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Kansas man wins big in lottery for 2nd time in '09News Story
Edward Williams is the definition of lucky after winning the lottery for a second time in a year. Williams, 47, of Wichita won $75,000 in September playing a $10 scratch ticket. Then on Wednesday, he defied the odds again when matched all the numbers in the Super Kansas Cash drawing to win a jackpot worth nearly $900,000. When I hit $75,000, I figured lighting struck once, it won't ever hit again, Williams said in a prepared statement released by Kansas Lottery officials. This one knocked me
Aug 9, 2009, 10:40 pm - Lottery News

Italy Is a 'Mad House' for LotteryNews Story
Neophytes do it. Financially pinched town councils do it. Even people who usually shun gambling as a cunning ruse for the state to raise taxes do it. With a record 119 million (US$177 million) jackpot at stake in Italy's state lottery, millions have been gripped by lotto fever. It's become a bit of a mad house, said Paolo Valli, owner of the neighborhood Bar del Pino in southern Rome, where the number of wagers has tripled in the past month for the SuperEnalotto, which has not registered
Aug 7, 2009, 8:31 am - Lottery News

All four PA Lottery raffle jackpots claimedNews Story
All four of the $1 million top-prize winners from the Pennsylvania Lottery's July 4 Millionaire Raffle drawing have claimed their prizes. The fourth and final winner to claim her prize, Louise Whitmire of Latrobe, Westmoreland County, presented her $1 million winning ticket at the same location where it was purchased, Latrobe Center Distributing, Inc., 1032 Latrobe Thirty Plaza St., Latrobe, Westmoreland County. The ticket was validated at Lottery headquarters in Middletown last week. Jame
Aug 4, 2009, 8:57 pm - Lottery News

Georgia man wins $1.2M with free lottery ticketNews Story
A free Fantasy 5 lottery ticket has translated into a $1,298,332 jackpot win for a Hoschton, Georgia man. Robert Patterson Jr. won the prize with a free ticket that matched all five winning numbers in the July 17 Fantasy 5 drawing. It was on a free ticket, and I think that's probably important for everyone to know, said Patterson, who won the ticket by matching two of five numbers in a previous Fantasy 5 drawing. Patterson checked the game results online and was excited to discover his
Jul 31, 2009, 9:27 am - Lottery News

Queens man claims $133M Mega Millions lottery jackpotNews Story
For transparency's sake, and publicity's, too, the New York State Lottery requires its big jackpot winners to step up before the cameras, and flash that giant cardboard check. But many winners these days, with prizes surpassing nine figures, would rather not show their faces on television or in print, said Jennifer Givner, a spokeswoman for the state lottery. And so, when that moment in the limelight comes, the winners come and go as quickly as they can, leaving no time for them to elucidate
Jul 28, 2009, 6:08 pm - Lottery News

Lottery winner picks up check, then gets arrestedNews Story
$4.4M lotto winner goes straight to jail It was a good news, bad news day for Barry Shell. The good news: he won more than $4 million. The bad news: he ended up in jail. Shell, from Brampton, Ontario, picked up a check for $4,377,298, the top prize in the July 18 draw for the Lotto 6/49. I went to the store and checked my ticket on the self-serve ticket checker, Shell was quoted as saying in a news release from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation. As soon as I saw how muc
Jul 22, 2009, 8:57 pm - Lottery News

Newspaper: Big lottery winners are rareNews Story
Many people fantasize about the lottery offering a one-way ticket to limitless leisure, to a life of big houses, fancy cars, lavish cruises, endless shopping sprees and a chance to snarl adios to a nagging boss. That lap of luxury lifestyle might be within reach if you win big, like Jeff Wilson of Kings Mountain did several weeks ago when he came forward with the Powerball ticket worth $88.1 million. Wilson, 27, a UNC-Charlotte alumnus who took the lump sum payment of $42.4 million, a cool
Jul 14, 2009, 10:20 am - Lottery News

True love: lottery winner reveals secret only after engagementNews Story
He wore shabby clothes, drove a wreck and took Lisa on cheap dates. Then they got engaged and Joe revealed the truth: having been stung by other women, he'd concealed his 10 million lottery fortune from her. Lisa Johnson treasures a ring given to her by husband Joe even though it is unremarkable, with a tiny stone, and cost less than 200 from High-Street jeweler H. Samuel. It was her Christmas present during their first heady months of dating, and when he presented it to her, she was thril
Jul 11, 2009, 12:53 pm - Lottery News

12 Michigan women + 2 men share $12.7M lottery jackpotNews Story
Twelve women from a small town in Michigan's upper peninsula have claimed a $12.7 million Classic Lotto 47 jackpot. Michigan Lottery officials said members of the Island Dreamers lottery club made the six-hour trip from Newberry to Lansing in a stretch Hummer limousine on Tuesday to claim their prize. Club member Debra Cummings said she doesn't remember anything after checking the first two numbers on the morning after the July 1 drawing. The Island Dreamers range in age from 25 years o
Jul 9, 2009, 8:38 am - Lottery News

Lottery ticket bought in Queens hits $133M Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
New York Lottery officials and a crew of convenience store workers are keeping their eyes peeled for the person holding a Mega Millions ticket worth $133 million. No one has come to make a claim yet, said Dilip Patel, 35, who works at the Shiv Convenience Store on Hillside Ave. As far as I know it was a woman and she is really lucky. There was only one ticket that matched all six numbers in Tuesday's drawing, officials said. The winning numbers were 25, 27, 35, 38, 39 and the Mega ball w
Jul 9, 2009, 8:00 am - Lottery News