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Retired Ontario couple wins second lottery jackpotNews Story
Jadwiga and Rudy Taylor didn't react like lottery winners Monday when they were presented with a $20 million check in Toronto. There was no jumping up and down, no screaming, no pumping of fists in victory for the married couple, he in his 80s and she 48. Hard to blame the Taylors, though. After all, when it comes to collecting a big cash prize, they've been there and done that. The couple won $1 million in 1999 on an Ontario 49 quick-pick ticket. When asked why she kept playing
Jun 20, 2007, 9:20 am - Lottery News

Michigan Lottery's Super Raffle results announcedNews Story
The winning numbers were selected Monday for the Michigan Lottery's most expensive game. The winning numbers are available right now at: https://www.lotterypost.com/mi-lottery-raffle-2007-06-18.asp The lottery's Super Raffle game included 250,000 tickets sold at $50 each, with two top prizes of $2 million each. The top prize-winning numbers were 175038, a ticket sold in Livonia, and 215994, a ticket sold in Sylvan Lake. Twenty-five ticket holders will get $100,000 each, and 4,500
Jun 19, 2007, 12:01 pm - Lottery News

Fla. man, Va. woman win $44 million lottery prizeNews Story
A Florida financial-services firm employee and a Henrico County dental-clinic worker came forward Monday to claim a $44 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot. Dan Franks, who lives in the Tampa Bay, Fla., area, and Kimberly Swanson chose to take a lump sum payment of $25.3 million rather than annual payments of $1.69 million for 26 years. After taxes, each will pocket about $7 million. We are just your average hardworking people, Franks, a former Chesterfield County resident, said at a n
Jun 12, 2007, 8:58 am - Lottery News

Disabled man wins $37M lottery jackpotNews Story
He's 55 years old, single, with no children, lives in a rooming house, and has been on disability since October. Oh, and Graham Gelineau is also $37 million richer after winning Saturday's whopping Lotto 6/49 jackpot the largest single-ticket prize to be claimed in Ontario. The Toronto man doesn't drive, so he took the subway to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.'s downtown office Monday afternoon to pick up his winnings. Apart from the money, my life's going to stay pretty much the
Jun 12, 2007, 8:21 am - Lottery News

$6.9M lottery winner steps forwardNews Story
After 76 suspenseful days, a winner has stepped forward to claim the record-breaking $6.9 million lottery prize for the Match 6 ticket sold at Giant Eagle supermarket in Ebensburg. But there are few drum rolls to accompany the announcement, because the winner does not want publicity, so the state can only release a name: Jane Rowland of Hollidaysburg. The winning Match 6 lotto ticket, which was sold March 23, was validated Thursday. It was the largest Match 6 lottery jackpot ever. It wi
Jun 8, 2007, 8:53 am - Lottery News

Georgia Fantasy 5 lottery player scores $95,000 jackpotNews Story
A Sautee-Nacoochee, Georgia, resident's fantasy has become a reality. According to Jordan, he watched the Fantasy 5 drawing and saw that he won big. He immediately called his son and began yelling, I think I won! I think I won! The winning numbers for the May 29 Fantasy 5 drawing were: 3-9-13-24-38. Jordan randomly selected the lucky combination. I don't know why I picked those numbers, he said. It's just my way of doing things. Jordan, an 82-year-old retiree, plans to sav
Jun 4, 2007, 2:48 pm - Lottery News

Georgia man celebrates $5 million lottery jackpotNews Story
A Columbus man has netted a win worth millions. David Huff, 46, won $5 million playing the Georgia Lottery instant game Georgia's $500 Million Club. Circle K Stores #6678, 215 Fourth St. in Columbus, sold the winning ticket. The father of four scratched the ticket just outside of his car. What he discovered, Smith said, was unbelievable. I broke my glasses trying to look at the ticket, he said. I was sure of what I saw, so I had to take a deep breath. Smith, who likes to go fish
Jun 1, 2007, 1:17 pm - Lottery News

Lucky B.C. lottery retailers also bankruptNews Story
At least two people on list of retailers known to have won multiple prizes were experiencing financial problems At least two B.C. retailers who won the lottery multiple times were so badly in debt around the time of their winnings they filed for bankruptcy. On Wednesday, after a scathing report from the B.C. ombudsman on retailer fraud, the B.C. Lottery Corp. released the names of 24 retailers known to have won multiple prizes over the past seven years. Bankruptcy records obtained by Th
Jun 1, 2007, 9:47 am - Lottery News

Winning retailers named by B.C. Lottery CorporationNews Story
The B.C. Lottery Corporation has gone public with the names of its lottery retailers who have won major prizes, following this week's scathing report by the B.C. ombudsman into lottery irregularities. The report said lottery officials have failed to protect consumers from possible fraud by ticket retailers, citing examples of retailers winning thousands of dollars at a much higher rate than that of the public at large. Some of the retailers being named by the corporation are speaking out,
Jun 1, 2007, 9:03 am - Lottery News

$63M Powerball lottery jackpot claimed by New Mexico manNews Story
Updated: May 30, 2007, 7:59 pm A Los Ojos, New Mexico, man stepped forward today to claim a $62.8 million Powerball jackpot one week after the New Mexico Lottery announced that the winning ticket from the May 23 drawing had been sold in New Mexico. Felipe Pi a purchased his ticket on Wednesday, May 23, at Giant Sundial #5 in Chama using a Quick Pick method. The numbers on his ticket 03, 11, 24, 36, 38 and the Powerball 06 matched the winning numbers drawn in the multi-state, lotto-styl
May 30, 2007, 7:33 pm - Lottery News