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Lottery

A customer fills in his numbers on a Powerball ticket for a chance to win the $450,000 jackpot Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, in Houston for a chance to win the $450,000 jackpot. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

Millions chase record $500M Powerball jackpot

Jeff McMurray, Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) - Eight months after a trio of ticket buyers split a $656 million Mega Millions jackpot to set a world lottery record, Powerball is offering up a prize that would be the second highest...
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Chicago worker wins NJ lottery during Sandy cleanup

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NBC Chicago - A Chicago man helping with the Superstorm Sandy cleanup struck it big last week...
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Lena Eaton wins lottery twice, in three months.

91-year-old great-grandmother wins lottery for the 2nd time

Hassan Washington
theGRIO REPORT - Whoever said lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place has obviously never met 91-year-old Lena Eaton...
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Homeless man cashes in on $200,000 lottery prize

Ugonna Okpalaoka
theGRIO REPORT - A homeless Greenville, South Carolina man plans to buy a new home after winning a $200,000 state lottery last week, the New York Daily News reported...
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Ronald Willis smiles after winning $120 million in the California Lottery. (Video still via NBC Los Angeles)

$120 million lotto winner: 'Wow'

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RIVERSIDE, Calif. - It may not have been immediate but California lottery winner Ronald Willis knows his life will never be the same again...
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Man steals winning lottery ticket from friend

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A South Carolina woman scratched off a lottery ticket which revealed she had won $500, and after telling several co-workers, her ticket went missing...
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Atlanta Powerball jackpot jumps to $164 million

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If you live in the Atlanta area and you're thinking about playing the lottery, make sure to choose your Powerball number....
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Self-declared lottery winner: 'I lost the ticket'

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BALTIMORE (AP) - A woman who has claimed to have Maryland's winning Mega Millions ticket appeared with an attorney Wednesday asking to be left alone...
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WATCH: Md. woman claims she’s jackpot winner

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BALTIMORE (AP) - In Maryland, the New York Post reported Monday that a McDonald's employee claimed to hold the winning ticket and planned to contact lottery officials Monday...
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WATCH: 81-year-old wins $336 million lottery

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VIDEO - An 81-year-old woman from Newport won last month's $336.4 million Powerball jackpot, sleeping with the winning ticket in her Bible until coming forward to claim the sixth-largest U.S. prize on Tuesday...
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