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Oregon Lottery draws first raffleNews Story
The Oregon Lottery yesterday held the state's first-ever raffle, the appropriately-named St. Patrick's Day Raffle, resulting in one new millionaire and over one thousand other prize winners. A complete list of winning numbers for the drawing can be found at Lottery Post's Oregon Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/or). The game has a total of 1,011 cash prizes, with a top prize of $1 million cash. Raffle tickets went on sale Jan. 25, 2009, and cost $10 each. The complete i
Mar 18, 2009, 10:58 am - Lottery News

N.Y. man claims $26M Mega Millions lottery jackpotNews Story
A 45-year-old Wyandanch, New York, man is a mega-millionaire. The yet-to-be identified New York State Lottery winner came forward to claim his Mega Millions prize yesterday, lottery officials said. Depending on how he wishes to be paid, either in installments or a single lump sum, his winnings could be as high as $26 million before taxes. He will be introduced during a news conference at a later time, a lottery spokeswoman said yesterday. The man purchased the winning ticket Friday a
Mar 17, 2009, 7:57 am - Lottery News

Auto workers collect lottery winningsNews Story
There haven't been many happy stories involving Indiana auto workers lately, but one family is an exception. A mother and her two daughters, one retired from General Motors and two who work for Delphi in Kokomo, cashed in Monday, claiming an $11 million Hoosier Lottery prize. It was the biggest check Jill Carver, of Kokomo, and daughters Brenda Carver and Ronette Kelley had ever received. While Delphi has struggled, along with all of the American auto industry, Carver and Kelley have cl
Mar 17, 2009, 7:37 am - Lottery News

Cable worker wins $50,000 a year for life from N.C. lotteryNews Story
For more than 30 years, Gilbert Steve Proctor has installed telephone cable. The Edgecombe County resident said he is not quitting his job at Lambert's Cable Splicing Co. any time soon after hitting the North Carolina lottery's first winning Lifetime Riches scratch-off ticket, which pays out $50,000 a year for life. I'll always be the same person, he said as he sat in the convenience store on Thursday where lottery officials recognized his win. On Monday, Proctor bought the ticket at t
Mar 13, 2009, 10:45 am - Lottery News

10 N.J. co-workers will split $216M lottery jackpotNews Story
Winners work in the Chubb IT Department Includes video report Robert Space got into work at the Chubb Insurance company at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, realized the lottery ticket he was holding matched the winning numbers, and fired off a one-line e-mail to his nine co-workers who had pitched in to buy it. We won the big one, it read. The replies came back instantly: Hahahaha wrote one. GREAT. Where do I pick up the cash? joked another. Then they saw the ticket for themselves. Space and
Mar 4, 2009, 9:01 pm - Lottery News

$216M Mega Millions lottery winner is from New JerseyNews Story
California second-prize winner wins $1M 'mini-jackpot' Once again, the Garden State got lucky, as a single ticket sold in Ocean County grabbed last night's $216 million Mega Millions annuity windfall. Since 2004, New Jerseyans have won more than $1 billion in Mega Millions jackpots. The payout in cash the usual option would be about $140.6 million. Before 25 percent gets snatched for federal taxes, of course. The good news on the tax front is that unlike many other states, New Jersey do
Mar 4, 2009, 11:11 am - Lottery News

Unemployed: Play the lottery or not?News Story
by Dan Weiser The Mega Millions lottery jackpot is worth an estimated $212 million. Right now, it is the largest lottery jackpot in the country, including the multi-state Powerball. In fact, it's the largest lottery jackpot in the world. The next drawing is Tuesday night and a winning ticket will bring riches to at least one person. $212 million dollars is the stuff dreams are made of, but in these uncertain times winning would be ... well, hard to put into words. The unemployment rate
Mar 2, 2009, 9:39 am - Lottery News

Two tickets will share $174M Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
Tickets sold in Delaware, Pennsylvania Two tickets for the Powerball game Saturday night one sold in Delaware and the other in Pennsylvania matched all five numbers plus the Powerball drawn to win a share of the top prize. The winning tickets will share a jackpot prize of $174.4 million, or $87.2 million each. The winning numbers 3-16-20-42-58, Powerball: 7 were drawn in Orlando, Florida last night at 11:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The Power Play number was 5. The jackpot has been build
Mar 1, 2009, 7:51 am - Lottery News

$212 MILLION: largest Mega Millions lottery jackpot in a yearNews Story
There has been another rollover in the top prize for the multi-state Mega Millions lottery to $212 million. It is the largest Mega Millions jackpot in more than a year. On February 22, 2008, one person from Georgia won a $270 million Mega Millions jackpot. The rollover occurred because no player matched all the winning numbers from Friday night's $171 million drawing. The next Mega Millions drawing will be Tuesday night. The last time the Mega Millions jackpot was more than $200 mill
Feb 28, 2009, 7:29 am - Lottery News

$50.3M lottery prize to be split 4 waysNews Story
There were four winning tickets sold for Saturday night's 6/49 draw offering a jackpot prize of $50.3 million: one in Quebec and three in Ontario. The lucky Ontario tickets were purchased in the Sudbury area, as well as the Halton Region west of Toronto and Durham Region east of the city. It was not immediately known exactly where in Quebec the winning ticket was bought. Each winner will receive just under $12.6 million. The prize is the second-biggest jackpot in Canadian lottery histor
Feb 24, 2009, 8:12 am - Lottery News