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Michigan woman finds e-mail for $3 million lottery prize in spam folderNews Story
Check your spam folder! By Kate Northrop An email from the Michigan Lottery about a $3 million prize sat in a woman's spam folder, but thankfully she did not mistake it for trash. Can you imagine accidentally deleting an email from the Lottery alerting you that you won a multi-million-dollar prize? Thanks to the watchful eye of Laura Spears, 55, an email congratulating her on a $3 million prize was rescued from her spam folder. Spears had entered the Mega Millions drawing on De
Jan 25, 2022, 11:05 am - Lottery News

North Carolina veteran's fortune cookie nets him $4 million Mega Millions lottery prizeNews Story
Common method for picking lottery numbers results in a wild celebration By Kate Northrop A North Carolina veteran and his wife had an incredible reaction upon realizing that his fortune cookie-inspired Mega Millions numbers netted him a $4 million prize. Lottery players commonly look to the tiny piece of paper inside fortune cookies for inspiration in picking their next set of lottery numbers, and one cookie did not disappoint for one North Carolina resident. Gabriel Fierro of
Jan 21, 2022, 5:52 pm - Lottery News

Pennsylvania Lottery awards its largest online prize everNews Story
One online player wins $4 million in Mega Millions drawing this week By Kate Northrop The Pennsylvania Lottery announced today that it awarded its largest online prize ever to a player residing in Luzerne County. One lucky player is celebrating behind a screen after scooping up the Lottery's largest online payout at $4 million. The prize-winning ticket bought for the Mega Millions drawing on Tues., Jan. 18 matched all five white balls drawn, 4, 19, 39, 42, and 52, but missed th
Jan 19, 2022, 12:31 pm - Lottery News

Tickets sold in California and Wisconsin split $632.6 million Powerball jackpotNews Story
Two players get a piece of the seventh-largest Powerball jackpot in history Updated with retailer location for Wisconsin ticket By Kate Northrop Two Powerball tickets, one sold in California and the other in Wisconsin, won the eleventh-largest lottery prize in U.S. history on Wednesday night. The lucky numbers for the $632.6 million jackpot were 6, 14, 25, 33, and 46, with Powerball 17. The Power Play multiplier was 2. The lump sum payout for the two winnings tickets is a
Jan 6, 2022, 12:17 pm - Lottery News

Multiple increases yield massive $610 million Powerball jackpotNews Story
Higher-than-predicted lottery sales boost both major multi-state jackpots By Kate Northrop Today, multiple state lotteries announced increases for both the Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots driven by higher-than-normal lottery ticket sales. Thanks to the excitement around the Powerball jackpot that continues to swell with each consecutive rollover, the jackpot amount for the Wed., Jan 5, 2022 Powerball drawing has grown to a whopping $610 million. The last time a Powerball j
Jan 4, 2022, 3:21 pm - Lottery News

Powerball and Mega Millions bundle promotion returns to ArkansasNews Story
Arkansas Lottery brings back popular 5-Buck Bundle for multi-state game lovers By Kate Northrop Multi-state lottery game lovers in Arkansas are in for a New Year's surprise with the return of the Arkansas Lottery's 5-Buck Bundle starting back up this month. The Arkansas Lottery is kicking off 2022 by bringing back a promotion that awards a free lottery ticket with the purchase of a $3 Powerball ticket with Power Play and a $2 Mega Millions ticket. Players who buy a $3 Powerball
Jan 2, 2022, 1:43 pm - Lottery News

Washington man finds winning lottery ticket worth $2 million in his car windowNews Story
Unsuspecting winner finds the right kind of ticket sitting on his dashboard By Kate Northrop While many loathe the thought of discovering a ticket sitting on the car windshield, a forgotten lottery ticket worth $2 million sitting on his dashboard turned out to be an early holiday present for one Washington man. A winning lottery ticket worth $2 million went unnoticed for a month as it sat undisturbed on a Granite Falls man's dashboard until he decided to clean out his car. The
Dec 14, 2021, 1:57 pm - Lottery News

$699.8 million Powerball winner from California steps forward to claim jackpotNews Story
The winner of the seventh-largest lottery prize in U.S. history now has a name Includes audio report By Kate Northrop The California Lottery announced on Thursday that the winner of the largest jackpot ever won in the state was finally claimed by a winning ticketholder from Morro Bay. Just a few months ago in October, the nearly $700 million Powerball jackpot had lottery players across the country on the edge of their seats. Now, there is finally a name to the winner of the fif
Dec 12, 2021, 3:27 pm - Lottery News

16 Missouri coworkers split $1 million Powerball lottery prizeNews Story
Drilling company employees almost hit the jackpot By Kate Northrop A group of 16 coworkers from a drilling company in Missouri hit all five numbers in the Powerball drawing on Nov. 8, just one number shy of the $150 million jackpot. 16 employees at Pense Brothers Drilling Company in Fredericktown are sharing the luck and the wealth after winning a $1 million lottery prize in a Powerball drawing one month ago. At first, the group would play the lottery together every time the ja
Dec 10, 2021, 12:00 pm - Lottery News

N.C. man wins two $25,000 a year for life prizes after accidentally playing same numbers twiceNews Story
The accidental purchase of two identical Lucky for Life tickets in Saturday's drawing produced not one but two $25,000 a year for life prizes for a very lucky North Carolina man. I was just laying in bed watching a basketball game on TV and I couldn't remember if I filled it out or not, said Scotty Thomas, a 49-year-old dump truck operator from Fayetteville. I went ahead and filled it out again and the next morning my son asked why there were two different amounts listed. I realized, 'I thin
Dec 1, 2021, 11:43 am - Lottery News