Lottery Winners

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Fisher Lands $4 Million Catch

August 10th, 2013

Will Critzer was having a good day of fishing when he decided to scratch a lottery ticket he had bought earlier.  His morning brightened even more when he found he had won $4 million.

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Retired Mechanic Wins Big

August 8th, 2013

John Nieblas received a huge return on a dollar investment when his  California Lucky for Life Scratchers ticket won a jackpot worth $650,000.  The retired mechanic from Fresno now plans to open his own auto repair workshop.

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Sparta Couple Wins $7.2 Million Jackpot

August 8th, 2013

Karen and Edward James of Sparta won a $10.5 million jackpot of the Pick 6 lottery game, which had accumulated over the course of 31 draws without a jackpot winner. 

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Canadian Lottery Winner Used To Mock Dad For Buying Tickets

August 7th, 2013

Ngawang Nardechen is not convinced that money spent for lottery tickets is money well spent.  In fact he has often told his father to imagine how much money he would have, if he had saved money instead of using it to make lottery bets. 

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Woman Wins $1 Million After Moving To New House

August 6th, 2013

Sneh Padarat bought a Western Max ticket for the May 3 draw at a Mac’s store the same weekend she moved. She buys tickets and never thinks she will actually win, so she just kept the ticket with some of her papers.

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Engineer Lands £1 Million Euromillions Jackpot

August 6th, 2013

A mechanical engineer who regularly plays Lotto and Euromillions has finally hit a big jackpot.  Steve Hargreaves of Blackburn, won £1 million in the EuroMillions Millionaires’ Raffle.

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Search For Breath Mints Lead To Fresh Cash

August 6th, 2013

When blessings are headed your way, it will hitch a ride on anything to get to you – even breath mints.  That is what retiree Laurence Goldwater found when a 6/49 ticket he had bought at a store where he stopped to get breath mints for his wife won a jackpot worth $11,062,889.80.

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Second Member Of ‘Lucky’ Social Club Wins A Million

August 5th, 2013

A second member of the Guest Keen Memorial Social and Bowls Club in Merthyr Tydfil has just won a million pounds just two years after one of them won the same amount in the Euromillions Millionaires’ Raffle. 

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Teen Wins A Million Pounds With Her First Euromillions Ticket

August 5th, 2013

Some people are just plain lucky, no other way to say it.  Jane Park,  from Midlothian, managed to win the Millionaires Raffle jackpot with her very first EuroMillions ticket on Friday, July 26 at the tender age of 17.

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Great Gran Proves It Is Never Too Late To Win

August 5th, 2013

Jennifer Hancocks has been betting on the National Lottery ever since it started, and had never won anything big – until now that is!  The mother of four, grandmother of seven and great-grandmother of one, has just won £1 million. 

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