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Texas lottery player turns losing scratch ticket into dream homeNews Story
Includes video report By Todd Northrop Carlos Zavala of Tyler, Texas, is the winner of $500,000 to build a dream home at any D.R. Horton Community in Texas, thanks to his selection of a key in a special event Friday. Players of the Texas Dream Home scratch-off game had the opportunity to enter their non-winning tickets into promotional second-chance drawings for a chance to become a finalist for the grand prize. Four finalists were chosen to participate in Friday's dream home giveaway e
May 18, 2015, 9:06 am - Lottery News

How to win the lottery (happily)News Story
If you have won the lottery, or if you plan to do so, please keep reading this column. The information is vital not just to your happiness but also to the progress of social science. You have a chance to dispel the notion of the curse of the lottery, which is blamed whenever a big winner ends up divorced, depressed, destitute or dead. Journalists like to explain that the curse is no mere legend the futility of winning the jackpot has been demonstrated by actual scientists with jobs at accredi
May 27, 2014, 8:06 am - Lottery News

Statisticians search for how to beat the lotteryNews Story
You've probably heard the saying: Liars figure, but figures don't lie. Well, it's probably true the chances of winning a Powerball jackpot is more than 1 in 175-million. Still, there's always somebody that thinks they can beat the system. Whether it's your wedding anniversary, your birthday, your child's birthday, or the date of another event that's important to you, people typically pick random numbers as any state lottery official will tell you, every number drawn is completely random. A
Feb 20, 2013, 9:26 pm - Lottery News

Kentucky woman wins 'miracle lottery prize' after home destroyedNews Story
By Todd Northrop A Kentucky woman facing disaster has been literally lifted from the ashes by a miracle $80,000 lottery win. Sandra Ramirez, 44, of Cadiz, Kentucky, was devastated last month when her home was destroyed by fire. She was at work on Sept. 20th when she received a call that her house was on fire. When she arrived home there was nothing left. Then, on Thursday morning, Oct. 7, she received a miracle phone call from Kentucky Lottery officials: Ramirez had won $80,000 in the K
Oct 11, 2010, 9:45 am - Lottery News

Monetary 'miracle' as 2 lotto jackpots won on same dayNews Story
'Tis the season for giving, and the British Columbia Lottery Corp. got into the holiday spirit in a big way Tuesday, presenting checks to two separate lottery jackpot winners from B.C. A couple from Burnaby, Daniel Fehr and Maria Linsenmeier, matched six out of six numbers in this past Saturday's Lotto 6/49 draw to win $12.6 million, while Robert Sibley of Gibsons received a check for $2 million. He matched all six numbers to win the BC/49 jackpot on the same day. Just two nights before,
Dec 3, 2008, 9:27 am - Lottery News

$1M Wisconsin lottery ticket sold on 'Miracle Mile'News Story
On New Year's Day, Phil Moses was atop a ladder, putting some big news up on the marquis outside Ma Pa's Grocery Express in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Another winning $1 million lottery ticket was sold at the legendary little store located at 506 S. Main St., along a strip dubbed The Miracle Mile. I don't want to sound arrogant, Phil quipped, but I seriously don't understand why people buy lottery tickets at any other location. A $100,000 winning ticket was also sold at Pick 'n Sa
Jan 2, 2008, 2:15 pm - Lottery News

Cheese factory workers win lottery againNews Story
Some of the cheese factory workers who won a $208.6 million Powerball jackpot last summer have won again this time a $10,000 jackpot. Wisconsin Lottery spokesman Andrew Bohage says seven of the original 100 Miracles who won last August matched 4 of the five regular numbers plus the Powerball in the July 11th Powerball jackpot and won $10,000. Fifteen people won in all. Last year, 100 workers at Sargento Foods Incorporated in Plymouth said they had been playing for three years before w
Aug 24, 2007, 1:34 am - Lottery News

N.C. lottey commission to announce vendor choiceNews Story
A controversial decision is due next week from North Carolina's lottery commission.The state will choose which company provides the actual games like scratch-off tickets.But one company may be in trouble with the law. The lottery commission has faced questions about gaming company Scientific Games for months. I think the question is do they want to bid? And second, if they do bid are they able to handle a lottery this big? I don't know the answer to this but we're open to all bidders, Dr. Charl
Jan 24, 2006, 10:21 am - Lottery News

Kentucky lottery winner donates entire prize to collegeNews Story
Benedict College gets a big financial boost, courtesy of a Kentucky lottery winner who knows the South Carolina school quite well.Charlie Johnson is a highly successful business owner in Louisville, Kentucky. He is president and CEO of Active Transportation, a company that moves new cars and trucks from assembly plants to dealers.But at Benedict College, they know Johnson as the board of trustees chair, and the donor who paid for scholarships, provided buses for the football team, and threw in t
Jan 12, 2006, 10:33 am - Lottery News

Georgia Lottery's Million-Dollar Hoopla Set to Tip-OffNews Story
The Georgia Lottery Corporation's Million-Dollar Hoopla promotion is coming to the Gainesville District to give a lucky player the chance to win $1 million.The Million-Dollar Hoopla Regional Qualifying Event for the Gainesville District will be held on Friday, March 18 from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. at Tanger Outlet Center at Banks Crossing, located at 111 Tanger Dr. in Commerce. This is our biggest statewide promotion ever, said Georgia Lottery President and CEO Margaret DeFrancisco. The response f
Mar 18, 2005, 7:03 am - Lottery News