The sunshine state has to offer another gleaming proposition in the form of a Florida lottery. Apart from making profits and the byproducts of millionaires, the board of lottery had a noble thought in their mind. Helping out the education system of Florida State with partial profit of the earnings from the lottery.
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.
A man claiming to be an illegal immigrant and a woman who said she needed money for a surgical procedure scammed an elderly man and woman out of $5,000, DeLand police said.
Frankie Dee of Spring Hill plays his lucky Lotto numbers religiously, twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
It’s a $10-a-week ritual the owner of the Frankie Dee New York Orchestra has practiced for years, and one that hasn’t stopped because of higher prices at the gas pump or grocery store checkout line.
The base jackpot in the Florida Lotto game has grown to $20 million after no one matched the six winning numbers in the latest drawing, lottery officials said Sunday.
He didn’t win the big prize, but that didn’t stop Gary Danley from buying a Florida Lotto ticket at the Circle K where one of the two winning tickets for a $30 million payday was sold.
The winning tickets were bought in Poinciana and at the Circle K at 4420 West New Haven Ave. in Melbourne, officials said.
David Parsons stuffed the Summer Cash Florida Lottery ticket into his wallet when he bought it two weeks ago and never gave it much thought after that. The drawing was Aug. 6.
On Sunday, he pulled the ticket out and glanced at the numbers. He glanced again.
The Florida Lotto jackpot has rolled over seven times – for a total of $30 million for Wednesday’s drawing.
For $2, players have the chance at $40 million; and for $3, players may win $55 million! The next Florida Lotto drawing is Wednesday, August 13, at 11 p.m.