&#36;149M Lottery Winner Had 78 Cents in Bank
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With just 78 cents in his savings account and &#36;44,000 owed to creditors, parking attendant Juan Rodriguez plunked down &#36;1 on a lottery ticket. Good thing he wasn't pinching pennies: He won a &#36;149 million lottery jackpot.
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The winner of a $315 million lottery jackpot has been ordered to honor a settlement he reached with a racetrack worker who accused him of assaulting her.
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French police are holding a man for questioning on suspicion of cheating a lottery winner out of a 35.5 million euro (23.9 million pounds) win last month, a police source said on Tuesday.
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A British man celebrated his 100th birthday more than 7,000 pounds (10,400 euros, 14,000 dollars) the richer after placing a bet 10 years ago -- on his own long life expectancy.
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Canadian police charge a retailer with fraudulently claiming a C$5.7m lottery prize, which customers had won.
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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.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 9 -- A woman who won $1 million from a state lottery game four years ago has improbably hit the jackpot again.
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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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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 &#151; this time for real.
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Forget luxury cars, an apartment in New York or a big yacht. What the winner of a huge Canadian lottery jackpot really hankers for is a chess set.
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Check the winning numbers from Wednesday's draw for the National Lottery.
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For years, Nilder Santos and his family had been hoping to win the most prized lottery in Cuba. But each time it was held, the 25-year-old dancer and his parents were heartbroken when their names didn't appear on the list of the lucky ones allowed to leave the poverty of their communist nation to chase the American dream.
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By GERRY CALLAHAN  There is, of course, no telling how the Ping-Pong balls will bounce come lottery day, but something unusual happened to the Boston Celtics last year. They got lucky.
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A lucky Belgium resident has returned home from holiday to find themselves 100 million euros (130 million dollars) richer after discovering a winning lottery ticket.
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No ticket matched all four numbers and the MegaBall in Friday&#39;s Mega Money drawing of the Florida Lottery. The numbers drawn were 10-18-19-22; the Megaball was 6. Twelve tickets matched four of the numbers
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The odds of winning the 12-state Mega Millions jackpot, the largest ever, are about 1 in 176 million.
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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.