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Man claims $7.8 million Hoosier Lotto jackpotNews Story
A Wabash man today claimed a $7.8 million jackpot from a Hoosier Lottery drawing last week.Jack Hall opted to take the $3.9 million cash option for winning the Sept. 8 jackpot, lottery officials said.Hall said he planned to share the winnings with his longtime companion, 73-year-old Jewel Watkins, and her three children.He also wanted to take the family on a trip to Las Vegas, but said he had not made any other decisions on how to spend the winnings. I've always said if I ever win the lottery, I
Sep 16, 2004, 7:58 am - Lottery News

Dinner ladies win lottery jackpotNews Story
A dinner lady today told how she was on holiday thousands of miles away in Australia unaware that she and 11 colleagues had scooped more than 2.3 million on the UK National Lottery.Doris Tiff, 61, was attending her nephews wedding in Brisbane when her pools six winning Lotto numbers came up in the September 4 draw.Her absence prompted frantic, long-distance phone calls and e-mails from her fellow cooks in Exhall, Coventry, with Mrs Tiff only finding out about the win two days later.Today, the 1
Sep 16, 2004, 7:49 am - Lottery News

Student wins NY LottoNews Story
She's only 20, but a Queens college student can afford to throw herself one heck of a graduation party after hitting a $5 million lottery jackpot from a ticket she got from her dad.Baruch College senior Beenish Tariq and her family now are looking to trade their Flushing apartment for a big house on Long Island - with a Lexus and a sports car in the garage.But not before they pay those tuition bills. I had a mixture of feelings: shock, surprise, ecstasy, Tariq said yesterday at an announcement
Sep 15, 2004, 7:37 am - Lottery News

Hundreds Descend on Lottery Headquarters To Collect WinningsNews Story
Four little numbers added up to nearly $6 million for 4,653 people who played the Connecticut Lottery's Play 4 game last Friday.All of the tickets had the winning combination of 1-0-1-0.On Monday, hundreds went to the Lottery's main Claim Center located on John Downey Drive in New Britain to collect their cash for their winning 1-0-1-0 tickets.According to Dennis Chapman, Vice President of Marketing Sales for the Lottery, Many people have numbers in their lifetime that are personal. The inter
Sep 14, 2004, 7:42 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery winnings to help pay bailNews Story
Millionaire hit with bail hike after violating conditions of releaseLottery millionaire Victoria Zell got her money from Powerball, but now she's using a major chunk of it for powerbail. On Monday, Zell was ordered to post $1 million in bail in connection with a drunken driving case involving a July crash that killed one of her passengers and paralyzed another. Zell's attorney said Zell has the cash assets available to cover it.The money is coming from Zell's share of a $29.4 million Powerball
Sep 14, 2004, 7:39 am - Lottery News

Great-great-grandmother wins $5.6m lottery jackpotNews Story
Lottery winner plans to fix roof and help familyA 94-year-old great-great-grandmother from Everett, Massachusetts is thinking about fixing her leaky roof and maybe taking a cruise to someplace warm and sunny now that she's won $5.6 million in the state lottery, her great-granddaughter, Cynthia Smith, said yesterday.Louise Outing, who has lived in the same house since she was a child and became the matriarch of a family that includes seven grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, and three great-gr
Sep 13, 2004, 8:10 am - Lottery News

Factory Worker to Quit after Lottery WinNews Story
A manual worker at a lubricants factory was planning early retirement today after scooping more than 1.1 million in the UK National Lottery.Ian Spragg, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, said he was considering using his winnings to quit his job and fly to New Zealand to visit family.The 61-year-old grandfather, who has used the same numbers since 1994, said he was so tired while checking the results for last Wednesdays Lotto jackpot after a late shift that he thought he was dreaming.He
Sep 13, 2004, 8:06 am - Lottery News

Alabama man wins Florida LottoNews Story
James Kenneth Marlowe of Demopolis, Alabama is $9 million richer after he chose the winning numbers for Florida's Florida Lotto, claiming the Sept. 4 lotto jackpot, estimated at $18 million.Marlowe, a self-employed electrician, chose to take his winnings in a one-time lump sum payment option, in the amount of $9,762,144. He purchased his winning Florida Lotto ticket at: State Line O'Yes Lotto in McDavid, Escambia County. The winning numbers were: 01 - 06 - 08 - 11 - 12 - 37.According to Marlowe,
Sep 9, 2004, 10:44 am - Lottery News

Man wins Oregon lottery gameNews Story
What would you do with an extra $1,000 a week?That's a question one lucky Vancouver man can now happily answer.David Bartkowski, 46, is the latest winner in Oregon Lottery's Win for Life contest.The game awards $1,000 a week for the rest of the winner's life if their ticket has the correct matching numbers drawn in the online game.Bartkowski, a truck mechanic, said he hasn't given much thought to how he will spend the money, only that he will step back and ponder the possibilities before makin
Sep 7, 2004, 10:06 am - Lottery News

$40 million lottery winners still OK after two decadesNews Story
When Mike Wittkowski won $40 million in the Illinois Lottery two decades ago, the media reported worldwide on what was called the largest prize ever won by an individual in North America.Strangers wrote from as far as Poland and Italy, begging him to send some of his winnings their way.Since then, Wittkowski has maintained a low profile. For years he and his wife even kept the windfall secret from their children. Their eldest son, Bryan, now 17, only learned of the family fortune in 2nd grade. O
Sep 7, 2004, 10:00 am - Lottery News