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84-Year-Old Winner of $590 Million Powerball Lottery Finally Claims Prize

Chris Chaberski — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 21:32:57 +0000

The winner of the largest Powerball prize ever, $590 million, is Gloria C. Mackenzie, 84, of Zephyrhills, Florida. Lottery officials made the announcement in a news conference Wednesday afternoon. Mackenzie opted not to attend the news conference, but issued a statement that revealed that on May 18 another customer at the Publix Supermarket in Zephyrhills, [...]

Office Workers Who Won $1 Million in Lottery to Generously Share Winnings With Colleague Who Didn't Buy Ticket

Drew Weisholtz — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:02:42 +0000

There are about a million reasons why Jennifer Maldonado has the best coworkers in the world. Maldonado’s colleagues at Keller Williams Partner Realty in Plantation, Florida are sharing their $1 million Powerball prize with her, even though she didn’t go in on any tickets. And you think the guy in your office who springs for [...]

Brothers Blow-Up House After Winning Lottery

Joe Student — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:55:30 +0000

Everyone who plays the lottery has their own fantasy of what they’d do first if they won. Two brothers from Wichita, Kan. celebrated their big lottery win by buying meth and weed, which resulted in them accidentally blowing-up their house and getting arrested. Authorities said the two brothers were celebrating a $75,000 winning lottery ticket [...]

California Woman Learns She Won $23 Million Lottery Just in Time

Jeremy Taylor — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 21:30:21 +0000

A little more than five months ago, a Los Angeles woman bought a lottery ticket at Michael’s Market & Liquor. She then left it in her car and forgot about it, obviously not that enthused with her 18 million-to-one odds of hitting the jackpot.

Unbeknownst to her, she hit that jackpot to the turn of $23 million.

Dude Wins $30 Million Dollars Right After Girlfriend Dumps Him

Jeremy Taylor — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:45:45 +0000

Let’s face it, if you are a 22-year-old fellow who’s just scored a multimillion dollar lottery win, you probably going to be reevaluating your relationship with your current girlfriend. Massachusetts man Sandeep Singh didn’t have to enter into this cruel calculus after his numbers came up to the tune of $30.5 million. That’s because his girlfriend dumped [...]

Would You Quit Your Job If You Won the Lottery? — Survey of the Day

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:21:48 +0000

According to a new survey from CouponCabin.com of 2,570 adults, 50 percent play the lottery. And of that percentage, 65 percent would continue to live frugally it they happened to win big. But would a frugal life include keeping their job and continuing to draw their salary? Maybe not so much. The survey found that only 36 percent would remain at their current [...]

Entire Town Wins Lottery — Except for One Person

Shauna Wright — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:09:01 +0000

We’ve all seen those stories about groups of people who routinely buy lottery tickets together, only to have one member of the pack fail to do so the week they strike it rich.

Now something similar has happened again — in Spain.

Did Woman Who Won Four Lotteries Cheat Her Way to a Fortune?

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:45:09 +0000

Since 1993, Joan R. Ginther has hit the lotto jackpot four times, to the tune of $2 million, $3 million, $5.4 million and $10 million. The chances of this happening are one in 18 septillion. For a point of reference, there are about one septillion grains of sand on earth. Now there are doubts whether [...]