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One ticket wins $40 million Florida Lotto jackpotNews Story
For a brief moment, one of the two men who run Food R Us convenience store in Palm Springs, Florida, had their hands on a slip of paper worth $40 million. Then they passed it to one of their customers. The small, neighborhood store on Congress Avenue sold the sole winning ticket for Saturday's Florida Lotto jackpot. The winning numbers passed through our hands, said Raj Sam Savdas, who managers the store with Nicholas Azavedo. We are wishing them good luck. We have a lot of good cu
Aug 7, 2006, 10:45 am - Lottery News

Wisconsin factory workers win $208M Powerball lotteryNews Story
About 100 cheese factory workers in the Wisconsin town of St. Cloud have been celebrating because they say they're $208 million richer now. Wisconsin state lottery officials say no one has officially stepped forward to claim Saturday's Powerball jackpot. But a large contingent of employees from Sargento Cheese tells WITI-TV in Milwaukee they have the winning ticket locked in a safe somewhere. It's not clear when the group will try to redeem the ticket. Lottery spokeswoman Jessica Iver
Aug 7, 2006, 9:46 am - Lottery News

Mega Millions lottery jackpot won ... againNews Story
For the sixth time in eleven weeks the Mega Millions jackpot was won, this time for $31 million. The string of winning jackpots is great for those who prefer to spread the wealth, but disappointing for huge jackpot hunters. Not that $31 million is a small sum of money, but it's not what the inventors of Mega Millions envisioned when they constructed the game with 176 million-to-1 odds of winning. The other Mega Millions jackpots recently won include: $49 million on July 18th $23 mill
Aug 2, 2006, 10:24 am - Lottery News

Winner of $45M N.Y. Lotto jackpot to be revealed todayNews Story
A Broome County woman who bought a Lotto ticket in Brooklyn won a $45 million jackpot a county record. The New York Lottery is scheduled to identify the winner this morning. Lottery spokeswoman Jennifer Mauer said the woman bought the ticket June 28 at David's Check Cashing in New York City. The winning numbers were announced the same night. The woman's winnings will eclipse the record $25 million won in 1998 by Binghamton resident William Yonkoski, a carpenter who bought his ticket a
Aug 1, 2006, 8:26 am - Lottery News

Unclaimed $110,000 Michigan lottery ticket expires MondayNews Story
If you play the Michigan lottery and pass through St. Johns, check your glove compartment, your old pants pockets, your dresser drawers. A Fantasy 5 ticket worth $110,000 expires at 4:45 p.m. Monday. Find it today and you get $78,210 after taxes. Find it Tuesday and you get zilch. The ticket, with numbers 3, 5, 16, 23 and 28, was sold July 29, 2005, at Beck's Country Market gas station, 7525 N. U.S. 27. We're telling all our regular players to look through their stuff, manager B
Jul 28, 2006, 7:05 am - Lottery News

Winning Mega Millions lottery ticket sold in MarylandNews Story
A single ticket has won the grand prize in the latest Mega Millions lotto drawing. Lottery officials said the winning ticket from Tuesday night's drawing was sold in District Heights, Maryland. The ticket is worth $49 million. In addition to the grand prize winner, four players around the country matched all five numbers but not the Mega Ball number. They will receive second prizes of $250,000 each. The winning numbers from Tuesday night's drawing were: 12, 13, 29, 49 and 52. The Mega B
Jul 19, 2006, 10:24 am - Lottery News

Calif. lotto winner remains hiddenNews Story
New millionaire avoiding the spotlight Somewhere in California, a man named Richard Furness Roberts is quietly sitting on $110 million. The SuperLotto winner presented the coveted ticket he purchased at a South Pasadena liquor store to lottery officials Friday nine days after his six numbers were called on the evening news. But, apparently, mum is the word for the bashful millionaire at least for now. Lotto officials told disappointed members of the media that there would be n
Jul 18, 2006, 1:24 pm - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot increased to $86 millionNews Story
Even though the Powerball jackpot was not hit Wednesday evening, one lucky ticket won a $1 million prize with the Power Play option in Pennsylvania. In addition, four other lucky tickets won $200,000 for matching 5 white ball numbers in the states of Arizona, Iowa, Kentucky, and West Virginia. The jackpot for the Saturday, July 15th drawing will be $86 million with a cash option of $38.8 million. The numbers drawn Wednesday evening were 18, 19, 30, 31, 33, and the Powerball was 15. The
Jul 13, 2006, 1:06 pm - Lottery News

One lottery ticket wins $110 million Calif. SuperLotto jackpotNews Story
You could be $110 million richer today. That is, if you are the one lucky lottery player who bought a Super Lotto Plus ticket with the numbers 2, 9, 12, 20, 34 and Mega number 16. The odds are one in 41.4 million, but someone has done it. Wednesday's jackpot was the best payout in four years and the sixth largest prize in Super Lotto history. The ticket was sold at the Foremost Liquor Market at 301 Monterey Road, South Pasadena. The California Lottery is expected to make a formal ann
Jul 6, 2006, 7:33 am - Lottery News

Oklahoma lottery winner remains silentNews Story
Let's say you opened your Tulsa World to Page 3, checked your Powerball numbers in the top right-hand corner same as you do every Thursday and Sunday and found you had a perfect, exact match. Let's say that made the ticket worth $101.8 million. Would you run screaming down the street? Call everybody you know and maybe everybody in the phone book? Faint? For the holder of a winning Powerball ticket sold in Broken Arrow about three weeks ago, the answer to at least two of
Jul 4, 2006, 7:48 am - Lottery News