Four mates share in $60m win
FOUR Melbourne workmates have shared a powerball jackpot of almost $60 million after a spur-of-the moment decision over coffee to buy a ticket. »
Monday, Jun. 9, 2008
Wednesday, Jun. 4, 2008
Kellogg’s worker won’t change much after winning $1M lottery jackpot
Nancy Edwards headed to work $1 million richer this afternoon. »
Tuesday, Jun. 3, 2008
$27M later, lottery winner says he’s keeping his job
Doug and Liz Kinsman had to check their winning $27- million ticket five times before they believed it. »
Friday, May. 30, 2008
$13M winner to buy pal a new car
With $13.6 million in the bank, Lotto 6/49 winner Fred Stonos is going to buy the Welland convenience store cashier who sold him his winning ticket a new car. »
Friday, May. 9, 2008
Man who lost homes in Katrina claims $97M Powerball prize
A construction company owner who lost two homes in Hurricane Katrina claimed a $97 million Powerball prize, a jackpot won off a ticket he bought at a convenience store where he stopped to buy his wife a gallon of milk. »
Monday, Nov. 5, 2007
Single Mom Wins $2,000 For Life: Home & Education
A 56-year-old single mom from Long Island hit the jackpot at a time when she was about to lose her home, New York lottery officials said Friday. »
Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2007
Lottery win for cancer survivor
A great grandmother who has beaten cancer twice is sharing a Lottery win of almost £1m ($2m). »
Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007
Grandad has lucky change of lotto numbers
Australia — A SYDNEY grandfather who won almost a million dollars in a New South Wales lottery says he owes his good fortune to four-leaf clover and a change of numbers. »
Monday, Jul. 30, 2007
Woman reunited with missing $2400 after four years
A FORGOTTEN bank account gave one woman a surprise when she was reunited with £1,200 ($2400) she thought she had lost. »
Friday, Jul. 13, 2007
Lottery winner lives dream selling cars
All Fred Brown ever wanted to do was sell cars. »
Tuesday, Jun. 26, 2007
Lottery winner believes in sharing
“We are wondering how to spend the money but one thing’s for sure - we’re going to ensure that all our loved ones are taken care of.” »
Monday, Jun. 18, 2007
Lottery millionaire goes back to work
Just weeks after scooping £1.1 million on the National Lottery, Joanne Gilbert, 47, has returned to her old job working in a hospital laundry at Cwmbran’s Llanfrechfa Grange Hospital. »
Thursday, Jun. 7, 2007
Megabucks mystery solved
A Swanton man who read a news report about unclaimed Megabucks winnings discovered he had one of the $10,000 tickets in his wallet, Vermont Lottery officials said. »
Friday, May. 25, 2007
Found $10 turns into $1 million lottery win
Any way you look at it, Kristina K. Schneider — a gas-station cashier and single mother of a 9-year-old girl named Janae — was destined to become a millionaire. »
Thursday, Apr. 26, 2007
Grandad scoops mega Lotto win
Grandad Quentin Waite celebrated quite modestly after winning £263,783 on the National Lottery by buying a new pair of work boots - and a £19,000 Ford Focus car. »
Father Of 11 Wins $1 Million In Lottery
A man with 11 foster children won $1 million from the Georgia Lottery, money he said he’ll use for his family. »
Tuesday, Mar. 6, 2007
Extraordinary winnings, ordinary life
The first clue as to how things have changed for Harold and Helen Lerner — the Rutherford couple who won $258 million in the Mega Millions lottery in 2005 — is when you try to call their phone number. »
Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007
Jackpot mother quits shelf-stacking job
A supermarket shelf-stacker said today she has quit work and is planning a shopping spree in New York after hitting the National Lottery jackpot. »
Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007
Couple wins $15 million lottery jackpot after redeeming $10,000 ticket
For a Nevada couple, good things come in twos. And that includes winning big Powerball jackpots in Arizona — twice. »
Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007
2.5m Lotto winner told her own fortune
A STUDENT who won £2.5 million on the Lottery told yesterday how her dream had literally come true. »
Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007
World War II veteran, 84, claims $254M Powerball prize; among largest in history
A World War II veteran and his family stepped forward Monday to claim a Powerball jackpot worth more than a quarter-billion dollars, one of the largest single-ticket lottery prizes in U.S. history. »
Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007
A millionaire but won’t quit his job
Waukegan High School Counselor Ray Cave is just like any other person. »
Monday, Nov. 27, 2006
Man lucky with wife’s birthday
A man in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province recently won 6.38 million yuan (US$786,683) on the lottery using the numbers from his wife’s date of birth. »
Friday, Nov. 24, 2006
Lottery winnings bankroll dream for aspiring doctor
Douglas Fader has heard the stories about winners of big lottery jackpots who squandered their winnings. His former co-worker Sara M. Richmond, he says, isn’t one of them. »
Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2006
Winnipeg woman scratches out a $1 million living
BEV Wiebe was grinning from ear to ear when she was introduced as Manitoba’s latest millionaire. »
Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006
$200 Million Powerball Jackpot Couple Plans To Keep Working
A couple from Fort Dodge, Iowa stepped forward to claim the $200.8 million Powerball prize. »
Friday, Sep. 29, 2006
Checkout workers continue despite $14 million lottery win
For those lucky enough to scoop the Lotto jackpot it is usually a ticket to unbridled luxuries and a lifetime without work. »
Thursday, Sep. 28, 2006
Night pressman wins big money on lottery scratch-off
Tuesday was a million-dollar day for John Beard. »
Monday, Sep. 11, 2006
N.Y. woman wins $1 million lottery again
A woman who won $1 million from a state lottery game four years ago has improbably hit the jackpot again. »
Lottery win will help fund woman’s wedding
A Clinton County woman now has enough money to pay for a good portion of her upcoming wedding. »