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Washington Lottery has its first Lucky for Life winnerNews Story
Rauf Nayemi had to doublecheck his Lucky for Life scratch card at the Washington State Lottery office. He couldn't believe he'd really won $52,000 a year for life.Nayemi, 40, an immigrant from Afghanistan, is the first Lucky for Life winner since the game was changed from a drawing to scratch tickets on April 27.He'll get $39,000 a year after federal taxes, said Liz Anderson, the lottery's communications manager. Today is the most exciting day for me, Nayemi said Friday at the lottery offic
Jul 11, 2005, 11:06 am - Lottery News

Virginia lottery winner claims first Set for Life checkNews Story
Last week, Gordon McKinney suddenly fell back in a chair at the Scott County Tobacco Co.Those at the store thought he was having a heart attack.But Gordon, of Chuckey, Tenn., realized that he won the top prize in the Virginia Lottery s new scratch-off game, Set for Life. He will receive $2,000 a week, or $104,000 a year before taxes, for the rest of his life. It really hasn t sunk in yet, said Gordon, who was holding his first $2,000 check.Phil Hankey, the Virginia Lottery southwest regional ma
Jun 30, 2005, 11:00 am - Lottery News

Honest store clerk returns $100,000 lottery ticketNews Story
Leslee Hobson isn't just lucky when it comes to lottery tickets. She is lucky she buys her coffee from John Martin each morning.Hobson brought three Powerball tickets into the Circle K convenience store in Stayton, Oregon on May 29.Martin, a clerk at the store, went through the tickets and returned her winnings of $3. One of the tickets, however, couldn't be processed. Something came up on the screen on the Lottery machine I'd never seen before, Martin said. It said, This is not a ticket.' Ho
Jun 27, 2005, 7:42 pm - Lottery News

Winning Powerball lottery ticket sold in Conn.News Story
The only jackpot-winning ticket sold for Saturday night's $59.5 million multistate Powerball drawing was sold in Connecticut, a spokeswoman for the state lottery said.The winner had not come forward and officials were not immediately sure where the ticket was sold, Diane Patterson said.The jackpot is the largest in the 32-year history of the Connecticut State Lottery, Patterson said, and came eight years to the day since the last time a Connecticut resident won the Powerball jackpot.A New Britai
Jun 27, 2005, 2:06 pm - Lottery News

Lottery winner claims simplicity is key to happy lifeNews Story
Jim Hall from Troy, New York says he's the same man he was before he hit the New York Lottery for $65 million five years ago. I'm still the same miserable (SOB) I always was, he said as we kicked back on his porch on a wet Friday night.Jim is a big man with a deep voice and lifetime memberships in the National Rifle Association and Safari International. He's got the firepower to prove it.But there's a softness the laid-back 67-year-old can't hide. You can see it in the house Jim and Vivian, his
Jun 14, 2005, 1:06 pm - Lottery News

'Beyond lucky': Woman wins same $1M lottery jackpot twice in 6 monthsNews Story
A woman who won $1 million playing a Pennsylvania Lottery scratch-off ticket earlier this year won another million on the same game Thursday.Donna Goeppert, 55, of Bethlehem said it was just unbelievable after filing her claim Friday at lottery headquarters. What are the odds of that? she asked.The odds of winning just once are 1.44 million-to-1, according to the lottery. Lehigh University engineering professor Bob Storer placed the odds of winning twice after buying 100 tickets at 419 milli
Jun 14, 2005, 9:03 am - Lottery News

Handyman wins Florida Lotto jackpotNews Story
It's official: Jack Murray is the luckiest man in Englewood, Florida.Murray, a 43-year-old Rotonda West handyman, claimed an estimated $12 million Florida Lotto jackpot this week.According to Florida Lottery officials, who made the announcement Wednesday, Murray chose to take his winnings in a one-time lump sum. That means he pocketed $7,616.592.95.Murray bought the winning ticket at the Publix on Placida Road in Cape Haze Saturday afternoon, said Lillian Murray, Jack's mother. He chose his numb
Jun 9, 2005, 12:26 pm - Lottery News

Ohio store sells winning $106 million Mega Millions lottery ticketNews Story
Ohio has its fourth Mega Millions lottery winner, who will gross $106 million, or a $66,666,686 lump sum.The Emery Road convenience store that sold the ticket will receive $100,000. I'll take the family on vacation, Ajay Patel, 35, owner of Emery Food Mart, said Saturday morning.He and his wife, Asmita, 30, moved from India to the United States in 1987. They have surpassed the American Dream.The Patels also sold a winning Super Lotto ticket in 1999 that brought them $5,000. And Ajay's brother-i
Jun 6, 2005, 9:45 am - Lottery News

One Florida Lotto ticket wins $12 million jackpotNews Story
One lucky Florida resident in the Cape Haze area woke up Sunday morning and realized they now had a few extra dollars available to buy the little things, and maybe even a few big things.The winning $12 million Florida Lottery ticket was sold at the Publix in Cape Haze, 8725 Placida Road.The six winning numbers for Saturday's drawing were 09-11-16-22-44-52. Unfortunately, no one has come forward, yet, said Nick DiGregorio, the grocery manager at the store.The store gets a printout which tells th
Jun 6, 2005, 8:54 am - Lottery News

Nevada Democrats try to revive lottery planNews Story
Nevada Democrats are trying to breathe life into their state lottery proposal, an idea Senate Republicans say is dead for the 2005 session.Although the resolution was voted down by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Assembly Speaker Richard Perkins, says he's negotiating with Senate Republicans leaders with the hopes of reviving it.The resolution would let the state create a lottery to pay for school supplies and class-size reduction. Democrats say it could bring in as much as 50 million dollars an
May 17, 2005, 12:48 pm - Lottery News