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Toronto couple claims $26.8 million lottery winNews Story
A Toronto couple has claimed the third-largest jackpot in Canadian lottery history -- almost $27 million.Tze-Lam and Mei-Ling Chan say they'll use their $26.8 million Super 7 winnings to buy a house that's not too big by the city's lakeshore. And they might get a boat to go along with it. Like 40 feet or something like that, Tze-Lam Chan told reporters. He doesn't yet know how to sail.Both originally from Hong Kong, the couple met at a party in Toronto 17 years ago. They married and had a son
Aug 31, 2004, 9:08 am - Lottery News

$40 Million Man's payments endNews Story
For the first time in 20 years, Michael Wittkowski and family won't be receiving their big fat annual check courtesy of the Illinois State Lottery.The $40 Million Man is on his own again.Do you remember him? If you were around at the time, who could forget?His was the first mega-jackpot in Illinois lottery history, the biggest to a single winner anywhere in the nation at the time, earning the then-28-year-old unmarried printer from the Northwest Side a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records
Aug 31, 2004, 8:53 am - Lottery News

80-year-old claims a piece of Calif. lottery jackpotNews Story
Walter F. Tracey slept in until about 1 p.m. Sunday, then got a surprising jolt. The 80-year-old World War II Navy pilot checked the newspaper, and there it was in black and white: He had the winning numbers for the $100 million SuperLotto Plus jackpot. About two hours later, when with the help of a cane he walked into J.P. Liquors in Los Altos, he learned he was one of three jackpot winners. He would receive $33.3 million, minus taxes, and the fortunes of his large family would change. I
Aug 31, 2004, 8:50 am - Lottery News

Massachusetts woman scratches a $4 million lottery winNews Story
A Warrendale, Massachusetts woman who bought a winning scratch ticket at a Main Street convenience store this week says the $4 million prize will not completely transform her life. It's just like having a good paying job, said Deborah A. Basile, 50, who works as an administrative assistant at Andrews Pharmacy in Wellesley and runs her own transcription business. If we won this 10 years ago, it would be different. After turning in the $4 million ticket to Mass State Lottery headquarters in Brain
Aug 27, 2004, 7:36 am - Lottery News

Tennessee couple wins $500,000 lottery prizeNews Story
Perseverance, lottery luck pay off greatly for Fairview pairHer husband has always called her the lucky one. Yesterday, she proved him right.Pat Bates, 57, of Fairview, won a lottery sum of $500,000, making her the recipient of the largest Tennessee Powerball prize to date.Bates said she and her husband buy lottery tickets twice a week from Lindsey's Office Supply in Fairview and she knew that some day, her perseverance would pay off.But she said she had no idea that the rewards would be so gra
Aug 27, 2004, 7:26 am - Lottery News

Kansas lottery player keeps winningNews Story
Louis Guebara has good luck. In the year 2000, the Topeka resident won two big Kansas Cash jackpots. He won an $181,000 jackpot in May and a $130,002 jackpot in November. Now, he can add the title of $20,003 2by2 winner to his list of winnings. People ask me 'why I am so lucky?' and I just tell them that Im lucky because I keep on playing, Guebara said.Guebara, 78, is retired from Santa Fe, which is now Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad. Guebara worked for the railroad for 42 years. He
Aug 26, 2004, 3:04 pm - Lottery News

Lottery winner too busy to spend itNews Story
A former Welsh newspaper editor who left her job after winning 8.5m (US$15.3 million) on the national lottery revealed yesterday that she hasn't spent a penny of it yet.Farmer's wife Pat Griffiths, 48, who was in charge of the Abergavenny Chronicle until her win seven months ago, said she had been too busy working on the family farm to go on a spending spree.The family bought two modest VW Golf cars out of the 300,000 interest her win has earned, but Mrs Griffiths hasn't touched her nest-egg f
Aug 24, 2004, 8:35 am - Lottery News

NY Lotto Winner Shares Prize with Ex-WifeNews Story
A Staten Island man who bought a winning $3 million lottery ticket at P C Food Markets in Hartwick Seminary, New York last month pocketed a check for $468,153 on Monday.Ron DelRosario, 61, a retired New York City sanitation supervisor, said he is sharing his winnings with his former wife, Lorraine Paolucci, of New Smyrna Beach, Fla. We have an agreement that she plays the Florida lottery, I play New York and we share whatever we win, he said.DelRosario said he purchased the ticket July 21, gave
Aug 23, 2004, 7:48 am - Lottery News

Man wins share of ex's lotto prizeNews Story
A Newfoundland man has won a legal battle with his former live-in lover for half of what's left of a $700,000 lottery prize.A Newfoundland judge ruled this week that Susan Devereaux, who bought the winning ticket when she was engaged to James Everard in 1999, owes him half the remaining money. There was clear evidence of a common intention to share the funds, Justice Alphonsus Faour said in his ruling.Lawyer Owen Myers, who represented Everard, said Faour's ruling is what they had hoped for. He
Aug 20, 2004, 7:00 am - Lottery News

Tennessee Policeman wins $200,000 in PowerballNews Story
Metro police Armed Robbery Detective Jonathan Kelton yesterday became the largest Powerball winner in the state to date, lottery officials said.Hopefully, the 26-year department veteran won't have to endure too many comments about how many doughnuts $200,000 will buy.Kelton, 53, sat down to read the newspaper yesterday, skimming the front page as usual, before turning to check the lottery numbers, lottery officials said in a statement.That's where his routine ended. He matched five of Wednesday'
Aug 20, 2004, 6:57 am - Lottery News