a vote of 117 to 1. Now the measure heads to the Senate, but with little time left in the current legislative session, it is unlikely that it will bec
Apr 22, 2021, 9:44 am - Lottery News
New York woman plans a return trip back to Florida to claim her $1 million prize
It's certainly a trip worth taking
By Kate Northrop
The Florida Lottery announced yesterday that a New York woman had to book a return flight to claim a $1 million prize for a scratch-off ticket she bought while visiting the state.
Dagmar Schmalhaus, 57, of Queensbury, New York, had to plan a second trip to Florida to claim winnings from the Florida Lottery's 200X The Cash instant game, well worth the nearly $1 million lump sum she would receive.
The New York resident decided to play
Apr 7, 2021, 1:51 pm - Lottery News
Iowa man accused of lottery fraud for cashing ticket on friend's behalf
Friend of lottery winner pleads not guilty
By Kate Northrop
An associate of a lottery winner pleaded not guilty to lottery fraud after being accused of falsely cashing in a $50,000 winning scratch-off ticket.
The Fort Dodge man was charged with one count of lottery fraud, a Class D felony classified as forgery or theft of a ticket, for turning in a winning lottery ticket that reportedly did not belong to him.
Skyler Sturgis Hay, 29, allegedly committed the offense in 2018 when he vis
Mar 31, 2021, 2:14 pm - Lottery News
Massachusetts man visits two lottery retailers to win $10 million
Closed store leads player to a luckier one
By Kate Northrop
A Massachusetts lottery player visited a gas station to play the lottery but upon finding that it was closed instead went elsewhere to win a $10.04 million Megabucks Doubler jackpot.
Stephen Pereira of Fairhaven originally intended to buy a Megabucks Doubler ticket at a nearby gas station, but the retailer was not open for business. Some lottery players with a go-to store might call it bad luck, but for Pereira, this might have
Mar 25, 2021, 2:57 pm - Lottery News
Mississippi Lottery to launch new Match 5 game in April
Newest game becomes the state's second locally-drawn game
By Kate Northrop
Mississippi lottery players hoping for another local draw-style game won't have to wait much longer last Monday, the Mississippi Lottery announced that it will be releasing its newest draw game in April called Match 5.
Match 5 will be the fourth draw-style game in its current lineup, joining multi-state games Powerball and Mega Millions and in-state game Cash 3. Drawings will take place three nights a week on Tue
Mar 24, 2021, 8:41 pm - Lottery News
Michigan man in disbelief after winning $300,000 lottery prize
Stunned player kept thinking This can't be right
By Kate Northrop
A Michigan man in complete shock from winning $300,000 from a scratch-off needed a second pair of eyes to make sure that he was seeing his ticket correctly.
The anonymous winner was at a loss for words after making a one-off decision to try out an instant game while visiting the Meijer gas station on East Michigan Avenue in Jackson. He picked out a $300,000 Winter Spectacular scratch-off ticket for $5.
I haven't play
Mar 21, 2021, 2:13 pm - Lottery News
NC man wins $1 million in lottery twice in one year
Double-lucky player claims he won on the same number twice
By Kate Northrop
Most players can't even begin to imagine what it would be like to win a million dollars, but one North Carolina man is lucky enough to have experienced the exciting feeling twice after winning two $1 million prizes in the span of one year.
Willard Weber's lucky streak is running a little bit longer after he won not one, but two prizes worth $1 million within one year. The last time the Littleton resident picked
Mar 9, 2021, 3:38 pm - Lottery News
Fortune cookie gives Florida player a lucky break
Lottery player wins big after using numbers from a popular paper slip
By Kate Northrop
A fortune cookie lived up to its name after a Florida resident won a $500,000 Powerball prize in the North Carolina Lottery after using the numbers written on the back of the paper slip.
Ernesto Sorzano got to enjoy a nice meal consisting of his favorite take-out of shrimp and fried rice and an impressive $500,000 windfall to boot, thanks to the numbers printed on the little paper slip inside his fort
Mar 1, 2021, 2:14 pm - Lottery News