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$1M Wisconsin lottery ticket sold on 'Miracle Mile'News Story
On New Year's Day, Phil Moses was atop a ladder, putting some big news up on the marquis outside Ma Pa's Grocery Express in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Another winning $1 million lottery ticket was sold at the legendary little store located at 506 S. Main St., along a strip dubbed The Miracle Mile. I don't want to sound arrogant, Phil quipped, but I seriously don't understand why people buy lottery tickets at any other location. A $100,000 winning ticket was also sold at Pick 'n Sa
Jan 2, 2008, 2:15 pm - Lottery News

Lucky stone comes through for Ohio lottery winnerNews Story
Rick Jesionowski of Cleveland hit the lottery twice last year, hauling in $2,500, then $10,000. He hit again this month. $2 million. The lottery's been good to me, he said at a Wednesday news conference. I've also hit a thousand a few times. Luck? You bet. When a reporter asked Jesionowski what his secret was for winning, the lucky man pulled three stones out of his jeans jade for luck, crystal for energy and rose quartz for love. He said he has been carrying the stones in his poc
Dec 13, 2007, 10:12 am - Lottery News

Small-town store sells 2 big Powerball ticketsNews Story
A convenience store in the tiny eastern Oklahoma town of Watts is becoming a Powerball powerhouse of sorts, with two tickets sold weeks apart worth a total of $800,000. Before the Nov. 24 drawing in the multistate Powerball lottery, Edward Proctor of Springdale, Ark., bought a ticket at Station 2 that became worth $200,000 after it matched the first five numbers. Proctor said he plans to use a portion of the money to pay for his son's college education. A Powerball ticket sold for last
Dec 13, 2007, 9:14 am - Lottery News

Mom finds $10, buys $1M lottery ticketNews Story
Cashier at ohio gas station with 9 maxed out credit cards gets very lucky Kristina Schneider tried to persuade a customer at the BP station where she works to buy the last ticket on a roll of the Magnificent Millions lottery game. I always joke that the last ticket is the winning one, but he said he only had enough money for three tickets, Schneider said. This time, her advice was no joke. The single mother with nine maxed out credit cards and $8,500 in debt for her associate'
May 21, 2007, 9:44 am - Lottery News

Little store is a Lotto hot spotNews Story
Third jackpot winner since 2000 purchased lucky ticket good for $72 million The mysterious good luck of Lichine's Liquor and Deli continues to grow. Since 2000, the California State Lottery machines at Lichine's have spit out SuperLotto Plus jackpots three times most recently on Saturday. The lucky ticket over the weekend is good for $72 million. The holder of the ticket had not yet come forward on Monday. But the jackpot is enough to get some people thinking there's something spec
Mar 22, 2007, 12:39 pm - Lottery News

N.J. man hits jackpot: He's engaged to lottery winners' daughterNews Story
N.J. man will wed the daughter of a New Jersey couple who won half the record $390 million Mega Millions jackpot. A Titusville, New Jersey, man has close ties with a New Jersey couple who claimed half of the record $390 million Mega Millions jackpot Monday. Tyler Sampson, a 1996 graduate of Titusville High School and owner of investment properties in the city, is engaged to the daughter of lottery winners Elaine and Harold Messner, sources said. The woman's name was not available for pub
Mar 22, 2007, 11:00 am - Lottery News

'Lucky guy' sells ticket that wins half of $42 mllion Lotto jackpotNews Story
Shortly after arriving in the United States from Vietnam 14 years ago, Kiet Ho says, he won $25,000 in Florida lottery games three years in a row. Since then, he has been known around Margate as a lucky guy. On Sunday Ho's luck struck again, but this time for a customer who won half of a $42 million jackpot after purchasing a ticket from him Saturday night at the Margate Chevron Gas Station, 5200 W. Sample Road. I'm happy for the guy, Ho said Sunday afternoon. I'm lucky every time.
Feb 13, 2007, 8:22 am - 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

Texas woman wins lottery millions second timeNews Story
Joan Ginther is a lucky woman indeed. Not only was she the proud recipient of a $5.4 million jackpot prize from Lotto Texas drawing in July 1993, but Thursday she met with the Texas Lottery Commission in Austin to claim another $2 million in prize money. Ginther, a former Bishop resident who visits the city frequently to care for her father, bought a Holiday Millionaire scratch-off ticket for $30 at the Diamond Shamrock at 525 S. 14th St. in Kingsville. She lives in Las Vegas, according
Apr 8, 2006, 9:39 am - Lottery News