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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$136M Lotto Windfall Visits Va. Couple
February 20th, 2013
Dave And Nancy Honeywell from Fredericksburg, Virginia are hundreds of millions richer after correctly betting on the five digit jackpot and the single digit Powerball number.
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Privatisation of Penn State Lottery On Hold
February 19th, 2013
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Turner has asked Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett to withdraw a contract signed for UK firm Camelot to manage the Penn State Lottery.
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Instant $2M For Augusta Nurse
February 19th, 2013
Life literally changed in an instant, for a 50 year old nurse in Augusta Georgia.
That instant came after she bought a scratch card type lotto entry from a local food store, went home and scratched the ticket.
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NL Canada Couple Wins $30M Jackpot
February 19th, 2013
Life is about to change in a big way for Gordon and Betty Collins. They have just won $30M through an Instapick ticket that Gordon bought from a Lawson’s Drug Store.
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$5M Milk Stop Man Now Set For Life [video]
February 18th, 2013
James Mason only stopped off for milk, but is now Set For Life having claimed a $5 Million win on the New York Lotto.
Here’s James story:-
His wife didn’t believe he had won – she was too busy watching The Batchelor on TV.
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Powerball Winners Mark & Cindy Hill Giving Back [video]
February 17th, 2013
When Mark and Cindy Hill won $293 Million playing Powerball, they always said they would do some good things with the money.
Well here’s what they’ve been up to:-
Locals said the Hill family had always been generous good people anyway, long before the money happened.
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£5 Million Charity Fund From EuroMillions Weirs
February 17th, 2013
Scotland’s favourite EuroMillions winners are back in the news again.
This time the Weir’s (who won a crazy £161 Million on EuroMillions in 2011) have been bust setting up the ‘Weir Charitable Trust’.
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The Health Lottery: Loser Ad Banned
February 16th, 2013
The UK’s often controversial ‘The Health Lottery‘, has just received a sharp rap on the knuckles from the Advertising Standards Authority.
Claiming the ad was simply light-hearted and in a comedy style, The Health Lottery were disappointed to have the ad banned.
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It’s The Good Life For Illinois Lottery Players
February 15th, 2013
It’s time for a new game says the Illinois Lottery. Well it has been over 2 years since the last one.
The new game titled ‘The Good Life’ will have tickets at each of $1,$2, $5 and $10.
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We Won The Lottery – Just Don’t Tell The Kids
February 15th, 2013
Nobody wants to spoil their children, but sometimes we just can’t help ourselves.
But an Israeli couple with 8 children have decided they definitely don’t want the kids to get spoilt.
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