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Lucky Cashier Sells Herself Winning $1 Million Powerball Ticket — One Week After Another Win!

Drew Weisholtz — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:41:33 +0000

Some jobs pay better than others.

Woman Wins $1 Million Lottery Twice — On the Same Day [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:00:01 +0000

The odds of picking winning lottery numbers are remarkably slim — let alone doing it twice with the exact same numbers. Yet that’s what happened to a Virginia woman who won a $1 million Powerball lottery twice on the same day.

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12 Unforeseen Downsides to Winning the Lottery

Danny Gallagher — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:47:12 +0000

Getting to take home a giant check worth millions in lottery winnings might sound like a dream come true, but it can also be a nightmare. Now someone out there has won at least a share of $656 million and we don’t know who will get the dough. Perhaps there’s a good reason for that.

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Iowa Lottery Winner Finally Claims $16.5 Million

Shauna Wright — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:08:31 +0000

On Monday, the deadline passed for an unknown $77 million lottery winner in Georgia to claim the prize. Unbelievable as that may have been, officials in Iowa had a similar situation — days before the deadline, a Hot Lotto ticket worth $16.5 million was still unaccounted for.

But no more. In a squeaker of epic proportions, an attorney for the unnamed winner stepped forward with the valuable little slip of paper on Thursday, just two hours before it would’ve been worthless.

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