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Maryland lottery player gets lucky 4 times this summer for $101KNews Story
Donald Donnie Cole III thought he was lucky when he survived a brain aneurysm in 1999. But little did he know that his good fortune would continue. Cole, 52, of Brookeville, Maryland, is convinced he is the luckiest man alive, after recently winning $101,000 playing the Maryland State Lottery. Cole, who said he buys lottery tickets almost every day from the Shell gas station in Olney, won $50,000 on a $20 Big Money Mega Play scratch-off ticket on June 26. It was a stunning feeling, he
Aug 23, 2012, 9:09 pm - Lottery News

Rhode Island lottery winner hits jackpot one day after son wins $1,000News Story
Perhaps there's luck in their genes. A man from East Providence, Rhode Island, has claimed more than $180,000 in lottery winnings, a day after his son won $1,000 in a different game. Rhode Island Lottery officials say the man on Monday claimed the $180,599 jackpot from the Wild Money game's Saturday night drawing. He was accompanied to lottery headquarters in Cranston by his wife and son, who had just won $1,000 of his own on an instant ticket on Friday. Lottery officials didn't release
Jul 4, 2012, 2:50 pm - Lottery News

Florida Lottery's repeat winners don't always come out aheadNews Story
Thirteen players cashed at least 20 tickets paying more than $600 in 2011 Most people who play the lottery won't win more than a few bucks. But there are people in South Florida who win big money almost every week. A Plantation woman has won at least $600 more than 240 times in the past 19 years, according to a Sun Sentinel analysis of individual Florida Lottery winnings dating to 1993. A Hollywood man won $5,000 at least 52 times last year. The winningest player for 2011, a resident of Pa
May 14, 2012, 8:06 am - Lottery News

Six $1M Powerball tickets claimed by one Arizona winnerNews Story
Winner stays anonymous The Arizona Lottery announced today that all six $1 million Powerball second prize tickets won in Arizona from the drawing on Wednesday, April 25 have been claimed by one person. The six $1 million winning tickets were purchased by one Glendale resident at the QuikTrip located at 6702 W. Glendale Ave. in Glendale. The winning numbers were 4, 25, 29, 34, and 43, with Powerball number 29. The winner, who wishes to remain anonymous, claimed the six tickets over the c
May 9, 2012, 8:03 pm - Lottery News

Virginia woman wins $1 million lottery twice in the same dayNews Story
Winning the lottery once in a lifetime is pretty lucky. Winning the lottery twice in the same day? Virginia Fike is one of the few people that can describe that feeling. The Berryville, Va., resident had two tickets that matched five of the six Powerball numbers in an April 7 drawing so that each ticket was worth $1 million. I'm in shock! Fike said in a news release from the Virginia lottery. In early April, Fike stopped at an Olde Stone Truck Stop in Virginia with her numbers ready an
Apr 24, 2012, 6:56 am - Lottery News

Generous former lottery winner says she accidentally gave away second winning ticketNews Story
Says lottery ticket was mixed in with money she gave away When Emily Leach stopped by Liquor Tobacco, a convenience store in the San Francisco Bay Area community of Mountain View, before Friday's drawing for the California state lottery's Mega Millions Jackpot then worth $290 million she was already a kind of celebrated figure at the store after winning $1 million on a lottery ticket she bought there in January. Her recent good fortune allowed her to perform random acts of generosity for s
Mar 27, 2012, 3:34 pm - Lottery News

CNN producer tells what it's like to win lottery twiceNews Story
I am a two-time lottery winner. I have claimed a $100,000 lottery ticket in November and a $1 million lottery ticket Monday. Both came from scratch off. Everyone has been asking me what it's like to win and so I'll tell you. A big win is an amazing blessing that I still can't believe is real. And then to be blessed more than once is just extraordinary. But nothing comes easy. We all go through rough times in our lives, and people don't know the road that one must walk to reach a happy dest
Feb 17, 2012, 9:04 am - Lottery News

CNN producer wins Ga. Lottery twiceNews Story
Latest win is $1 million scratch game jackpot She's another recent two-timer. After winning $100,000 in November, a CNN producer has won big again in the Georgia Lottery. This time Jennifer Hauser of Atlanta scratched her way to a $1 million win on the instant game 50X The Money. Hauser, 29, claimed her $1 million prize Monday. I was a little numb, Hauser said of her recent win. I didn't know what to think. She bought the ticket at the Roswell Food Mart, 5645 Roswell Road N.E
Feb 15, 2012, 5:39 pm - Lottery News

Missouri lottery winner wins againNews Story
Powerball player is also double-lucky Only twice in the history of the Missouri Lottery has a player won two prizes of $1 million or more. A Bonne Terre man won on two Scratchers tickets in 2010, and now a southwest Missouri man has won two multi-million dollar Scratchers prizes in 2011. Roger Hirshey, 66, claimed a $2 million top prize on a Mega MONOPOLY ticket on Dec. 19. The Carthage resident bought the winning ticket at Casey's General Store, 8084 E. Seventh St., in Duenweg. This is
Dec 23, 2011, 9:19 am - Lottery News

Atlanta man wins $1 million lottery for second time in three yearsNews Story
There he goes again. An Atlanta man has won a $1 million prize for the second time in three years playing an instant lottery game, according to Georgia Lottery officials. Delma Kinney, who will celebrate his 51st birthday Dec. 5, won a $1 million prize playing the Georgia Lottery's instant game Super Millions. In 2008, Kinney won $1 million playing another instant game. The single father of three set aside a portion of his winnings to save for his children's college educations. Kinne
Nov 30, 2011, 8:01 am - Lottery News