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Powerball lottery jackpot raised to $180 millionNews Story
Powerball will climb to an estimated $180 million for Wednesday's draw as the grand prize was not hit Saturday evening. Even though the jackpot was not hit, one lucky ticket from Pennsylvania won $400,000 cash with the Power Play option. Plus, eight other lucky tickets sold in Arizona (1), Iowa (1), Nebraska (2), New Hampshire (1), Tennessee (1), Wisconsin (1), and West Virginia (1) won $200,000 each for matching all 5 white ball numbers. The jackpot for the Wednesday, January 17th drawin
Jan 15, 2007, 4:42 pm - Lottery News

Jack Whittaker: un-luckiest lottery winner everNews Story
A man infamous for his numerous problems ever since winning a record Powerball lottery jackpot says he can't pay a settlement to a casino worker because thieves cleaned out his bank accounts. Powerball winner Jack Whittaker gave that explanation in a note last fall to a lawyer for Kitti French, who accused him of assaulting her at the Tri-State Racetrack and Gaming Center, a slots-only casino near Charleston, according to a motion French's lawyer filed this week demanding payment of the confi
Jan 12, 2007, 5:57 pm - Lottery News

Time running out for $1.4 million lottery ticketNews Story
There may be millionaires among us, but their luck has an expiration date. A Minnesota Lottery Gopher 5 ticket worth $1,489,175 is out there somewhere, and the holder has only a few days left to claim the prize. Handing out checks is my favorite part of the job, said Clint Harris, executive director of the Minnesota State Lottery. I'd like to do that one more time before the 17th. That's when the ticket with the winning numbers 4-12-13-24-35 will expire, one year after it was drawn
Jan 10, 2007, 3:54 pm - Lottery News

Charlotte couple wins $200,000 Powerball lottery prizeNews Story
Tonight's Powerball jackpot is worth $131 million John Mark Isaacs and his girlfriend had been eyeing new cars for some time. She would like a yellow, two-door Pontiac Solaris. Isaacs wants a Mini Cooper in black or blue. It was like a dream, 'I sure would like to have that,' he said of the cars. Now, I can. On Saturday, Isaacs, 41, and his girlfriend won $200,000 when one of the dozen Powerball tickets the couple bought had five winning numbers. Isaacs, a warehouse manager f
Jan 10, 2007, 3:00 pm - Lottery News

$1 million Powerball lottery winner speaks about picking numbersNews Story
Oklahoma lottery winners discuss their methods What's in a number? Just ask Charles and Laura Fay of Foss in western Oklahoma. The couple won $1 million playing Powerball on March 17 with numbers that Charles derived while driving his tractor-trailer rig. He (Charles) would just be driving, hauling fuel, and he had a long route. Charles had some numbers floating around in his head, and we used those, Laura Fay said. We happened to be pretty lucky. We use the same numbers a
Dec 26, 2006, 12:27 pm - Lottery News

Minnesota lottery player claims Powerball jackpotNews Story
Michael Hawes and his fiancee were so tickled their baby boy survived a premature birth that they named him Lucky. On Tuesday, the kid had his own reason to be happy: His old man just won $47 million. Hawes, 46, said he had no idea he held the winning ticket in the Nov. 1 drawing until Monday afternoon, when he stopped at a Cub Foods supermarket in Bloomington to buy some pop. While he was there, he decided to get some tickets in his wallet scanned. I brought it to New York and wandered
Dec 7, 2006, 10:15 am - Lottery News

Lottery 'joke' wins man fine, year probationNews Story
James A. Koons Jr.'s practical joke backfired in a big way. According to his attorney, the Hegins man thought it would be funny to fake a $853,496 winning Powerball ticket and leave it underneath a newspaper in the break room at the Roadway Express terminal in Middlesex Twp. Instead of a laugh, Koons and an unwitting co-worker ended up in a legal mess. Yesterday, Cumberland County President Judge Edgar B. Bayley sentenced Koons, 38, to 12 months of probation and fined him $2,500 for
Dec 6, 2006, 7:30 am - Lottery News

N.C. lottery excitement: first Powerball jackpot winnerNews Story
Someone who bought a Powerball lottery ticket this week in North Carolina is $74.5 million richer this morning. Powerball officials say one winning ticket matching all six numbers drawn Wednesday night was sold this week. That ticket was sold in North Carolina, although there is no word this morning where that ticket was purchased. The winning numbers were 2, 8, 9, 12 and 19, with the Powerball number of 25. The Power Play multiplier was 3. This is the first Powerball jackpot won w
Nov 30, 2006, 10:06 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot climbs to $74 millionNews Story
The Powerball jackpot is on the move. No one hit the jackpot Saturday, but 414,114 players across the nation won a total of more than $4.1 million in prizes in America's Game . Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $74 million. The cash option for the Wednesday, November 29th drawing will be an estimated $36 million. The numbers drawn Saturday were 5, 18, 28, 49, 55, and the Powerball was 38. The Power Play multiplier
Nov 27, 2006, 10:03 am - Lottery News

'Arizona 9' claims half of $94.1M Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
Cheers and shouts filled the lobby of the Arizona Lottery Thursday morning as the terminal rang out We are in the Money, signaling the validation of the winning Powerball jackpot. That's when we knew it was really real, said Tanya Poirier, one of the Arizona 9, a group of seven co-workers and two spouses who shared one-half of a $94.1 million Powerball jackpot for the Wednesday, Nov. 1, drawing. Their half of the jackpot came to $47,050,000. Arizona Lottery Executive Director Art Mac
Nov 3, 2006, 8:12 am - Lottery News