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Great-great-grandmother wins $5.6m lottery jackpotNews Story
Lottery winner plans to fix roof and help familyA 94-year-old great-great-grandmother from Everett, Massachusetts is thinking about fixing her leaky roof and maybe taking a cruise to someplace warm and sunny now that she's won $5.6 million in the state lottery, her great-granddaughter, Cynthia Smith, said yesterday.Louise Outing, who has lived in the same house since she was a child and became the matriarch of a family that includes seven grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, and three great-gr
Sep 13, 2004, 8:10 am - Lottery News

Mass. Lottery rolls out new gameNews Story
CASH Winfall To Replace 17-Year-Old Mass Millions GameIt's out with the old and in with the new at the Massachusetts Lottery.The lottery retired the 17-year-old Mass Millions game after Thursday night's drawing. Mass Millions will be replaced by the new $2 CASH WinFall game, which will be drawn Monday and Thursday nights.Over the course of its life, Mass Millions earned the lottery $1 billion, of which $543 million went to cities and towns. However sales of the tickets have been going down.Lot
Sep 10, 2004, 1:43 pm - Lottery News

Man wins Oregon lottery gameNews Story
What would you do with an extra $1,000 a week?That's a question one lucky Vancouver man can now happily answer.David Bartkowski, 46, is the latest winner in Oregon Lottery's Win for Life contest.The game awards $1,000 a week for the rest of the winner's life if their ticket has the correct matching numbers drawn in the online game.Bartkowski, a truck mechanic, said he hasn't given much thought to how he will spend the money, only that he will step back and ponder the possibilities before makin
Sep 7, 2004, 10:06 am - Lottery News

$40 million lottery winners still OK after two decadesNews Story
When Mike Wittkowski won $40 million in the Illinois Lottery two decades ago, the media reported worldwide on what was called the largest prize ever won by an individual in North America.Strangers wrote from as far as Poland and Italy, begging him to send some of his winnings their way.Since then, Wittkowski has maintained a low profile. For years he and his wife even kept the windfall secret from their children. Their eldest son, Bryan, now 17, only learned of the family fortune in 2nd grade. O
Sep 7, 2004, 10:00 am - Lottery News

Toronto couple claims $26.8 million lottery winNews Story
A Toronto couple has claimed the third-largest jackpot in Canadian lottery history -- almost $27 million.Tze-Lam and Mei-Ling Chan say they'll use their $26.8 million Super 7 winnings to buy a house that's not too big by the city's lakeshore. And they might get a boat to go along with it. Like 40 feet or something like that, Tze-Lam Chan told reporters. He doesn't yet know how to sail.Both originally from Hong Kong, the couple met at a party in Toronto 17 years ago. They married and had a son
Aug 31, 2004, 9:08 am - Lottery News

$40 Million Man's payments endNews Story
For the first time in 20 years, Michael Wittkowski and family won't be receiving their big fat annual check courtesy of the Illinois State Lottery.The $40 Million Man is on his own again.Do you remember him? If you were around at the time, who could forget?His was the first mega-jackpot in Illinois lottery history, the biggest to a single winner anywhere in the nation at the time, earning the then-28-year-old unmarried printer from the Northwest Side a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records
Aug 31, 2004, 8:53 am - Lottery News

Massachusetts woman scratches a $4 million lottery winNews Story
A Warrendale, Massachusetts woman who bought a winning scratch ticket at a Main Street convenience store this week says the $4 million prize will not completely transform her life. It's just like having a good paying job, said Deborah A. Basile, 50, who works as an administrative assistant at Andrews Pharmacy in Wellesley and runs her own transcription business. If we won this 10 years ago, it would be different. After turning in the $4 million ticket to Mass State Lottery headquarters in Brain
Aug 27, 2004, 7:36 am - Lottery News

Tennessee couple wins $500,000 lottery prizeNews Story
Perseverance, lottery luck pay off greatly for Fairview pairHer husband has always called her the lucky one. Yesterday, she proved him right.Pat Bates, 57, of Fairview, won a lottery sum of $500,000, making her the recipient of the largest Tennessee Powerball prize to date.Bates said she and her husband buy lottery tickets twice a week from Lindsey's Office Supply in Fairview and she knew that some day, her perseverance would pay off.But she said she had no idea that the rewards would be so gra
Aug 27, 2004, 7:26 am - Lottery News

Florida Man Accused Of Stealing Lottery WinningsNews Story
After Jean Delouche won millions from the Florida Lottery, he turned to Claude St. Jean for financial advice.St. Jean, a former MetLife salesman from Tampa, is accused of stealing more than $375,000 from brokerage and other accounts Delouche established with MetLife, according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court.St. Jean, of 14919 Redcliff Drive, is charged with using the mail to defraud. It is not clear how Delouche met St. Jean.According to the complaint filed by Postal Inspector Kacy
Aug 26, 2004, 7:41 am - Lottery News

Animal group sues Powerball lottery winnersNews Story
Sybil Erdens dreams of creating a world-class bird sanctuary to help her feathered friends has turned into a nightmare.The Arizona bird lover, who rescues exotic birds, blames Jason and Mary Sanderson for the financial troubles now plaguing The Oasis Sanctuary - a bird refuge in Cascabel, Ariz., that the Epping couple helped build with a portion of their $66 million Powerball jackpot, but have now stopped funding. Were operating this facility on a shoestring, lamented Erden, who runs the sanctu
Aug 25, 2004, 9:16 am - Lottery News