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Saturday, May. 28, 2005

Postal Workers Share $66 Million Lotto Jackpot

Shirley Stephens of North Richland Hills and four postal service co-workers had been spending about 50 bucks every two weeks on lotto numbers when they struck it big and won a $66 million jackpot. »

Friday, May. 27, 2005

Lotto winners say it won’t change their lives much

Johnnie and Bill Hagood won last weekend’s $5.6 million Lotto South drawing and promptly decided to become organ donors. »

Sunday, May. 22, 2005

Special ed teacher wins $75,000 in second lottery victory

A special education teacher who enjoys hanging out at coffee shops won $75,000 and emerged as the top winner Saturday on the California Lottery’s “The Big Spin” show. »

Woman wins $1 million on lottery show

A Mooresville woman won $1.02 million on Saturday’s “Hoosier Millionaire Hysteria” show. »

Friday, May. 20, 2005

Winning Lottery Ticket Returned To Rightful Owner

A winning lottery ticket was back in the hands of its rightful owner Friday, but the store that sold the ticket is out of luck. »

Tuesday, May. 17, 2005

Lottery winner ’saw it in tarot’

A woman who won more than £5m on the lottery says she saw her win predicted in a tarot reading. »

Friday, May. 13, 2005

Fortune cookies produce real fortunes

New York Powerball lottery officials suspected fraud when 110 people got five out of six numbers right in the March 30th drawing.
The fluky drawing cost the multi-state lottery 19 (m) million dollars in unexpected payouts. Winners got 100-thousand to 500-thousand dollars. »

I’m splashing out says £3m winner

Steve Appleby from Louth is certainly enjoying his first week as a Lottery millionaire. »

Thursday, May. 12, 2005

$56 Million Lottery Winner Too Busy To Claim Prize

California Lottery officials announced the winning ticket for last Saturday’s $56 million SuperLOTTO Plus jackpot was sold at Broadway Food Corner in Los Angeles. »

Wednesday, May. 11, 2005

Family wins big lottery

When the Wisconsin Lottery people called Lake of the Woods Campground to tell the owners someone had purchased the winning $4 million Megabucks ticket at their place they knew it wouldn’t be too hard to figure out who won. »

Saturday, Mar. 12, 2005

Tigers’ Sanchez reunited with mother, brother

The past eight months have been memorable ones for Detroit Tigers center fielder Alex Sanchez who, in order, became the father of twins, batted a career-high .322 in his first full season in the American League, became a U.S. citizens, signed his first $1 million contract and bought the biggest house he has ever seen. »

Sunday, Jan. 9, 2005

Man’s best friend could cure him of epilepsy

Epileptics may soon benefit from new treatments after the latest discovery of scientists about why the condition is common in some dog breeds. »

Thursday, Sep. 23, 2004

Woman scores another lottery win

The fairy godmother of Kilmarnock has struck again. »

Thursday, Aug. 21, 2003

prize puts brakes on car hunt

Margaret Cresswell-Jones needed a new car. Well OK, a second-hand one. She found one and put down a deposit. At the same time she bought a book of raffle tickets in the Mitsubishi Space Star in the Research into Ageing Grand Raffle.
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