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VIDEO: Lottery winners who are changing the worldNews Story
A breath of fresh air and some good news for a change! By Kate Northrop Today, Lottery Post published a video about a group of people who just might hold the crown for the most generous lottery winners ever. It's been a while since the last time we've followed up on a winner in greater detail than most such as Jack Whittaker and David Lee Edwards. In the lottery world, it's unfortunately very easy to pull up a story about winners who don't manage their winnings well or end up going b
Jul 29, 2022, 4:26 pm - Lottery News

NEW VIDEO: Infamous lottery winners - Part 1News Story
Pull up a seat and grab your popcorn By Kate Northrop For our newest video, Lottery Post did some digging on some of the most infamous lottery winners in history. Infamous lottery winners Part 1 takes a close look at ten lottery winners who did not benefit from winning the lottery or made some questionable choices with their winnings that spelled disaster. When the footage was finally put together, the video turned out to be longer than anticipated. Rather than cut back on impo
Jul 2, 2021, 3:48 pm - Lottery News

Powerball lottery winner Andrew "Jack" Whittaker dies at 72News Story
Won record-breaking jackpot, then suffered unprecedented string of bad luck By Kate Northrop Andrew Jack Whittaker, a Powerball player infamous for the string of bad luck following his record-breaking jackpot win, died at the age of 72 on Saturday, June 27 after battling a long illness, according to his obituary. In December 2002, Whittaker, 55, won the $315 million Powerball Jackpot in West Virginia, the largest-ever jackpot won by a single ticket at the time. He was well-known as some
Jul 2, 2020, 12:56 pm - Lottery News

Michigan woman buys entire bar drinks after lottery winNews Story
A Michigan woman bought a round for everyone in a Michigan bar after realizing she won a $189,912 prize from the Michigan Lottery. Mardi Swiss, of Utica, won playing Club Keno The Jack when she matched eight of the 20 Club Keno numbers drawn on Tuesday, April 10. She bought her winning ticket at Steiny's Tavern, 55161 Shelby Road in Shelby Township, and promptly bought a round for everyone in the bar and picked up the tab for her friend's dinners. I was eating dinner with some friends,
Apr 13, 2018, 8:53 am - Lottery News

Waitress wins $292K from the Michigan Lottery's Keno gameNews Story
Rachel Signorello made some money in tips while working at Playoffs Sports Bar and Grill on Friday, April 14. She made significantly more making a quick Club Keno bet during that same shift. Signorello, 48, had to lock herself in a bathroom to calm down after winning a $292,524 Club Keno The Jack prize from the Michigan Lottery. The waitress at the sports bar located at 27409 Goodard Road in Taylor matched her Jack numbers 05-07-10-27-29-31-37-40 to eight of the numbers drawn in drawn ins
Apr 19, 2017, 9:40 am - Lottery News

Infamous lottery winner's house burnsNews Story
Jack's back with more heartbreak Firefighters from all over Bland County converged on Deer Run Estates in Rocky Gap, West Virginia, on Friday morning to battle a blaze at lottery winner Jack Whittaker's house. Whittaker said he was on his way to Ghent, West Virginia, to work when his wife, who was inside the brick structure, called him about the fire. Fire crews got the call at 6:59 a.m. and the house was already engulfed in flames when they arrived. Whittaker's wife smelled smoke an
Dec 2, 2016, 12:10 pm - Lottery News

Missouri Powerball winners live modestly, give back to hometownNews Story
Three months after winning half of the biggest Powerball lottery jackpot in U.S. history, Mark Hill still meets friends for morning coffee at a local convenience store. And that Camaro sports car Hill considered buying with his winnings? He got a pick-up truck instead. While some lottery winners fritter away their fortunes or meet tragic ends, not much has outwardly changed for Mark and Cindy Hill since they won half of a $587 million Powerball jackpot in November. They netted $136.5 milli
Feb 25, 2013, 7:33 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner Jack Whittaker's losing ticketNews Story
Jack Whittaker, a 55-year-old contractor from Scott Depot, W. Va., had worked his way up from backcountry poverty to build a water-and-sewer-pipe business that employed over 100 people. He was a millionaire several times over. But when he awoke at 5:45 a.m. on Christmas morning in 2002, everything he'd built in his life held only passing significance next to a scrap of paper in his worn leather wallet a $1 Powerball lottery ticket bearing the numbers 5, 14, 16, 29, 53, and 7. Whittaker had pu
Dec 19, 2012, 10:03 am - Lottery News

N.J. Assembly panel clears one-year anonymity for lottery winnersNews Story
Twenty-five years ago, Evelyn Adams had the unimaginable luck of winning the lottery twice in two years. But opportunity morphed into misfortune for Adams, who ended up broke and living in a trailer after giving away and gambling away $5.4 million. Everybody wanted my money, the Ocean County woman told the website Bankrate.com in 2004. Everybody had their hand out. I never learned one simple word in the English language 'no.' Monday, a state Assembly panel sought to close the barn doo
Sep 25, 2012, 8:30 am - Lottery News

Lottery's biggest loser: Albany man passed on office pool that won $319M jackpotNews Story
Includes video report Man could have been 8th winner; decided not to play because he didn't feel lucky The group of seven lottery pool players that won last week's $319 million Mega Millions jackpot could have had an eighth member, but one unlucky man made a choice that cost him millions. The New York co-worker who regularly played in the office pool opted out on the night they had the winning ticket, according to an Albany, N.Y., deli owner who knows the winners. They asked him a c
Mar 31, 2011, 8:33 am - Lottery News