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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

New Florida Lottery raffle will make 10 millionairesNews Story
The Florida Lottery's newest game could be just the ticket to brighten up someone's holiday season, but the game won't be for everyone. That's because if you wait too long to buy a ticket, you could be shut out of the game. This week, the Florida Lottery unveiled its new Holiday Millionaire Raffle game, but it's only selling 1.25 million tickets so when they're gone, they're gone. The $20 tickets go on sale Monday, and will be sold through Dec. 30. But if they sell out before then w
Nov 18, 2006, 11:39 am - Lottery News

Florida man claims $6 million Lotto jackpotNews Story
A trip to Publix netted a North Port man $6 million. Even after buying the winning ticket, Ronald Tourville forgot to check the numbers. He had forgotten about his tickets until Sunday night when he opened his wallet and saw them. He then logged onto the Florida Lottery's Web site to check his numbers and discovered he was the winner. According to lottery spokeswoman Shelisha C. Durden, Tourville, 48, claimed the estimated $6 million Florida Lotto jackpot. Instead of accepting payments ove
Sep 12, 2006, 8:51 am - Lottery News

16 nurses split $6 million Florida Lotto jackpotNews Story
Sixteen Southwest Florida Regional Medical Center employees apparently are $6 million richer after picking all six of Saturday's winning Florida Lotto numbers. The employees, who have not yet been identified, purchased the only winning ticket at the 7-11 at 12100 Three Oaks Parkway in Estero. Margaret Chabris, spokeswoman for 7-11 stores, said a regular customer picked up the winning ticket on behalf of the employees and the group is planning to speak with the media after they pick up thei
Sep 5, 2006, 11:03 am - Lottery News

Florida lottery backs GTECH-Lottomatica dealNews Story
The Florida lottery has agreed to the planned takeover of U.S. lottery operator GTECH Holdings Corp by Italy's Lottomatica, Lottomatica said on Wednesday. Lottomatica plans to buy GTECH in a $5 billion deal that would create the world's biggest lottery operator. One of the deal conditions laid down by Lottomatica is that it would not lose GTECH's lottery operating concessions in the United States. Lottomatica said in a statement that GTECH had been informed of Florida's backing for the dea
Aug 16, 2006, 12:18 pm - Lottery News

One ticket wins $40 million Florida Lotto jackpotNews Story
For a brief moment, one of the two men who run Food R Us convenience store in Palm Springs, Florida, had their hands on a slip of paper worth $40 million. Then they passed it to one of their customers. The small, neighborhood store on Congress Avenue sold the sole winning ticket for Saturday's Florida Lotto jackpot. The winning numbers passed through our hands, said Raj Sam Savdas, who managers the store with Nicholas Azavedo. We are wishing them good luck. We have a lot of good cu
Aug 7, 2006, 10:45 am - Lottery News

$204 Million: Saturday Powerball JackpotNews Story
Largest lottery jackpot in the world; $164 million more than second-largest jackpot The Powerball jackpot continues to grow to unbelievable heights. The multi-state game's $204 million jackpot is $164 million more than the next-largest worldwide lottery jackpot Florida Lotto's $40 million grand prize. (Both games will conduct their drawings tomorrow at 11:00 PM Eastern Time.) Even though the grand prize was not awarded Wednesday, three lucky tickets in DC, Iowa, and North Carolina ea
Aug 4, 2006, 4:10 pm - Lottery News

Florida store clerks say regular won LotteryNews Story
Workers at a Palm Coast convenience store said a local man was shaking after he came inside the store Sunday morning to check the winning Lotto numbers and discovered he'd won $10 million. Don Baiga, clerk at the Kangaroo Express on Palm Harbor Parkway, said the man pulled out his five Quick Picks, which are randomly selected by the lottery machine, and Baiga proceeded to read him the numbers. The man, whom employees did not know by name, then handed over one of the tickets and asked the cler
Jun 5, 2006, 8:00 am - Lottery News

Fla. Fantasy 5 lottery player wins $241,000News Story
One winner of the Florida Lottery's Fantasy 5 game will collect $241,009.50, a lottery official said Wednesday. The winning ticket was bought in the city of Zephyrhills, lottery officials reported. The 344 tickets matching 4-of-5 numbers will collect $113 each. The 11,015 tickets matching 3-of-5 won $9.50 each, and 106,251 tickets won a Quick Pick ticket for picking 2-of-5. The numbers drawn Tuesday night were 1-5-9-30-34. Tonight's Florida Lotto jackpot is $6 million.
May 31, 2006, 11:45 am - Lottery News

Winning Florida Lotto ticket sold in Spring HillNews Story
One ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers to win a jackpot of $3 million, lottery officials said Thursday. The winning ticket was bought in the city of Spring Hill, officials said. Other prizes included: 71 tickets matched five numbers to win $3,9184,282 tickets matched four numbers for $52.5079,724 tickets matched three numbers for $4 The winning Florida Lotto numbers selected Wednesday were: 03-12-19-23-28-35. Fantasy 5 One winner of the Fantasy 5 game will collect $
May 25, 2006, 4:57 pm - Lottery News