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Iowa Lottery officials say the attorney who claimed to have possession of the winning ticket in a $14.3 million jackpot has abandoned his claim.
Attorney Crawford Shaw abandoned the claim – which he confirmed was on behalf of a client in Belize – last Thursday, Iowa lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer told the Associated Press (AP).
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by Lana Galea February 1, 2012 (3 days ago)
Tags: Hot Lotto, Iowa Lottery, jackpot, lottery, lottery winner, lotto
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A lucky lottery ticket holder based in the UK has won nearly £41 million after Friday’s EuroMillions draw.
Operators of the UK National Lottery, Camelot, said the winner scooped the EuroMillions rollover jackpot of £40,627,241 in Friday night’s draw, but is yet to come forward to claim the prize.
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by Lana Galea January 23, 2012 (2 weeks ago)
Tags: Camelot, EuroMillions, jackpot, lottery winner, Lucky Star
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A Silicon Valley financial analyst revealed himself as the winner of a massive $208 million lottery jackpot prize on Friday at New York’s Long Island.
Daniel Bruckner, from San Jose in California, said he had to repeatedly check his winning ticket before realising he had won the jackpot.
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by Lana Galea January 14, 2012 (3 weeks ago)
Tags: Daniel Bruckner, jackpot, lottery, lottery winner, Mega Millions
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English lottery winner Charmaine Watson has invested £20,000 of her winnings into an anti-bullying musical which has opened in London.
A victim of sustained bullying during her school days, 31-year-old Watson decided to fight back by using the large chunk of her winnings to finance a rock musical with an anti-bullying message.
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by Lana Galea January 12, 2012 (4 weeks ago)
Tags: anti-bullying, bullying, Charmaine Watson, lottery winner, Stand Tall
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Iowa Lottery officials are trying to solve the intriguing mystery behind a year-old winning lottery ticket which was claimed less than two hours before deadline for a jackpot worth up to $14.3 million.
Two attorneys with Des Moines-based Davis Brown Law Firm turned up at Iowa Lottery headquarters at 2.10pm on Thursday, December 29 with the winning Hot Lotto ticket, just before the 4pm deadline.
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by Lana Galea January 10, 2012 (4 weeks ago)
Tags: Hot Lotto, Iowa Lottery, jackpot, lottery, lottery winner, lotto
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In an unusual attempt to find the winner of a lottery jackpot worth over £600,000, operators of the UK National Lottery have taken out a job advert in the newspaper.
The advert, taken out by Camelot, reads: “Lottery Jackpot Winner Wanted. No previous experience necessary. One-Off Salary: £612,749.
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by Lana Galea October 27, 2011
Tags: jackpot, lottery, lottery jackpot, lottery winner, national lottery, UK National Lottery
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A British lottery ticket-holder came forward on Saturday to claim a massive £101 million EuroMillions prize – the third-largest lottery jackpot in UK history.
The identity of the winner remains a mystery, and it is not yet known whether an individual, couple, or syndicate scooped the jackpot.
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by Lana Galea October 10, 2011
Tags: Chris Weir, Colin Weir, EuroMillions, jackpot, lottery, lottery winner
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It’s a case of good fortune you sure don’t see every day - a lottery winner who lost their winning prize ticket hours after winning a $50,000 jackpot has had their ticket returned.
John Holder from Columbia, Tennessee in the US was ecstatic to find he had won a $50,000 jackpot, until his winning scratchcard was stolen by a stranger riding in the back seat of his truck.
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by Lana Galea September 27, 2011
Tags: jackpot, lottery winner, scratchcard
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The Iowa Lottery is on the lookout for the winner of a massive $16.5 million Hot Lotto jackpot.
All that is known about the winner is that on December 29, 2010, a lottery player walked into a Quik Trip in Des Moines and purchased a winning ticket with the numbers: 3-12-16-26-33 and Hot Ball 11, according to ABC News.
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by Lana Galea September 25, 2011
Tags: $16.5 million jackpot, Hot Lotto, Iowa Lottery, lottery, lottery winner