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Dad's Powerball lottery win causes honor student to miss examNews Story
OSU student loses sleep, misses an exam after family wins huge Powerball prizeWho can think about school when your family's net worth suddenly stretches to nine numbers?Curtis West, the son of the reported $340 million Powerball jackpot winners, said he was so excited about the news that he missed one of his midterm exams at Oregon State University. I ended up not getting any sleep and when I did finally fall asleep I slept through my exam, the freshman wrote in an e-mail to the Mail Tribune ne
Oct 26, 2005, 9:12 am - Lottery News

Members of Kansas Air Guard Unit Win $853,492 Lottery PrizeNews Story
Lt. Governor John Moore and Kansas Lottery Executive Director Ed Van Petten introduced the winners of the largest Powerball prize ever won in Kansas, without hitting the jackpot, and presented them with an over-sized check on the south steps of the State Capitol. The winners, 44 of them, will share $853,492. Thirty-four of the winners are members of the unit known as the Kansas Coyotes - the 190th Air Refueling Wing of the Kansas Air National Guard, based at Forbes Field in Topeka. Nine are fr
Oct 26, 2005, 8:43 am - Lottery News

Nebraska cashes in on record lottery salesNews Story
Nebraska also was a big winner this week in the Powerball lottery.Over the 10 weeks it took to amass the record $340 million jackpot, Nebraska profited about $2.1 million for education, environmental and State Fair trust funds. A big run like that is always good for the bottom line, said Brian Rockey, spokesman for the Nebraska Lottery.An Oregon couple won the Wednesday drawing. The winning numbers: 7, 21, 43, 44, 49 and 29.Since the game started on Aug. 10, $9.7 million in $1 tickets were sold
Oct 24, 2005, 7:36 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery 'winner' turns coyNews Story
Steven West answered his front door Saturday morning, but he still wouldn't talk about his reportedly winning Powerball ticket.West, a self-employed landscape contractor who says he won the record $340 million jackpot, repeated that the family would talk to reporters Tuesday after meeting with a financial adviser. Oregon Lottery officials said Friday in Salem that no one has contacted them about the winning ticket, which is not official until verified by the Lottery. We don't know what to say,
Oct 24, 2005, 6:47 am - Lottery News

Oregon businessman has record Powerball lottery ticketNews Story
Steve West of Medford, Oregon, is a wealthy, wealthy man.West, a self-employed businessman, confirmed to ABC News that he and three other family members are the owners of the winning Powerball ticket worth $340 million. I still don't really believe that it's true, West told ABC News Radio. It just really hasn't sunk in well. I'm told by everybody else that this is a life-changing situation, and I didn't plan on wanting to change that much. I mean, the money always sounded great, but I didn't w
Oct 21, 2005, 1:20 pm - Lottery News

26-year-old Iowan wins $853,000 lottery prizeNews Story
Alicia Rhomberg, a youth services worker from Hiawatha, Iowa, claimed a second-tier prize of $853,000 Thursday from Wednesday night's Powerball jackpot drawing.Rhomberg, 26, who purchased her ticket at a Cedar Rapids convenience store, matched the first five numbers in the drawing, but missed the Powerball. She won a $200,000 prize, and claimed an additional $653,000 under a Match 5 bonus, Iowa Lottery officials said.Rhomberg, who is married and has a child, said she won't quit her job and pla
Oct 20, 2005, 9:41 pm - Lottery News

Millionaire senator wins $853K in lotteryNews Story
You might not expect the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to go around buying lottery tickets, but Sen. Judd Gregg is glad he did.On a whim prompted by the frenzy over Wednesday's $340 million Powerball jackpot, the New Hampshire Republican bought a ticket that matched five of the six numbers in the Powerball game.He collected a $853,492 check Thursday.Gregg spent $20 on tickets this week at a Washington gas station, allowing the ticket machine to generate his numbers at random. As he was
Oct 20, 2005, 9:40 pm - Lottery News

$340 million lottery ticket bought in Oregon gold rush townNews Story
A Powerball ticket worth $340 million was sold in the Gold Rush town of Jacksonville, Oregon lottery officials said today morning.Lottery officials said the winner or winners have not yet stepped forward to claim the largest jackpot in the game's history and the second-biggest lottery jackpot in U.S. history. Jacksonville is near Medford in the southwest part of the state.They said the tickets were sold at one of the two retailers in Jacksonville Ray's Food Place and J'ville Tavern.The store t
Oct 20, 2005, 1:46 pm - Lottery News

Second-largest lottery jackpot in US history wonNews Story
One ticket sold in Oregon matched all six numbers in Wednesday's Powerball drawing to win the $340 million jackpot, the second-largest ever in United States history.The drawing capped off a day of heavy sales in all 27 states where Powerball is played, plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.It was the largest jackpot in the game's history and the second-biggest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.The winning numbers drawn Wednesday evening were 7, 21, 43, 44, 49 and 29.There were
Oct 20, 2005, 9:34 am - Lottery News

What if you won the Powerball?News Story
North Dakotans are among the thousands of people in 27 states who have been snatching up Powerball tickets. But what would they do if they won the record jackpot?Bryce McGillis, 28, a technical school student and worker at Phoenix International in Fargo, said he probably wouldn't handle all those millions very well. Probably not, to be honest, he said. I'm bad with money. Roger McNeil, 51, of Fargo, said he and his wife, Bernadette, would buy land and build a square-dancing ballroom. I'm sure
Oct 19, 2005, 11:30 pm - Lottery News