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Retired Illinois couple share $656M lottery jackpotNews Story
By Todd Northrop Updated 6:24 pm: Prize payout information A retired computer systems designer and his wife, a computer programmer, have claimed the final share of the March 30 $656 million Mega Millions lottery drawing. Merle, 65, and Pat Butler, 62, claimed the jackpot at the Red Bud Village Hall in the small southern Illinois town of Red Bud. The winning ticket was sold at a nearby Motomart in the town of 6,000 people. Their share of the record-setting $656 million jackpot was $21
Apr 18, 2012, 11:57 am - Lottery News

Illinois Mega Millions winner to come forwardNews Story
The final winner of the record $656 million Mega Millions jackpot will accept a check for $218.6 million on Wednesday in the southern Illinois town of Red Bud where the winning ticket was purchased, the Illinois Lottery said Monday. The single winner is from Illinois, lottery officials said, but would not reveal any other details. The other two winning tickets already have been anonymously claimed in Maryland and Kansas. Around Red Bud word that the winner would soon be revealed left the town
Apr 17, 2012, 9:32 am - Lottery News

Four golfers score $30M Lotto Max winNews Story
Four golfers from Langley, British Columbia, have scored their best ever round a $30 million Lotto Max jackpot. Lotto Max is a nationwide lottery game played in Canada. Ian McMurtrie, Wayne Miller, Tom Moryson and Joe Scully, who work together in Langley and are golfing buddies, had the winning ticket in Friday's draw. McMurtrie was the first to discover the win while watching the TV news Saturday morning and says his wife screamed and collapsed on the floor. He then signed all four
Apr 12, 2012, 9:41 am - Lottery News

Winners of big lottery jackpots often crave anonymity amid challenges to do soNews Story
The tiny Illinois farm town of Red Bud is the kind of place with few strangers and few secrets. Yet the community of 3,700 has a lingering mystery on its hands: Who bought the winning Mega Millions lottery ticket, and why hasn't the winner of the world-record $656 million jackpot come forward? Though secrecy surrounds the ticket sold at the MotoMart convenience store, lottery officials note it's not unusual for winners to lay low and those who advise them say it's just plain smart. It's ex
Apr 11, 2012, 10:20 am - Lottery News

Maryland Mega Millions winners claim prize anonymouslyNews Story
Three public school employees nab share of record jackpot Includes video report By Todd Northrop The Maryland Mega Millions lottery winners are three Maryland public school employees, who split the world's biggest lottery jackpot with two other winners from Kansas and Illinois. The trio claimed their share of the jackpot Monday at Maryland Lottery headquarters. Maryland laws allow lottery winners to remain anonymous when collecting their prize, and the winners chose that opt
Apr 10, 2012, 8:34 am - Lottery News

Kansas Mega Millions winner claims jackpot anonymouslyNews Story
By Todd Northrop The holder of one of three winning tickets in last week's record $656 million Mega Millions drawing came forward Friday to claim a share, Kansas Lottery officials announced Friday afternoon. The winner a single ticket holder has chosen to remain anonymous, state lottery director Dennis Wilson said. The announcement was made at an afternoon press conference at state lottery headquarters in Topeka. Under Kansas law, lottery winners can choose not to publicly reveal the
Apr 6, 2012, 6:04 pm - Lottery News

N.Y. woman claims $70 million Powerball jackpotNews Story
Tara Ramirez doesn't know what she's going to do after claiming a $70 million Powerball jackpot. But with an eight-figure nest egg, the Hartsdale woman can do just about anything she wants. Ramirez, 37, was presented a ceremonial check for the top prize in the multi-state lottery game Thursday at Dairydel on South Central Avenue in the Hartsdale section of Greenburgh, New York. On Feb. 24, she visited the store and played the winning numbers: 6, 11, 42, 53, 54 and the Powerball number 7.
Apr 5, 2012, 11:57 am - Lottery News

$17 million California lottery winner claims prizeNews Story
Bakersfield, California, now knows which of its citizens won $17 million over the weekend playing the lottery. A Bakersfield mother of five, who was about to be evicted after her home went into foreclosure, has no reason to worry about finding her next home. Teresa Serrano hit the jackpot, winning $17 million. Her daughters were overcome with emotion and tears of joy for their mother, who got her first job in the United States picking tomatoes at age 13. I can't believe it. I'm still i
Apr 5, 2012, 9:45 am - Lottery News

2nd Powerball winner from Rhode Island announcedNews Story
A Rhode Island woman claimed the second Powerball jackpot in that state in recent months Tuesday but it fell to her attorney to pose alongside the oversized lottery check. Kathleen Last of Smithfield, R.I., had the winning ticket in the March 7 drawing for the $60 million Powerball prize, state lottery officials said. She elected to take her winnings in a $37 million lump sum. Last's attorney represented her at Tuesday's official announcement of her winnings. Attorney Edmund Alves said his
Apr 5, 2012, 8:10 am - Lottery News

Mega Millionaire 'Bunky' Bartlett offers advice to winnersNews Story
Bunky reflects on mistakes (and successes) since winning $32.6 million A Tarot card might have foretold that Ellwood Bunky Bartlett would win $32.6 million in the 2007 lottery. Unfortunately, the spirit world provided no omens that might have helped the 45-year-old practicing Wiccan better manage his good fortune. This week, as much of the East Coast is waiting for the winners of the record $656 million jackpot to step forward, Bartlett of Westminster agreed to talk about the things tha
Apr 4, 2012, 9:41 am - Lottery News