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Two mega lottery jackpots up for grabs this weekNews Story
Powerball, Mega Millions climb to a combined $441 million By Todd Northrop The USA's two powerhouse multi-state lottery games have been steadily growing their jackpots over the past several weeks, and this week they offer a combined $441 million to lottery players who will take a chance to beat the odds. Up first is Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing, featuring a whopping $253 million grand prize. It has been more than two months since the Mega Millions jackpot was won, and it has been get
Jun 1, 2015, 8:56 pm - Lottery News

NJ foursome claims $40M Powerball jackpotNews Story
By Todd Northrop A 10-year tradition of family Friday-night pizza continues long after the children have grown up and gone on with their own lives. The parents remain loyal to the tradition and to the friendship that the four couples have cultivated through the years. The group still meets and pools their money to buy weekly Powerball and Mega Millions tickets just as they've regularly done. Now, those relationships have been bonded even stronger by good fortune and a $40,000,000 Powerb
May 14, 2015, 12:46 pm - Lottery News

GET OUT THE VIOLIN: Florida woman grieving about $5 million lottery winNews Story
Four Central Florida people joined the ranks of the nouveau riche this week when each cashed a winning lottery ticket, including two who became overnight millionaires. But the biggest winner in the group, an Orlando nursing assistant who claimed a $5 million Mega Millions prize in Tallahassee, confided that she felt poorer spiritually. I'm a Christian. I don't gamble, said Fay Blake, 62. Spiritually, it bothers me. The Florida Lottery paid Blake $3,750,000 her winnings minus taxes and
Jan 16, 2015, 11:51 am - Lottery News

NJ Lottery adds 'Xtra' feature to Pick 6 gameNews Story
Includes video report New Jersey Lottery players now have the opportunity to increase their non-jackpot prizes by up to five times on the long-time favorite game, Pick 6, with the addition of the new Xtra feature. Players may purchase their Pick 6 tickets with Xtra for an additional $1 per play beginning on Jan. 13 for the Jan. 15 drawing. Pick 6 Xtra increases the game's base prize amounts by a randomly selected multiplier number during the Pick 6 Xtra draw. The purchase of Xtra will a
Jan 13, 2015, 1:42 pm - Lottery News

Players seek $250 million from Texas Lottery contractorNews Story
More than 500 players of a lottery scratch-off card filed suit against the game's developer seeking about $250 million in contested prize money. Confusion over the rules led many to believe they had winning tickets, but those tickets were not honored by the state. The suit contends that the lottery's contractor, GTECH Corporation, owes prize money to the players because they wrote the rules and programmed the scanners to identify the winners. GTECH Corporation spokeswoman Angela Wiczek sai
Dec 16, 2014, 9:36 am - Lottery News

New Mexico man claims 15 prizes in Mega Millions draw worth $60,000News Story
An Albuquerque, New Mexico, man won 15 prizes totaling $60,000 in one Mega Millions drawing. Steven Traub claimed his prizes in person at New Mexico Lottery headquarters yesterday. This has made my day, Traub said. Winner Played Ages as Lucky Numbers ... Again and Again For the July 8 drawing, Traub purchased five plays on three tickets for a total of 15 plays. On every play, Traub used the ages of his four youngest children and his wife 14, 19, 25, 27 and 49 as his white ball nu
Jul 17, 2014, 2:27 pm - Lottery News

Virginia couple are new millionairesNews Story
Kiss your bride! Janet Dalby instructed her husband Richard, as the two posed with an oversized $4 million check from Virginia Lottery on Friday. The couple was celebrating their newfound wealth, made possible by lucky scratch-off winnings at Taylor's Market, where Richard Dalby purchased the winning ticket two days earlier. The Dalby's have been buying lottery tickets at Taylor's Market on U.S. 1 for the past 20 years. Richard Dalby is retired, but Janet still works as an IT director
May 31, 2014, 10:42 am - Lottery News

New Mexico woman wins lottery twice in two weeksNews Story
Vicky Vasquez of Las Cruces is on a lucky streak, winning two New Mexico Lottery Scratcher prizes in the past two weeks. On April 11, Vasquez claimed a $3,000 prize from the lottery's $3 Crossword Cash Multiplier. Yesterday, she claimed a $50,000 prize from the $5 Red Hot Cherries Scratcher. It feels good, but it's a shocker, Vasquez said on her run of good fortune. Vasquez said she bought the ticket paying $50,000 late last week and played it four days later. I have a supersti
Apr 24, 2014, 8:30 am - Lottery News

NC woman scratches off $1M winner on first lottery ticketNews Story
A Wilmington, North Carolina, woman is a lot richer after buying her first lottery ticket ever. Cindy Reeves, a stockroom clerk, said she has worked hard all her life, according to a news release from the North Carolina Education Lottery. Sunday morning, the Wilmington native bought a $20 scratch-off ticket at the Shop-N-Go on Market Street. The ticket for the $4,000,000 Multiplier Spectacular turned out to be a $1 million winner. As a new player Reeves was unsure whether or not she had wo
Mar 20, 2014, 3:11 am - Lottery News

The Power Play multiplier returns to PowerballNews Story
By Todd Northrop Starting with the Wednesday, Jan. 22, Powerball draw, players of the popular multi-state lottery game will have the chance to multiply non-jackpot winning prizes up to five times with the return of the random Powerball Power Play multiplier. Two years ago Powerball's Power Play feature was changed from a random multiplier to a set of fixed prize increases for winners of non-jackpot prizes who purchased the Power Play option for an extra $1 per play. (See Powerball multi
Jan 19, 2014, 11:14 am - Lottery News