A Clay County woman won a custom motorcycle at the Iowa Lottery’s special promotion which was meant to benefit the state’s veterans.

For the “Veterans Victory” draw on Thursday, a Victory Boardwalk motorcycle from the Victory Motorcycles In Spirit Lake was custom painted by well-known Iowa artist Ray “Bubba” Sorensen II for the major prize. 

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Harvey J. Costlow buys lottery tickets and sometimes forgets about them.  Such was the case with a ticket he bought from Stinker Store on the corner of Ustick and Cleveland in Caldwell – it ended up gathering dust on a coffee table at his garage. 

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When Mary Lohse hit the $202 million Powerball jackpot 18 months ago, the small town of Bondurant did not realize just how lucky they were.  But now that Mary and husband Brian have been sharing their good fortune, people’s lives have started changing for the better.

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When Ronald Nau bought a five dollar lottery ticket, he didn’t really have much of a choice.  There was only one ticket in the machine and a long line of people waiting for their turn. 

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On his birthday John Spotswood received a mini-cheesecake and three lottery tickets from his sister.  It is common among their family to give lottery tickets for birthdays, so he finished the cheesecake but only scratched off the tickets next morning.

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A man from Keene claimed the biggest Megamillions jackpot ever won in the state of New Hampshire.  John Walker describes himself as feeling blessed after a Megamillions ticket he had bought earlier at the Park Avenue Deli and Market matched five of six numbers drawn Friday.

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Robert McPhail of London, Ontario celebrated his second significant lotto 6/49 win after he scooped a $1 million in the March 19th draw. His first win had only been  a $571,157 jackpot he shared with seven others way back in 1992.

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Swansea seems to be earning a reputation as one of the luckiest places in the whole of the UK.  This comes after lottery officials revealed that no less than sixty people from South West Wales have won prizes of £20,000 each in just six months.

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Glinda Salgado bought a Megamillions ticket at the Elden Market & Deli, which her family owns, and promptly forgot about it.  Perhaps like most people, she would make an occasional bet but never really believed she would win. 

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These days we often hear about how inflation has eaten into the value of the dollar.  Some people even recall the days when a dollar bought a gallon of gas. 

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