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CPA turns $2 into $13M lottery jackpotNews Story
Steve Workman stopped by a grocery store in Champaign, Illinois, Friday before leaving town for the weekend and bought a $2 lottery ticket. Monday, he was back from his weekend trip and decided to check the numbers on several lottery tickets he was holding when he stopped to fill his car with gas. To his surprise, he discovered he was the single winner of $13.5 million jackpot in the Illinois State Lottery's Lotto drawing held Saturday night. I couldn't stop laughing. It was funny as h
Oct 12, 2007, 4:52 pm - Lottery News

S.C. man wins major Powerball prize for second timeNews Story
Francis Stephenson struck Powerball gold this week. Again. South Carolina's first Powerball million-dollar winner in 2005, the 61-year-old Chester native scored a $400,000 prize Tuesday when he learned his quick pick ticket matched the first five numbers. I never thought I would win big again, he said. When you buy a ticket, (there's) that possibility you might win. Two years ago, Stephenson bought his winning ticket at the Pantry Express convenience store on the J.A. Cochran Byp
Aug 12, 2007, 8:50 am - Lottery News

Oklahoma couple claims $106M Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
Don Harvey's long-haul truck had almost two million miles on it when its engine died this week. Now he's planning to ride the road in style, thanks to a $105.8 million Powerball ticket bought by his wife. Absolute disbelief and shock, was how Joyce Harvey described her reaction when she checked her computer Thursday night and found she had the winning ticket. Basically, I just broke down and cried, she said. The Harveys, from Muldrow in eastern Oklahoma, said they will pay off bills
Jun 30, 2007, 9:31 pm - Lottery News

One year later, Powerball still treats them wellNews Story
Mike Terpstra could dream with the best of his lottery-playing co-workers at a Lincoln ham-processing plant. What, they wondered, would they do if they won? Terpstra fantasized about buying a remote tropical island, like one that actor Marlon Brando owned, or purchasing the Christina O, the luxury personal yacht in the fleet of the late shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. Either would be a warm escape from the chilly conditions in the ConAgra Foods plant. But a year after he and seven
Feb 19, 2007, 10:26 am - Lottery News

Spare change becomes lottery win for retired coupleNews Story
Having a couple of loonies [coins] in her pocket at the right time will allow Elizabeth Ross and her husband Douglas to buy a new car, renovate their home and make things a little easier for their loved ones. Tuesday afternoon, Elizabeth Ross stopped at a lottery booth to buy tickets for the next day's Lotto 6/49 draw while her husband headed to a nearby coffee shop. I said, 'Oh, give me a Set for Life,' she recalled. That's the first one I bought this year. I don't buy too many of th
Jan 19, 2007, 2:21 pm - Lottery News

Mass. Lottery bets it can draw richer playersNews Story
It's not your average Joe Lunchbucket's state lottery anymore. The Massachusetts State Lottery is spending millions on an upscale advertising campaign aimed at reeling in upper-income folks with dreams of having even more money. Emblematic of this new, and some might say curious approach, is the Lottery's sponsorship deal with public radio station WBUR, a National Public Radio affiliate. You won't hear the latest scratch tickets hawked. But the Lottery gets a very powerful, soft sell
Dec 20, 2006, 4:09 pm - Lottery News

Two dads become millionaires, send sons to collegeNews Story
Two new New York Lottery millionaires announced last week have a lot in common; both are from Dutchess County, both are fathers, and both plan to use some of their million to send their son's to college. Sylvester Cuomo of Poughkeepsie is a Union Laborer who buys a few New York Lottery scratch-off tickets every week. On Saturday, August 5th, Cuomo went to his local Getty Gas station bright and early at 6:30 am to pick up his weekly scratch-off tickets. When he started scratching the New York
Sep 1, 2006, 8:09 am - Lottery News

N.C. lottery counts on millions in unclaimed prizesNews Story
The first night North Carolina residents could take part in the multistate Powerball lottery game, someone hit a $200,000 winner. More than 11 weeks later, no one has claimed the prize. It's a little-known fact that lottery games across the country keep millions of dollars in winnings are never claimed. The industry norm is that about 1 percent to 2 percent of prizes somehow fall through the cracks. North Carolina lottery officials expect almost $9 million in lottery winnings will go un
Aug 21, 2006, 11:34 am - Lottery News

Florida Lottery player in The Villages has 44 million reasons to smileNews Story
From the fairways to coffee shops, retirees Thursday wondered: Who is the overnight multimillionaire? News zipped from golf cart to golf cart in the retirement community that a convenience store there sold one of two winning tickets to Wednesday night's $87.9 million Florida Lotto jackpot. Our employees are all rattling about who it might be, said Teresa Gladstone, manager of the Circle K. We know it was none of us. The store quickly boasted the good fortune with a hand-written sign
Apr 21, 2006, 7:02 am - Lottery News

'Education Hero' wins lottery twiceNews Story
The first time Maurice Wiley appeared on the California Lottery's Big Spin, he won $1 million. The second time Wiley appeared, he was given the Hero in Education award for doing good things with his windfall. Nobody expected to see him a third time. When I found out he was going back on, I was like, 'What for?' said lottery spokeswoman Cathy Johnston. On Saturday, the onetime Inglewood teacher won $100,000. I tell you, I think I'm still dreaming, he said. And he's still do
Apr 11, 2006, 10:12 am - Lottery News