Tag Archives: lottery

  • News Amanda Clayton won $1 million in a Michigan lottery last year but continued to collect food stamps. She was found dead on Sept. 29, 2012. (WXYZ)

    Lotto winner charged with welfare fraud found dead

    Friends found the troubled lottery winner lying on the bed holding her one and a half year old daughter.

  • News Record Mega Millions Jackpot

    Why you keep playing the lottery

    Part of the allure is that everyone else is buying tickets, experts say

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    Powerball jackpot grows

    The Virginia Lottery estimated Powerball players will buy more than one million tickets tomorrow in Virginia.

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    Old scam resurfacing in Richmond

    Has anyone called you to say you’ve won the lottery?

  • News Cancer patient wins $500K

    Georgia cancer patient wins $500K

    Georgia Lottery officials presented a 67-year-old Georgia man with an oversized check Tuesday at the store where he purchased a winning jackpot ticket.

  • News Maryland's Mega Millions Winners Come Forward

    MEGA MILLIONS: Public school workers hold winning Mega Millions ticket

    Three public school employees plan to keep working

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    Maryland woman who claims she won Mega Millions hires a new attorney

    Mirlande Wilson claimed she has the winning ticket to last week’s $650 million Mega Millions jackpot.

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    MEGA MILLIONS: Son gives $250,000 ticket to his dad

    A New Jersey man in town on business bought a Mega Millions ticket worth $250,000

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    Mega Millions turning to mega mess at Maryland McDonald’s

    Workers at McDonald’s who pooled cash for tickets are angry at a coworker who claims that she won with a ticket that she bought for herself

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    5 Mega Millions tickets sold in Va. win $250K each

    No one who purchased tickets in Virginia won Friday night’s record-breaking $640 million Mega Millions jackpot.

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    Lottery officials: Winning tickets sold in Maryland, Illinois, Kansas

    The ticket in Maryland was purchased at a retailer in Baltimore County.

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    MEGA MILLIONS: $640 million record jackpot has folks excited

    The lottery said “an unprecedented sales nationwide” caused $100 million jump.