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Single winner in $314M Powerball lottery drawingNews Story
There is a winner. Powerball lottery officials say one winning ticket was sold for Saturday night's $314 million jackpot. It was purchased in Indiana. The pot had grown so huge because there had not been a big winner in any of the drawings since late June. Also winning big in the drawing were 36 lucky players who matched the first 5 numbers for a second prize win of $200,000. Winners of the second prize were from the following states: 2 from Arizona, 2 from Connecticut, 3 from W
Aug 26, 2007, 8:14 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot crosses $300 million boundaryNews Story
The Powerball lottery jackpot for next Saturday will be worth an incredible $300 Million. Even though the grand prize was not hit Wednesday evening, Powerball paid off in big ways. Two lucky tickets in Montana and North Carolina won $800,000 cash with the Power Play option. In addition, twelve tickets purchased in Arizona (4), Colorado (1), Idaho (1), North Carolina (3), Pennsylvania (2), and West Virginia (1) each won $200,000 for matching all 5 white numbers. The jackpot for the Satu
Aug 24, 2007, 1:47 am - Lottery News

Cheese factory workers win lottery againNews Story
Some of the cheese factory workers who won a $208.6 million Powerball jackpot last summer have won again this time a $10,000 jackpot. Wisconsin Lottery spokesman Andrew Bohage says seven of the original 100 Miracles who won last August matched 4 of the five regular numbers plus the Powerball in the July 11th Powerball jackpot and won $10,000. Fifteen people won in all. Last year, 100 workers at Sargento Foods Incorporated in Plymouth said they had been playing for three years before w
Aug 24, 2007, 1:34 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner goes from rags to riches to ragsNews Story
For David Lee Edwards, winning the lottery was a wild rocket ride In the fall of 2006, David Lee Edwards and his wife, Shawna, decorated their front door for Halloween. But if trick-or-treaters made it to the couple's home, a storage unit in Riviera Beach, no plastic ghost was as scary as what they'd have found inside: two pale, withered junkies from Kentucky living amid dirty clothes, rotting food, and their own filth. And these were lottery winners. Today, with David on what could be
Aug 22, 2007, 9:57 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery winners give backNews Story
Powerball winners Steve and Carolyn West and Frances Chaney create foundations to help children, veterans and the poor Powerball winners Steve and Carolyn West and Frances Chaney are giving away portions of their multi-million-dollar prize to benefit local children and other worthy causes. Both the West Family Foundation and the Robert Frances Chaney Family Foundation seek to support nonprofit organizations that serve poor children and families in Southern Oregon. We'd been in some o
Aug 17, 2007, 3:57 pm - Lottery News

S.C. man wins major Powerball prize for second timeNews Story
Francis Stephenson struck Powerball gold this week. Again. South Carolina's first Powerball million-dollar winner in 2005, the 61-year-old Chester native scored a $400,000 prize Tuesday when he learned his quick pick ticket matched the first five numbers. I never thought I would win big again, he said. When you buy a ticket, (there's) that possibility you might win. Two years ago, Stephenson bought his winning ticket at the Pantry Express convenience store on the J.A. Cochran Byp
Aug 12, 2007, 8:50 am - Lottery News

UK Lottery operator plans $500 million global lottery gameNews Story
'American states' are in talks to participate in the Christmastime mega-draw Camelot, the operator of the UK National Lottery, is poised to launch a worldwide draw with a record jackpot of about 250m (US $500 million), now that it apparently won a new 10-year license this week. The company was named on Tuesday as the preferred bidder for a license to run from 2009, after fending off a bid from Sugal Damani, an Indian rival. It is the third victory for Camelot, which has run the l
Aug 9, 2007, 2:17 pm - Lottery News

Oklahoma couple claims $106M Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
Don Harvey's long-haul truck had almost two million miles on it when its engine died this week. Now he's planning to ride the road in style, thanks to a $105.8 million Powerball ticket bought by his wife. Absolute disbelief and shock, was how Joyce Harvey described her reaction when she checked her computer Thursday night and found she had the winning ticket. Basically, I just broke down and cried, she said. The Harveys, from Muldrow in eastern Oklahoma, said they will pay off bills
Jun 30, 2007, 9:31 pm - Lottery News

Jack's back: Judge orders record lottery winner to pay settlementNews Story
The winner of a $315 million lottery jackpot has been ordered to honor a settlement he reached with a racetrack worker who accused him of assaulting her. A judge issued a summary judgment Wednesday against Jack Whittaker in a breach of contract lawsuit filed in February by Rhonda L. Lilly. Lilly, who was a floor attendant at Tri-State Racetrack Gaming Center in Nitro, had agreed to an undisclosed settlement from Whittaker in exchange for dismissing a personal injury claim against him, th
Jun 1, 2007, 8:42 am - Lottery News

$63M Powerball lottery jackpot claimed by New Mexico manNews Story
Updated: May 30, 2007, 7:59 pm A Los Ojos, New Mexico, man stepped forward today to claim a $62.8 million Powerball jackpot one week after the New Mexico Lottery announced that the winning ticket from the May 23 drawing had been sold in New Mexico. Felipe Pi a purchased his ticket on Wednesday, May 23, at Giant Sundial #5 in Chama using a Quick Pick method. The numbers on his ticket 03, 11, 24, 36, 38 and the Powerball 06 matched the winning numbers drawn in the multi-state, lotto-styl
May 30, 2007, 7:33 pm - Lottery News