When blessings are headed your way, it will hitch a ride on anything to get to you – even breath mints.  That is what retiree Laurence Goldwater found when a 6/49 ticket he had bought at a store where he stopped to get breath mints for his wife won a jackpot worth $11,062,889.80.

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A second member of the Guest Keen Memorial Social and Bowls Club in Merthyr Tydfil has just won a million pounds just two years after one of them won the same amount in the Euromillions Millionaires’ Raffle. 

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Some people are just plain lucky, no other way to say it.  Jane Park,  from Midlothian, managed to win the Millionaires Raffle jackpot with her very first EuroMillions ticket on Friday, July 26 at the tender age of 17.

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Jennifer Hancocks has been betting on the National Lottery ever since it started, and had never won anything big – until now that is!  The mother of four, grandmother of seven and great-grandmother of one, has just won £1 million. 

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Trish Williams and her husband Keith have won a million in the Euromillions Lottery and all of her friends know about it.  While many winners try to keep their win secret, the techie granny who works as a school secretary announced the blessing she received for all the world to see via Facebook. 

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D.C. Lottery is in a bind.  Their supply of the most popular form of lottery, the scratch-off tickets, are disappearing  fast.

The problem is caused by the failure of current supplier Scientific Games to comply with a DC requirement that contractors from outside the state hire local minority contractors to do at least 35% of the work. 

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Connie Baumer has been betting on the Idaho lottery for twenty years without much success.  When a co-worker at a Wyoming hospital suggested she try increasing her winning chances by joining a group, she accepted. 

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Of Lottery Winners, Greed, And New Beginnings

Last month we followed the story of Andy Ashkar, a former convenience store worker, who was ultimately convicted of stealing a $5 million scratch-off lottery ticket from a customer.

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There are threats to boycott the National Lottery when its price increases from £1 to £2 starting on the October 5 draw.  Accusations have come from diverse groups that the price increase is only meant to generate bigger profits for lottery operators Camelot. 

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Connie Baumer has been a member of a Powerball betting syndicate made up of emergency room staff at the St. John’s Medical Center in  Jackson, Wyoming for just a few weeks. 

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