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Fort Lauderdale trucker hits the jackpotNews Story
Florida's newest millionaire is a Fort Lauderdale truck driver, a habitual lottery player whose stepdaughter figures the $1 million in winnings may just get him even. He's been buying them his whole life. This is just all the money he's spent on them, said Kandice Marks, whose stepfather, Donald Ritacco, was driving back from Tallahassee on Monday.Ritacco, 48, bought his $10 ticket for the Florida Lottery's $1,000,000 Cash Spectacular scratch-off game Thursday at a Marathon gas station on Sta
Dec 16, 2003, 5:35 am - Todd - Lottery News

Pensacola Quick Pick hits jackpotNews Story
A new millionaire bought Saturday's winning Florida Lotto ticket at a Pensacola gas station.It's the first time a winning ticket has been purchased at the Albertsons Express gas station near the intersection of Nine Mile and Pine Forest roads.But unfortunately for the fortunate Quick Pick (computer generated) ticket holder, he or she will split Saturday's estimated $40 million jackpot with two other people who bought winning tickets in Miami and Royal Palm Beach, according to a Florida Lottery p
Dec 15, 2003, 6:42 am - Todd - Lottery News

Punter wins $30 million jackpotNews Story
A punter from the NSW far north coast is $30 million (US$22.3 million) richer after winning the entire first division in last night's Powerball - the equal-biggest lottery win in Australia. (Editor: Australian Powerball, not the US multi-state Powerball)But NSW Lotteries said the ticket holder from the coastal town of Yamba, who won the major prize with a $12.70 (US$9.43) computer-generated ticket, wanted to remain anonymous.Last night's win follows the first - and controversial - $30 million P
Dec 12, 2003, 6:02 am - Todd - Lottery News

$10.5 mil. ticket rescued from trashNews Story
It appears that stinky, pesky garbage strike in Chicago last month wasn't so bad for everyone.For one Chicago family the strike was worth $10.5 million -- thanks to a misplaced lottery ticket and the piling-up garbage.Lottery officials said they will announce today that the winners of the Oct. 4 Illinois Lotto drawing -- a brother and sister from Chicago -- almost lost their ticket when they accidentally tossed it into the trash. Lucky for them, their mother found the ticket in the garbage, stil
Nov 26, 2003, 4:26 am - Todd - Lottery News

Do Numbers Really Travel Or Is It Just...
You know I have taken a hard look at how numbers seem to travel from state to state. Do numbers really travel or is it just a matter of timing? I feel that it is purely a matter of timing. If the balls used are ping pong balls swirling in a machine. And what has brought me to this conclusion is the fact that the same numbers can appear in different states during the same day. At times it seems like breakout time, a lottery rash of some sort. In looking through my lottery number charts I've notic
Nov 23, 2003, 4:27 pm - LAVERNE MALONEY - Pick 3 Forum

Sydney man arrested over Nigerian scamNews Story
Police in Sydney said Thursday they arrested an Australian man suspected of being part of a global, multimillion-dollar scam that dupes victims into believing they can claim some of the foreign assets of the Nigerian president.Hundreds of people in Australia and in countries including Malaysia, Japan, Norway, Greece, Indonesia and England have fallen prey to the scam, police said.The scammers send letters and e-mails asking people to help the Nigerian president recover funds that have long been
Oct 30, 2003, 5:26 am - Todd - Lottery News

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Quote: Originally posted by Todd on October 25, 2003 WILLSELL:I've been using Microsoft products since the days that they developed the first version of DOS. Microsoft has been one of the best companies ever founded, and it has been through the creation of innovative products. Lottery Post runs on 100% Microsoft software. (With the exception of the Web site of course, which I wrote.)They get an unfair amount of bashing in the media, probably by the same people who wrote the upcoming The Reag
Oct 25, 2003, 3:55 pm - WILLSELL - Lottery Systems Forum

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Quote: Originally posted by BobP on October 24, 2003 Hi Luckycat:Trying to keep the mind open to just before the point my brain falls out and the cats nibble on it.I like to think there are pearls out there in some of those clams.My money stays firmly in my pocket until I reach the lottery counter.Long as I'm not paying it's hard to complain about the quality of the show. Who am I kidding, I love to complain . . .I'll usually pay to see what the kids have in the box, then try to get them to rel
Oct 25, 2003, 8:01 am - WILLSELL - Lottery Systems Forum

Lottery winner temporarily shuts down philanthropic Web siteNews Story
Powerball winner Jack Whittaker has temporarily shut down his philanthropic organization's Web site to allow staff to catch up on thousands of requests for financial help, an employee said Tuesday.Whittaker established the Jack Whittaker Foundation after winning the $314.9 million Powerball jackpot on Christmas Day, the largest undivided jackpot in the game's history. The Scott Depot resident was a millionaire businessman before he claimed his winnings as a $113 million cash option.The foundatio
Oct 22, 2003, 3:38 am - Todd - Lottery News

No cameras, please! Big Lotto winner's shyNews Story
Money talks. But that doesn't mean Jacquelin Ferdinand has to.Florida's newest jumbo Lotto winner, who Monday morning claimed the second half of the $80.9 million jackpot, doesn't want any publicity.The jackpot was the 10th largest in state lottery history, and Ferdinand split it with a Hollywood couple. The $40.45 million each winning ticket received -- minus taxes, of course -- is the largest amount collected on any jackpot split two or more ways.Ferdinand, 55, told Lotto officials it was the
Aug 13, 2003, 3:36 am - Todd - Lottery News