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Anonymous donor gives church $100k winning lottery ticketNews Story
You could call it a Christmas miracle. Somebody won a $100,000 lottery ticket and instead of cashing it in themselves, they handed it over to a church for a higher use. A donor gave the lottery winnings to Saint Anthony' Shrine, the same church that was robbed earlier in December. The money will go toward feeding and providing community outreach services to the less fortunate and homeless, Father Thomas Conway said. He's really really touched people and inspired them and made them feel be
Dec 21, 2016, 4:47 pm - Lottery News

Mississippi lottery talk likely to coalesce odd coalitionNews Story
Analysis: Natural foes to reunite yet again in opposition to lottery efforts Nothing puts preachers and their flocks in political cahoots with the state's casino gaming industry barons faster than any serious talk of Mississippi authorizing a state lottery. Fellow scribe Geoff Pender told us last week in a story about the possible prospects of Mississippi adopting a state lottery that Gov. Phil Bryant is open to a discussion of a state lottery. The exact quote Pender attributed to Bryan
Oct 6, 2016, 11:11 am - Lottery News

California man credits Virgin Mary with $1.2M lottery winNews Story
An 86-year-old California man said the Virgin Mary may have had something to do with his $696,000 California Lottery payout. Daniel Mendez of San Jose told California Lottery officials he has been watering the flowers his wife planted around the Virgin Mary statue at Our Lady of Refuge Catholic Church every four or five days since last year, and he always follows up the tradition by purchasing $4 worth of lottery scratch-off tickets. Mendez's routine paid off recently when one of his two S
Sep 8, 2016, 7:21 pm - Lottery News

N.C. Powerball winner target of $10M lawsuit by local pastorNews Story
Marie Holmes, North Carolina's $188 million Powerball lottery winner, is back in the news again. This time Holmes is not spending millions of dollars on bailing her boyfriend, Lamarr Hot Sauce McDow, out-of-jail for the fourth time, but a pastor is allegedly suing her for $10 million for reneging on a verbal contract. The 27-year-old mother of two took home a $127 million lump sum payment following her lottery win in February, 2015. (See N.C. Powerball lottery winner claims share of jackpo
Feb 15, 2016, 9:01 am - Lottery News

NC's biggest lottery winner, who faced drug charges soon after win, gives nearly $700k to churchNews Story
A North Carolina lottery winner who was arrested on drug charges just months after she won $188 million earlier this year has given her church nearly $700,000, an attorney says. Marie Holmes, age 26, a single mother of four young children, snagged North Carolina's biggest lottery jackpot in March and took a lump sum payment of $127 million from the Powerball win. The first thing she promised was to tithe or give a tenth of her winnings to charity, a press release from Ruth Sheehan with th
Nov 29, 2015, 8:51 am - Lottery News

Cash-strapped church in Italy asks parishoners for lottery ticketsNews Story
A cash-strapped parish in northern Italy has come up with a controversial idea to help it raise funds, by asking parishioners to give scratch cards instead of the customary monetary offer during mass. Churchgoers will be told about the scheme, called 'scratch and win', during masses this weekend after it was announced on a flyer affixed to the door of San Martino in Cigola, near Brescia. We all know we need help, read the flyer. So with a smile and without making givers uncomfortable or i
Oct 19, 2015, 10:53 am - Lottery News

Retired chaplain cleans desk, finds $1 million winning lottery ticketNews Story
A retired hospice chaplain from Glen Ellyn, Illinois, was sitting on a $1 million winning lottery ticket for two months until two weeks ago when he decided to clean up his desk. About 12 tickets had accumulated on my desk, and I decided to tidy up to make room for my new computer. I checked the winning numbers on the Illinois Lottery website and just about screamed when I saw that I won, said Ron Yurcus in a release from the Illinois Lottery issued the week. Yurcus matched the first five
Nov 17, 2012, 11:00 pm - Lottery News

Nun donates $55,000 lottery winNews Story
When Sister Mary Concetta Torrillo of Webster Groves hit the Missouri Lottery's Show Me Cash jackpot on May 13, it meant a $55,000 gift for the Sisters of Loretto, a convent in Kentucky she served for 30 years. A regular Show Me Cash player, Torrillo said she enjoys playing the game for the fun of it. However, the vow of poverty she had taken ultimately led to her decision to donate the prize money, instead of claiming it for herself. Her ticket held the winning combination of: 1, 6, 15, 2
May 29, 2012, 10:40 am - Lottery News

Some Baptists want Texas Lottery Commission shut downNews Story
As lawmakers look at whether the Texas Lottery Commission is operating effectively, influential Baptists are suggesting the lottery shouldn't merely be tweaked. They want it abolished. Ask the pertinent questions. Has the lottery fulfilled its promise? My answer would be 'no,' said Suzii Paynter, director of the Baptist Christian Life Commission, in an interview Friday. Baptists contend the lottery was sold to Texans 20 years ago as a voluntary, non-regressive way to raise money, but inst
Apr 17, 2012, 7:17 am - Lottery News

$80,000 lottery ticket dropped in church collection plateNews Story
Jerry's Mart convenient store is often referred to as the lucky store, Manager Junior Patel said. The walls are plastered with winning tickets, the highest totaling $750,000 and soon another will be added. One lucky person picked up a $3 Lemon Doubler Cashword ticket and was fortunate enough to scratch off $80,000 what they did next was even more unbelievable. The unknown winner placed the winning ticket in the collection plate at Cathedral of Prayer Church in Columbus, donating every penn
Aug 31, 2011, 8:38 am - Lottery News