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If May 22 was a night to rejoice in the Pacific Northwest, then June 28 represented a chance for another round of celebrations. Portland and Seattle, the consensus winners of the 2007 lottery, also appeared to be big-time winners when the dust settled from the NBA draft.
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A Yucaipa woman won 27 million dollars this week in the California lottery. Friends of the winner say it couldn&#39;t have happened to a more deserving person.
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They hoped to cash in. Now they're stuck holding loads of hardware after sagging demand guts aftermarket values. In Game|Life.
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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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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 UN scheme to get Bosnians to trade in their illegal weapons for lottery tickets finishes.
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OSLO, Norway - Arild Tofte and Kaare Heggdal know that recycling pays, but they weren't quite prepared for the jackpot that a scrapped cash machine contained.  It was still full of cash. Enough to buy a house and take a luxury vacation.
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Winners of Spain's Christmas lottery celebrated yesterday by drinking toasts and singing songs after thousands took a share of the $3.1 billion in prizes. via Winnipeg Sun
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A trio of gamblers who used laser technology to win over a million pounds from London's Ritz casino have been told they can keep their winnings, police say.
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A couple who won a $2.6 million lottery jackpot and spoke of helping young people fight drug addiction and alcohol abuse are facing a lawsuit alleging they held four months of parties with public sex, fights and signs of drug dealing.
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CALIMESA, Calif. -- A couple who provide funerals for dead abandoned babies and helped inspire a law to save unwanted newborns have won a $27 million jackpot in the California lottery.
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There was one winning ticket for the $314.3 million Powerball lottery prize, and it was sold in this city on the Indiana-Ohio state line, lottery officials said Sunday.
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OSLO, Norway - Arild Tofte and Kaare Heggdal know that recycling pays, but they weren't quite prepared for the jackpot that a scrapped cash machine contained. It was still full of cash. Enough to buy a house and take a luxury vacation.
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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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Hovnanian, and others, will reap what they've sown.
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BUCHAREST, Romania - 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 National Lottery Commission confirms it has received two bids for the next licence to run the lottery.