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Massachusetts man wins $1M lottery prizeNews Story
Robert F. Brown Jr. doesn't know it yet, but he's got a free Boar's Head sandwich coming.It may not sound like much, but it's all Marissa and Glen Varney can do to say thanks to Brown for buying a winning $1 million lottery ticket in their Wrentham delicatessen, the Sheldonville Store.The Varneys, former chefs who live in Franklin, Mass., will get a $10,000 commission for selling Brown the winning ticket, said Amy Morris, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Lottery. When you tell people you own
Jan 9, 2004, 5:24 am - Lottery News

Vermont woman is first Tri-State Megabucks jackpot winner of 2004News Story
How's this for a great start to the New Year: Madelyne Wight of Vergennes, Vermont claimed $2,084,503 in cash this morning after she correctly picked the winning numbers in the December 31 Tri-State Megabucks drawing.Ms. Wight learned of her good fortune when she logged onto the Vermont Lottery¹s web site. I sat staring at the screen for 20 minutes with tears rolling down my face said the Vergennes resident. I had to call the toll-free number to make sure there was no mistake. I even
Jan 5, 2004, 2:58 pm - Lottery News

Winning a big lottery not without its own costNews Story
If Donald Trump won the $162 million Mega Millions jackpot, he could lasso the windfall like a seasoned financial cowboy, invest his winnings, and fly off to a luxurious ski trip with his playmate of the month.But what about the guy in blue jeans beaming into a news camera with an oversized lottery check?That Average Joe might want to enlist in Susan Bradley's lottery boot camp for instant millionaires. Really rich people do play the lottery, but nine out of 10 times it's someone who's more aver
Jan 3, 2004, 9:10 pm - Lottery News

Penn. Match 6 Lotto Rules FinalizedNews Story
Lottery Post presents a summary of the rules for the new Pennsylvania Match 6 Lotto game.The Pennsylvania Secretary of Revenue, under the authority contained in section 303 of the State Lottery Law (72 P. S. 3761-303), added Chapter 872, relating to the new Match 6 Lotto game.PurposeMatch 6 Lotto is designed to give players the opportunity to win up to four prizes in each game.For a $2 purchase, the player gets a ticket containing three sets of six numbers, the numbers in each of these sets ra
Jan 2, 2004, 8:17 pm - Lottery News

Convenience store sells winning PA Powerball ticketNews Story
Holder of ticket sold at store near York will split $221.5 million with S.C. winnerA Powerball ticket whose owner can claim half of a $221.5 million New Year's Eve jackpot was sold at a convenience store outside York, officials said yesterday. Our employees are riding really high right now, because they know somebody on the staff sold the winning ticket, said Scott Hartman, the president of Rutter's Farm Stores, a chain of 51 convenience stores. The ticket sold at the chain's Arsenal Road store
Jan 2, 2004, 9:06 am - Lottery News

Clover, S.C. store sold winning lottery ticketNews Story
S.C. town waits for Powerball winner to come forwardAs people drove past the tidy mill houses in town and the mobile homes on the outskirts of town Thursday, they couldnt help but wonder: Is somebody in one of those homes holding the $110 million ticket?One of two winning tickets in the $221.5 million Powerball lottery was sold Wednesday morning at Clover Shop and Save, about four miles below the state line. (The other winning ticket was bought in Pennsylvania.)As of late Thursday, no one had co
Jan 2, 2004, 9:03 am - Lottery News

Three Lottery Winners Wait to Step ForwardNews Story
Someone who buys lottery tickets in this Cleveland suburb is going to have a prosperous new year. Ditto for ticket buyers in Pennsylvania and South Carolina.A winning Mega Millions ticket worth $162 million was sold at a convenience store here, said Mardele Cohen, an Ohio Lottery spokeswoman. It was the only ticket in the 11-state jackpot that matched all the numbers in Tuesday night's drawing.The winning numbers were 12, 18, 21, 32 and 46. The Mega Ball number was 49.By the time lottery office
Jan 2, 2004, 9:01 am - Lottery News

$155 million Mega Millions ticket sold in OhioNews Story
The Ohio Lottery finally has a top-prize Mega Millions winner. Now the wait has begun to find out who will claim the biggest lottery prize ever in the state.One ticket sold in Ohio won a multistate Mega Millions lottery jackpot worth $155 million, lottery officials said today.The ticket for Tuesday's drawing, sold at a convenience store in South Euclid, a Cleveland suburb, was the only one to match all five numbers and the Mega Ball number, said Mardele Cohen, spokeswoman for the Ohio Lottery.T
Dec 31, 2003, 7:46 am - Lottery News

New lotto game hurts PowerballNews Story
Cobos Supermarket Assistant Manager Elizabeth Torres would like to attribute the slow Powerball-buying traffic in her Sunland Park store to the holidays, but she knows that across the state line a larger reason loomed. It's the Mega Millions. Their jackpot is pretty big, and people aren't coming from Texas as much, she said. We haven't seen the number of people that we normally see when the Powerball gets to this size. Tonight's Powerball jackpot, for which tickets are sold in New Mexico, is e
Dec 31, 2003, 7:35 am - Lottery News

Dreamers, schemers line up for Powerball jackpotNews Story
The two buddies with whom Frank Martin used to play the lottery may have given up hope of ever hitting it big, but the 65-year-old Upper Darby resident says hes not about to throw in the towel anytime soon -- especially with tonights Powerball drawing at $210 million. They dropped out, they got discouraged, he said as he purchased $20 worth of Powerball tickets Monday afternoon at Clifton Heights Beverage. But Im staying the course, Im going to hang in there. And Martins plans if he does strik
Dec 31, 2003, 7:26 am - Lottery News