Lottery Moments

For a Sherwood, Maryland man, being an early riser finally paid off.
On an early morning ride to his part-time job at Sears, Edward Baltadonis stopped in Easton to purchase several scratch-offs including a “$10 Big Money Doubler.” He scratched his ticket slowly in the Sears parking lot, first matching his winning numbers and then revealing [...]

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How would you like $62 million in your Christmas stocking this year?
Well, that’s the jackpot being offered this coming Wednesday, Christmas Eve.
No one won the big prize on Saturday, the 20th.
Winning numbers were 3,14,19,32,54 and the Power ball was 24.
The Power Play multiplier was 5.
One lucky ticket in Iowa hit all five of the first [...]

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On January 4, 2009, the Powerball game will change. We are adding some white ball numbers to make the jackpots bigger and we are subtracting some of the red ball numbers to create more winners (over 3.5 million more winners per year at the same sales level). The new Powerball will be a 59/39 game.
The [...]

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There was no jackpot winner in the Friday, Dec. 19, Mega Millions game, so the big prize rolls to $22 million on Tuesday.
6 tickets matched the first five numbers. Each of those tickets is worth $250,000. The tickets were purchased in Maryland, New Jersey, New York (2 tickets) and Ohio (2 tickets).
Congratulations to all the [...]

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I am still awaiting results for the Mega MIllions draw. The winning numbers drawn on Friday night were 3,13,16,39,54 and the Mega Ball was 32. The jackpot was $16 million.
Watch this space for news about winners.
No one won Friday night’s Euro Millions draw, so next Friday’s jackpot rises to an estimated 26 million Euros. The [...]

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Tonight’s Euro Millions winning numbers are 28,29,40,46,50. The two lucky stars are 5 and 7.
No news yet on the number of winners. Watch this space for news in a few hours.
Tonight’s Powerball jackpot is worth a cool $57 million.
Watch this space for news on tonight’s Mega Millions ($16 million jackpot) drawing.

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And a most merry Christmas it will be for 15 Ohio residents who pooled their money together and found a miracle under the mistletoe.
15 new multimillionaires stepped forward on Wednesday to claim their $207 million jackpot.
Tears were the order of the day.
Associated Press reported from the scene.
“My mom, she won’t stop crying. My sister, she [...]

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Thanks to the Dayton, Ohio News for much of the information in this story.
They are reporting that the winner of the $207 Mega MIllions jackpot is, apparently, a pool of players from the city streets department in Piqua, Ohio, a small city near Dayton.
“When the time’s right, we’ll come forward,” a Piqua man  who is [...]

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There was no jackpot in last night’s draw, so Saturday night’s Powerball jackpot rolls over to $57 million. The winning numbers were 7,11,18,24,39 and the Power ball was 26.
13 tickets matched the first five numbers. Some of the 13 Power Played their bets, meaning they won $800,000 instead of $200,000, since the Power Play multiplier [...]

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We should all be so lucky as Missouri resident Shirley Kowaleski, to whom winning the Missouri Lottery has become second nature.
Kowalewski, a bio chemistry lab technician at the University of Missouri in Columbia, explained that her recent win was due to a profitable inconvenience.
According to Kowalewski, who discovered she was $10,000 richer after purchasing a [...]

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