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Colorado's first Powerball lottery jackpot winners step forwardNews Story
America is beautiful to Eugen and Stanislawa Markiewicz, a Polish couple with German citizenship who immigrated to the U.S. five years ago. The couple, along with her brother and sister-in-law, became Colorado's first Powerball jackpot winners Oct. 10 when their personal combination of numbers hit the $20 million jackpot. They've used the same numbers for every ticket, every week, for five years, based on family birthdates. The Markiewiczes, both 59 and residents of the foothills nor
Oct 25, 2007, 7:11 am - Lottery News

Colorado chalks up its first Powerball winnerNews Story
A ticket sold in the Denver metro area matched all six numbers in the Powerball jackpot Wednesday night the first time a Powerball winning ticket has been sold in the state. We're just so excited to have a Powerball winner in Colorado finally, said Kristen Shew, spokeswoman for the Colorado Lottery. What a year it has been for Colorado the Rockies go to the playoffs, and we get a Powerball winner. The Powerball jackpot was up to $20 million, and one ticket sold matched the fiv
Oct 11, 2007, 8:44 am - Lottery News

2 Oklahoma lottery pools win bigNews Story
Both are in the Tulsa area: Quality Plating workers get $10,000, and Cost-O-Fab employees rake in $200,000. Two winning lottery tickets were redeemed Wednesday with the winnings going to employees at two Tulsa-area businesses, according to the Oklahoma Lottery. Eleven employees at Cost-O-Fab, a Broken Arrow heat exchanger shop, claimed their $200,000 prize at Oklahoma Lottery headquarters. The group matched five numbers but missed the Powerball. The winning Cost-O-Fab employees were R
Oct 4, 2007, 5:01 pm - Lottery News

Office lottery pool wins $61.5M Powerball jackpotNews Story
After a decade of pitching in a dollar a week, a Powerball office pool paid off in a huge way yesterday for 22 Kentuckians. The group of current and former employees of a Bardstown business claimed the $61.5 million Powerball jackpot yesterday afternoon after making their way to Louisville in a white SUV limousine. When a lady at the lottery claim window asked Jane Shelver if she could help her with something, Shelver's response came quickly and enthusiastically. You certainly can, S
Sep 28, 2007, 11:16 am - Lottery News

Woman plays numbers from TV show about lottery winners - and winsNews Story
New Mexico woman plays 'most frequent numbers' on TV show about lottery winners and wins $20,000 in Powerball TV viewers in other states play and win off same numbers The TLC Network's broadcast of How the Lottery Changed My Life might not have been DeShundra Jackson's first choice for Sunday night television viewing, but since her mother was already engrossed in the program, Jackson didn't think about changing the channel. The only thing she changed was her luck. After the show an
Sep 27, 2007, 9:46 pm - Lottery News

Record powerball lottery winner reflects on sad lifeNews Story
In his darkest moments, Jack Whittaker has sometimes wondered if winning the nearly $315 million Powerball game was really worth it. The jackpot that was the stuff of dreams turned into a nightmare: His wife left him and his drug-addicted granddaughter his protege and heir died. He endured constant requests for money. Almost five years later, Whittaker is left with things money can't cure: His daughter's cancer, a long list of indiscretions documented in newspapers and court records, a
Sep 14, 2007, 12:45 pm - Lottery News

Retired auto worker, 2 children claim $314M Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
A retired auto worker and his two adult children claimed a $314 million Powerball jackpot Monday after waiting two weeks to step forward. I know the world is going to turn upside down, said David Coterel, 65, of Riverside, Ohio. Coterel's daughter, Lynn Hiles, 46, said she has quit her job as a postal worker in Dayton, Ohio. Her 42-year-old brother, David Coterel, recently took a buyout from his job at an auto parts plant. Neither has any children, and their mother, Dorothy, died of canc
Sep 12, 2007, 5:32 pm - Lottery News

Delaware Lottery publishes winner pictures -- sort ofNews Story
The Delaware Lottery takes pride in their privacy policy, only publishing winner names with their consent. To make the point, while still showing a real winner behind the story, the lottery takes the winners' pictures, but has each winner hold up a mask over their face. With a busy month of August, including sixteen people winning prizes of $10,000 or more, the Delaware Lottery has a lot of anonymous pictures to take. The result is a collage that could make even the stodgiest of us chuckle
Sep 6, 2007, 11:49 am - Lottery News

Oklahoma lottery winner says yes to TV; no to marriage proposalsNews Story
Good Morning America, the ABC television morning news show, is looking for lottery winner Nita Jacobs of Sallisaw. Jacobs was the winner Aug. 25 of $600,009 in the Powerball lottery. She won by choosing her numbers off football players' jerseys. Apparently because of her unusual manner of selecting numbers, Good Morning America hopes to present her story to the entire country. The Good Morning America representative contacted a local paper Thursday, hoping to find Jacobs. Jacobs s
Sep 5, 2007, 10:23 am - Lottery News

Charges against wife of Powerball lottery winner droppedNews Story
Powerball winner's wife clear after paying of child support arrearage A judge on Wednesday dismissed a felony charge against the wife of Powerball jackpot winner David Edwards. Boyd Circuit Judge Marc I. Rosen granted a request by County Attorney Phillip Hedrick to drop a criminal non-support charge against 32-year-old Shawna Edwards. Hedrick told the judge Edwards had paid off her child support arrearage about $17,000 and was current on her monthly payments. Those were the conditio
Aug 31, 2007, 9:34 am - Lottery News