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Winning Hot Lotto ticket sold in New MexicoNews Story
New Mexico Lottery officials say one of two winning tickets for Saturday's Hot Lotto drawing was sold in New Mexico. The other ticket was sold in Minnesota. The winners will split a $1.9 million jackpot. The New Mexico winning ticket is the first Hot Lotto jackpot winner for the state since the game first went on sale there in November, 2006. The New Mexico Lottery also offers Hot Lotto's better-known sibling, Powerball. Hot Lotto is played in nine other states. It's been dubbed th
Aug 6, 2007, 9:07 am - Lottery News

Largest Texas Lottery jackpot claimed by trustNews Story
The winners of the largest Mega Millions jackpot ever won on a ticket sold in Texas have stepped forward to collect their prize money. A partnership calling itself the H H Trust of Dallas claimed the $128 million jackpot from the July 6 drawing on the multistate game, the Texas Lottery Commission says. We were daydreaming about winning the lottery and taking some time off, one member of the trust, which collected its winnings July 18, said in a news release provided by the commission.
Aug 4, 2007, 10:50 pm - Lottery News

Illinois Lottery Millionaire Raffle resultsNews Story
The Illinois Lottery's latest raffle-style game, Millionaire Raffle, was drawn last night, and will make four instant millionaires. The winning numbers can be found here: https://www.lotterypost.com/il-lottery-raffle-2007-07-31.asp Millionaire Raffle is a raffle game offered by the Illinois Lottery, with a limited number of $20 tickets. With only 500,000 tickets sold for the raffle, Millionaire Raffle offers the best odds to win $1 million of any Illinois Lottery game. There is on
Aug 1, 2007, 8:06 am - Lottery News

Record Irish Lottery win offers escape from hard lifeNews Story
The Cinderella-style magic of the Irish National Lottery was never more evident than on Cork's Bridevalley estate yesterday. The huge 16 million (US $22.1 million) Lotto jackpot won by Paul and Helen Cunningham and the dream lifestyle it can now offer them stood in stark contrast to the everyday challenges facing people in this most tight-knit of northside communities. Bridevalley is a proud area where everyone knows and watches out for everyone else and locals are deeply protectiv
Jul 30, 2007, 9:21 am - Lottery News

Vermont Lottery announces largest Megabucks jackpot in 14 yearsNews Story
The Megabucks prize for Wednesday's draw has surpassed recent record levels, with a current (annuitized) jackpot of $8,900.000. The last time the Megabucks jackpot exceeded $8.9 million was 14 years ago in July of 1993. Between December 2006 and January 2007, Vermont had three Megabucks winners in a row, winning jackpots of $500,000, $950,000 and $4.5 million. To date, there have been 75 winning Megabucks jackpot tickets sold in Vermont since the game began in 1985. The highest jackpot t
Jul 30, 2007, 8:08 am - Lottery News

Penn. woman wins $1M lottery raffle prizeNews Story
Deb Redding joked with a man buying lottery tickets at the customer service counter at New Oxford Shurfine Market on Monday afternoon. I think you might win, she said. It wouldn't be a stretch. Since 2002, two people have now become big winners after buying lottery tickets at the store along Route 30. Most recently, luck was with Hanover resident Brenda Gaydos. She won one of five $1 million top prizes from the Pennsylvania Lottery's July 7 Millionaire Raffle drawing, lottery official
Jul 24, 2007, 11:49 pm - Lottery News

Down on his luck, Florida man wins $33M lottery jackpotNews Story
West Palm Beach resident Ezequiel Perez has had his share of tragedy in recent weeks. His father died early Monday morning in Cuba. His home was heavily damaged by a fire earlier this month. On Saturday night, he got some good news. Perez, 51, of West Palm Beach, was the winner of Saturday's $33 million Florida Lotto jackpot. He bought his Quick Pick-winning ticket Saturday at a Lake Worth supermarket and hit the 1-in-23 million chance. Perez wasted no time claiming his winnings, acc
Jul 24, 2007, 10:28 pm - Lottery News

Iowa custodian wins $1 million in lottery scratch gameNews Story
A custodian for the Davenport school district in Iowa cashed in a lottery ticket Monday worth $1 million becoming the first top prize winner in the Iowa Lottery's Set for Life'' scratch-off game. Martin Rodriguez, 47, won't actually get $1 million because he opted for a lump sum payment of $650,000. After taxes, he'll get $455,000. Rodriguez said he bought the ticket Saturday after stopping at Mother Hubbard's convenience store in Davenport. I was between baseball games, and I was g
Jul 24, 2007, 8:39 pm - Lottery News

Retiree, 81, wins $9.2M Colorado Lottery jackpotNews Story
Colorado's newest multi-millionaire doesn't think life will change much after winning the $9.2 million Colorado Lottery Lotto jackpot. Hank Robinson, 81 years young, planned to go home and enjoy a game of Scrabble with his sister, after collecting his winnings. The winning numbers from the drawing on July 14 were 14, 17, 21, 31, 36 and 38. Robinson's sister, Beverly, began playing five of the six numbers when Lotto began in 1989. After she stopped playing, he decided to play her numbers with
Jul 23, 2007, 11:49 am - Lottery News

Wisconsin man claims $14.4M lottery jackpotNews Story
Terry Peters, of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, became a millionaire Tuesday. Peters validated the sole winning ticket from Saturday's $14.4 million Megabucks drawing at state lottery offices. Earlier on Monday, Peters had stopped by the store where he purchased the ticket to check if he was a winner. He chose to take the lump sum cash payment of $7.6 million. He will receive about $5.4 million after taxes. Peters will take part in a news conference at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the GV Unimart in
Jul 18, 2007, 12:01 pm - Lottery News