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New Jersey veteran overcomes health challenges and wins $100,000 Jersey Cash 5 lottery jackpotNews Story
2024 pans out to be fantastic year for cancer survivor By Kate Northrop A New Jersey veteran who overcame a battle with cancer and a stroke that impeded his mobility won a $100,000 Jersey Cash 5 lottery jackpot. 2024 is turning out to be a great year for a New Jersey cancer survivor, who recently won a $100,000 Jersey Cash 5 jackpot. Craig Reynolds is a long-time lottery player, and although New Jersey allows lottery winners to claim prizes anonymously, he was happy to share his
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$1.3 billion Powerball winner revealed by Oregon Lottery as three people splitting jackpotNews Story
Endearing and humble Laos native is one of three jackpot winners Includes video report By Kate Northrop The Oregon Lottery revealed the identity of the winner for the $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot at a press conference Monday, which turned out to be three people sharing one winning ticket. One of the three winners of the $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot appeared before the press at a news conference in Salem, where he revealed that the prize will be split between himself, his wife
Apr 30, 2024, 3:56 pm - Lottery News

Oregon woman who doesn't check lottery tickets wins $1 million in raffleNews Story
Winner would have forgotten to check tickets if it weren't for Powerball By Kate Northrop An Oregon woman admitted that if it weren't for Powerball making headlines, she would not have thought to check an Oregon Lottery Raffle ticket that turned out to be worth $1 million. If it were not for seeing Powerball come up in the news, an Oregon woman would not have bothered to check her stack of lottery tickets, one of which held the winning numbers for a $1 million prize. Leslie Carr,
Apr 25, 2024, 7:04 am - Lottery News

Look-alike actor from movie inspires Michigan man to buy lottery ticket, wins $500,000News Story
No better sign to buy a lottery ticket than a big win from a fictional doppelganger By Kate Northrop A Michigan man won $500,000 in the lottery after identifying with an actor look-alike, whose character bought a lottery ticket in a movie. Most lottery winners have a fun story to accompany their prize claim, and one Michigan man's reason for buying a ticket is as unique as they come. This 26-year-old winner, who chose to remain anonymous, said that he was inspired by a fictional
Apr 24, 2024, 9:14 am - Lottery News

Ryan Mindell appointed Executive Director of Texas LotteryNews Story
By Kate Northrop The Texas Lottery Commission announced the appointment of Ryan Mindell as the new Executive Director of the Texas Lottery in a press release issued Thursday. With a track record of multiple leadership functions at both the Texas Lottery and in the lottery industry, Ryan Mindell will serve as the new Executive Director of the Texas Lottery. With a unanimous decision, we are proud to appoint Ryan Mindell as the Texas Lottery Commission's newest Executive Director, Texa
Apr 22, 2024, 8:03 am - Lottery News

$1.08 billion Powerball lottery winner Yanira Alvarez filed claim for jackpot over five months agoNews Story
Lottery Post investigates lengthy delay in public announcement By Kate Northrop At the end of March, the California Lottery announced Yanira Alvarez as the sole winner of the $1.08 billion Powerball jackpot drawn on July 16, 2023, but it turns out the winner presented the winning ticket to lottery officials months earlier. The California Lottery's official announcement of Yanira Alvarez as the lone winner of the $1.08 billion Powerball jackpot came more than five months after she fil
Apr 19, 2024, 6:50 am - Lottery News

Virginia Lottery retailers refuse to sell tickets to draw attention to skill games amendmentNews Story
Amendment would effectively prohibit most small businesses from having skill games in stores Includes video report By Kate Northrop Hundreds of Virginia Lottery retailers across the state participated in a boycott of ticket sales on Monday to protest an amendment to a bill that regulates skill games. Virginia lottery players may have had difficulty buying tickets Monday, since hundreds of licensed Virginia Lottery retailers halted ticket sales to voice their frustrations with the
Apr 18, 2024, 7:05 am - Lottery News

U.K. convicts used stolen card to win £4 million lottery prize; now card owner wants the winningsNews Story
Blotto Louts bender is short-lived Includes video report By Kate Northrop The owner of the debit card two United Kingdom convicts used to purchase a winning lottery ticket worth 4 million (US$4.98 million) says he wants to see at least a portion of the prize. Joshua Addyman, 29, was on the receiving end of a fraudulent debit purchase made by two jobless convicts, Mark Goodram and Jon-Ross Watson, which resulted in a 4 million lottery win. Just having learned of the win last w
Apr 16, 2024, 8:12 am - Lottery News

Michigan woman wins $500,000 in lottery the same day a tarot card reading predicts influx of moneyNews Story
Tarot reader's prediction is right on the money By Kate Northrop Call it fate or call it the wildest luck yet, but one Michigan woman had the most coincidental experience ever when she won $500,000 in the lottery the same day a tarot card reading predicted money was headed her way. A Michigan woman was told that money would be coming into her life very soon, and later that same day, she won a $500,000 prize in the lottery. A 59-year-old woman, who requested anonymity to hide her
Apr 13, 2024, 8:26 am - Lottery News

Accidental lottery ticket purchase nets Maryland couple $2 million in PowerballNews Story
April 1 drawing handsomely rewards couple's inadvertent purchase By Kate Northrop A Maryland couple was surprised to find out that one of their favorite lottery retailers sold not one, but two $1 million winning Powerball tickets, and they were even more shocked to learn that they were in possession of both. It was no April Fool's joke. The duplicate Powerball ticket a Maryland couple didn't even realize they had bought doubled their lottery prize total to $2 million. On Monday,
Apr 11, 2024, 4:04 pm - Lottery News