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Minnesota family wins first Lotto America jackpot worth $22.8 millionNews Story
Debbie Kujava stopped at a Holiday convenience store in Roseau, Minn., to buy a Diet Sunkist after work on March 13. While there, she decided to buy a lottery-ticket bundle for $7. She thought she might win $1 or $2. When she realized on Thursday that her ticket matched every number for the multi-state Lotto America game, she stepped outside to calm down and smoke a cigarette. I was shaking. My heart was beating so fast, Debbie Kujava said Monday at Minnesota Lottery headquarters in Ro
Mar 20, 2018, 7:41 pm - Lottery News

Mystery NH Powerball lottery winner gets her prize, keeps her privacy — for nowNews Story
Payout is anonymous, but winner's identity may be revealed later, pending court case A woman who sued the New Hampshire state lottery commission asking it to allow her to collect the $559.7 million prize she had won without making her name public collected her winnings on Wednesday, lottery officials said, and kept her privacy for now. The woman won the fifth-largest jackpot in the history of the multi-state Powerball lottery drawing in early January but began her legal odyssey when she si
Mar 7, 2018, 8:41 pm - Lottery News

Lottery winner memorialized his winning numbers in his swimming poolNews Story
If you're hoping for a bit of extra lottery luck this week, perhaps living in the home of a lottery winner might make some good fortune rub off on you and now you can do just that. Roy Gibney, 63, is selling the property he bought with his 7.4 million (US$10.3 million) jackpot back in 1998 for a price tag of 1.125 million (US$1.56 million). The six-bedroom house in Barnoldby-le-Beck near Grimsby was originally bought for just 375,000 but since then it has been through some serious upgrades
Mar 6, 2018, 11:37 am - Lottery News

El Gordo holds annual Christmas drawing, awarding billionsNews Story
People lucky enough to hold tickets with the number 71198 were blessed with thousands of euros in prize money in Spain's bumper Christmas lottery Friday. Children from Madrid's San Ildefonso school called out the top prize number three hours after the much-followed, nationally televised draw began around 9 a.m. (0800 GMT) at Madrid's Teatro Real opera house. The lottery, known as El Gordo, or The Fat One, will dish out 2.4 billion euros (US$2.8 billion) in prizes this year. Despite the
Dec 22, 2017, 10:40 am - Lottery News

Survey: Many investors would make questionable decisions after winning the lotteryNews Story
The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are a slim 1 in 292,201,338; the Mega Millions is 1 in 302,575,350. But that doesn't stop people from dreaming about how they'd handle a big-ticket lottery win. Asked to allocate a multimillion-dollar lottery win, consumers said they would put roughly two-thirds into savings saving an average 52 percent of the prize for themselves and 16 percent for others, according to a new survey from TD Ameritrade provided exclusively to CNBC.com. Of the remaining
Dec 19, 2017, 9:18 am - Lottery News

Russian retiree wins country's biggest lottery jackpot everNews Story
By Todd Northrop Russia's state-run lottery company Stoloto says a retiree has won more than half a billion rubles (US$8.5 million), the country's largest-ever jackpot. Natalia Vlassova, a 63-year-old retiree from the region of Voronezh, claimed the record jackpot worth 506,000,000 rubles along with her daughter Catherine this week at lottery headquarters. Natalia bought her ticket from a local post office but waited a week to check the numbers, thinking it was a losing ticket. When
Nov 20, 2017, 8:40 am - Lottery News

Illinois couple claims $393 million Mega Millions lottery jackpotNews Story
Largest lottery jackpot ever claimed in Illinois By Todd Northrop At the same time the latest Powerball jackpot run was stealing headlines, an Illinois couple was at Illinois Lottery headquarters, claiming the largest lottery jackpot ever won in the state. Palos Heights resident Patricia Busking became the winner of the largest prize in Illinois Lottery history when the second line of numbers on her $5 Quick Pick ticket matched all six numbers in the Friday, August 11, Mega Millions dra
Aug 28, 2017, 7:29 am - Lottery News

Massachusetts woman wastes no time claiming $758.7 million Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
Includes video report By Todd Northrop Some lottery winners spend months hiring financial experts and planning how to best claim their lottery jackpot, but not so with the winner of the largest lottery jackpot ever claimed by a single ticket. Upon learning that she held the winning ticket, 53-year-old Mavis Wanczyk just walked into Massachusetts Lottery headquarters the morning after the drawing and handed over the ticket for validation of her prize. Her half-billion-dollar lump-sum cas
Aug 24, 2017, 2:21 pm - Lottery News

Lottery game sparks gambling fever in eastern CanadaNews Story
A Canadian lottery game used to raise money for charity has brought gambling fever to the city of St John's in the remote eastern province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Chase the Ace is a lottery game popular all over Canada's east coast, and often raises money for charity. The winner of each week's draw gets to pick one card out of a deck; the ace of spades wins the jackpot. A record-breaking-million-dollar game has attracted thousands of people to the Goulds area of St John's. How
Jul 24, 2017, 11:03 am - Lottery News

Waitress wins $292K from the Michigan Lottery's Keno gameNews Story
Rachel Signorello made some money in tips while working at Playoffs Sports Bar and Grill on Friday, April 14. She made significantly more making a quick Club Keno bet during that same shift. Signorello, 48, had to lock herself in a bathroom to calm down after winning a $292,524 Club Keno The Jack prize from the Michigan Lottery. The waitress at the sports bar located at 27409 Goodard Road in Taylor matched her Jack numbers 05-07-10-27-29-31-37-40 to eight of the numbers drawn in drawn ins
Apr 19, 2017, 9:40 am - Lottery News