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Powerball Winner Offers 'No Excuses' for IncidentNews Story
A Powerball winner who has donated more than $3 million of his record winnings to churches was drinking at a strip club when $545,000 was stolen from his sport utility vehicle, police said Tuesday.Jack Whittaker said he hopes the incident will not affect the Jack Whittaker Foundation, which he established to help charities operated by the Church of God and other causes. He also said he wanted to remind the media and the public that he is a private citizen. I'm simply a businessman who has seen h
Aug 5, 2003, 4:07 pm - Lottery News

Thieves Steal Lottery Winner's $545,000News Story
More than half a million dollars was stolen early Tuesday from record Powerball winner Jack Whittaker's vehicle parked outside a strip club, but the money was recovered, a sheriff's deputy said. Someone broke a window in Jack Whittaker's sport utility vehicle around 2:30 a.m. and took a briefcase containing $245,000 in cash and three blank $100,000 cashier's checks, Kanawha County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Phil Morris said. The briefcase, cash and checks were later found behind a trash bin on the p
Aug 5, 2003, 11:51 am - Lottery News

Voting for dollars?News Story
Doing your civic duty could become much more lucrative under an initiative filed Wednesday that seeks to turn Arizona elections into a statewide game of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? The initiative, filed by former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Osterloh of Tucson, would reward one lucky voter with $1 million from the State Lottery every two years. We're rewarding patriotism, said Osterloh, who's aiming for the November 2004 ballot. The idea behind this is to increase voter participat
Jul 31, 2003, 4:46 am - Lottery News