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$16 million Florida Powerball lottery ticket expires ThursdayNews Story
Hitting a $16 million Powerball jackpot is a dream for most people. But losing a fortune by letting those lottery winnings expire is a nightmare and that's what will happen Thursday if someone doesn't claim the ticket bought in May at a suburban Tampa, Fla., convenience store. Lottery officials say this will be the largest unclaimed jackpot in Florida since 2003, when someone didn't claim $53 million in the Florida Lotto game. Neighborhood residents who have been following the lack of a
Nov 20, 2013, 5:59 pm - Lottery News

Florida man wins multimillion lottery jackpot for 2nd timeNews Story
By Todd Northrop A U.S. man who won a multimillion-dollar jackpot playing the Florida Lotto has done it again. The Florida Lottery says 67-year-old James Bozeman Jr., of Orlando, has claimed a $3 million jackpot from the drawing held on Aug. 31, 2013. Bozeman chose to receive his winnings in annual payments of $100,000.00 for the next 30 years. Last year, Bozeman claimed a $10 million jackpot. He purchased both winning tickets from the same convenience store 7-Eleven, located at 5
Oct 31, 2013, 10:47 am - Lottery News

Home returned to estate of slain Florida Lotto winnerNews Story
A judge has ordered that an expensive home and other assets be returned to the estate of slain Lakeland, Florida, lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare and stripped from the woman convicted of killing him. In a six-page order, Circuit Judge J. Dale Durrance wrote that there was no evidence Dorice DeeDee Moore ever paid Shakespeare for his home on Red Hawk Bend Drive in Lakeland. Shakespeare paid about $1 million for the Lakeland house when he bought it in 2007. In addition, the judge order
Oct 4, 2013, 7:53 am - Lottery News

Convicted murderer Dee Dee Moore denies killing lotto winnerNews Story
Includes video report Dee Dee Moore, the woman who was convicted of murdering Florida lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare, said in an interview from prison that she was not guilty and blamed her legal team for her guilty verdict. I would never harm another human being, Moore said. I would never hurt nobody! I like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and Disney! Moore, 41, sat down for an interview in a cell block cafeteria at the Lowell Correctional Institute in Ocala, Fla., where she is se
Sep 10, 2013, 12:21 pm - Lottery News

$59M Florida Lotto jackpot won by ticket sold in OrlandoNews Story
Lottery officials said a winning Florida Lotto ticket worth $59 million was sold at a 7-Eleven in Orlando. One lucky person won the jackpot in Saturday night's Florida Lotto drawing, where the winning numbers were 11, 24, 36, 45, 46 and 47. Officials said the ticket was sold at a 7-Eleven store at the intersection of S. Apopka Vineland Road and Winter Garden Vineland Road. The winning ticket is worth $59 million, or a lesser amount for a one-time cash payout. The winner has not yet come
Aug 25, 2013, 3:05 pm - Lottery News

Fla. senator proposes online Florida Lottery sales, againNews Story
Sen. Gwen Margolis, D-Miami, wants to make Florida Lottery tickets just a click or two away. Margolis has reintroduced a proposal (SB 98) for the 2014 session that would allow the Florida Lottery to create a program so anyone 18 or older could purchase lottery tickets online. The Florida Lottery doesn't offer tickets by mail, fax, or via the Internet, requiring tickets to be purchased from among 13,000 authorized retailers. The proposal comes as a legislative study is underway on the fu
Aug 21, 2013, 10:49 pm - Lottery News

Florida Lotto reaches its largest jackpot in 12 yearsNews Story
The jackpot in this weekend's Florida Lotto game is reaching its highest level in 12 years. Lottery officials reported Friday that the jackpot for the Saturday drawing had reached $54 million. That's the highest total since September 2001. The jackpot has reached that total because no one has been able to match all six numbers since the April 24 drawing. Florida Lotto is the state's flagship lottery game that has been around since 1988. But it has been eclipsed in popularity in recent y
Aug 17, 2013, 7:48 am - Lottery News

Longest jackpot run ever for Florida LottoNews Story
Tonight's jackpot is $50 million Yes, you haven't won the Florida Lotto this time around, but here's the silver lining: Everyone else has been throwing away losing tickets, too. The Florida Lotto has gone 31 straight drawings without anyone picking the correct six numbers, and that's the longest drought since the game began 25 years ago. No one has hit since April 20. It didn't help that the numbers drawn Wednesday night were 29-33-46-48-49-53. Anything above 31 is picked less often
Aug 10, 2013, 1:16 pm - Lottery News

Record Florida Powerball winner buys $1.175 million homeNews Story
The gold Ford Focus has disappeared from the dirt driveway. Also gone is the neighbor kid's congratulatory crayon drawing of palm trees, taped to the door of the tiny gray duplex where Gloria MacKenzie lived until she won $590.5 million, the largest single jackpot in American lottery history. Records show that MacKenzie, 84, traded her former rental unit in for a 6,322-square-foot, five-bedroom home in Glen Kernan Country Club, a gated golf course community in southeast Jacksonville. The pric
Jul 20, 2013, 7:12 am - Lottery News

Fla. Lottery sales top $5 billion for first timeNews Story
The Florida Lottery topped $5 billion in sales for the first time during the fiscal year that ended June 30, the department announced Monday. A record $1.41 billion is expected to go into the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund, the Lottery reported Both amounts top the previous highs reached the year before, when sales were $4.45 billion and education transfers were $1.31 billion. In two fiscal years, the Florida Lottery has increased sales by $1 billion. That's the fastest pace to one
Jul 9, 2013, 7:51 am - Lottery News