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21 tickets win Maryland Lottery's Bonus Match 5News Story
Lottery players throughout the State of Maryland should check their Bonus Match 5 tickets for a little something extra this holiday season. Saturday night's drawing produced 21 winning tickets. The winning numbers were 02, 03, 04, 05, 08 and Bonus Ball 30. Top-tier winners must match the first five numbers. If twelve or more winning tickets are sold in a single drawing, each winner will receive an equal share of a $600,000 pari-mutuel pool. Since 21 winning tickets were sold, each ticket
Dec 26, 2006, 7:08 pm - Lottery News

Lottery Ticket Worth Over Half A Million Sold In NashvilleNews Story
A Tennessee Lotto 5 ticket sold in Nashville correctly matched all five numbers from Monday night's drawing, hitting the jackpot of $518,712. No additional information is available until the player claims the prize. The Tennessee Lottery offices are closed Tuesday for the holidays and will reopen on Wednesday. The Lotto 5 jackpot dropped back down to its baseline amount of $40,000 for the Wednesday drawing. Lotto 5 drawings are held on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights at 10:34 p.
Dec 26, 2006, 11:44 am - Lottery News

Secrets of lottery millionairesNews Story
As the 2,000th UK Lottery millionaire pops the champagne, 16 former jackpot winners shared how their money has been spent and how their lives have changed. I'VE BOUGHT AN ACRE OF THE MOON, VENUS AND MARS David Copeland, 31, is single and lives in Hereford in a modest two-bedroom Sixties house. Occupation: Former lab technician. Won: 1,000,000 on January 4, 2000. First purchase: On the day I won, I went to the supermarket and bought half a dozen bottles of champagne to s
Dec 11, 2006, 11:48 am - Lottery News

Lottery pool loses $36 million jackpot; wrong tickets boughtNews Story
Members of a Belgian lottery pool who thought they had won 27 million euros (US$35.8 million) were devastated when they found the wrong numbers had been entered. The group of 30 from Mouscron, south-west of Brussels, had been using the same numbers to enter the Euro Millions jackpot for weeks. Members of the syndicate started to celebrate when their numbers came up in Friday's draw, reports the BBC. However, the person in charge of buying the ticket had allowed the machine to choose Qui
Dec 11, 2006, 7:13 am - Lottery News

Minnesota lottery player claims Powerball jackpotNews Story
Michael Hawes and his fiancee were so tickled their baby boy survived a premature birth that they named him Lucky. On Tuesday, the kid had his own reason to be happy: His old man just won $47 million. Hawes, 46, said he had no idea he held the winning ticket in the Nov. 1 drawing until Monday afternoon, when he stopped at a Cub Foods supermarket in Bloomington to buy some pop. While he was there, he decided to get some tickets in his wallet scanned. I brought it to New York and wandered
Dec 7, 2006, 10:15 am - Lottery News

Florida landscaper claims $9M Lotto jackpotNews Story
A Melbourne, Florida, landscaper from Costa Rica has come forward to claim his $9 million Florida Lotto jackpot. Feliciano Aragon purchased the winning ticket Tuesday at a Melbourne convenience store and was the lone player to match all six numbers, according to lottery officials. The winning numbers were 9-14-25-37-42-52. The ticket is the 31st sold in Brevard County to win the jackpot since the Lotto began 20 years ago. Aragon chose the one-time lump sum payment option for hi
Dec 3, 2006, 4:10 pm - Lottery News

Florida Lottery holiday raffle game sold outNews Story
10 players will win $1 million each on New Year's Day At 10:33 pm Thursday night the last of the 1.25 million Holiday Millionaire Raffle tickets was sold. Players who purchased tickets will need to hold on to them for the New Year's Day drawing to see who will become the Florida Lottery's first 10 millionaires in 2007. The winning numbers will be posted to the Florida Lottery Web site by 3:00 pm, January 1, 2007. The numbers will also be posted at Lottery Post. Holiday Millionaire Raf
Dec 3, 2006, 3:59 pm - Lottery News

N.C. lottery excitement: first Powerball jackpot winnerNews Story
Someone who bought a Powerball lottery ticket this week in North Carolina is $74.5 million richer this morning. Powerball officials say one winning ticket matching all six numbers drawn Wednesday night was sold this week. That ticket was sold in North Carolina, although there is no word this morning where that ticket was purchased. The winning numbers were 2, 8, 9, 12 and 19, with the Powerball number of 25. The Power Play multiplier was 3. This is the first Powerball jackpot won w
Nov 30, 2006, 10:06 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot climbs to $74 millionNews Story
The Powerball jackpot is on the move. No one hit the jackpot Saturday, but 414,114 players across the nation won a total of more than $4.1 million in prizes in America's Game . Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $74 million. The cash option for the Wednesday, November 29th drawing will be an estimated $36 million. The numbers drawn Saturday were 5, 18, 28, 49, 55, and the Powerball was 38. The Power Play multiplier
Nov 27, 2006, 10:03 am - Lottery News

Mega Millions lottery jackpot increases to $31 millionNews Story
The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery drawing grew to $31 million Friday. None of the tickets sold for Friday's $23 million drawing matched all five lotto numbers and the Mega Ball. The next drawing will be Tuesday. There were two second-prize winners from Friday night's drawing, matching five numbers to win $250,000. Another ten players matched four of the five lotto numbers, plus the Mega Ball number, for a $10,000 prize. One lucky California player matched five n
Nov 27, 2006, 9:03 am - Lottery News