lottery
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An Iowa man brought home a $1 million lottery prize—after the clerk made a mistake printing his tickets. Josh Buster, a 40-year-old chef from West Burlington, ...
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Spouses hoping to do their partner a favor might have a hard time competing with Robyn Meija’s husband. The Maryland teacher won $50,000 after her husband ...
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A California woman became an instant millionaire thanks to “some rude person.” LaQuedra Edwards put $40 into a California Lottery vending machine at Vons Supermarket in ...
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A North Carolina college student won a nice 19th birthday gift after buying her first lottery ticket: $100,000. Laniah Ashley, a freshman at the University of ...
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Winner winner, chicken dinner! It’s an age-old cheer, but certainly one that applies to a lucky Maryland family, whose recent trip to a grocery store turned ...
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Why do you think they’re called fortune cookies? After his weekly meal at a Chinese restaurant, a North Carolina man used the numbers in his fortune ...
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MADISON, Wis.—Powerball tickets sold in Wisconsin and California were winners of the latest jackpot and will split $632 million, officials said. The Wisconsin Lottery didn’t immediately ...
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There was no winner in the first Powerball drawing of 2022 … which is why I’m still here at my job, writing this story. But hey! ...
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A North Carolina man wasn’t sure if he had bought a ticket in the state’s Lucky for Life lottery drawing, so he filled out the online ...
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DES MOINES, Iowa—A man serving a 25-year prison sentence for conspiracy to commit theft by rigging computers to win jackpots for himself, friends and family is ...
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DES MOINES, Iowa—After 40 drawings without a big Powerball winner, maybe Monday night’s 41st attempt will be different. Thanks to nearly four months of futility, the ...
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DES MOINES, Iowa—The biggest lottery prize in months grew larger after no ticket matched all five numbers and the Powerball drawn on Saturday night. The estimated ...
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CULIACAN, Mexico—The house former drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán fled in 2014 when Mexican marines had him surrounded underwent some changes recently as the Mexican ...
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A few states held vaccine lotteries to ramp up vaccinations. The last checks have been passed out in Michigan, but those millions of dollars weren’t as ...
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BERLIN—Lottery officials say a woman in Germany carried a winning ticket in her purse for weeks without realizing it was worth about 33 million euros ($39 ...
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Stephen C. Toto of Framingham, Massachusetts, made a last-minute decision to buy a lottery ticket, and for the second time in his life, collected a $1 ...
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A North Carolina woman is $1.4 million richer after buying a lottery ticket for a drawing she was not trying to enter.
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SOUTHWICK, Mass.—A Massachusetts woman who accidentally tossed out a $1 million lottery ticket eventually collected her winnings thanks to the kindness and honesty of the owners ...
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The COVID-19 vaccination rate in Ohio has surged after Gov. Mike DeWine announced that five residents will win $1 million each as a monetary incentive for ...
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Governors are looking to ramp up vaccinations, so much so that they’re willing to put you in line for millions of dollars—if you’re lucky. New York ...
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NORWALK, Calif.—The winner of a $26 million California Lottery prize may have literally washed the chance of a fortune down the drain. The winning SuperLotto Plus ...
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Ohio state will give five residents $1 million each as a monetary incentive for getting vaccinated against COVID-19, Republican Gov. Mike DeWine announced on Wednesday as ...
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A year after losing everything in a flood, a Michigan man won $2 million from a scratch off lottery ticket, according to lottery officials.
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A North Carolina man who won $5,000 with a scratch-off lottery ticket said he was “extremely happy and surprised” to learn he’d won another $100,000 just ...
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An unlucky start to a North Carolina man’s day turned upside down when he discovered he won a $2 million lottery prize hours after hitting two ...
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DES MOINES, Iowa—Lottery players have another chance to win big next week since there were no winners of the top prize for both the Powerball and ...
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Persistence pays. After playing the same set of numbers for 26 years, one North Carolina couple finally hit the jackpot. Terry Coggeshall of Durham and his ...
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The chances of winning the lottery are slim to none, but one man’s luck has defied the odds. Michael Christiansen of Norfolk, Nebraska, hit the jackpot ...
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A 24-year-old man from Michigan has hit a $1 million lottery ticket that he bought at a gas station just days after he received the reward ...
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CANTON, Ga.—A suspect in Georgia left his good luck behind when he abandoned a winning lottery ticket while fleeing sheriff’s deputies. The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office ...