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$135M lottery winner to boss: "I'm out of here"News Story
David Sneath has worked at a Ford Motor Co. parts warehouse for 34 years, but it didn't take him any time at all to walk out once he discovered he had won a $136 million Mega Millions jackpot. I yelled to the boss, 'I'm out of here,' Sneath said Thursday after going to state lottery headquarters in downtown Lansing to pick up his first $1 million check. Sneath, of Livonia in suburban Detroit, said the reality of his win has yet to sink in. I still haven't touched base with Earth yet,
Apr 4, 2008, 8:41 am - Lottery News

Georgia Lottery makes three new millionairesNews Story
Columbus grandfather wins $5 million A Columbus, Georgia, grandpa is celebrating a $5 million Georgia Lottery win. Prentiss Shumaker, 70, played the instant game Georgia's $500 Million Club and won $5 million. Milgen Road Foodmart, located at 4254 Milgen Road in Columbus, sold the top prize ticket. Shumaker scratched his ticket in the store. I stood there and looked at it, he said. I showed it to the store clerk, and he shook my hand. Shumaker has one adult daughter and two gra
Mar 26, 2008, 11:24 am - Lottery News

Millionaire lottery winner goes back to job at McDonald'sNews Story
It's not the natural habitat of the millionaire. But if you visit a particular McDonald's store in Cardiff, you've every chance of being served by one. Luke Pittard, 25, won 1.3 million (US $2.6 million) in the National Lottery 18 months ago. He celebrated in the usual way, buying a new home and splashing out on a lavish wedding and holiday in the Canary Islands. Then he realized that he really missed his job. So he asked to go back and couldn't be happier, getting up at the
Mar 25, 2008, 10:00 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner demonstrates the right way to claim a big jackpotNews Story
The Illinois woman knew on Dec. 18, the winning lottery ticket she held would change her life. On March 19, she was claiming an oversized check from the state and answering questions from news media. That the winner picked up the $81.5 million prize, her half of a $163 million Mega Millions jackpot drawing, is a big deal. That it took three months is a rarity. She spent the time to work with lawyers and financial advisers to maintain anonymity and protect assets something the state lo
Mar 20, 2008, 5:14 pm - Lottery News

Women win $276M lottery jackpot - and report back to workNews Story
If you thought you'd just won a fortune, would you go to work the next day? Eight women who toil in a tax office in Morgantown, West Virginia did just that on Monday, as they anxiously await confirmation that they hold the winning ticket in a $276.3 million lottery jackpot. But whether they'll be back again this week is another matter. The women claim to be the sole big winners in the Powerball lottery, and if they're right, each stands to be transformed from ordinary civil servants into mul
Mar 18, 2008, 2:00 pm - Lottery News

Illinois Lottery makes four lucky millionairesNews Story
The Illinois Lottery held its second-ever Millionaire Raffle drawing yesterday, which instantly created four millionaires. The winning numbers can be viewed at https://www.lotterypost.com/il-lottery-raffle-2008-03-17.asp The raffle drawing was held on March 17th St. Patrick's Day a day traditionally thought of as lucky . Four millionaires will certainly think so. In addition to four $1 million top prizes, the St. Patrick's Day Millionaire Raffle also awards five prizes of $100,000
Mar 18, 2008, 11:15 am - Lottery News

Tax office workers win Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
Eight female employees of the Monongalia County sheriff's tax office in West Virginia won Saturday night's $276.3 million Powerball jackpot, officials said today. Reportedly, the women will take a lump sum payment amounting to about $17 million each. All of them showed up for work today at the courthouse in Morgantown, according to MetroNews. Chief Tax Deputy Linda Famico was bombarded with phone calls from media outlets from the time the office opened at 9 a.m. Famico told a reporte
Mar 17, 2008, 11:35 am - Lottery News

$275M Powerball lottery jackpot goes to W. Virginia playerNews Story
There is a one in 146 million chance that someone would match all six numbers drawn in a Powerball game. One of the tickets sold in West Virginia for the Powerball game Saturday night beat those astronomical odds to win the $276.3 million jackpot. The game's cash option, should the winner choose it, is worth $139,421,731. The ticket matched all six numbers drawn, which were: 6, 22, 42, 43, 47 and 16 as the Powerball. The Power Play number was 2. Nearly 2 million other players won
Mar 16, 2008, 8:28 am - Lottery News

$275 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot raised againNews Story
The Powerball jackpot continues to build, now exceeding the level attained by Mega Millions last month before it was won by a Georgia couple. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers the jackpot grew to an estimated $275 million for Saturday night's drawing, with a cash option of $135.7 million. It is the largest American jackpot in nearly seven months. The last jackpot to reach this level was a $330 Million Mega Millions jackpot on August 31, 2007. That was right after a $314 mi
Mar 13, 2008, 8:21 am - Lottery News

Winning lottery ticket saved from shredderNews Story
An Australia man who unknowingly kept a winning lottery ticket worth $100,000 in a drawer for five years said he was close to putting it through the shredder. The anonymous winner got the shock of his life when he was told the old ticket had netted him first prize in a $2 million jackpot lottery draw, back in March 2001. The man said he had been planning to get rid of the unchecked tickets he had amassed during his 30 year lottery hobby. I've had a drawer full of unregistered lottery t
Mar 11, 2008, 2:18 pm - Lottery News