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Mystery woman who paid $2,600 tab for strangers was not Powerball winnerNews Story
After 180 diners at a Florida restaurant received a free meal from a stranger on Sunday night, locals (and soon, the Internet) were buzzing that the generous benefactor was the 84-year-old woman who recently won the largest Powerball jackpot in history. While the woman who picked up the nearly $2,600 tab at Buddy Freddy's in Plant City resembled lottery winner Gloria C. MacKenzie of nearby Zephyrhills, Fla., it turned out to simply be an anonymous kind soul helping the lucky diners hit their
Jun 14, 2013, 6:45 pm - Lottery News

6 things to do before claiming your lottery prizeNews Story
What should you do if you win the lottery? Take it from someone who has developed a national reputation for working with sudden wealth recipients or as a client recently remarked, a lottery financial adviser : There are countless financial, tax and legal strategies that you can take to make the most of your sudden money but not so fast! Winning the lottery is a unique sudden wealth event that requires several immediate decisions. Here are six things you should do before you claim your lottery pr
Jun 5, 2013, 8:55 am - Lottery News

$123M EuroMillions lottery winner claims prizeNews Story
Now deciding if they want to go public The 81,381,673.30 payout (US$123.7 million), which saw the lucky ticket-holder shoot to sixth on the UK National Lottery Rich List, had gone unclaimed since Tuesday night. The winner is now deciding whether or not to go public with the win. A Camelot spokesman said, The claim has been validated and the prize is in the process of being paid out. The ticketholder is currently deciding whether to go public or remain anonymous. While the winner
May 30, 2013, 12:39 pm - Lottery News

N.J. man claims Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
Apparently it's lucky to be a guy named Joe from Tinton Falls, N.J. For the second time in just 14 months, a Joe who lives in the Monmouth County town (population 18,000) has stepped forward to collect a major lottery jackpot. On Thursday, Giuseppe Joe Garofalo claimed his half of the $198 annuity jackpot from last Friday's Mega Millions drawing. He bought his ticket at Kwik Farms in the Monmouth County town. The other winning ticket was sold in Farmville, Va., a rural town west of Rich
May 24, 2013, 7:53 am - Lottery News

Happy New Year!News Story
The Lottery Post staff wishes you a happy, successful, and lucky 2013!
Jan 1, 2013, 9:04 am - Lottery News

Cashier's mistake makes N.H. family lottery winnersNews Story
A Hillsborough family is the newest New Hampshire Tri-State Megabucks winner, and it was all because of a mistake. Hillsborough resident Scott Bennett wanted to buy tickets to two games on Wednesday, but the clerk made an error. He went up to the register and said he'd like a Lucky For Life ticket and a Tri-State Megabucks Plus ticket, said Maura McCann, New Hampshire Lottery director of marketing. Bennett was buying the tickets at a Hillsborough Circle K. The clerk sold him two Tr
Dec 24, 2012, 8:12 am - Lottery News

Big lottery winners offer advice, cautionary tales as $500M Powerball drawing approachesNews Story
So you just won the $500 million Powerball jackpot, the second highest in lottery history. Now what? Perhaps it's time for a tropical vacation or a new car. There are bills to pay, loans to settle, debts to square. Past winners of mega-lottery drawings and financial planners have some more sound advice: Stick to a budget, invest wisely, learn to say no and be prepared to lose friends while riding an emotional roller-coaster of joy, anxiety, guilt and distrust. I had to adapt to this ne
Nov 28, 2012, 9:08 am - Lottery News

Three times lucky for lottery-winning familyNews Story
A family in Norway has hit the lottery jackpot for the third time in six years and the wins have so far all coincided with the birth of a new baby. The latest lucky winner is 19-year-old Tord Oksnes who won 12.2m Norwegian krone (US$2.1 million) last week on the country's national lottery. Before him, his 26-year-old sister Hege Jeanette had pocketed 882,000 (US$1.4 million) in 2010, only four years after their 58-year-old father Leif won 441,000 (US$712,000) on the same lottery. The lu
Sep 26, 2012, 2:21 pm - 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 - Lottery News

Florida woman cashes $21M Lotto ticketNews Story
Aleyda Montes de Oca, 54, of Key Largo, claimed the $21 million Florida Lotto jackpot the biggest haul of the year so far from the drawing held on April 28. The $21 million Lotto jackpot is a bit of a rarity nowadays. Seven of the eight other winners so far this year have been under $10 million, and the eighth was only $12 million. Since Powerball came along, the jackpots aren't zooming up there as fast. She bought her ticket at Tropical Supermarket, 28945 South Dixie Highway in Homestead.
Jun 6, 2012, 7:29 am - Lottery News