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NJ foursome claims $40M Powerball jackpotNews Story
By Todd Northrop A 10-year tradition of family Friday-night pizza continues long after the children have grown up and gone on with their own lives. The parents remain loyal to the tradition and to the friendship that the four couples have cultivated through the years. The group still meets and pools their money to buy weekly Powerball and Mega Millions tickets just as they've regularly done. Now, those relationships have been bonded even stronger by good fortune and a $40,000,000 Powerb
May 14, 2015, 12:46 pm - Lottery News

16 N.Y. biotech workers claim $58M Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
A group of 16 workers at a Manhattan biotech company who pooled their cash to buy Mega Millions tickets have claimed a $58 million jackpot from the March 24 drawing. The ceremonial prize check was presented to the group Thursday at the store where they bought the winning Quick Pick Millions ticket: Carlton Cards in Penn Plaza. The lucky winners said it took a few hours of checking, double-checking, and triple-checking their tickets before they believed their fantastic fortune. The 16 in
Apr 30, 2015, 4:11 pm - Lottery News

10 Pennsylvania co-workers share $2 million Powerball prizeNews Story
Maybe there was a glare on the machine, and maybe Stacia Thomas just didn't think it possible. The Red Lion woman scanned her ticket and stared at the prize line on the Pennsylvania Lottery machine. She thought it listed $2,000, so she asked a clerk at the Sunoco A-Plus Market to read the amount for her. $2 million. Yes, that really happens. 'Oh, my God, I gotta go tell the girls!' Thomas recalled yelling before rushing back across the street to the office at Industrial Distribution Gr
Oct 29, 2014, 12:36 pm - Lottery News

Irish winners anonymously claim €86m EuroMillions jackpotNews Story
Ireland's newest millionaires have claimed their 86.7 million (US$109.2 million) winnings but will be keeping their identities a secret for now. The National Lottery has confirmed a syndicate (pool) from Dublin collected their EuroMillions fortune from its offices in Dublin city center yesterday. It was announced after the draw last Friday that the 86.7m prize had been won in Ireland. It is the third biggest win in the history of the National Lottery. (See $111 million EuroMillions jackpot
Sep 30, 2014, 8:44 am - Lottery News

16 siblings share $20 million lottery jackpot in New JerseyNews Story
Sixteen brothers and sisters from New Jersey who pooled money for a decade to buy lottery tickets got the ultimate payout a $20 million Pick 6 jackpot they'll use to repair homes they lost in Sandy, send their children to college and preserve the legacy of their late mother, who urged them to vie for the pot together in the first place. The Endreson clan, who range in age from 53 to 76, accepted the check from the New Jersey Lottery Thursday. They' opted for a lump sum payment of $14 million
Jul 24, 2014, 3:00 pm - Lottery News

Lottery pool can't be a business in TennesseeNews Story
In a formal opinion, the state attorney general has declared that Tennessee law prohibits participation in a lottery pool managed by a third party throwing cold water on a Blount County man's idea for a part-time business, though apparently not on informal pools among friends. State Rep. Bob Ramsey, R-Maryville, said he requested the opinion from Attorney General Bob Cooper after a senior citizen constituent asked if his idea of a part-time retirement business would be legal. Basically, th
Jun 10, 2014, 7:56 am - Lottery News

22 N.Y. coworkers' complicated journey to claim $1 million prizeNews Story
Claiming a big lottery prize is a little more complicated than you might expect, especially if you are splitting the jackpot with a large group. Step One: Hire an attorney. That was the advice Ray Wills got last month after he learned that he and 21 other Syracuse city workers with whom he regularly plays the lottery had won $1 million in the Dec. 13 Mega Millions drawing. Wills, an engineering technician who has worked for the city for 10 years, is the group's ringleader. Once he convince
Jan 24, 2014, 8:27 am - Lottery News

Lotto-winning coworkers' advice for $400M Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
Stephany Marchese, the winner of a $1 million Powerball prize with nine of her coworkers at a Staten Island, N.Y., nursing home, has very simple advice for those eyeing this Friday's $400 million Mega Millions jackpot. Play, play, play, Marchese, 61, said. It took $2 and a dream for us. Just play. You never know. Marchese is a member of the self-titled The Fabulous 9, a group of three friends and six coworkers at the Eger Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Egertville, Staten Island,
Dec 12, 2013, 9:11 am - Lottery News

NJ Powerball winner wants his old life backNews Story
'Wild' Willie says the drama is nonstop Wild Willie Seeley of Manahawkin, New Jersey, has one piece of advice for the winner of last week's $400 million Powerball jackpot in South Carolina: Run. Just disappear, he said, speaking from hard-won experience. Get lost while you still can. After Seeley and 15 co-workers from Ocean County's vehicle maintenance garage shared part of an even bigger Powerball jackpot last month, $450 million, the Ocean's 16 celebrated the win at a press conference
Sep 25, 2013, 4:50 pm - Lottery News

Salon lottery winners settle disputeNews Story
You'd think it should be an enjoyable time, winning the lottery, said Lucy Lewis-Johnston, but it hasn't been the case at all. Lewis-Johnston is one of eight Indianapolis hair stylists who fought over one winning ticket. They were all part of a lottery pool last February at Lou's Creative Styles, the salon Lewis-Johnston owns. (See Hair stylists spar over $9.5M Hoosier Lotto jackpot, Lottery Post, Feb. 22, 2013.) The woman who bought the ticket said the winner was one she bought for h
Aug 22, 2013, 6:34 am - Lottery News