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Lottery winner dies in crashNews Story
An Oregon woman was killed in a Salem car crash last week after winning the lottery just a few days earlier.Shirley Randall, 59, of Gladstone, had turned in a winning Keno ticket at the Oregon Lottery office Nov. 22, the day she died. Police found the check for $10,632.88 in her purse.Randall was hit and killed when a UniFirst delivery van, driving westbound on Mission Street SE, crashed into the driver's side of her Pontiac Firebird as she tried to turn from Airport Road SE onto Mission.Offici
Dec 1, 2004, 8:23 am - Lottery News

Syndicate Misses Out on Lottery FortuneNews Story
A school cleaner apologized to other members of his Lottery syndicate Friday after failing to put on a winning line that could have scooped them a share of an 8.5 million (US$16.2 million) jackpot.The group of 15 staff at New College, in Telford, Shropshire, could have won more than 100,000 (US$190,720) each after their numbers came up in Saturdays draw.But syndicate member Andrew Edwards said he did not fill in the 14th of the 15 lines on the ticket because not enough money had been paid into
Nov 30, 2004, 7:35 am - Lottery News

New York man wins $149M Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
Like most parking lot attendants, Juan Rodriguez knows how tantalizing and frustrating it can be to drive a luxury car, only to have to surrender it all too quickly for a pair of crumpled dollars.But now, after 20 years of anonymous toil for a legion of well-heeled motorists near the United Nations, the Colombian-born Ozone Park resident can sit in his own heated leather seat.Sunday, New York Lottery authorities declared him the winner of the largest jackpot ever won in the state, $149 million.
Nov 23, 2004, 7:34 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

Iowa man wins $100,000 lottery for second timeNews Story
An eastern Iowa man has beat extraordinary odds by winning $100,000 from the Iowa Lottery's Cash Game a second time.K. Morris Richardson picked up his second jackpot on Tuesday. I just kind of smiled all the way to the bank, he said.Richardson first won $100,000 in 2000 through the same daily game. His latest win came when he matched the five numbers for Monday's drawing.Richardson, 79, a member of the Solon American Legion Post 460, bought the $100,000 Cash Game ticket at a Hy-Vee Food store.
Nov 15, 2004, 9:14 am - Lottery News

Winner of a Lottery Jackpot Is Accused in Check FraudNews Story
People who win millions of dollars in the lottery often find long-lost friends stopping by, but a Long Island woman who recently hit for $5 million found herself suddenly popular with Nassau County detectives.The woman, Lydia Moore, 54, a health care worker from Glen Cove, won $5 million last month playing Livin' Large the New York Lottery's new instant scratch-off game.She appeared at an Oct. 28 ceremony on Long Island, where a state lottery official introduced her and another winner as our
Nov 8, 2004, 7:50 am - Lottery News

New York man claims $3 million lottery prizeNews Story
Wouldn't it be great if one day you found out you were a millionaire and you had no clue? That's what happened to one Rochester man after he won more than a million bucks.The next day I went to the store and the girl was like you win the lotto last night how you know. Let me see your ticket, so I showed her the ticket to find out if I had the winning number. Yup didn't know I won, said Willie Alston.Alston got the luck of the draw. He paid for one lottery ticket, but the machine ended up giving
Nov 4, 2004, 12:48 pm - Lottery News

Checkout clerk: 'You've had a big win, sir'News Story
A young agricultural engineer saw a five-week lucky streak on the National Lottery spiral to new heights when his six numbers scooped him the 2m (US$3.65 million) jackpot.Meredith Davies, 32, had won a tenner every week for a month before all his numbers came good on the Saturday October 16 draw.He bought the winning ticket at Lomax's in Bridge Street, Lampeter.But despite normally checking his tickets the next day, it has taken Mr Davies more than a week to realise that Lady Luck had passed hi
Oct 28, 2004, 8:04 am - Lottery News

NY has new pair of lottery millionairesNews Story
Two men from Jamaica, New York who moved to the United States in search of the American dream have found both success and luck, after winning a combined $19 million in lottery prizes this month.Yesterday, they gleefully recounted their experiences when they were announced as the winners at a news conference in White Plains at Martine Fruit Farm, the store where one of the tickets was sold. I threw my hands in the air and said, 'Thank you, Jehovah,' said Radcliffe Rocky Drummond of Yonkers, th
Oct 27, 2004, 8:41 am - Lottery News

Lottery-winning sisters to donate sizable portionNews Story
$11.3 million jackpot to benefit treatment center, build sheltersJust a month ago, they were two struggling, underpaid single mothers wondering how their outpatient alcohol- and drug-treatment center was going to meet its next payroll.Then, sisters Christine McCoy and Ursula Pixie Baker bought the winning ticket in an $11.3 million The Pick jackpot.But there's no retiring to some island paradise for these two hard-core social workers.In fact, McCoy, 50, and Baker, 58, are planning to use a siz
Oct 27, 2004, 8:27 am - Lottery News