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Florida Lotto jackpot rolls over to $9 millionNews Story
No ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers, resulting in a rollover that produced an estimated $9 million jackpot for the next drawing, lottery officials said Sunday. A total of 69 tickets matched five numbers to win $5,468.50; 3,755 tickets matched four numbers for $81.50; and 82,212 tickets matched three numbers for $5. The winning Florida Lotto numbers selected Saturday: 10-11-12-35-41-52.
Nov 27, 2006, 8:21 am - Lottery News

Illinois woman wins $7 million lottery jackpotNews Story
When Alberta James of Machesney Park, Ill. arrived home from work tired and soaked from the rain last week, she listened to a garbled message on her answering machine from her best friend about the Lottery. At the time, Alberta had no idea that her life was about to change. When I called my friend back she said, 'Oh my God, you're rich. One winner has a $7 million ticket they bought from Vince's, and I'm sure it's you!' said James. She didn't believe her friend: You dream about it, but you
Nov 18, 2006, 9:57 am - Lottery News

Huge Euro Millions lottery jackpot split 20 waysNews Story
Britain proved a good place to buy a lottery ticket this week as seven Britons won 6.75 million (US$12.8 million) each in the Euro Millions lottery draw on Friday. With no single ticket holder matching all five main numbers and the two Lucky Star numbers, the 123 million (US$233 million, 182 million) jackpot, which had been rolled over for an 11th time, was shared between 20 people across Europe. France had four winners, Portugal and Spain had three, Ireland had two while Belgium had on
Nov 18, 2006, 9:22 am - Lottery News

Tonight's Mega Millions lottery jackpot worth $75 millionNews Story
The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game grew to $75 million Friday. None of the tickets sold for Friday's $63 million drawing matched all five lotto numbers and the Mega Ball. The next drawing is tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time. There were four second-prize winners from Friday night's drawing, matching all five lotto numbers but not the Mega Ball number to win $250,000 each. One of the second-prize tickets sold in California was worth $341,445, because California uses
Nov 14, 2006, 12:24 pm - Lottery News

Couple claims share of 3rd biggest Canada Lotto 6/49 jackpotNews Story
We now know their names and how much they won. A North York couple are the stunned recipients of part of that huge Lotto 6/49 draw last week. Edwin and Esperanza D'Souza came forward Monday to admit it was their ticket that was sold in Ontario. Its value: an incredible $9.9 million. The entire jackpot, part of last Wednesday's draw, was $39.6 million, the third largest in Canadian lottery history. I'm cool as a cucumber, the 80-year-old admitted as he claimed the enormous check at
Nov 14, 2006, 9:45 am - Lottery News

$18 million Texas Lotto jackpot hit by one ticketNews Story
Somebody who bought a Texas Lotto ticket in an Angleton convenience store is worth $18 million, but neither the couple who sold the winning ticket nor the state lottery commission knows who it is. The winner has 180 days after Saturday's drawing to come forward to claim the jackpot, said lottery spokesman Robert Elrod. It's not uncommon for a winner to take several weeks to come to Austin to claim the prize, he said. We would like to know who it is, said Shuju Feng, who operates the Hand
Nov 14, 2006, 8:16 am - Lottery News

Single winner takes $7 million Illinois Lotto jackpotNews Story
A single winner has taken the $7 million jackpot from the latest drawing of the Illinois State Lottery's Lotto game. The ticket sold in Loves Park was the only one to match all six winning numbers from Wednesday night's Lotto drawing. The next Lotto drawing will be Saturday night, and will feature a grand prize of $2 million. Wednesday night's drawing also produced 20 second-prize winners who matched five of the six winning numbers and will receive prizes of $1004 apiece. Another 1,048
Nov 9, 2006, 8:33 am - Lottery News

Tax Court Reaffirms Lottery Payments are 'Ordinary Income'News Story
The Tax Court reaffirmed that proceeds from the sale of a right to future annual lottery payments constitutes ordinary income, not capital gain, after reviewing two test cases involving winners of the Florida State Lottery. In both cases, petitioners in the cases won the lottery and reported the annual installment payments as ordinary income for a number of years. Eventually, however, the petitioners sold the right to their remaining installment payments and claimed that the resulting gain (a
Nov 9, 2006, 7:39 am - Lottery News

Four winners in Canada Lotto 6/49 drawNews Story
There are four winning tickets in Canada for last night's Lotto 6/49 draw. The $36 million prize was the third-largest in the lottery's history. Officials say based on high ticket sales, the jackpot grew to over $39.6 million. One of the winning tickets was sold in Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia, one in Ontario, and the other two were sold in Quebec. The winning numbers were 3, 4, 20, 38, 42 and 48, with the bonus number 34.
Nov 9, 2006, 7:18 am - Lottery News

'Arizona 9' claims half of $94.1M Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
Cheers and shouts filled the lobby of the Arizona Lottery Thursday morning as the terminal rang out We are in the Money, signaling the validation of the winning Powerball jackpot. That's when we knew it was really real, said Tanya Poirier, one of the Arizona 9, a group of seven co-workers and two spouses who shared one-half of a $94.1 million Powerball jackpot for the Wednesday, Nov. 1, drawing. Their half of the jackpot came to $47,050,000. Arizona Lottery Executive Director Art Mac
Nov 3, 2006, 8:12 am - Lottery News