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Year-old Indiana Lottery jackpot finally wonNews Story
Retired steel worker opts for $40 million cash option A retired steelworker is the recipient of the Indiana Lottery's infamous jackpot, which has been mysteriously building over a period of more than a year. Hoosier Lotto is typically won about a half-dozen times per year. The family's rush to confirm their winning $54.5 million Hoosier Lotto ticket caused a brief scare before they all realized the good news. Peter Gilbert, 62, East Chicago, appeared at Hoosier Lottery headquarters in
Nov 15, 2007, 10:13 am - Lottery News

Ohio lottery winners say they won't go crazyNews Story
Prize will allow couple to take it easy, travel When Gary VanHooser won $2 on his scratch-off lottery ticket, he figured he'd re-invest it in a Ohio State Lottery Rolling Cash 5 game. His ticket turnout to be the $421,000 winner. I just had the machine pick out numbers. I didn't even check them that night I play the lottery when I'm in town and I have some extra cash to spend on it, said the 74-year-old Sam's Club associate. I didn't even check the numbers until the next day. Wh
Sep 12, 2007, 4:40 pm - Lottery News

Powerball lottery winners give backNews Story
Powerball winners Steve and Carolyn West and Frances Chaney create foundations to help children, veterans and the poor Powerball winners Steve and Carolyn West and Frances Chaney are giving away portions of their multi-million-dollar prize to benefit local children and other worthy causes. Both the West Family Foundation and the Robert Frances Chaney Family Foundation seek to support nonprofit organizations that serve poor children and families in Southern Oregon. We'd been in some o
Aug 17, 2007, 3:57 pm - Lottery News

Book imagines low-IQ man winning $12 million in Washington lotteryNews Story
Seattle native Patricia Wood knows how winning a lottery can change a life. Her father won $6 million in 1993 in the Washington lottery. She also knows about the mentally disabled from having a former brother-in-law with Down syndrome, from working as a teacher and now as a Ph.D student at the University of Hawaii, focusing on education, disability and diversity. She has taken elements of those experiences to write her first novel, Lottery, about an Everett man, Perry Crandall, with an I
Aug 14, 2007, 11:18 am - Lottery News

N.J. native wins $38M Calif. Lottery jackpotNews Story
Oceanside resident Eugene Salek told officials at the California Lottery that he followed his usual routine yesterday morning. He got up, made coffee and then checked his SuperLotto Plus tickets from the night before. He knew then that he had won $38 million. But, Salek said, he went ahead and made breakfast for himself and his wife, Lee, and intended to keep his big news a surprise, telling her only that they were heading out from their home. Salek couldn't hold back when she question
May 4, 2007, 2:44 pm - Lottery News

Upcoming TV show to highlight successful lottery winnersNews Story
All Fred Brown ever wanted to do was sell cars. He didn't realize that goal also would land him on a cable television show. But that's what happened to Brown, now the general manager of Garnsey Wheeler Ford of Greeley and Fort Morgan, who is the subject of an upcoming show on The Learning Channel. The show, which will probably be aired in the coming months, is about lottery winners who have gone on to successful careers despite a lottery windfall. Brown won $6 million in the Colorado Lot
May 3, 2007, 8:34 am - Lottery News

Andy Rooney: Lotteries and lottery players are stupidNews Story
Editor: The following is a weekly 60 Minutes commentary by CBS News correspondent Andy Rooney, originally broadcast on March 19, 2006, and re-broadcast last night. The study that Rooney quotes, saying that poor people gamble the most, is completely false. All credible studies show that all demographics gamble roughly the same amount. Rooney's commentary is shown here to illustrate the ignorant and myopic arguments of some anti-lottery critics. I suppose it's true that I'm too easily annoye
Aug 7, 2006, 8:28 am - Lottery News

Calif. family wins $84 million SuperLotto jackpotNews Story
Call it women's intuition.Robyn Butler, a 19-year-old Palmdale woman, had the magic touch last week when she randomly selected six numbers that won her family an $84 million lotto jackpot.Butler just happened to be with her father, Vincent Butler, last Friday when he bought what turned out to be the winning ticket at a 7-Eleven in Palmdale. The digits she chose matched all five SuperLotto Plus numbers and the Meganumber drawn Saturday night - 2, 41, 17, 33, 43 and Meganumber 5. I just went with
Jan 24, 2006, 6:25 am - Lottery News

Indiana man claims $10.5"million Hoosier Lottery jackpotNews Story
A LaPorte man who for three days kept secret that he held the winning ticket for a $10.5 million Hoosier Lottery jackpot claimed the prize on Tuesday.Abe Wondergem Jr. saw on Thursday that his ticket had all six numbers from the drawing the night before. He waited until Sunday night before first telling his daughter-in-law about the winning ticket, even though many people in the city about 25 miles west of South Bend had been wondering who would claim the jackpot.''People up in LaPorte were alre
Jul 27, 2005, 9:09 pm - Lottery News

N.C. Gov. may get 2nd try with lotteryNews Story
When North Carolina Governor Mike Easley leaves office, assessments of his tenure undoubtedly will touch on whether he brought North Carolina into the lottery fold.He wants a game. He says this a lot.Lawmakers from both major parties denied Easley's wish during his first term.Easley, who won re-election last fall, has another four years to get a lotto.But his window of opportunity could be much smaller since he cannot run for a third consecutive term and arguably right now is at the peak of his
Mar 14, 2005, 9:03 am - Lottery News