Couple nearly tossed $250,000 lotto ticket

Maryland Lottery officials said a couple who recently won a $250,000 Mega Millions prize nearly threw the ticket in the trash.

The officials said the couple, whose names were not released, told them the wife had tossed the winning ticket in the trash can the day after the Friday drawing, WBAL-TV, Baltimore, reported Monday.

Written on September 17, 2008 | Posted in Lotto News | No Comment

East Hartford Woman $1.6M Lottery Prize

The economy just got a little brighter for an East Hartford woman.

Tax day was Michelle Sauve’s lucky day but she did not know it until Sunday when she checked a lottery ticket and learned that she had won $1.6 million.

Written on September 17, 2008 | Posted in Lotto News | No Comment

Florence woman wins $50,000 lotto prize

A Florence woman has claimed a $50,000 scratch ticket prize, Montana Lottery officials said Monday.

Beverly Ralls bought her Deal or No Deal ticket at Rooster’s Casino in Stevensville.

“This just doesn’t happen to me,” Ralls said. “I like playing scratch games, and the most I’ve won is $5 or $10.”

Written on September 17, 2008 | Posted in Lotto News | No Comment

Local Lotto Winner Comes Forward

A Bakersfield man has claimed a quarter-million-dollar lottery prize and thanked God for the windfall, according to a California Lottery spokesman. The man asked state officials to not release his name.

“I just feel so blessed, like God blessed me,” the man told Lottery officals, according to a news release.

Written on September 17, 2008 | Posted in Lotto News | No Comment

Local $1M Lotto Winner Plans To ‘Enjoy Life’

A vacation for him and his wife and his 15-year-old’s college tuition — that’s how Winston-Salem’s Jeffrey Gilley said he plans to spend his $1 million winning from playing a scratch-off lottery game that he purchased at the Wilco on Peters Creek Parkway on Sept 4.

Written on September 17, 2008 | Posted in Lotto News | No Comment

Winning Lotto ticket sold in Ohio

A ticket with all six numbers in tonight’s multi-state Mega Millions draw was sold in Ohio and is worth $15 million, California Lottery officials announced.

Written on September 17, 2008 | Posted in Lotto News | No Comment

Lottery Syndicates: The Smarter Way To Play The Lotto?

Do you play the lottery? Just like everyone else who buys a ticket, I’m sure you’d love to win the jackpot, am I right?

The problem as I’m sure you already know, is that the odds of scooping a big lottery win are extremely low.

Written on September 14, 2008 | Posted in Lotto Articles | No Comment

1 big winner in Wash. Lottery’s Hit 5 game

One winning ticket was sold for the $310,000 cashpot in Saturday night’s drawing for the Washington State Lottery’s Hit 5 game.

Nobody won the $5.5 million Lotto jackpot, so Monday’s top prizes will be $5.6 million in Lotto and $100,000 in Hit 5.

In Lotto, 17 tickets were sold with five of the six winning numbers and are worth $1,000 each. Another 945 tickets had four winning numbers and are worth $30 apiece. Sales were $507,995 and the winning numbers were: 2-13-20-38-39-46.

Written on September 14, 2008 | Posted in Lotto News | No Comment

Iowa lottery game moves to Florida

Powerball TV show host Mike Pace’s number is just about up.

Pace, who has been the national TV face of the multistate lottery game that started as Lotto America in 1987 and morphed to Powerball in 1992, will call out his last winning numbers at a West Des Moines studio in January.

Written on September 14, 2008 | Posted in Lotto News | No Comment

Local woman wins lotto jackpot

Peggy Abernathy said she doesn’t normally like playing the last scratch-off lottery ticket on a roll, but the last ticket she scratched off netted her $5 million last week.

Abernathy, a Turner’s Corner resident, won a $5 million scratch-off lottery game Sept. 3. She bought the winning ticket at Chattahoochee Grocery, a gas station and convenience store on Highway 115 East in White County.

Written on September 11, 2008 | Posted in Lotto News | No Comment
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