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Oklahoma lottery winners not in a hurry to claim prizesNews Story
Oklahoma retailers have sold winning lottery tickets totaling nearly $110 million, but ten winners have yet to claim more than $102 million in prizes. News on 6 anchor Tami Marler explains why they might be waiting to come forward. You're 33 times more likely to be killed by a bolt of lightening than win a Powerball jackpot, but just five months into Oklahoma's participation in the 31-state lottery, a Broken Arrow Quik Trip sold a winning ticket worth $101.8-million. It's not Oklahom
Jun 29, 2006, 12:00 pm - Lottery News

Calif. Mega Millions lottery winner claims prizeNews Story
The winner of the $34 million Mega Millions jackpot has stepped forward. Thomas Thornton, a Coachella Valley resident, produced the winning ticket, Cathy Doyle Johnston, spokeswoman for the California Lottery, said this afternoon. Thornton chose the cash option and will receive a lump-sum payment of about $17 million before federal tax witholding. I am stunned, shocked and excited, Thornton said a news release issued by the state Lottery. I have worked hard all my life and will conti
Jun 21, 2006, 7:08 am - Lottery News

Winning Powerball lottery ticket sold in OklahomaNews Story
Oklahoma has its first Powerball jackpot winner since it joined the multistate lottery game earlier this year. No one came forward Sunday to claim the $101.8 million jackpot. The winning numbers drawn Saturday were 10, 20, 22, 39, 48 and the Powerball was 25. Oklahoma Lottery executive director Jim Scroggins urged players to check their numbers closely and contact his office. There are significant considerations with a prize of this amount and the lottery would like to offer any ass
Jun 19, 2006, 3:30 pm - Lottery News

Mega Millions lottery ticket worth $34 million sold in Calif.News Story
A La Quinta liquor store sold the $34 million winning ticket for the Mega Millions lottery, the California Lottery announced Saturday. Murray Morton, owner of La Quinta Liquor Delicatessen, believes the winner is a semi-regular customer. I recognize the guy, but I don't know his name, Morton said by phone Saturday afternoon. I would need counseling if I won $34 million. The winning numbers 27, 30, 36, 38, 45 and the Mega number 13 were announced Friday. Mega Millions is a mul
Jun 19, 2006, 2:42 pm - Lottery News

Single mom claims $94 million Mega Millions lottery jackpotNews Story
An El Paso single mother of two who worked three jobs is now a millionaire after claiming a $94 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot Monday in Austin, the Texas Lottery Commission announced. Martha L. Cuellar, who chose the cash value option for $53 million, won the Mega Millions drawing May 16 with a ticket bought at the Good Time Store at 6390 Alameda, lottery officials said. The store selling the jackpot ticket is eligible for a 1 percent bonus, or about $940,000. Cuellar, a licensed v
Jun 14, 2006, 6:47 am - Lottery News

Mass. lottery player hits biggest Cash WindFall jackpotNews Story
What a difference a day and six numbers makes. On June 5, Revere resident Hector Diaz bought a Cash Windfall lottery ticket and less than 24 hours later he went in to claim his $1.46 million (minus taxes) winnings. Diaz, who told lottery officials he did not want to speak with the media, purchased his ticket at Quick Mart, which is located at 22 Broadway in Revere. Afonso Fonseca, who owns Quick Mart, said Diaz showed up at the store with the winning ticket. He told me he won an
Jun 12, 2006, 6:58 am - Lottery News

N.C. lottery winner claims big prizeNews Story
Rowan County man collects N.C.'s first million-dollar jackpot The winning numbers on the Powerball sign looked familiar to Victor Buddy Poplin on Thursday morning. He was making his usual visit to the East Side Kwik Stop convenience store, a couple blocks from home in Granite Quarry, in Rowan County. He got out his ticket and quickly learned he was North Carolina's first winner of $1 million, the biggest prize yet in the state's two-month-old lottery and one of three million-dollar lotte
Jun 9, 2006, 6:57 am - Lottery News

S.D. couple claim Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
Beating 1-in-146 million odds to become South Dakota's latest multimillionaires, Pierre couple Lan Bill Nguyen and his wife, Tina, stepped forward Tuesday with the winning ticket for a nearly $117 million Powerball lottery jackpot. The couple declined to participate in the usual news conference that large jackpot winners attend to answer reporters' questions and be photographed with a blown-up replica of their check. Norm Lingle, executive director of the South Dakota Lottery, said the N
Jun 6, 2006, 6:34 pm - Lottery News

'Lucky' NJ store sells winning Mega Millions lottery ticketNews Story
Atul Tijoriwala sells 43 different types of lottery tickets at his Krauszer's corner store in New Brunswick, and in the year he's owned the store, his customers have been lucky. In April, someone bought a Cash 5 lottery ticket that won $225,778. The next month, a customer bought a Pick 6 ticket that won $5,419 and was one digit shy of netting $3 million. But today, Tijoriwala knows one of his customers really hit the jackpot because he sold the sole win ning Mega Millions ticket, worth
Jun 5, 2006, 9:00 am - Lottery News

Florida store clerks say regular won LotteryNews Story
Workers at a Palm Coast convenience store said a local man was shaking after he came inside the store Sunday morning to check the winning Lotto numbers and discovered he'd won $10 million. Don Baiga, clerk at the Kangaroo Express on Palm Harbor Parkway, said the man pulled out his five Quick Picks, which are randomly selected by the lottery machine, and Baiga proceeded to read him the numbers. The man, whom employees did not know by name, then handed over one of the tickets and asked the cler
Jun 5, 2006, 8:00 am - Lottery News