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Oregon man claims $6.3 million Arizona Lottery jackpotNews Story
By Todd Northrop An Oregon man who purchased a lottery ticket in Arizona is now a multi-millionaire. Frederick Hallwyler purchased a few lottery tickets while visiting Arizona, including four quick picks for The Pick drawing on Saturday, Sept. 26, from a vending machine at a Fry's Food Store in Avondale. He returned to Portland and remembered to check his tickets three days later. What he found out was that one of his tickets matched all six numbers for the $6,285,618 jackpot. Hallwy
Oct 2, 2015, 12:22 pm - Lottery News

$3 million lottery winnings just chicken feed to farmerNews Story
The millionaire opened his barn door and was greeted by the clucks of a thousand chickens. Jeff LaBar walked into his chicken coop, gathered the eggs that had been laid overnight and brought them into the house to wash them by hand, one at a time, before packing them up and driving them to the few local supermarkets that are LaBar Poultry Farm's loyal customers. Earlier that morning, the 53-year-old had gotten off his 12-hour overnight shift at the local lime plant, a second job he took aw
Aug 21, 2014, 9:00 am - Lottery News

Missouri couple claim $96.5M Powerball jackpotNews Story
A St. Charles, Missouri, man and his wife are living the dream that they never in a gazillion years expected to have, after they discovered their Powerball ticket from March 22 was worth $96.5 million. John Brands said he checked his Missouri Lottery tickets with the numbers on the Lottery's website the morning after the drawing, before heading out to play golf. When all six numbers matched, he went to wake his wife, Susan. I thought the house was on fire, she said. I thought he was messi
Mar 28, 2014, 11:40 pm - Lottery News

Canadian lottery winner donates $40 million jackpot to charityNews Story
Includes audio report Unlike most big lottery winners who spend days, or even months, trying to figure out how they'll spend their newfound riches, Tom Crist needed only a moment to decide where his $40 million in winnings would go: all to charity. Top on the list would be the medical center that cared for his late wife when she developed cancer. Still, it took Crist more than six months to tell anybody including family members he'd won. The retired Calgary executive had been lunching betw
Dec 20, 2013, 9:45 am - Lottery News

Powerball winner dies penniless, 12 years after winning $27 millionNews Story
David Edwards spent $12 million in his first year as a millionaire A Powerball winner has died broke and all alone in hospice care, just 12 years after raking in $27 million cash from a lottery jackpot. David Lee Edwards, a convicted felon from Ashland, Kentucky, bought a mansion in a gated community, dozens of expensive cars and even a LearJet with the share of a record $280 million jackpot he won in August 2001. But drug addiction and his free-spending ways left Edwards and his wife S
Dec 3, 2013, 5:40 pm - Lottery News

Record Florida Powerball winner buys $1.175 million homeNews Story
The gold Ford Focus has disappeared from the dirt driveway. Also gone is the neighbor kid's congratulatory crayon drawing of palm trees, taped to the door of the tiny gray duplex where Gloria MacKenzie lived until she won $590.5 million, the largest single jackpot in American lottery history. Records show that MacKenzie, 84, traded her former rental unit in for a 6,322-square-foot, five-bedroom home in Glen Kernan Country Club, a gated golf course community in southeast Jacksonville. The pric
Jul 20, 2013, 7:12 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

Online poker sites settle U.S. lawsuit for $731 millionNews Story
The Department of Justice announced a $731 million settlement Tuesday with online poker companies PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker to resolve bank fraud and money laundering allegations. Full Tilt also resolved allegations that it operated a Ponzi scheme, failing to maintain sufficient funds on deposit for players to withdraw. Prosecutors said last year that Full Tilt had used more than $400 million worth of player funds to pay board members and other owners since 2007. As part of Tuesday's
Aug 1, 2012, 6:42 am - Lottery News

The lottery fantasy: How much money do you need to say 'buzz off, world'?News Story
By Peter McKay We don't play the lottery very often. So I always get a little aggravated when I'm standing in line to buy Junior Mints and some clown in front of me has an inch-thick stack of lucky numbers he's going to play. But every once in a while, when the jackpot gets into ludicrously high levels, so high that it makes the 6 o'clock news, we break down and get a ticket. And even though we don't actually play the lottery very often, my wife and I spend an inordinate amount of time pla
Jun 24, 2012, 8:52 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner buys golf courseNews Story
Recent lottery winner Wally Markham isn't just a member of his local country club he owns it. Markham, 65, won the Iowa Lottery Hot Lotto jackpot in November, netting about $3.5 million after taxes. The retiree invested most of his winnings, but first set aside enough to buy the faltering La Porte City Country Club. Markham was already a member of the country club and even volunteered there, mowing the greens and doing odd jobs. It was going downhill, and they were financially in troub
May 14, 2012, 7:57 am - Lottery News