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Happy New Year 2005News Story
To all our loyal members and visitors who have helped us to become the Internet's most active lottery community, we wish you a happy, prosperous, and lucky 2005!
Jan 1, 2005, 12:01 am - Lottery News

Secret Lottery millionaire leaves fortune to charitiesNews Story
A reclusive elderly woman has left her secret Lottery fortune to charity.Gail German hit the jackpot when she won 1 million (US$1.92 million) playing the UK Lotto, but no one in the tiny hamlet where she lived knew about it.When she died, most of the money was split between her local church, a hospital and hospices.Despite the big win, she continued to live alone in the small rural cottage where she had grown up until her death, aged 53.She left the house and its garden in Catsash, near Newport
Dec 29, 2004, 8:26 am - Lottery News

Kentucky Cash Ball player wins 5 jackpots totaling $1 millionNews Story
Santa Claus arrived two days late for a lucky someone who stopped by the Thorntons store at 5318 Preston Highway on Monday and paid $5 for five plays on the Kentucky Lottery's Cash Ball.In what lottery officials described as a relatively unusual maneuver, the person picked the same numbers on all five plays: 11, 14, 21, 24 and, for the Cash Ball, 22.Those five numbers were drawn Monday night, earning the lucky player a whopping $1 million from the five $200,000 top Cash Ball prizes.The odds of m
Dec 29, 2004, 8:14 am - Lottery News

Texas woman wins $175,000 Mega Millions lottery prizeNews Story
Patricia Higgins had an exciting Christmas Day, and it wasn't just because of the snow. The Corpus Christi resident matched five numbers in the Mega Millions lottery. I don't play all the time, but on the holidays I'll splurge, Higgins, 54, said. I bought about $40 (in tickets). That splurge netted her $175,000, which she has placed in a money market account, a low-interest rate saving account. I'm just sitting on it, she said. It has made life a little easier. Higgins, a mother of five and
Dec 28, 2004, 9:50 am - Lottery News

Texas Couple Loses $14,000 In Lottery ScamNews Story
The Upshur County Sheriff's Department is the last place Thomas McRee, 77, expected to be Monday morning after Christmas. He was there to sort out the mess that has cost him more than all of his life savings.It all began last month with a letter to his wife, Barbara, from an Australian lottery company. It said they were the lucky winners of the Oz 6/45 lottery. Their share of the winnings: $800,000.Oz sent the McRees a check for more than $14,000 and then asked the couple to send almost that f
Dec 28, 2004, 9:45 am - Lottery News

Lottery riches are only one component of happinessNews Story
Let's cut right to the chase here. How much money is enough? How much would make you happy this holiday season? We mean really happy. A million? $10 million? $100 million? The age-old question of whether money can buy happiness plays out in the headlines daily. Jewel Whittaker, wife of the lottery winner who took home the richest undivided jackpot in U.S. history a lump-sum payout of about $113 million after taxes now says she regrets his purchase of the ticket that won the $314.9 million jackp
Dec 27, 2004, 8:02 am - Lottery News

S.C. Lottery scratch games sold after top prize wonNews Story
The South Carolina Education Lottery offers dozens of ways to scratch off and win and buy the right card and you could win first prize cash ranging up to a quarter million dollars.That is, if someone hasn't already claimed the top prize. One card for the $30,000 cash bonus game for instance, was still on sale Tuesday, even though someone has already won the $30,000 jackpot.Scratch off games have varying lifespans with some as long as a couple of years or only a few months.The Lottery Commission
Dec 15, 2004, 9:49 am - Lottery News

Record Powerball lottery winner's life a mess after big winNews Story
The worlds first glimpse of Jack Whittaker, winner of the richest undivided lottery jackpot in U.S. history, was of a boisterous, happy-go-lucky guy in a big cowboy hat who loved his family, work and God and promised to share his good fortune with the church and the poor.Two years later, the picture the public is seeing now is a mug shot of a haggard, somber Whittaker.Whittaker, 57, has been arrested twice on charges of drunken driving in the past year and has been ordered to go into rehab by Ja
Dec 14, 2004, 1:16 pm - Lottery News

Alaska man wins lottery for-life prizeNews Story
An Alaska resident has won an Oregon Lottery game worth $52,000 per year for life -- a prize that went unclaimed for more than a month.Roy Wilson of Cordova, Alaska, bought tickets for the Oct. 30 Win for Life drawing at an Albertsons supermarket in Salem while visiting relatives. Wilson, a fishing-business owner, returned to Alaska and was fishing when the drawing was held.His relatives read a Nov. 13 article in the Statesman Journal that said a winning ticket for the $1,000-per-week-for-life p
Dec 6, 2004, 8:25 am - Lottery News

For some lottery winners jackpot is a 'nightmare'News Story
Winning the lottery turned life into a nightmareFor a lot of people, winning the lottery is the American dream. But some say the reality is more like a nightmare. Winning the lottery isn't always what it's cracked up to be, says Evelyn Adams, who won the New Jersey lottery not just once but twice (1985, 1986) to the tune of $5.4 million. Today the money is all gone and Adams lives in a trailer. I won the American dream but I lost it, too. It was a very hard fall. It's called rock bottom, says
Nov 17, 2004, 10:40 am - Lottery News