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GA family incorporates before claiming lottery jackpotNews Story
Carrollton lottery winners 'won't be buying any Porsches' Frank Mack Skinner's family regularly bought Georgia lottery tickets to contribute to the HOPE Scholarship fund. But after claiming the $133 million lottery jackpot Thursday, they plan to use the winnings to pay for education for more of his family members. We bought the tickets primarily to help kids go to college, Skinner said from his kitchen Thursday night. Now, we're going to make sure the lives of our grandkids and future
Sep 19, 2008, 10:59 am - Lottery News

Georgia woman wins $5 million lottery jackpotNews Story
A Cleveland, Georgia, woman who works on a chicken farm is celebrating an eggs-cellent $5 million dollar lottery win. Peggy Abernathy, 42, who lives at Turners Corner in Lumpkin County but has a Cleveland address, picked up her prize Friday. The mother of two says she bought the ticket on a whim at Chattahoochee Grocery east of Cleveland. When she scratched off the ticket and discovered she had won, she called her sister, who owns the chicken farm where Abernathy is employed. Store owner J
Sep 6, 2008, 1:57 pm - Lottery News

Lottery winner still a mystery in GeorgiaNews Story
The winner of Friday night's $132 million Mega Millions jackpot still hadn't shown up at Georgia Lottery headquarters by closing time Tuesday. Lottery spokeswoman Tandi Reddick said at 4:45 p.m. that the holder of the winning ticket, sold in Mableton in south Cobb County, had not yet come forward. While lottery players have 180 days to cash in winning tickets, recent winners of huge jackpots have rarely waited more than a day or two to collect their money. In February, Robert Harris and
Sep 2, 2008, 7:15 pm - Lottery News

Georgia Lottery had record salesNews Story
A struggling economy hasn't kept Georgians from buying lottery tickets. The Georgia Lottery announced Tuesday that sales for fiscal 2008, which ended June 30, were just under $3.52 billion, a record in the 15-year history of the games. That's more than $97.6 million ahead of last year's record sales. The Georgia Lottery transferred $858 million of that to the state for education programs, surpassing last year's record transfer by more than $4.8 million. Lottery proceeds pay for t
Jul 15, 2008, 7:48 pm - Lottery News

Virginia man wins $250,000 twice in three monthsNews Story
Lottery lightning strikes twice for Chesterfield man When he won in the February 22, 2008, Mega Millions drawing, he joked with Virginia Lottery officials, I'll see you next time. Little did he know, there really would be a next time. Three months later, the same lucky lottery player was back at Lottery headquarters with another Mega Millions ticket worth $250,000. When asked about his amazing luck, Mr. Branch replied, I really can't explain it! Mr. Branch matched the first five
Jun 6, 2008, 5:58 pm - Lottery News

Kellogg's worker won't change much after winning $1M lottery jackpotNews Story
Nancy Edwards headed to work $1 million richer this afternoon. Edwards, a Cave Spring, Georgia, resident employed at the Kellogg's plant in Rome, received a check today for winning the Georgia Lottery scratch-off game Cash Explosion then headed to her job at the plant. The presentation was held during her lunch break at the Kangaroo station located at 3131 Maple St. in Lindale where Edwards purchased the $10 ticket from clerk, and friend, Tia Frick. I'm so happy that I sold the $1 milli
Jun 4, 2008, 12:08 pm - Lottery News

Ex-boyfriend charged with killing $5M lottery winnerNews Story
The world, or at least a small corner of it, was hers a year ago. Doris Murray, mother of four, had won $5 million in the Georgia Lottery on her 41st birthday. She posed for a photograph with big ceremonial check at the Amba Food Store in East Dublin, where she had bought her winning lottery ticket. And, according to a press release from the Georgia Lottery Corp., she declared This is the best birthday ever. On Monday, Murray was found dead in the same modest block home she had lived in on
May 9, 2008, 9:29 am - Lottery News

Georgia Lottery makes three new millionairesNews Story
Columbus grandfather wins $5 million A Columbus, Georgia, grandpa is celebrating a $5 million Georgia Lottery win. Prentiss Shumaker, 70, played the instant game Georgia's $500 Million Club and won $5 million. Milgen Road Foodmart, located at 4254 Milgen Road in Columbus, sold the top prize ticket. Shumaker scratched his ticket in the store. I stood there and looked at it, he said. I showed it to the store clerk, and he shook my hand. Shumaker has one adult daughter and two gra
Mar 26, 2008, 11:24 am - Lottery News

Mega lottery winners to leave 'check-by-check' daysNews Story
Day three in the lives of Georgia's newest multi-millionaires began with a round of interviews on Monday morning television shows for the winners of Friday night's $270 million Mega Millions jackpot. Robert and Tonya Harris were expected to present their winning ticket to Georgia Lottery officials later in the day for validation, but Tonya Harris said early Monday that the couple's family was already plotting ways to spend some of the windfall. Robert Harris, a 47-year-old iron worker from
Feb 25, 2008, 4:42 pm - Lottery News

Georgia legislature wants lottery to crack down on bonusesNews Story
Lawmakers are moving to increase legislative oversight of the Georgia Lottery Corp. because of anger about the $3 million in employee bonuses the organization handed out last year. The House Higher Education Committee on Thursday passed a bill giving legislative leaders the authority to appoint two-thirds of the Lottery Corp. board. Currently, the governor appoints the board, which oversees the corporation and approves its budget. The legislation, which would require the new board to ap
Feb 8, 2008, 8:20 am - Lottery News