Lottery Winners

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Hunch Leads To $200,000 Win

August 24th, 2013

David Wright had a feeling he needed to buy scratch-off tickets so he bought two.  His hunch paid off, so he is now $200,000 richer.

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£6.6 Million Lottery Win Prompts Proposal

August 24th, 2013

Graham Nield had wanted to ask long-time partner Amanda Vickers to marry him, but always lost his nerve at the last moment.  But after learning he had just won a £6.6 million jackpot, he finally mustered the courage to pop the question, and happily learn that Amanda had been patiently hoping to be asked for the last ten years.

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Yonkers Man Wins $2.9M Jackpot After 30 Years

August 24th, 2013

The odds of winning the lottery is so small that a man has to be extremely lucky to win a jackpot, even after having played the lottery for thirty years. 

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West Street Syndicate Scoops £1 Million Jackpot

August 23rd, 2013

The West Street Lottery Syndicate composed of Berlino’s Steak House staff and Berwick Rotary Club members have a lot to celebrate.  The thirty one member syndicate have just won £1 million from Euromillions Millionaire Raffle.

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Vietnamese-American Wins $3.25 Million

August 23rd, 2013

A Vietnamese refugee who left his home country as a penniless man in 1979 has won a $3.25 million dollar jackpot from the Lucky For Life scratch-off game of the California Lottery.

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Powerball Winner Has Just One Week To Make Claim

August 22nd, 2013

Someone, most likely from New York, has a million dollar winning Powerball ticket from the August 25, 2012 draw and may not know it.  The bad news is, the unknown winner only has a week left to claim his or her prize.

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£6m Jackpot Claimed In Wales After Eight Weeks

August 21st, 2013

The winner of a £6m lottery jackpot in the June 29th draw has finally come forward to claim the prize.  The winner is reportedly from the South Wales Valleys.

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“Ocean’s 16” Powerball Winners’ Presscon [video]

August 18th, 2013

Sixteen working class people who have been playing the lottery for years manage to beat the odds to win a third of a huge Powerball jackpot. 

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Penrith Couple Attributes Win To Lucky Scarab

August 18th, 2013

Stephen Birkbeck has just won £369,151, and he attributes his good fortune to a “lucky” scarab beetle given to him by an Egyptian man while he was on holiday in Egypt.

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Alishea Gainer’s Wins A Million Dollars

August 16th, 2013

For Alishea Gainer the million dollar lottery winnings seems just like the icing on a big cake.  The Kenmore resident has had things coming her way since December when she got engaged, and has also recently completed her master’s degree in mental health counseling.

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