Bankrupt Man Wins Lottery
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Are you prepared to win the lottery? Jackpots can end badly.
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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 New York court frees the chairman of UK-based gambling website Sportingbet on $50,000 bail.
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Lottery machines cranked out tickets at a dizzying rate Tuesday as the multistate Mega Millions game drew bettors with a jackpot estimated at a record $355 million.
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A man who won a nearly &#36;315 million Powerball lottery &#151; the largest single jackpot in history &#151; was ordered into substance abuse treatment Tuesday after his second drunken driving arrest this year.
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DANNY WILLIAMS thought he was going to hit the jackpot against Vitali Klitschko in Las Vegas. But by the end, he looked like a roulette table had just been smashed off his face.
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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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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Swedish teenager who shoplifted a winning lottery ticket that could be worth as much as $1 million has discovered the truth in that old adage 'crime doesn't pay'.    The 15-year-old boy stole the scrape-off lottery ticket from a grocery store outside the northeastern Swedish town of Oernskoeldsvik last week, local media reported Tuesday...
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Check the winning numbers from Wednesday's draw for the National Lottery.
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TORONTO (CP) - Tze-Lam Chan will be doing Tuesday morning what every worker dreams of: calling his boss to tell him he's quitting after winning the &#36;26.8-million jackpot in the Super 7 lottery.
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A Georgia truck driver stepped forward Wednesday to claim half of a $390 million jackpot, the richest lottery prize in U.S. history. "I'm going to do a lot of fishing," Ed Nabors, 52, of Rocky Face, Ga., about 90 miles north of Atlanta, said in a deep Southern drawl. The other winning ticket in Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing was sold at a liquor store in New Jersey, and the holder did not immediately come forward.
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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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Spain's Antonio Zafra Fernandez from Madrid, 36, right, is congratulated by "Mr. Monopoly" Merwin Goldsmith after he won the World Monopoly Championship in Tokyo, Saturday, Oct.
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A man who served prison time for fraud admitted Wednesday that he returned to his old ways after his release, bilking more than 900 investors Â including Hurricane Katrina victims Â out of $8 million.
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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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MAPLEWOOD, Minn. - An airline pilot from Maplewood won a $25,000 lottery jackpot - two days in a row. Raymond Snouffer Jr. matched the winning numbers 11-14-23-26-31 to win Saturday's Northstar Cash drawing with odds of about 170,000 to 1, Minnesota Lottery officials said.
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SOLON, Iowa - An eastern Iowa man has beat extraordinary odds by winning $100,000 from the Iowa Lottery's Cash Game a second time. K. Morris Richardson picked up his second jackpot on Tuesday. "I just kind of smiled all the way to the bank," he said.