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Mass. Lottery sweepstakes winner collects $20M prizeNews Story
Judith Zahn, 59, of Hatfield today claimed the winning $20 million ticket in the Massachusetts Lottery's Star Spangled Sweepstakes drawing on Wednesday. Zahn, a nurse at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northampton, received a $14 million check today after deducting for taxes, said Beth Bresnahan, spokeswoman for the lottery. The lucky winner received the check at the Lottery's headquarters in Braintree. She appeared with her husband Steve, 56, a 26-year patrolm
Jul 5, 2007, 5:57 pm - Lottery News

N.J. Lottery Independence Day Raffle resultsNews Story
The New Jersey Lottery's latest raffle-style game, Independence Day Raffle, was drawn today, and will make four instant millionaires. The winning numbers can be found here: https://www.lotterypost.com/nj-lottery-raffle-2007-07-04.asp Independence Day Raffle is a raffle game offered by the New Jersey Lottery, with a limited number of $20 tickets. With only 500,000 tickets sold for the raffle, Independence Day Raffle offers the best odds to win $1 million of any New Jersey Lottery game
Jul 4, 2007, 10:54 pm - Lottery News

Massachusetts Lottery's Star Spangled Sweepstakes resultsNews Story
Today's drawing for the Massachusetts State Lottery's Star Spangled Sweepstakes is likely to be bittersweet, except for the game's winners. Lottery officials will hand out $40 million in prize money to 51 ticket holders even though the game generated ticket sales of only $28 million to $30 million. The results can be found here: https://www.lotterypost.com/ma-lottery-raffle-2007-07-04.asp The money-losing game is one reason the lottery fell short of matching last year's overall reve
Jul 4, 2007, 9:35 pm - Lottery News

North Carolina Sizzlin' Millionaire Raffle resultsNews Story
The North Carolina Lottery's latest raffle-style game, Sizzlin' Millionaire Raffle, was drawn today, and will make four instant millionaires. The winning numbers can be found here: https://www.lotterypost.com/nc-lottery-raffle-2007-07-04.asp Sizzlin' Millionaire Raffle is a raffle game offered by the North Carolina Lottery, with a limited number of $20 tickets. With only 500,000 tickets sold for the raffle, Millionaire Raffle offers the best odds to win $1 million of any North Caroli
Jul 4, 2007, 9:03 pm - Lottery News

Florida Lottery Firecracker Millionaire Raffle resultsNews Story
The Florida Lottery's latest raffle-style game, Firecracker Millionaire Raffle, was drawn today, and will make twelve instant millionaires. The winning numbers can be found here: https://www.lotterypost.com/fl-lottery-raffle-2007-07-04.asp Firecracker Millionaire Raffle is a raffle game offered by the Florida Lottery, with a limited number of $20 tickets. With only 1,500,000 tickets sold for the raffle, Millionaire Raffle offers the best odds to win $1 million of any Florida Lottery
Jul 4, 2007, 8:45 pm - Lottery News

D.C. Lottery hopes raffle will bring fiscal successNews Story
The D.C. Lottery's Quick Cash game had been around for more than 15 years when Todd Zimmerman walked into Rodman's Drugs in Northwest in February 2005 and bought two $1 tickets. With three games on each ticket, the government contractor won the maximum $250,000 jackpot for each of the six games. But the improbable $1.5 million payout also helped put the D.C. Lottery's Quick Cash game more than $640,000 in the red for the year, records show. Within months, the game was canceled, although lo
Jul 3, 2007, 9:46 pm - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery Millionaire Raffle sells outNews Story
If you haven't gotten a North Carolina Lottery raffle ticket, you're out of luck. Less than a week before the Fourth of July drawing, the state sold out of its entire stock of Sizzlin' Millionaire Raffle tickets. Instead of selling paper tickets from a roll, retailers sold 500,000 numbers through the lottery's computer network. With four grand prizes of $1 million, a $20 ticket will carry a 1 in 125,000 chance of winning the top prize. For comparison, the odds of buying a winning mult
Jul 3, 2007, 6:27 pm - Lottery News

Kentucky Lottery Lucky 7's raffle draw delayedNews Story
The drawing date for the Kentucky Lottery's latest raffle-style game is being postponed due to slower than expected ticket sales. Dubbed the Lucky 7's Raffle, the winning numbers were set to be drawn and then announced on July 7th (7-7-07). As of July 1st, there were still 305,730 of the game's 500,000 tickets remaining. With only 39% of the overall tickets sold, Kentucky Lottery officials decided to push back the draw date to allow players more time to purchase tickets. There were seve
Jul 3, 2007, 6:01 pm - Lottery News

Star Spangled lottery not a hit with playersNews Story
The Massachusetts Lottery's Star Spangled Sweepstakes is shaping up to be a Yankee Doodle disappointment. With just four days remaining until the game ends on Saturday, prior to the July 4 drawing, sales of the $20 ticket have been significantly below expectations, said lottery spokeswoman Beth Bresnahan. Through Monday sales hovered at about 30 percent of the game's 4 million tickets, or about 1.2 million tickets, have been sold. It's a little slower than expected, said Bresnahan.
Jun 27, 2007, 8:34 am - Lottery News

Virginia man claims lottery raffle prizeNews Story
Lynchburg has a new millionaire. Donnie Taylor, a 60-year-old retired graphics technician, has claimed his $1 million prize in the Virginia Lottery's latest sweepstakes, the Millionaire Raffle. (Millionaire Raffle results: https://www.lotterypost.com/va-lottery-raffle-2007-06-14.asp) He received his full check on Tuesday with 25 percent going to federal taxes and four percent to state taxes, the actual amount paid to Taylor was $710,000. Some people would say, you know, he won $7
Jun 22, 2007, 2:01 pm - Lottery News