Lottery Winners

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Another Record Powerball Jackpot

May 22nd, 2013

With about 80% of all possible number combinations for the Powerball Lottery in play, it was almost certain that someone will win the jackpot earlier estimated at $600 million. 

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$3.2 Million Lotto Win Proves That Persistence Pays

May 21st, 2013

Though his wife told him that buying lottery tickets is just a waste of money, Raymond Lillington of Dingwall, Nova Scotia kept buying tickets for forty years without any majors wins to show for it.

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$3 Loan Helps Win $3 Million

May 21st, 2013

Hedra Dawod was in a convenience store with his roommate Marko Matta decided to try his luck in the lottery.

Being a believer in lucky numbers, he asked the clerk for a ticket that matched number 041 on the roll. 

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Big Lotto Winner Gives First Interview Two Years After Win

May 19th, 2013

When Holly Lahti became one of two people to share a $380 million jackpot in 2011, reporters turning up at her home at all times so scared her that she fled with her daughters to a coastal area far from Idaho.

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Sometimes It Pays Not To Listen To The Wife

May 19th, 2013

Raymond Lillington’s wife Gayle always told him that betting on the lottery was a waste of money.   But Raymond of Dingwall, Nova Scotia, continued buying lottery tickets, a habit, he says that has lasted forty years, and never gave him any major winnings.

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Odd Tax Evasion Scheme Lands Lotto Winner In Jail

May 19th, 2013

After having been forced pay taxes on a PT Cruiser he won in a raffle in 2007,  Sherman W. Friend of Pennsylvania vowed never to pay taxes on winnings again.

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Sweet Find In A Cookie Jar

May 18th, 2013

How does it feel to find a forgotten fortune in a cookie jar?  I would say sweet – especially to a man facing foreclosure on his home.

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Former Lawmaker Wins Jackpot

May 18th, 2013

A fan of the lottery, Frank Frakas voted his support of several bills to expand the Florida State Lottery while he was still a state lawmaker. 

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$17m Lottery Winner Now Retired

May 17th, 2013

Bruce and Monique Willman of Manitoba knew just what they wanted when they found out they set to receive a huge $17 million payout from the lottery:  in Bruce’s words “I just knew that two minutes after I read the winning numbers, I retired.”

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Good Things Come In Threes,Sometimes More

May 17th, 2013

They say good fortune comes in threes.  Melvyn Wilson considers himself a very lucky man, having won $500,000 in November 2004, $25,000 in March 2005, and then $1 million from a scratch-off  in September 2005.

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