The odds of picking winning lottery numbers are remarkably slim — let alone doing it twice with the exact same numbers. Yet that’s what happened to a Virginia woman who won a $1 million Powerball lottery twice on the same day.
March 29, 2012 The Texas Lottery Mega Millions multi-state jackpot was at $476 million yesterday morning but now has grown to be $500 million! A HALF A BILLION DOLLARS could be going into your bank account if you pick the right numbers for tomorrow nights lottery drawing! But before you go picking the numbers you'll want to know what your odds are first!
There was no winner last night in the Mega Millions Lottery, so this means the jackpot for Friday will go up to an estimated $476 million! If you win, here are a few recommendations on how you can spend the money to make Tyler a better place for us to live.
March 27, 2012 As I walked into work this morning a co-worker was in the break room planning out their numbers for tomorrows near record breaking Mega Millions lotto drawing. It could become the biggest jackpot ever in the history of the Mega Millions multi-state jackpot, currently the jackpot is sitting at $363 million and a lucky East Texan could be walking away with life changing loot tonight!
One would think that winning $1 million in a state lottery would automatically disqualify the recipient from getting food stamps. But one would be wrong.
CRANSTON, R.I. — The winner of last month’s $336.4 million Powerball jackpot has been announced.
Rhode Island lottery officials said that 81 year old Louise White of Newport had won the sixth largest jackpot in U.S. history. She says she is “ver
Ryan Kitching’s mom had been nagging him to clean his room, as moms tend to do. When the 19-year-old from Midlothian, Scotland finally relented and attacked the mess, he found 12 old lottery tickets.
Figuring they must all be losers, he thought about throwing the tickets out with the rest of the junk. But then he had a “strange feeling” that he should check the numbers, and when he did, he was nearly $85,000 richer.
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.
On Monday, the deadline passed for an unknown $77 million lottery winner in Georgia to claim the prize. Unbelievable as that may have been, officials in Iowa had a similar situation — days before the deadline, a Hot Lotto ticket worth $16.5 million was still unaccounted for.
But no more. In a squeaker of epic proportions, an attorney for the unnamed winner stepped forward with the valuable little slip of paper on Thursday, just two hours before it would’ve been worthless.
March 25, 2011 Doing your taxes is a pain, and many people put off their preparation until right before the mid-April filing date. Chicago man Irving Przyborski is certainly grateful he got a bit of a jump on his 2010 taxes .
That's because when Przyborski went into his tax files last week, he found a lottery ticket he had bought almost a year before among the paperwork. When Przyborski checked the numbers, he realized he was a winner to the tune of $9 million dollars!
