All the latest interesting lottery news. As you may have guessed, we pretty much love lottery games and are borderline obsessed with them. So we spend far too much time reading about the lottery to bring you an easy to access summary of all the most interesting lottery news stories. Enjoy :-)
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Bid For Penn State Lottery Valid Till 18 March
March 1st, 2013
The deal for British firm Camelot to run the Pennsylvania State Lottery, has received a new lease in life when Camelot agreed to extend the validity of its bid to 18th March.
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Man Misses £34 Million Jackpot: Played Different Numbers For First Time In Years
February 28th, 2013
For almost six years Gavin Lapsley, a worker from Tillicoultry, Clacks, always bet on his favorite combination of 5, 11, 16, 25 and 28, plus lucky stars 7 and 9.
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Lottery Finances Carnival Expansion
February 28th, 2013
Thomas “Red” Cox, has always loved the carnival. So much so that he ran away with a carnival at the age of 17, and began at the bottom of the rung.
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Lottery Bill Approved By Wyoming Senate
February 27th, 2013
The Wyoming Senate has voted to approve a bill aimed at allowing Wyoming to participate in the Powerball Lottery.
The Senate version of House Bill 77, included a change on the beneficiary of the profits from the proposed lottery.
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A $30M Shock For Lotto Max Winners
February 27th, 2013
The identities of the Feb. 15 jackpot winners were finally revealed after Lottery Officials confirmed the win. Darrel and Laurie Szczerba from Calgary won the February 15 LOTTO MAX $30M jackpot.
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Nine Million Arguments Against Pooling On Lottery Games
February 27th, 2013
Seven co-workers of a hair stylist who won a $9.5 million jackpot on a Hoosier Lotto ticket have sued for what they believe is their share of the winnings.
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A Winner In A Fraud Case
February 26th, 2013
A winner of a £90,000 jackpot kept his winnings in a bank account, and failed to declare this asset while claiming for Job Seekers Allowance in 2008.
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Man’s Luck Fails When Caught Stealing Lottery Tickets
February 26th, 2013
You can’t force lady luck to smile on you. This must be the lesson a man from Port Coquitlam learned, when he was arrested as a suspect in the theft of what the RCMP said was “a large number of lottery tickets.”
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Maryland Couple Claim $26M Jackpot
February 26th, 2013
Jokes do sometimes come true in wonderfully unexpected ways.
A Maryland man, who had bought a Mega Millions lottery ticket at a gas station earlier, joked to his fiancee that they would wake up as millionaires the next day.
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Couple Wins $10M Valentine’s Day Gift
February 25th, 2013
Eric Cherry, a 41 year old man from Milton won $10 million in the Massachusetts State Lottery’s Billion Dollar Bonanza game Feb. 14.
He bought a $20 ticket at a Tedeschi Food Shop in Milton, which turned out to be the 7th Billion Dollar Bonanza winner in the state lottery.
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