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Iowa Powerball lottery winner recently filed for bankruptcyNews Story
Call it the miracle on 34th Street. When Hugh Allen Hawkins filed for bankruptcy last summer, he and his wife had $250 in cash left in bank accounts and $87,000 in credit card debt. And now today we have a big pile of money, he said Tuesday after an Iowa Lottery official handed him a check for $113.2 million, the largest prize ever won in the state.Hawkins, owner of a modest home on 34th Street in Des Moines, is the mystery winner of the Dec. 14 Powerball jackpot. His 19-day silence prompted p
Jan 4, 2006, 7:06 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner doesn’t live like a millionaireNews Story
When Pat Fossum describes her day, it doesn't sound like the lifestyle of a millionaire. We get up in the morning, feed the animals, go to work, work until 5 or sometimes midnight and then go home to bed, said Fossum, who won $1 million in a Powerball drawing in October.The Lennox mother and business owner said the winnings haven't really changed her and her family, and she doesn't expect they will.Fossum became the sixth-largest lottery winner in South Dakota's history after she bought a ticke
Jan 2, 2006, 9:24 am - Lottery News

S.C. Laments N.C.'s Move To PowerballNews Story
North Carolina announced that it will be a part of the Powerball lottery. Lottery stores in South Carolina said they will lose half of their business, not to mention there won't be as much cash for education.It's never been easy for Red Rocket manager Ken Shoultes to keep the floors of his store clean. Usually, lottery foot traffic dulls the polish quickly.But now, the shine might be wearing off the lottery business because Powerball is crossing the border. North Carolina people have no reason t
Dec 21, 2005, 6:27 am - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery to join PowerballNews Story
North Carolina residents will get a shot at the nation's largest lottery jackpots.The state lottery commission voted Monday to join the multistate Powerball game, known for offering jackpots of $100 million and more, including one last month for $340 million, the second-largest in U.S. lottery history.AdvertisementTwenty-eight other states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands sell Powerball tickets. They could be available as soon as July.North Carolina will pay nothing to join
Dec 20, 2005, 6:42 am - Lottery News

Deadline Passes For Unclaimed $100K Lottery TicketNews Story
Time, and luck, has run out for whoever bought a Powerball ticket worth $100,000 last summer at a northern Indiana gas station.Wednesday's deadline for redeeming the ticket passed with no one claiming their prize, which would have paid off around $75,000 after taxes, Hoosier Lottery officials said.The ticket, which matched five of six numbers in the drawing, was purchased at a D-Mart store in Lake County's Calumet Township for the June 18 Powerball drawing.Store manager Pali Singh said his custo
Dec 19, 2005, 7:18 am - Lottery News

Iowa man comes forward with $113M Powerball lottery ticketNews Story
The unidentified Beaverdale resident didn't know until Saturday that he won the Powerball jackpot.There's one house in Beaverdale, Iowa that might get a flyover from Santa Claus this year.An unidentified man from the Des Moines neighborhood stepped forward Saturday with the winning $113.2 million Powerball ticket from Wednesday's drawing.Kurt Harris, manager of the Dahl's Food Mart at 1819 Beaver Ave. where the ticket was sold, said the man, one of our good customers who lives nearby, came in
Dec 19, 2005, 7:06 am - Lottery News

Wyoming voters to have no say on PowerballNews Story
Voters won't be given a say next year on whether Wyoming should join the multi-state Powerball lottery.The Joint Travel Committee voted 8-4 Thursday against sponsoring a bill that would have put a nonbinding referendum on the 2006 ballot.Opponents were reluctant to endorse a public vote that ultimately doesn't force any legislative action.Rep. Kermit Brown, R-Laramie, said the issue of establishing a lottery should be decided by lawmakers, not in a nonbinding vote by the electorate. It's a cop-o
Dec 16, 2005, 10:57 am - Lottery News

$113 million Powerball winner may be a regular playerNews Story
The identity of the buyer of the largest winning Powerball ticket in Iowa history is still a mystery. Iowa Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer says they know one of the 609 Powerball tickets sold at a northwest Des Moines Dahl's supermarket won the $113 million jackpot.Neubauer says there is one other clue about the winner. Neubauer says it appears the winner personally chose the six winning numbers which might indicate the person plays the game regularly. She says the person has 365 days to cla
Dec 16, 2005, 8:39 am - Lottery News

Oregon Lottery rewards store that sold winning Jackpot ticketNews Story
They say you can't win if you don't play.But a grocery store in the historic Gold Rush town of Jacksonville, Oregon has won more than $100,000 for simply selling a ticket with the numbers 7, 21, 43, 44, 49 and 29.Oregon Lottery officials presented the selling bonus this week to Ray's Food Place, the store that sold the $340 million Powerball ticket to a Medford family in the Oct. 19 drawing.The owners of the store, one of only two lottery retailers in the town, will put most of their windfall
Dec 9, 2005, 11:27 am - Lottery News

A lottery ticket run to the borderNews Story
An entertaining story about a jaunt to a bordering state to buy lottery tickets highlights Nevada's lack of a lottery and shoots down the 'regressive tax' theory.It was a typical Wednesday.Up at 4:45 a.m., I got in my morning walk with a friend, then negotiated with my husband to drop off the first set of boys at school (he graciously capitulated) so that I could start the day's adventure early.I put on my favorite hot pink T-shirt with the Black Mountain Community Bank logo, denim overalls, a
Dec 9, 2005, 10:06 am - Lottery News