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Virginia Lottery loses its shirt on triple-eightsNews Story
8-8-8 was great, great, great for lots of Virginians yesterday afternoon.Triple numbers in the Pick 3 Virginia Lottery are the most popular played, and yesterday was no exception.A total of 12,118 tickets were sold with the winning combination, Lottery spokeswoman Jill Vaughan said. Players spent $357,870 on the tickets and won $3,028,925 in prizes, she said.Because players could buy 50-cent tickets as well as $1 tickets, the Virginia Lottery did not have a breakdown on how many people won $250
Dec 28, 2004, 9:38 am - Lottery News

El Gordo lottery drawing awards $2.42 billion in prizesNews Story
Winning El Gordo lottery ticket sold in a town called 'Luck'A town called Luck lived up to its name on Wednesday, turning up the winning ticket in Spain's Christmas lottery, featuring one of the world's biggest prizes known as El Gordo (The Fat One).The ticket, which scooped a prize of 390 million (US$521.9 million), was sold at a lottery office called The Golden Witch (La Bruixa D'Or) in the town of Sort, which in the Catalan language means luck .Beas de Segura, a village of 8,000 inhabit
Dec 23, 2004, 9:04 am - Lottery News

Four tickets win UK Lotto jackpotNews Story
Four lucky tickets have matched all six numbers drawn Saturday to win the 4.5 million (US$8.8 million) UK Lotto jackpot, according to National Lottery operator Camelot.The winning Lotto numbers were 5, 16, 22, 25, 27 and 30; the bonus ball was 33. The prize fund was 16.7 million (US$32.5 million).Draw machine Garnet and set of balls seven were used.The four winners will get 1.1 million (US$2.14 million) each while 16 ticketholders won 86,000 (US$167,461) each for matching 5 numbers and the
Dec 20, 2004, 8:29 am - Lottery News

Two win biggest lottery jackpot ever in GermanyNews Story
Two people from the western German state of North Rhine-Westfalia got the winning numbers to share the biggest lottery jackpot ever in Germany - 26.7 million (US$35.5 million), lottery officials announced.The drawing on Wednesday finally broke the jackpot which had been accumulating in the twice-a-week lotto ever since the last big win on November 20, the Brandenburg state lottery company said in Potsdam.With the jackpot growing steadily over the past few weeks and publicity about it mounting,
Dec 17, 2004, 3:17 pm - Lottery News

Penn. store that sold winning Powerball lottery ticket identifiedNews Story
When Russell DeMatteo got the 3 a.m. call Thursday from New Castle police, he thought his Lawrence County convenience store had been robbed.Instead, he found Pennsylvania Lottery officials at Country Food Mart waiting to tell him that the store had sold the winning $171.4 million Powerball ticket. DeMatteo will collect $100,000 -- once a winner comes forward, or within 90 days. I certainly didn't expect this, said DeMatteo, 23. Lottery (officials) wanted me to come and meet them immediately. I
Dec 10, 2004, 9:59 am - Lottery News

One ticket wins $7 million Ohio Super Lotto Plus jackpotNews Story
The Ohio Lottery sold one Super Lotto Plus game ticket with the correct combination from the drawing Wednesday night.The winning ticket, sold at Al's Convenience Store in Tiffin, is worth $3,500,000, which is the lump sum amount the lottery would have invested in order to pay the $7 million jackpot over 30 years.The Ohio Lottery's Super Lotto Plus jackpot for the drawing Saturday will offer $4 million.In Kicker, no game ticket had all six numbers, so no one can claim the $100,000 top prize.One R
Dec 9, 2004, 8:18 am - Lottery News

Winning Powerball lottery ticket sold in PennsylvaniaNews Story
A Powerball ticket that could pay $171.4 million over 29 years was sold in Pennsylvania, lottery officials said.The Pennsylvania Lottery did not say early Thursday where in Pennsylvania the ticket had been sold.The winner has 60 days from the date of claiming the prize to decide whether to take the $171.4 million annuity paid over 29 years or a lump sum of $93,428,155.06, Pennsylvania Lottery officials said.Tickets that match the first five numbers, but miss the Powerball, win $100,000 each, and
Dec 9, 2004, 8:14 am - Lottery News

One winner in $5 million Lotto South drawingNews Story
There was one big winner in Saturday's $5 million Lotto South drawing, Virginia Lottery officials said Sunday.The winning numbers were 4, 14, 29, 31, 37 and 48. The winning ticket was purchased in Virginia.The ticket was sold at the M R Mart on King Street in Strasburg, lottery spokesman Cherie Phaup said Sunday night.Sixteen tickets matched five numbers to win $1,707 and 1,159 tickets matched four to win $92.Wednesday's drawing reverts to $2 million.
Dec 6, 2004, 8:23 am - Lottery News

Winning Mega Millions ticket sold in Paterson, NJNews Story
If you bought a lottery ticket in Paterson last week, double check your numbers.State lottery officials are waiting for the winner of the $24 million Mega Millions jackpot to claim their prize, officials said yesterday.The winning ticket -- 12-32-37-41-52 and Mega Ball 13 -- for Friday's drawing was sold at the Quik Mart on Mill Street, lottery officials said. The convenience store sits on a brick-faced strip mall with a dentist and podiatrist office, a cafe and a laundromat.Quik Mart owner Rake
Dec 6, 2004, 8:07 am - Lottery News

One Florida Lotto ticket wins $60 millionNews Story
One ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers to win a jackpot of $60 million, lottery officials said Thursday.The winning ticket was bought in the city of Altamonte Springs, officials said.Convenience store clerk Jose Sotomayor said the person who bought the winning ticket at a Cumberland Farms had not come back Thursday. But many other customers had him look at their tickets. I tell them and they rush to their cars, grab their ticket and come back for me to check their ticket. But no luck,
Nov 26, 2004, 12:16 pm - Lottery News