November 14, 2012 I was at a convenience store in the Youngsville/Broussard area a few months back, and there was a lady yelling at the clerk as she exited the store, shouting something to the effect of "that's the second winning ticket that you have stolen from me! I am going to call the law!".
August 10, 2012 As of today, no one has stepped forward to claim a $10,000 Louisiana Lottery Powerball prize won on March 14, 2012. The winning ticket was purchased at Raceway #996 on Johnston Street in Lafayette and is set to expire Sept. 10, 2012.
August 9, 2012 Ricky LeGrange of Arnaudville won a $1 million Powerball prize from the Aug. 1 drawing!
“My coworkers told me someone in Arnaudville won $1 million on Powerball from Wednesday’s drawing so I walked out to my truck to check my ticket
Money may not buy happiness, but it just might buy you a whole heap of trouble.
One Michigan lotto winner discovered that firsthand after she was arraigned on two felony counts of welfare fraud.
April 1, 2012 So, this is the rumor I'm starting: A businessman from Lafayette, Louisiana, was in the Northeast (presumably on a business trip) when he decided to go into a convenience store to purchase a Coors Light and a Mega-Millions ticket.
March 30, 2012 If I happen to hit the numbers this evening, here is a list of websites I will use to WISELY spend my easy-earned- mega-millions-almost-billion-I-can't-believe-I'm-rich-enough-to-hire-the-President-of-the-United-States money:
(I'm going to hide the identities of the websites, you know, for dramatic effect and all
A California woman who won $1 million in a lottery earlier this year is claiming she also won $260,000 last week — but the ticket was stolen.
The jackpot for the multi-state Mega Millions lottery now stands at $363 million, causing even those who don’t normally play to throw their hopeful hats into the ring for Tuesday night’s drawing.
Are there things you can do to boost your chances of winning?
Ryan Kitching’s mom had been nagging him to clean his room, as moms tend to do. When the 19-year-old from Midlothian, Scotland finally relented and attacked the mess, he found 12 old lottery tickets.
Figuring they must all be losers, he thought about throwing the tickets out with the rest of the junk. But then he had a “strange feeling” that he should check the numbers, and when he did, he was nearly $85,000 richer.
We’ve all seen those stories about groups of people who routinely buy lottery tickets together, only to have one member of the pack fail to do so the week they strike it rich.
Now something similar has happened again — in Spain.
Since 1993, Joan R. Ginther has hit the lotto jackpot four times, to the tune of $2 million, $3 million, $5.4 million and $10 million.
The chances of this happening are one in 18 septillion. For a point of reference, there are about one septillion grains of sand on earth.
June 15, 2011 About a month ago, we told you about a lottery millionaire collecting food stamps. Her's the 'Other Side Of The Coin'. An Ohio man on Kidney dialysis wants to use his fortune to help others. Phillip Lithem won five million dollars in the Ohio lottery.
'I'm going to help people because I love it. It makes me feel good, and I think that's what God put us here for.' - Phillip Withem
Withem say he plans to donate part of his winnings to friends who've help him in his time of need, and to children's charities.
