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Wisconsin man wins $1.4 million playing 4 identical ticketsNews Story
A man holding four winning lottery tickets each worth $350,000 has claimed his prize, a Wisconsin lottery official said Thursday. Tobin Thomas of Slinger won a total of $1.4 million in the state's SuperCash drawing Tuesday. SuperCash winnings are paid in a lump sum, which will work out to about $950,000 after taxes, lottery spokeswoman Jessica Iverson said. A telephone number for Thomas in Slinger was disconnected. No other contact information was available. Unlike other lotteries th
Jan 19, 2007, 10:09 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot largest in 9 monthsNews Story
The Powerball jackpot continues to move upward. Even though the grand prize was not hit Wednesday evening, 946,640 players across the nation won a total of more than $7.6 million in prizes in America's Game . Because no one correctly matched all six numbers the jackpot will grow to an estimated $205 million for Saturday night's drawing. It is the largest jackpot since April 12, 2006, when one ticket from Missouri matched all five numbers plus the Powerball for a $220 million jackpot pr
Jan 18, 2007, 9:07 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot raised to $180 millionNews Story
Powerball will climb to an estimated $180 million for Wednesday's draw as the grand prize was not hit Saturday evening. Even though the jackpot was not hit, one lucky ticket from Pennsylvania won $400,000 cash with the Power Play option. Plus, eight other lucky tickets sold in Arizona (1), Iowa (1), Nebraska (2), New Hampshire (1), Tennessee (1), Wisconsin (1), and West Virginia (1) won $200,000 each for matching all 5 white ball numbers. The jackpot for the Wednesday, January 17th drawin
Jan 15, 2007, 4:42 pm - Lottery News

Time running out for $1.4 million lottery ticketNews Story
There may be millionaires among us, but their luck has an expiration date. A Minnesota Lottery Gopher 5 ticket worth $1,489,175 is out there somewhere, and the holder has only a few days left to claim the prize. Handing out checks is my favorite part of the job, said Clint Harris, executive director of the Minnesota State Lottery. I'd like to do that one more time before the 17th. That's when the ticket with the winning numbers 4-12-13-24-35 will expire, one year after it was drawn
Jan 10, 2007, 3:54 pm - Lottery News

Charlotte couple wins $200,000 Powerball lottery prizeNews Story
Tonight's Powerball jackpot is worth $131 million John Mark Isaacs and his girlfriend had been eyeing new cars for some time. She would like a yellow, two-door Pontiac Solaris. Isaacs wants a Mini Cooper in black or blue. It was like a dream, 'I sure would like to have that,' he said of the cars. Now, I can. On Saturday, Isaacs, 41, and his girlfriend won $200,000 when one of the dozen Powerball tickets the couple bought had five winning numbers. Isaacs, a warehouse manager f
Jan 10, 2007, 3:00 pm - Lottery News

Winning $122 million lottery ticket sold in TexasNews Story
Someone who bought a ticket in Amarillo for Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing is about $72 million richer. The ticket bought at a western Amarillo convenience store matched all five numbers and Mega Ball number drawn last night for the $122 million jackpot. That dollar figure applies only if the winnings are paid out over 26 annual payments and Texas Lottery Commission spokesman Bobby Heith says the ticket buyer opted for a cash-value option. That means a cash payout of just more th
Jan 10, 2007, 2:18 pm - Lottery News

First Penn. Lottery Raffle $1 million prize claimedNews Story
A Bucks County, Pennsylvania, man has become the first to claim a $1 million top prize from the Pennsylvania Lottery's Dec. 30, 2006, Millionaire Raffle drawing. John Maier of Churchville presented his winning raffle ticket at Lottery headquarters in Middletown, Dauphin County. After examining the ticket and executing other propriety security measures, Lottery officials today confirmed that it was one of the five top-prize winning tickets from the Dec. 30 Millionaire Raffle drawing. The fi
Jan 10, 2007, 12:27 pm - Lottery News

S.C. Lottery Millionaire Raffle results drawnNews Story
The winning numbers have been selected in the South Carolina lottery game that is going to make four instant millionaires. Carolina Millionaire Raffle is a raffle-style game with a limited number of $10 tickets. With only 1,000,000 tickets available for the raffle, Carolina Millionaire Raffle offers 1 in 250,000 chance of winning a $1 million prize. The full list of winning numbers is posted online at Lottery Post: https://www.lotterypost.com/sc-lottery-raffle-2007.asp The drawing
Jan 9, 2007, 9:08 am - Lottery News

Ontario Lottery delays payouts to 'insider' winnersNews Story
Christmas came four days early but seven weeks late for a trio of insider lottery winners from a small town northeast of Peterborough, Ontario, who faced a lengthy investigation before receiving their big payout. When we went in, we expected to get a cheque just like everyone else does, then they popped the bubble and said, 'Sorry, you're going to have to wait,' said Al Breedon, one of the winners of the $1-million prize. He and his wife, Linda Smith, and friend Linette Dynes purchas
Dec 29, 2006, 11:35 pm - Lottery News

Luck pays off for a whole lot of Maryland Lottery playersNews Story
Lottery players sometimes prove a quirky and superstitious bunch, picking their numbers on sentimental value (a birthday, anniversary or just plain lucky number) and loyally playing the same game, using the same numbers, at the same store. But would one person play a favorite set of numbers in the same game 15 times in a single day? An oddity to be sure, lottery officials say but not unheard of. And that is their best guess about what happened in Saturday's Bonus Match 5 game which y
Dec 28, 2006, 1:22 am - Lottery News