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Ind. Single Mother Claims $95M PowerballNews Story
A 29-year-old single mother from Washington, Ind., cashed in her Powerball ticket worth $95.4 million Wednesday, becoming the biggest individual winner in Hoosier Lottery history.Regina Mandabach, a secretary for Hoosier Insurance, grinned as she accepted a giant check from lottery officials. She chose the cash option, which means she'll take home $49.7 million before taxes.Mandabach could have chosen to take a total of $95.45 million in annual payments over 30 years. Has it sunk in? No, Mandab
Oct 30, 2003, 5:12 am - Lottery News

Marion stores have streak of Lottery luckNews Story
Big-payoff lottery lightning landed thrice in Marion County, Florida over the past week.Saturday's single Lotto ticket worth $15 million was sold in Summerfield, while one of two winning combinations in Sunday's Fantasy Five drawing worth $83,346 was sold in Ocala. As of the close of business Monday, neither winner had presented themselves. Winners have 180 days to claim their prizes.However, an Ocala resident who won a $103,440 Fantasy Five drawing from a week ago received his prize on Monday,
Oct 29, 2003, 4:17 am - Lottery News

Women's big Powerball win thrusts spotlight on small townNews Story
The last time so many TV trucks were in Holdingford was when Minnesota author Garrison Keillor visited the small town a few years ago, townspeople say.Until Monday, Holdingford probably was best known as a neighbor to Keillor's fictional Lake Wobegon or as the Moonshine Capital of the Nation because a golden brew named Minnesota 13 was created there.But now, it'll be known as home to the luckiest lunch ladies.As a city of only about 700 people, everybody knows everybody else, residents say. Perh
Oct 28, 2003, 4:10 am - Lottery News

7-Eleven store owner sells winning lotto ticket to himselfNews Story
Narinder Badwal threw a party at his friend's Milpitas restaurant after learning that the 7-Eleven store he owns in Santa Clara had sold one of two tickets for last week's $99 million Super Lotto jackpot. He was due a share of the $247,500 commission.What Badwal didn't know until the next morning was that he had sold one of the winning tickets to himself -- and that he had won $49.5 million, representing his half of a jackpot that he shared with an aspiring actress from Southern California.Today
Oct 28, 2003, 4:02 am - Lottery News

Valley lottery winners plan to donate part of winning to charityNews Story
Narinder Badwal and his wife Lilla Singh still can't believe their luck. Standing in front of television cameras and microphones during a press conference in Milpitas today helped them realize that they will split a $99 million Superlotto jackpot.The dream started last week when Badwal, who owns a 7-Eleven store in Santa Clara learned that he had sold one of two winning lotto tickets. The commission for selling the ticket was a share of $247,500.Narinder said he bought a lotto ticket, but was
Oct 28, 2003, 3:58 am - Lottery News

Lunch Ladies Share $95 Million Powerball PrizeNews Story
They waited until the students got their lunch, then 15 school cooks and one janitor who each put a quarter into a lottery pool came forward Monday as the holders of a Powerball ticket worth more than $95 million.The women started their first Monday as millionaires back on the school lunch line, where they fed the students in the tiny Holdingford School District before hopping a bus to the state lottery headquarters in Minneapolis to claim their prize. It was really tough to be concentrating on
Oct 28, 2003, 3:54 am - Lottery News

Aspiring actress and fiancé win half of $99 million Calif. lotteryNews Story
An aspiring actress and her fianc , a Navy man, claimed half of the $99 million dollar Superlotto jackpot from Wednesday's draw.The couple claimed their prize Thursday at a 2:30 pm press conference in Los Angeles. They have chosen to receive a lump sum payment of about $26 million.The ticket was sold at a store in Hollywood. That store's owner will receive half of one percent of each winning ticket sold. The winners are Robynn Newton, 29, of Hollywood and her fianc , Wesley Dorsi, who is in the
Oct 24, 2003, 4:08 am - Lottery News

Lotto Wife: He Left MeNews Story
The Melville, New York woman who hit a $25 million New York Lotto jackpot in February has spoken publicly for the first time and said that contrary to her estranged husband's claims, she didn't run out on him and it was he who left her.Connie Parker, 74, who has been married to Kenneth Parker, 77, for 16 years, said that before her husband filed for divorce in May, he emptied their safe deposit box, taking their bankbook, her passport, her birth certificate and other legal papers. I am hurt. I a
Oct 23, 2003, 3:59 am - Lottery News

Cabbies win share of Big Game jackpotNews Story
A former Atlanta cabbie says the nearly $2 million he was awarded from a disputed Big Game lottery pot is a bittersweet victory.While Patrick Atakora is an instant millionaire on paper, he and five co-defendants who each were awarded $346,357 by Fulton County Superior Court still face the challenge of collecting the money.On Tuesday, a jury found Atakora and five other West African cabdrivers in Atlanta were denied their fair share of the winnings, which were distributed to 23 other drivers. The
Oct 23, 2003, 3:46 am - Lottery News

New Jersey woman claims $12 million Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
A Monmouth County woman has claimed a $12 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot.Cindy Wilson had the only winning ticket for the Oct. 7 drawing, lottery officials said Monday. Wilson, a Neptune Township resident who works as an engineer, was attending a business meeting in Tampa, Fla., when she checked her ticket against the winning numbers printed in a newspaper.Needless to say, they finished the meeting without me, Wilson said in a prepared statement issued Monday by the New Jersey Lottery.Wi
Oct 21, 2003, 3:58 am - Lottery News