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Winning numbers chosen in Delaware Lottery's RaffleNews Story
The winning numbers for the Delaware Lottery's third annual Raffle game were selected in a special drawing today. The winning number for the $250,000 grand prize is 00012370. The five winning numbers for the $25,000 prizes are 00006502, 00018933, 00043080, 00071835, and 00075141. There were 250 winning numbers that paid $500 apiece as well. The full list of winning numbers can be seen on Lottery Post's Delaware Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/de). The 100,000 tickets s
Dec 31, 2008, 6:22 pm - Lottery News

Florida Lottery Raffle drawing crowns 9 new millionairesNews Story
One million Florida Lottery tickets had a shot at winning $1 million, and nine of those are officially chosen as the big winners. Lottery players anxiously waiting to see if they are now among the wealthy can check their tickets at Lottery Post's Florida Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/fl). With only 1 million tickets available for the raffle, Florida lottery ticket buyers had a better chance of winning a million dollars than with any other game offered in the state. The
Dec 31, 2008, 5:29 pm - Lottery News

National Lottery computer fiasco cost winner £800,000News Story
A systems failure at the lottery operator Camelot caused terminals in shops to crash as they tried to issue tickets for the main Lotto draw and even halted Internet sales. The dramatic reduction in takings for the post-Christmas draw caused the jackpot to be trimmed from the 4.2 million (US$6.1 million) estimated on Christmas Eve to 3.4m (US$5m). Camelot apologized publicly after the problem which may also have prevented a potential jackpot winner from buying a ticket. A single player w
Dec 29, 2008, 9:54 am - Lottery News

Indiana Powerball lottery winners likely to remain anonymousNews Story
The winners of a $57.6 million Powerball prize have collected their money without ever showing their faces. Lottery officials say the identities of people who split the Nov. 22 Powerball jackpot may never be made public. A lawyer and an accountant representing SWS Investments, LLC, a group of between eight and 13 people , collected the winnings Tuesday at Hoosier Lottery headquarters in Indianapolis. Lottery officials say the winners wished to remain anonymous. The group decided to take
Dec 24, 2008, 12:35 pm - Lottery News

Winners share $3 billion in Spain's El Gordo lotteryNews Story
Economic woes eased for thousands in Spain on Monday as the Christmas lottery billed among the world's richest dished out some 2.32 billion (US$3.23 billion) in prizes. The top prize of the lottery dubbed El Gordo (The Fat One) went to holders of tickets bearing the number 32365 which appears on 1,950 tickets, each winning 300,000 (US$418,000). Thousands of others cashed in on runner-up prizes. The top number was sung out at just after noon Monday by pupils of Madrid's Saint Ildefonso Scho
Dec 23, 2008, 9:06 am - Lottery News

Piqua lottery winners unveiled to cheers, tears of joyNews Story
New vehicles and new houses are on the horizon for many of the 15 multimillionaires in town. Even more important is the security they want the money to bring to their families, winners of the $207 million Mega Millions lottery said as their identities were revealed Wednesday, Dec. 17. My mom, she won't stop crying. My sister, she won't stop crying, said Jolaine Routson, 46, a Piqua city Parks and Recreation department worker. She's one of 14 city workers and one worker's father-in-law
Dec 18, 2008, 9:46 am - Lottery News

$207M Mega Millions lottery winners happy, but waitingNews Story
A city streets department employee from Piqua, Ohio, confirmed he is one of the winners of a $207 million Mega Millions jackpot and said that all but one of the winning ticket holders are also city employees. When the time's right, we'll come forward, the Piqua man said on Sunday, Dec. 14. He spoke on condition that his name and age not be published yet, citing a desire not to upstage his fellow winners. 16 people have a stake in the winnings; 14 are from the streets department. The ma
Dec 17, 2008, 3:13 pm - Lottery News

Ohio lottery player wins $207M Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
A single winner has taken the $207 million jackpot from the latest drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery. The only ticket to match all the winnings numbers from Friday night's drawing was sold in Piqua, Ohio. The next Mega Millions drawing will be on Tuesday night with a jackpot of $12 million. In addition to the grand prize winner on Friday, 23 players won the second prize of $250,000: 2 from California, 3 from Georgia, 2 from Massachusetts, 2 from Maryland, 2 from Michigan,
Dec 13, 2008, 10:28 am - Lottery News

Hollywood stuntman in Harry Potter film celebrates magic $10.5M lottery winNews Story
A stuntman who has rubbed shoulders with some of Hollywood's leading stars was celebrating today after scooping a 7 million (US$10.5 million) lottery windfall. Mark Lisbon, 42, who has performed stunts in films such as Tomb Raider, Batman Returns and In The Name Of The Father, has his partner Jane Surtees to thank after she picked the winning numbers in last Wednesday's U.K. Lotto rollover jackpot. Lisbon, who doubled for Gary Oldman as Sirius Black in the film Harry Potter And The Prisone
Dec 12, 2008, 10:10 am - Lottery News

Cool $207 million up for grabs in lotteryNews Story
Need some extra spending money this holiday season? Would $207 million be enough? That's the jackpot for Friday night's Mega Millions drawing, if a single ticket matches all six numbers in the multi-state lottery. The Mega Millions jackpot has been climbing steadily without a big winner since Oct. 21, when Mark Staffa of Rockmart won $42 million. Staffa, a software engineer, said he planned to use the windfall to help his parents retire and to travel the world. If this turns out to b
Dec 12, 2008, 9:52 am - Lottery News