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£9 million lottery winner drank himself to deathNews Story
A father-of-two who won millions in the United Kingdom National Lottery became so bored after giving up his job that he turned to booze and eventually drank himself to death. Keith and Louise Gough won 9 million in 2005, and like many others Gough saw the win as the answer to his dreams . But the couple, who were married for 27 years, separated just two years later after Gough gave up his job and began drinking out of boredom. Devastating Speaking last year Gough lamented the devasta
Oct 25, 2010, 2:05 pm - Lottery News

Calif. lottery winners try to remain as anonymous as possibleNews Story
A man and wife from Thousand Oaks, California, are overnight millionaires after the SuperLotto Plus ticket they purchased last week matched all six numbers in Saturday's draw. After the winning ticket went unclaimed for two days, California Lottery officials announced Monday they were looking for the winners. Mike and Lynda Weeks came forward Tuesday afternoon to claim their $30 million prize. The couple decided to take the cash option of $19.9 million. The Weeks' winning numbers: 35, 1
Oct 18, 2010, 9:16 am - Lottery News

$116M Georgia Powerball winner claims prizeNews Story
A 46-year-old advertising executive from Mableton, Georgia, has stepped forward with the $116 million Powerball ticket. Gerald L. Render chose the cash option so he'll only be getting $63 million before taxes. Render claimed the prize Friday afternoon, two weeks after buying the winning Quik Pik jackpot ticket at Heby's Shell, on Floyd Road in Mableton. The advertising executive had been showing up for work as usual at the Marietta-based Upscale Magazine. It's a publication of Bronner B
Oct 9, 2010, 8:14 am - Lottery News

Hoax: Man claimed he shredded winning ticketNews Story
The real winner says she has played the same number for years A Florida man's story to get his hands on $14.5 million in lottery winnings has been shredded. Chris Gooden, 31, had claimed that he put a winning lottery ticket in the shredder by mistake last month and that he literally only had shreds of evidence that he was the true winner of the Sept. 22 Florida Lottery drawing. The story seemed like a tragedy until the real winner, a 70-year-old retiree, came forward with the winning ti
Oct 5, 2010, 10:48 pm - Lottery News

Canadian family charged with stealing $12.5M lottery jackpotNews Story
Search is on for rightful owner of winning ticket Are you the victim of an alleged $12.5-million lottery jackpot theft? Ontario police say someone else celebrated with what should have been your happy dance. The rightful owner of the Super 7 ticket was defrauded of the winnings nearly seven years ago, police say. Meanwhile, investigators allege the family accused of stealing the winnings lived in the lap of luxury multiple homes and BMW and Mercedes vehicles were among their big-ticket
Sep 30, 2010, 8:23 am - Lottery News

Prison guard wins $54 million lottery jackpotNews Story
She's been homeless, bankrupt, a robbery victim and assaulted on the job but radiant Rikers Island prison guard Garina Fearon now has 54 million glorious reasons to start living la dolce vita. The 34-year-old single mom from East New York, Brooklyn, who has endured a lifetime of hardship and poverty, told The Post she's the mystery winner of last Friday's Mega Millions drawing. I wanted a better life. I was struggling as a single parent, a beaming Fearon said yesterday. I've really come b
Sep 26, 2010, 9:34 am - Lottery News

Powerball, Mega Millions lotteries both have big winnersNews Story
By Todd Northrop The USA's two biggest multi-state lottery games produced jackpot winners this weekend. Mega Millions was the first to turn out a grand prize winner. Friday night, one lucky player from New York matched the first five numbers plus the Mega Ball number to win it all. The jackpot was worth $54 million, or $36.7 Million if awarded as one lump-sum cash payment. Both amounts are before taxes are withheld. The winning numbers for the Sept. 17 Mega Millions drawing were 3, 4
Sep 20, 2010, 4:27 pm - Lottery News

Clerk tried to steal $14 million lottery ticketNews Story
Includes video report A retired New York transit worker is a big winner, but it took some detective work to find out just how big. $14 million, it turns out. The New York Lottery on Friday revealed the tale of Milledge McCassell, 72, of Laurelton, in hope of delivering a moral to the story. McCassell on Aug. 26 took unsigned tickets he bought a day earlier to the Dynasty Deli and Grocery in Jamaica, Queens, to check for possible prizes. He checked them himself on a store scan
Sep 17, 2010, 9:21 pm - Lottery News

Man wins £2.6M lottery jackpot, but doesn't wake wifeNews Story
A British couple had two great reasons to celebrate last week firstly it was their ruby wedding anniversary, marking 40 years of marriage, and secondly they won 2.6 million (US$4 million) on the Lotto. But after realizing that he had a winning ticket, Philip Sawyer, from Shard End, simply sipped his cup of tea, read his book and didn't wake his wife, Sandra. The 60-year-old former car salesman was convinced that his wife had played a practical joke on him and made her check the numbers her
Sep 15, 2010, 2:19 pm - Lottery News

Doctor who won lottery still wants 'to help people'News Story
When Jackson Memorial Hospital doctor Shirley Press heard the buzz nine years ago that someone at work had won the lottery, she told co-workers, That person is going to be such an oddball they aren't going to fit in anywhere. She quickly learned that she was the oddball. Over the following week, the 50-year-old mother of two teenagers and director of pediatric emergency care would try to keep a semblance of a normal life as word spread about her fortune a lump sum that after taxes amounted t
Aug 31, 2010, 6:00 pm - Lottery News