Entries Tagged as 'Stories'

Friday, August 31st, 2007

More Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About The Lottery

So you know now that the lottery has been around forever. I bet there are some other things that you didn’t know about the lottery.
Lottery and Corruption
Ever wondered why the lottery has had such a bad rap? Well I don’t know all the specifics but based on what I have read, by the end of [...]

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Scottish Woman Wins the Euro Millions

An ordinary postal worker in Scotland has just suddenly surpassed the wealth of some of the most well known names around the world, including Princes William and Harry. Angela Kelly, a former postal worker in East Kilbride bought a Euro Millions lottery ticket for 1.50 a week before at Sainsburys. She found out she was [...]

Monday, August 6th, 2007

Million Dollar Lottery Prize Unclaimed

The Illinois Lottery recently held a summer promo called Million Dollar Summer Raffle wherein only limited tickets were sold. Each of the 500,000 tickets were sold for $20. It was on the evening of Tuesday last week that the drawing was held, making four new millionaires in an instant. Five people became $100,000 richer while [...]

Monday, July 16th, 2007

David Lee Edward’s Lottery Winner’s Story

We’ve all heard stories about how lottery winners become one day millionaires and in the end become worse off than they actually started. Yet many of those stories are nothing but urban legends. Here’s one man’s real story, David Lee Edwards, an ex-con who won in the 2001 Powerball.
According to a feature done on him [...]