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Florida Lottery Winner Is Luckier Than You Think

Tom Egelhoff — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:00:04 +0000

Where you live can have a major effect on how much of the grand prize you get to take home and what you can do with those winnings.

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Homeless Man Vows to Share Fortune After Winning $50,000 Lottery Jackpot

Drew Weisholtz — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:16:23 +0000

A homeless man in Bloomington, Illinois is ready to spread the wealth.

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Montana State of the State

Tom Egelhoff — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:00:33 +0000

When I first proposed repealing this job killing business equipment tax a democratic representative wanted to know how I proposed to replace it? Why does that income have to be replaced?

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Lottery Fever: Only in America

Tom Egelhoff — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:00:02 +0000

Amazing, as it may seem, 40% of Americans making between $25,000 and $35,000 believe their best chance of retirement is winning the lottery.

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MIT Students Create Ingenious Way to Strike It Rich in the Lottery — Dollars and Sense

Shauna Wright — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:41:57 +0000

The odds of striking it rich in the lottery are remarkably small, but apparently it really helps if you’re a math genius.

Several years ago, a group of students from the famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology cracked the lottery code that enabled them to win millions of dollars — and state officials did nothing to stop it.

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What Important Steps Should You Take After You Win the Lottery? — Dollars and Sense

Shauna Wright — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:52:24 +0000

Odds are you don’t possess one of the three winning tickets in the $656 million Mega Millions lottery, whose numbers were drawn on Friday.

But if you are, or if you have the good fortune to come into a fortune by hitting a jackpot in the future, there are some things you need to know.

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No Mega Millions Winner: Next Jackpot Approaching $ Half Billion $

Mark Allen — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:19:45 +0000

You can see by the picture of my losing ticket and the fact that I am here I did not win the Tuesday night drawing in the Mega Millions Jackpot. Friday's drawing is estimated at $476 million the biggest jackpot ever

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Teenager Finds Winning Lottery Ticket After Mom Makes Him Clean Room

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:45:17 +0000

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.

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Georgia Woman Cleans Purse, Finds Lottery Ticket Worth $190K

1450 KMMS AM — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:24:42 +0000

Having a sorted, organized bag post-cleaning is a major bonus in itself, but a woman in Georgia has given incentive to cluttered bag owners everywhere after she found a lottery ticket worth $190k stashed at the bottom of hers.

Rhonda Williams, a 55-year-old Fairburn resident, told reporters last week that she found the Fantasy 5 ticket at the very bottom of her purse after she decided to clean it out on a whim. Turns out, she'd picked the winning numbers from a January 17 drawing.

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Iowa Lottery Winner Finally Materializes to Claim $16.5 Million After Year-Long Delay

Shauna Wright — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 14:08:31 +0000

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.

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