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January 9, 2016
Lamarr McDow, whose girlfriend Marie Holmes has spent $21 million of her $188 million Powerball lottery earnings to bail him…
April 1, 2015
theGrio REPORT - A Texas man who had just won $500 from a scratch-off lottery ticket did not want to…
March 14, 2015
theGrio REPORT - A California man could have won $1.1 million from the Powerball lottery, but he lost his ticket.
January 3, 2015
Los Angeles, CA — Ligia Dennis got the type of surprise most of us can only dream about; she won the
April 1, 2014
PORTSMOUTH, Virginia (AP) — A Virginia couple has hit it big in the lottery three times this month...
November 27, 2012
CHICAGO (AP) - Eight months after a trio of ticket buyers split a $656 million Mega Millions jackpot to set…
November 13, 2012
NBC Chicago - A Chicago man helping with the Superstorm Sandy cleanup struck it big last week...
November 7, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Whoever said lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place has obviously never met 91-year-old Lena Eaton...
October 22, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A homeless Greenville, South Carolina man plans to buy a new home after winning a $200,000 state…
September 17, 2012
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - It may not have been immediate but California lottery winner Ronald Willis knows his life will never…
July 23, 2012
A South Carolina woman scratched off a lottery ticket which revealed she had won $500, and after telling several co-workers,…
May 31, 2012
If you live in the Atlanta area and you're thinking about playing the lottery, make sure to choose your Powerball…
April 6, 2012
BALTIMORE (AP) - A woman who has claimed to have Maryland's winning Mega Millions ticket appeared with an attorney Wednesday…
April 3, 2012
BALTIMORE (AP) - In Maryland, the New York Post reported Monday that a McDonald's employee claimed to hold the winning…
March 6, 2012
VIDEO - An 81-year-old woman from Newport won last month's $336.4 million Powerball jackpot, sleeping with the winning ticket in…
February 3, 2012
NEW YORK - Sharisee Frails, 42, was one of six newly minted Lottery millionaires Thursday. She hit the $13.5 million…
January 31, 2012
theGRIO's 100 - In 2006, Tyrone Curry won $3.4 million and continued working, even donating $40,000 to the school where…
December 2, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Imagine winning a $1 million lottery prize not once, but twice in less than three years. Well,…
May 20, 2011
WASHINGTON - "For the whole of my life I've been poor, and what I'm trying to do is invest this…
May 17, 2011
SECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) - The Cavaliers got a huge jump on their post-LeBron rebuilding process, winning the lottery and the…