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Powerball lottery jackpot reaches $102 millionNews Story
N.C. player wins $800,000 Power Play prize The jackpot in America's Game is growing. With no winner of Saturday's $92 million jackpot, the top prize in Wednesday's drawing is now $102 million. Even though the grand prize was not awarded Saturday evening, 1 lucky ticket in North Carolina purchased with the Power Play option matched all 5 white numbers and won an $800,000 cash prize. Four tickets additional tickets from the states of Connecticut, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee, pur
Sep 7, 2008, 10:07 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot raised to $92 millionNews Story
Even though the grand prize was not hit after the Wednesday evening drawing, Powerball generated some big winners. Four tickets sold in the Wednesday drawing won $200,000 by matching the first 5 white ball numbers: 2 in Minnesota, 1 in Missouri, and 1 in Oregon. The jackpot for the Saturday, September 6th Powerball drawing is an estimated $92 million with a cash option of $46.3 million. The numbers drawn Wednesday evening were 38, 40, 46, 49, 50, and the Powerball was 34. The Power P
Sep 6, 2008, 2:33 pm - Lottery News

Georgia woman wins $5 million lottery jackpotNews Story
A Cleveland, Georgia, woman who works on a chicken farm is celebrating an eggs-cellent $5 million dollar lottery win. Peggy Abernathy, 42, who lives at Turners Corner in Lumpkin County but has a Cleveland address, picked up her prize Friday. The mother of two says she bought the ticket on a whim at Chattahoochee Grocery east of Cleveland. When she scratched off the ticket and discovered she had won, she called her sister, who owns the chicken farm where Abernathy is employed. Store owner J
Sep 6, 2008, 1:57 pm - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot up to $81M for Wed.News Story
The jackpot in America's Game continues to move, as the game itself moves closer to it's eventual overhaul. In January the Powerball game matrix will be changed to 59 numbers in the primary ball set (up from 55), and 39 numbers for the Powerball (down from 42). In the same month, Florida will join the Powerball game, to increase the total number of participating states to 30, plus the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands. Saturday evening did not witness the awarding of the gran
Sep 3, 2008, 12:42 am - Lottery News

A life of leisure doesn't cut it for lottery winnerNews Story
A hairdresser who won a lottery jackpot as part of an office pool has opened her own hair salon just yards from the shop where she used to work. Natalie McGuire, 27, was part of a pool of fellow employees that won a 2.9 million (US$5.4 million) UK National Lotto jackpot last year. But after living the high life and visiting places like exotic Mauritius in the Indian Ocean she has opened her own salon employing three of the other girls from her pool. Natalie, from Castlemilk, said, The s
Aug 25, 2008, 9:27 am - Lottery News

Woman prepares for 9 months before claiming $8.8M lottery jackpotNews Story
Backcountry resident Lynn Hagerbrant knew she'd hit the jackpot just a day after she bought her winning lottery ticket yet she waited nearly nine months to cash in on the $8.8 million prize. After checking her Quick Pick numbers online on Nov. 24, 2007, Hagerbrant said she realized the CT Lottery Classic Lotto ticket she'd bought at a Putnam Avenue Exxon the previous day was a winner the single winning ticket, in fact. Her winning numbers were: 4, 7, 10, 23, 28, and 38. But inst
Aug 22, 2008, 10:18 pm - Lottery News

N.Y. man spends thousands in search of lottery richesNews Story
At first, there was the absolute indignity of it all, since, by any form of justice, it was he who should have finally hit the big one he and not that dilettante, the by-now famous doorman who worked across the street. He Ray Otero, superintendent, ordinary luckless guy should have the cash, the car, the sexy Swedish girlfriend. The numbers alone demanded it: Last year, he spent $30,000 on the lottery. The winner, Richie Randazzo, spent a measly thirty bucks or so a week. When I hea
Aug 22, 2008, 9:30 pm - Lottery News

Wisconsin couple win in lottery -- again!News Story
The Mount Horeb couple who made headlines earlier this week because they held two of only four winning tickets sold in Wisconsin for Saturday's SuperCash drawing, turn out to have the other two as well. Verlyn Adamson, 69, and his wife, Judith, 69, of Mount Horeb, turned in the other two tickets and it turned out they are the only winners in Saturday's drawing and are now $1.4 million richer. Lottery spokesman Andrew Bohage was surprised when the Adamsons held the first two winning tickets
Aug 22, 2008, 8:49 pm - Lottery News

His and Hers: Wisconsin spouses win identical lottery jackpotsNews Story
This couple won't have to argue about how to spend their lottery winnings. That's because the Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, husband and wife each won their own $350,000 jackpots in this weekend's SuperCash state lottery. Lottery officials said Verlyn Adamson bought his winning ticket at a Mineral Point gas station and his wife Judith bought hers from a convenience store in Barnevald. Verlyn Adamson is an accountant who says he's a big fan of math puzzles. He claims he developed a secret formula
Aug 19, 2008, 8:23 pm - Lottery News

Man chooses wrong lottery numbers and wins jackpotNews Story
For years, Bobby Guffey of Roanoke has been playing the same numbers in an attempt to win the Hoosier Lottery. His picks represent a combination of ages and numbers representing the months of his kids' birthdays. But when he bought a ticket for the Aug. 6 drawing of the Hoosier Lotto game at the Econoasis in Huntington, it was dark and he had forgotten his bifocals. He didn't realize until he was outside that the last number was accidentally 48 instead of his usual 46. It turns out
Aug 16, 2008, 9:14 am - Lottery News