Good news: late relative was lottery winner. Bad news: cash going to charity
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For relatives of the late Gail German, it could best be described as a bitter-sweet moment.
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A group of Canadian co-workers will finally receive C$5.75 million ($5.75 million) in prize money, three years after their winning lottery ticket was allegedly stolen and cashed in by a retailer.
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The old saying that crime doesn't pay seems especially true for a teenager who allegedly stole a lottery ticket but was forced to hand it over after discovering it contained the jackpot win.
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People who send money abroad to friends and relatives are being offered more reassurance.
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The Conservative Party today published plans to reform the national lottery which they claimed could release up to Â£182m a year for spending on good causes
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Five years ago, Don J. Wims received a call telling him he had won $425,000 in a Spanish lottery. All he had to do, the voice on the other end of the line said, was pay $1,800 in taxes and handling fees and the money would be his.
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A man who went to prison three years ago for claiming that he was robbed of Romania's biggest ever lottery prize has won a new lottery jackpot - this time for real.
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The family of David Dingman-Grover, a 9-year-old boy diagnosed with cancer, and GoldenCasion.com agreed to make a donation to a Va. charity after an eBay auction helped pay their son's medical bills.
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State Treasurer Timothy Cahill said yesterday that the lottery's $20 sweepstakes game is unlikely to break even, one of the rare instances when a game failed to pay for itself.
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More chance of winning the Lottery than collecting
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MONCTON, N.B. (CP) - A woman from Newfoundland purchased a lottery ticket worth &#36;17.7 million Saturday, after scolding her husband for buying the wrong ticket.
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Another lot of lottery money for school sport goes out - but most of the Â£750m total has not been spent.
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Arild Tofte and Kaare Heggdal know that recycling pays, but they weren't quite prepared for the jackpot that a scrapped cash machine contained.
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A Portuguese textile worker who shared Europe's biggest-ever lottery jackpot of 43 million euros (57.6 million dollar) with a friend last month said his life has become hellish since his big win.
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Hotel heiress Paris Hiltonâs potential inheritance dramatically diminished after her grandfather Barron Hilton announced plans on Wednesday to donate 97 percent of his $2.3 billion fortune to charity.  That wealth includes $1.2 billion Barron Hilton ...
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Why are some charities worried, after getting more money?
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Spain's "El Gordo," the world's biggest lottery, gave out 2.2 billion euros ($3.2 billion) in Christmas prizes on Saturday.