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Lottery gift wins mechanic thousandsNews Story
A Portuguese car mechanic who was given a lottery ticket as a tip after earlier refusing to buy it, has scooped a 50,000 (US$63,045) jackpot, a local newspaper reported on Wednesday.Lottery salesman Jose Macedo tried to sell the 5 (US$6.30) winning ticket to Artur Luis but ended up giving it to the mechanic to show his appreciation for the small amount charged to fix his car.When the numbers on the national lottery ticket were drawn Monday, the mechanic won the 50,000 first prize. It was an e
Oct 21, 2004, 9:34 am - Lottery News

Lottery jackpot magic strikes twice for Wisconsin familyNews Story
Gerri Holat of St. Francis, Wisconsin, a Milwaukee suburb, has hit the Megabucks jackpot twice sort of.A dozen years after her father, John Smit of Franklin, won a $2.7 million Megabucks jackpot, her husband Dennis hit a $2.5 million jackpot.I always feel especially lucky whenever the jackpot gets around $2.5 million, and its because of Gerris dad, Dennis said.The Holats are regular Megabucks players, but Dennis didnt check his numbers for the Oct. 6 drawing until after the Oct. 13 drawing.His n
Oct 20, 2004, 1:28 pm - Lottery News

Woman To Use Lottery Winnings For Sister's TransplantNews Story
Woman Wins $10,000 On 'Hoosier Millionaire Show'A Martinsville, Indiana woman plans to use money she won on the Hoosier Millionaire Show to buy her sister a chance at life.Cindy Hoskins was diagnosed with nephritic syndrome 10 years ago, a disease that swells and damages the kidneys, RTV6's Jennifer Carmack reported. The damage has become so severe that doctors say she needs a kidney transplant in order to survive. I didn't have to ask ... my son, my daughter, my sister, all three were matches
Oct 19, 2004, 11:06 am - Lottery News

Kentucky man wins $300,000 lottery prizeNews Story
A Hopkinsville, Kentucky man was celebrating his good luck after he purchased a $300,000 Kentucky lottery scratch-off ticket.Mark Baker, 31, of Hopkinsville, purchased the winning ticket on Oct. 8 at the Raceway convenience store on Fort Campbell Boulevard, according to a news release from the Kentucky Lottery.Baker was sitting in a car outside the store with his mother, Vickie, when he scratched the Silver Spectacular ticket and saw that he was a winner. I turned white as a ghost and started sh
Oct 18, 2004, 8:02 am - Lottery News

Stunned Delaware workers to claim $214 million Powerball jackpotNews Story
A Delaware lawyer representing a group of employees at a Delaware printing firm says the group is stepping forward to claim a $214 million Powerball jackpot.Attorney George B. Smith says the winners are 33 employees at Sussex Printing Corporation who took part in an office pool. Smith says they chose the cash option of almost $117 million, rather than annuity payments stretching over 29 years.He says after taxes, each of the workers will receive about $2.2 million. Smith describes the workers
Oct 13, 2004, 8:57 am - Lottery News

California lottery winner shot to death in SeattleNews Story
A man shot to death by police outside Qwest Field in the wee hours before the St. Louis Rams-Seattle Seahawks game has been identified by his family as a California lottery winner.Relatives also disputed police accounts of the death of Rick Camat, 32, who was shot by an officer as dozens of people fled to avoid gunfire and fighting outside a Pioneer Square bar early Sunday.Camat, one of 13 Starbucks employees in Los Angeles who split an $87 million jackpot in 2000, fired into the air to try to b
Oct 13, 2004, 8:40 am - Lottery News

Alabama man wins $131K in Tenn. lotteryNews Story
An Alabama man crossed the Tennessee state line to the Conoco station and came up the big winner in the Lotto 5, walking away with a $131,527 jackpot.The Huntsville, Ala., man purchased his ticket at the Conoco on the Huntsville Highway at the Tennessee-Alabama state line.His ticket matched all five Lotto 5 numbers to win the jackpot.The Tennessee Lottery began selling its first instant tickets on Jan. 20 of this year. At the end of its first fiscal year, after just five months and 12 days of ti
Oct 11, 2004, 5:57 pm - Lottery News

Yonkers deli owner sells winning NY Lotto ticketNews Story
It's said God works in mysterious ways, and never has deli owner Yoseph Lee, 60, been as sure of that as he was this week.After months of praying daily for divine intervention to bring some money to the religious college he leads, Lee, who also is a Baptist pastor, instead sold a winning lottery ticket to someone else Saturday. The sale, at Lee's 100 Natural Farm deli on Crisfield Road, earned another Yonkers man $17 million and brought Lee just 6 cents, his profit from selling one $1 New York L
Oct 7, 2004, 8:33 am - Lottery News

First Penn. Lucky for Life Lotto Winner Claims PrizeNews Story
Two Lehigh Valley residents became big winners in the Pennsylvania Lottery this week.One was Center Valley resident Donna DeMatos, who became the first winner of the state's new Lucky for Life game. The other is an unnamed Bethlehem man whose winning ticket has not been verified by state officials.DeMatos always wanted to be a nurse, but she worried about how to pay tuition while raising a family.Now, she will worry no more.DeMatos matched all six winning numbers in the game's initial drawing Sa
Oct 7, 2004, 8:16 am - Lottery News

Texas man claims Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
A Carrollton man picked up his cash value option prize of $62 million on Monday after winning Friday's Mega Millions jackpot.Ut Van Nguyen plans to use the money to help with the construction of a religious temple near Duncanville. He and his family will also return to Vietnam to help relatives, the Texas Lottery Commission said in a news release.Friday's jackpot was worth $101 million.Nguyen was the first Mega Millions winner in Texas. He drove to Austin to pick up his prize on Monday.Nguyen sp
Oct 5, 2004, 10:32 am - Lottery News