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Lottery winners plea for a wife for their sonNews Story
After winning a 2.3 million (US$4.3 million) UK Lotto jackpot, Bob and Pat Green are hoping money CAN buy love for son Stewart. The couple made a plea to find a wife for the 33-year-old, who still lives at home. Bob, 64, joked, We've lived in the same house 20 years and Stewart still lives with us. He is not engaged or married, so if there is anybody who can help him out, he's looking for a rich lady with sporting interests. Motorbike-mad Bob, who owns and runs a garage with Pat, 6
Aug 13, 2008, 1:13 pm - Lottery News

Powerball multi-state lottery game to change rulesNews Story
Changes to coincide with addition of Florida in January; Jackpots to start at $20 million Powerball, arguably the world's best known jackpot lottery game, will be making changes to the game with the addition of Florida in January. The multi-state game will add some white ball numbers and will remove some red ball numbers, to accomodate the increase in number of players once Florida joins the game. If the number matrix is not changed, the jackpot would be hit too often, and it would not re
Aug 12, 2008, 9:57 pm - Lottery News

Powerball lottery winner shares $42.5M with relativesNews Story
Jean Edwards went from anonymous retiree to millionaire celebrity this week. But as far as she's concerned, not much in her life has changed. Edwards plans to stay in her Willow Street home and maybe take a vacation to Jackson Hole, Wyo., but that's about it. I just don't know why it would make any change in our lives, she said at a news conference Friday about her instant good fortune as a Powerball lottery winner. We'll be able to get some things we need, but why should you have
Aug 11, 2008, 2:05 am - Lottery News

Lancaster County man claims $86M Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
New millionaire got ticket for free; shares wealth with relatives Barrie Edwards of Willow Street did not buy the Aug. 2 Powerball ticket that earned him over $42 million he received the promotional ticket for free when he purchased two Pennsylvania Lottery Match 6 tickets. Now, Edwards and his wife are sharing their good fortune with a dozen relatives. Secretary of Revenue Tom Wolf and Lottery Executive Director Ed Trees today presented a ceremonial check for $42,529,765.37, less 25 per
Aug 8, 2008, 12:51 pm - Lottery News

Woman bets $50,000 of her lottery win for chance at $1 millionNews Story
It's been said lightning never strikes twice, but Judith Yap is betting 50 grand that the old maxim is wrong. Last month the Glen Ellyn nurse assistant won $150,000 in the Illinois Lottery, and now she's hoping to parlay it into $1 million in a single, 1-in-6 drawing. If she loses, she'll walk away with $100,000. Yap will learn whether the gamble pays off at a lottery drawing at the end of September at U.S. Cellular Field on Chicago's South Side. It's certainly a risk not many people wo
Aug 8, 2008, 9:57 am - Lottery News

2 tickets to split $45.1M Lotto 6/49 jackpotNews Story
A ticket sold in northern Ontario and one sold in Qu bec will split the $45.1 million Lotto 6/49 jackpot, tied for the second-largest draw in Canada. Each winning ticket is worth $22,572,856, the provincial gambling agency, Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. (OLGC), said in a release Thursday. The winning numbers were pulled Wednesday night. They are 10, 18, 22, 26, 34, 38 and bonus number 39. There were 17 second prizes, worth $220,055 each. Ontario players won seven of those, OLGC sai
Aug 8, 2008, 9:18 am - Lottery News

Lottery officials to name $86M Powerball winnersNews Story
Who won last week's Powerball jackpot? That's the $86 million question and Pennsylvania lottery officials have the answer. Officials plan to announce the winners at a news conference Friday at lottery headquarters in Middletown. The winning Powerball ticket was sold at a Turkey Hill convenience store in Lancaster County. The jackpot from the Aug. 2 drawing is worth an $86.3 million annuity or $42.5 million cash minus 25 percent in federal taxes.
Aug 8, 2008, 8:28 am - Lottery News

Lottery-winning doorman gets the girl but might lose jobNews Story
The $5 million Park Avenue doorman may soon find himself out the door his bosses say that winning the lottery turned him into a loser at work. But Richie Randazzo, 44, who was visiting Atlantic City yesterday sporting a leggy Swedish model on his arm wasn't too upset. He told The Post that if he's canned by his jealous bosses, he'll just do what every regular Joe does try to collect unemployment insurance. After hitting it big on May 2, Randazzo said he wanted to keep his job o
Jul 23, 2008, 2:38 pm - Lottery News

Winning $125M Mega Millions ticket sold in New JerseyNews Story
Lottery officials said the winning ticket from Tuesday night's Mega Millions lottery drawing worth $125 million was sold in New Jersey. It was not immediately known what town in New Jersey the winning ticket was sold. In addition to the grand prize winner, eight tickets matched all five numbers but not the Mega Ball number: 3 from California, 1 from Georgia, 1 from Maryland, 1 from New York, 1 from Texas, and 1 from Virginia. Each second prize ticket is worth $250,000, except the Ca
Jul 23, 2008, 10:29 am - Lottery News

Engineer plays fortune cookie lottery numbers and wins the jackpotNews Story
Played numbers for 4 years before they hit big To most of us, fortune cookies are just a charming detail at the end of a meal and their vague prophecies and snippets of folk wisdom are not to be taken seriously. But to Danny Williams, the numbers printed on a slip inside one cookie seemed to promise a real fortune and his hunch came true as they won him a Lottery jackpot. The 23-year-old engineer beat million-to-one odds to win a share of the top prize in the National Lottery. H
Jul 21, 2008, 8:47 am - Lottery News