A  woman has just won a $US188.9 million jackpot from the Powerball Lottery and wants to be as quiet about it as the law allows.

Lottery officials released the name of the winner as one Maria Herrera of Glendale, Arizona, who bought the winning ticket from a local QuickTrip convenience store. 

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This week Lady Luck visited quite a few syndicates.  A group of carpet store workers in the US bagged a million dollar Powerball payout, a group of twelve Canadians won $12.5 from the OLG, and 38 workers in a pet food company snagged a 500,000 euro payout.

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$120 worth of tickets every week for two years is all it took for a group of ten workers to hit a million dollar jackpot.  It was actually Rush himself who found out one of their entries managed to match five numbers in the Powerball draw; he screamed in excitement.

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This week, a plumber wins a huge $136 million Powerball jackpot, and a lottery winner hands out free lotto tickets on the train where he used to work.

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A  plumber from Staten Island loves his work so much that he still wants to continue working even after he won a huge $136 million jackpot.

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A few people who may not even have played the lottery suddenly became much richer when their fathers won significant jackpots; a man who won a million dollars will share with two sons, and another who won $1,000 a day for life will share the bounty with his son.

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Paraeducator Bill Delmatoff had been playing Oregon’s Megabucks Lottery for some time.  But as he bought his usual tickets, something made him plunk $4 more for Powerball tickets. 

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Some lottery players sometimes brave rain and snow just to get entries to the games of their choice.  But there are also many cases of people neglecting their lottery tickets – some of them worth a lot of money. 

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This week two couples from different sides of the Atlantic received huge amounts from the lottery:  a Melrose couple won $15 million form an instant ticket while a couple from Weston-super-Mare scooped almost £1.2 million on the National Lottery. 

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