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Pennsylvania has its first Mega Millions lottery winnerNews Story
Winning ticket worth $149 million Someone who bought a multi-state Mega Millions lottery ticket in Pennsylvania is millions of dollars richer. The Pennsylvania Lottery has sold its first jackpot-winning Mega Million ticket, a $149 million prize from the Tuesday, May 20 drawing. The winning ticket was sold at White Oak Gas Grocery on the 1100 block of Fawcett Avenue, McKeesport, Allegheny County. The winning ticket matched all five white balls, 10, 40, 63, 64, and 69, and the Mega Bal
May 21, 2014, 8:50 pm - Lottery News

NY hospital orderly wins $20 million lottery jackpotNews Story
Sweet dreams are made of this a $20 million lottery ticket. Long Island, New York, hospital worker Cameron Finney was so stunned over winning the Mega Millions jackpot he slept with the ticket under his pillow for two days. Then he realized there was a better place for it. I went to the bank to put it in a safety deposit box after I slept with it for two days, Finney, 48, said after coming forward to claim the prize Thursday. The married Southampton father's life was forever changed
May 16, 2014, 8:16 am - Lottery News

Wyoming Lottery to begin accepting retailer applicationsNews Story
Lottery ticket sales expected to begin in August Starting May 21, the Wyoming Lottery Corp. will begin accepting applications from Wyoming retail business owners who want to sell Powerball and Mega Millions tickets at their retail locations. Properly completed and vetted applications will be considered on a first-come, first-served basis. Beginning May 21, Wyoming retail business owners can either fill out and submit an application online at www.wyolotto.com, download and print a retail
May 13, 2014, 5:25 pm - Lottery News

Maryland Mega Millions jackpot winner claims prizeNews Story
Winner chose to remain anonymous Lucky retailer earned $100,000 bonus The second-largest Mega Millions jackpot prize in Maryland history was quietly claimed late last week. The lucky Marylander bought one of the two winning tickets in the March 18 drawing for the $414 million Mega Millions jackpot. A Florida couple last week claimed the second ticket, which was sold in their state. (See Florida couple, nearly penniless, claim half of $414M lottery jackpot, Lottery Post, May 1, 2014.)
May 6, 2014, 11:15 am - Lottery News

Florida couple, nearly penniless, claim half of $414M lottery jackpotNews Story
She had less than $5 cash with her when she filed for bankruptcy two years ago, but Tuesday, a Merritt Island, Florida, woman held a giant novelty check for more than $200 million in lottery winnings. Federal court documents show Robyn Ann Collier's personal property on April 30, 2012 included $4.73 cash on hand. In February this year, her boyfriend was laid off from his job at a boat-building company, according to their attorney, David Presnick. But in March, Collier bought a Mega Million
May 1, 2014, 9:05 pm - Lottery News

$20M Mega Millions winner didn't believe lottery scannerNews Story
A lottery player scanned his tickets at a Shirley, New York, convenience store called JackSpot! and when the screen flashed BIG WINNER, he told the cashier, The machine is broken. But it wasn't he was holding the $20-million Mega Millions ticket, the mystery jackpot winner sought by the New York State Lottery since the March 25 drawing, said convenience store co-owner Howie Frank and cashier Laura Marckesano. He's not catching what I'm saying, said Marckesano, who scanned the ticket twic
Apr 4, 2014, 4:25 pm - Lottery News

Couple collect lottery winnings after misplacing ticketNews Story
A Downers Grove, Illinois, couple claimed a $1 million lottery prize Thursday after a brief but frantic search for their winning ticket. Cathy and Dave Seiden won the prize after matching five numbers on their Mega Millions ticket for the March 18 drawing. Cathy Seiden bought the ticket at her regular Jewel-Osco in nearby Woodridge, something she said she does every couple of weeks. She gave the ticket to her husband, and they forgot about it until one of Cathy's co-workers told her tha
Mar 28, 2014, 8:31 am - Lottery News

Va. store owner sells $3 million lottery ticket to herselfNews Story
When Glinda Salgado heard that the winner of a $1 million Mega Millions lottery ticket purchased it at her family store in Herndon, she was excited. She never imagined it was her own ticket. The drawing, held on March 14, revealed that a winning ticket was sold at her store, Elden Market Deli but nearly two weeks went by with no winner coming forward. Then, Salgado realized she hadn't checked her own ticket and discovered the winner was actually herself. I didn't think it was me, so
Mar 25, 2014, 7:00 am - Lottery News

San Francisco cab driver claims $1.9M Mega Millions lottery prizeNews Story
A San Francisco, California, taxi driver won $1.9 million in the multi-state Mega Millions game Tuesday. Mahendra KC, a 50-year-old immigrant from Nepal, bought the Mega Million Quick Pick ticket from Huntington Liquor in San Bruno for a dollar, lottery officials said Thursday. The ticket matched five of the six numbers 11, 19, 24, 33, and 51 in Tuesday night's draw for a $414 million jackpot. One additional number would have allow KC to split the full jackpot with two other winners in
Mar 22, 2014, 8:54 am - Lottery News

2 winning Mega Millions tickets sold in Florida, Maryland to split $414M jackpotNews Story
Update 1: Winning ticket locations and other details Update 2: Final jackpot numbers released, story updated Winning tickets in Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing with a jackpot of $414 million, the third largest in its history, were sold in Florida and Maryland, state lottery officials said. The final lump-sum cash value of the jackpot is $230.9 million. After the final jackpot totals were counted, the annuity jackpot of $414 million remained the 7th-largest United States jackpot
Mar 19, 2014, 3:47 am - Lottery News