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$380 MILLION: Massive sales push Powerball jackpot higherNews Story
Now 10th-largest jackpot in US history By Todd Northrop Due to larger than expected sales volume, the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) has raised the official Powerball lottery jackpot estimate for Saturday's drawing to $380 million. The updated jackpot figure propelled Saturday's drawing into the top 10 highest jackpots in United States lottery history. (See the top 25 annuity and cash value jackpots below.) The all-important lump-sum cash value of the jackpot has been raised
Feb 6, 2015, 2:04 pm - Lottery News

$360 MILLION: Powerball jackpot surges on rolloverNews Story
6th-largest cash value in US history By Todd Northrop This weekend Powerball will be the hot ticket, featuring a jackpot larger than any other United States lottery drawing in almost a year. The new high-water mark of $360 million for the current Powerball jackpot was achieved after no winning tickets were sold for Wednesday night's $324.7 million grand prize. The lump-sum cash payout value of Saturday's Powerball jackpot is $250.5 million the 6th-largest ever recorded in United Stat
Feb 6, 2015, 9:35 am - Lottery News

Powerball heats up with $317 million jackpotNews Story
Largest Powerball jackpot in a year; 12th-largest cash value in US lottery history By Todd Northrop Big multi-state lottery jackpots may have been missing somewhat in 2014, but just a month into 2015 lottery players are already seeing a second massive grand prize looming. The Powerball jackpot for Wednesday, February 4, 2015, now stands at $317 million the largest jackpot for the game in nearly a year. The last time a Powerball jackpot was this large was on Feb. 19, 2014, when a Star Wa
Feb 2, 2015, 4:59 pm - Lottery News

Retired Brooklyn bus driver hits $7M Cash4Life jackpotNews Story
The next stop for this retired Brooklyn bus driver is Easy Street. Frederick McClendon claimed his $7 million prize Tuesday in the New York Lottery's Cash4Life draw game. I usually play the Powerball or Mega Millions games, said McClendon, who says he spent 15 years driving a bus in Brooklyn and the Bronx. Instinct told me to buy a Cash4Life ticket this time. McClendon said he bought his ticket to a bright new future on Nov. 24 when he walked into MX Wines Spirits in Halsey St. in Bro
Jan 29, 2015, 8:47 am - Lottery News

Lucky for Life multi-state lottery game set to expand next weekNews Story
Updated: Number of states the game will be expanded to By Todd Northrop New England's Lucky for Life lottery game is set to expand into an additional eight states starting next week. The multi-state game offers a grand prize of $1,000 a day for life, and has drawings every Monday and Thursday. Uniquely, the game offers a another lifetime prize for the second prize level $25,000 a year for life. Both for Life prizes are payable for the length of a winner's life. At minimum, 20 year
Jan 22, 2015, 12:15 pm - Lottery News

$270 million Mega Millions jackpot won in IllinoisNews Story
By Todd Northrop An Illinois lottery player won the first jackpot of 2015, worth an estimated $270 million in a Mega Millions drawing Friday. The ticket, a quick pick meaning the numbers were selected randomly by the lottery terminal, was sold at Bucky's Express, 1202 Bloomingdale Road in west suburban Glendale Heights, said Illinois Lottery spokesman Mike Lang. The store will receive a $500,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket. It is the largest prize in Illinois Lottery history
Jan 18, 2015, 8:47 am - Lottery News

GET OUT THE VIOLIN: Florida woman grieving about $5 million lottery winNews Story
Four Central Florida people joined the ranks of the nouveau riche this week when each cashed a winning lottery ticket, including two who became overnight millionaires. But the biggest winner in the group, an Orlando nursing assistant who claimed a $5 million Mega Millions prize in Tallahassee, confided that she felt poorer spiritually. I'm a Christian. I don't gamble, said Fay Blake, 62. Spiritually, it bothers me. The Florida Lottery paid Blake $3,750,000 her winnings minus taxes and
Jan 16, 2015, 11:51 am - Lottery News

MUSL employee arrested in Hot Lotto jackpot mysteryNews Story
The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation has made an arrest in the four-year-old case involving a winning Hot Lotto ticket worth more than $16 million which the winner mysteriously decided not to claim. Eddie Raymond Tipton, 51, of Norwalk, was arrested on Thursday. He has been charged with two counts of fraud, which are class D felonies. Tipton is Director of Information Security for the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), which is a vendor of the Iowa Lottery. His job prohibits hi
Jan 15, 2015, 10:44 pm - Lottery News

Retired NY principal claims $326M lottery jackpotNews Story
A retired Sullivan County, New York, school principal drew the sole winning ticket from a $326 million Mega Millions game two months ago, making him the biggest winner in state lottery history, officials said Monday. Harold Diamond, 80, purchased the winning multi-state ticket at a Valero gas station in Middletown on Nov. 4. Diamond had 60 days to contact lottery officials, and the Wurtsboro resident finally did so just before Christmas. Diamond was identified during an event at that Va
Jan 12, 2015, 11:37 am - Lottery News

$1 million lottery prize goes unclaimedNews Story
It's the big Christmas payout that will never be. Two months ago, someone won $1 million on a Powerball ticket at an Albuquerque, New Mexico, gas station. The deadline for claiming the huge prize came and went Wednesday, with nobody stepping forward with the winning ticket. If I had a million dollars, I could do a lot of good things with it, Kevin Chavez said. The ticket, which sold late September at the Circle K near Ellison and Coors was worth $1 million. That's crazy, Marianne H
Dec 26, 2014, 8:32 am - Lottery News