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Struggling couple wins $10M lottery jackpotNews Story
Australian couple played the same numbers for 36 years The overjoyed $10 million (US$10.5 million) winners of Thursday night's Australian Powerball game don't want to be named, but said they had been struggling to make ends meet on one income for years. It will be life-changing, they said. They plan to use some of the money to secure their financial future and some to help out their family and friends. The couple played the same numbers for 36 years across a variety of lotto games.
Aug 26, 2011, 7:13 am - Lottery News

Casino says no way to $62 million slot machine payoutNews Story
It seemed too good to be true a slot-machine jackpot of almost 43 million euros. And maybe it was. Austrian state broadcaster ORF reports that Behar Merlaku is going to court over the refusal of the Bregenz casino to give him what he considers his win on March 26. Casino officials do not dispute that the gaming machine showed a payout of nearly 43 million euros almost US$62 million. But they say that a malfunctioning computer chip was responsible for what they say was the faulty display.
Aug 16, 2011, 9:49 pm - Lottery News

Winning Lotto ticket survives washing machineNews Story
A four-week-old Lotto ticket survived a trip through the washing machine to net $250,000 for its Christchurch, New Zealand, owner. The ticket bought at Pak'n'Save in Moorhouse for the July 9 Lotto draw shared the First Division prize with tickets bought in Auckland, Waitakere and Hastings. The winner, who wants to stay anonymous, said he found the ticket last weekend after he washed an old pair of jeans. I went through the wet pockets and realised I had washed a Lotto ticket in the jea
Aug 6, 2011, 7:56 am - Lottery News

Spain to privatize lotteryNews Story
The Spanish government is close to selecting three advisers to help it sell shares in national lottery Sociedad Estatal de Loter as y Apuestas del Estado SA that could raise as much as $10.62 billion. The choice of strategic, financial and legal advisers could be announced as soon as Tuesday, Aurelio Mart nez, chairman of Loter as y Apuestas del Estado, said in an interview. The mandates are considered prestigious for consulting firms, investment banks and law firms, even if the fees involved
May 24, 2011, 7:03 am - Lottery News

Euro Millions launches new Tuesday draw with €100M jackpotNews Story
Euro Millions, the multi-country lottery game played amongst European countries, is set to implement changes to the game and launch a new weekly lottery draw on Tuesdays with a massive 100 million (US$143M) jackpot. A sales frenzy is expected for the first draw as players have just four days to buy their tickets, which went on sale yesterday. The special draw marks Euro Millions moving to twice a week, as well as other changes to the game which are designed to create bigger jackpots and mo
May 8, 2011, 9:26 am - Lottery News

Siblings fight over lottery jackpotNews Story
Father died day after winning The family of an Australian man who won almost $2 million in a lottery and died the next day has been fighting over who is entitled to the money. Townsville Supreme Court has heard the fighting between Lajos Szanto's four children occurred over the wording of their father's will and whether or not he had bought the ticket for himself. Lajos Szanto won $1,818,181.82 on February 13 last year, but was not able to enjoy his winnings after he died a day later, h
Apr 19, 2011, 6:30 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner flees Spain penniless as bank seizes villa and barNews Story
When Lawrence Candlish won 5.5 million (US$8.8 million) playing the National Lottery in 1997 it promised to make his dreams come true, including buying himself the double hip replacement he needed. The generous factory worker immediately shared his fortune with his many relatives, shelling out 370,000 (US$590,000) to buy seven houses in the same street in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear so that they could be close together. Eventually he moved with his family to Benidorm on Spain's Costa Blanca t
Jan 24, 2011, 8:22 am - Lottery News

Mobster caught by tracing lottery ticketNews Story
A notorious Italian mobster who dodged justice for 20 years was reportedly finally under lock and key overnight after he was traced via a lottery ticket. Convicted double killer Riccardo Piras went on the run in the late 1980s before he could be locked up for life for the brutal murders of two drug dealers. One victim's corpse was reportedly dissolved in acid, while the other was tossed on a garbage dump as a chilling warning to rival gangs. Piras, 59, evaded capture for two decades but
Dec 9, 2010, 7:33 am - Lottery News

Israel Lottery draws same numbers twice in monthNews Story
The odds may have been in the trillions-to-one range, but lightning has indeed struck twice for some lucky lottery players in Israel. The national bi-weekly lottery draw Saturday led to the astronomically improbable result of the same six double-digit balls being pulled in less than a month. The Miphal HaPayis state game picked 36, 33, 32, 26, 14, 13 and the strong number 2 as the winning combination. But a quick look at the results caused panic and amazement: the same first six numbers
Oct 18, 2010, 10:15 am - Lottery News

Elderly woman loses $300K to Jamaican lottery scamNews Story
People ripped off by one scam could be targeted for dozens more. A database of easy targets is now being used by con-artists. Stuart Childers said a stack of documents he showed WFTV Wednesday is paper trial of the hundreds of wire transfers his 75-year-old mother sent to scam artists. She put it to us she wanted to leave a legacy, do something good for the family, Childer said. Childers said his mother fell victim to a Jamaican lottery scam and gave the thieves close to $300,000 in a
Oct 7, 2010, 11:00 am - Lottery News