A local farmer, who does not want to be identified, has won a bigger than usual sum of $263,021 from the Jersey Cash 5 lottery; the usual jackpot in the game, which has a 1 in 500,000 chance of winning, is only about $50,000.

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While visiting a local store named Dominick’s, Anel Bajtarevic was attracted to the signs on a  lottery ticket machine that advertized $20,000 a week for 20 years; he bought a ticket from the machine, which had only been installed at the store a month earlier and won bigtime.

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For Jeff Vore, the million dollar lottery windfall could not have come at a better time.  He has just divorced and was behind on his bills. 

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Bob Jenei, 72, of Strasburg has won lottery jackpots in the past totaling about $100,000; you can say that he’s had his share of luck in lotteries where the odds of winning are counted in the millions to one. 

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66-year-old Lynda Powell, has played the lottery regularly for 25 years, but in the past few years the family bought tickets together.  Luck finally smiled on them big time during the July 5 Lotto Max jackpot draw; their ticket won $50 million.

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Back in 1992, Joseph T. Jones Jr. won the jackpot  in a Pennsylvania Wild Card Lotto and chose to be paid $993,000 annuity for the next 21 years. 

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If a St. Peter were to review a CV of Mr. Ryan at the gates of heaven, I am sure he would be ruled overqualified.  When Bill Ryan won $100,000 from the lottery, he just kept on doing what he has been doing all his life – helping people. 

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After buying a a Fantasy 5 ticket from 7-Eleven at 1501 W. Fifth St. in Oxnard, Jasmine Ortiz was happy in the thought that she had won $411. 

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Buddhist monks in Thailand have come under fire lately after some of them had been photographed and videoed wearing expensive sunglasses, having luxury bags and electronic gadgets; there are claims some of them fly on private jets as well. 

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The National Lottery has set its sights in establishing a new record for the most number of people made into millionaires in one draw.  It is looking to repeat a draw first held last year when the 100 Millionaires Draw set the world record after only 97 of the 100 winners claimed their prizes. 

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