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10 Utahns to split $1M in lottery winnings

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 11:30pm

OGDEN -- Going on the theory that "if you don't play, you don't win," 10 friends at JBT AeroTech/Jetway have been pooling $400 a month, at $40 each, to buy Powerball lottery tickets in Idaho for the last 10 years.

After years of losing $4,800 a year, their investment is paying off. Last week, the Idaho Lottery announced Tuesday, the Utah friends hit it big, winning $1 million that they're splitting 10 ways.

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$2M lottery winner keeps collecting food stamps

Dawson Bell, Detroit Free Press

Last updated Thursday, May 19, 2011 - 1:57pm

LANSING, Mich. -- The luck of Leroy Fick, Michigan's 59-year-old "Food Stamp Millionaire" -- a lottery winner on government food assistance -- appeared to be running out this week as state officials worked to get him off the dole.

Representatives of the Michigan Department of Human Services and members of the Legislature said they were moving quickly to revise rules that made it possible for Fick to keep collecting food stamps after he won $2 million in the lottery's televised "Make Me Rich" game in July.

DHS officials confirmed that Fick had contacted them about his winnings and was notified that he could continue to receive aid because he had taken the winnings in a lump sum and still met the income threshold for food assistance.

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Mystery surrounds Idaho winner of $190 million

The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, January 22, 2011 - 4:07pm

RATHDRUM, Idaho -- Holly Lahti burst into the spotlight a week ago in a feel-good story about a single mother who won a $190 million Mega Millions jackpot.

Then came the mugshot: a thin young woman with disheveled brown hair, sporting a black eye and cuts and bruises on her face and neck.

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Jim and Carolyn McCullar, of Ephrata, Wash., who bought one of the two winning Mega Millions lottery jackpot tickets, talk to reporters, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011, in Olympia, Wash. The McCullars will split the $380 million prize with another person who has not yet come forward, who purchased a ticket in Idaho.

Jackpot winner was 'shaking' when he won

Curt Woodward, The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 6:44pm

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- No, Carolyn, it's not a heart attack. It's a fortune.

The man who bought one of two winning tickets in the $380 million Mega Millions lottery frightened his wife when he woke her Tuesday night to share the life-changing news.

"I was pale, shaking. She thought I was having a heart attack," retiree Jim McCullar recalled.

When his wife, Carolyn, asked if he was OK, he replied: "I'm perfect."

On Thursday, the couple and their adult children stepped forward to publicly claim one half of the second-largest lottery jackpot in history. Whoever is holding the other winning ticket, purchased in neighboring Idaho, remained a mystery.

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Lottery jackpot winner to claim winnings in Wash.

Curt Woodward, The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 11:59am

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- The Washington winner of the Mega Millions lottery jackpot planned to discuss his windfall Thursday, while officials in Idaho waited for another lucky ticket-holder to come forward and claim half of the $380 million prize.

Washington Lottery spokesman Scott Kinney said the Washington ticket, purchased at a supermarket in Ephrata, was sold to a retired man who planned to bring his family to claim the winnings Thursday.

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(JEROME A. POLLOS/Coeur d'Alene Press) Teresa Thompson checks a customer's lottery ticket Wednesday at the Handy Mart in Post Falls, Idaho. One of two winning lottery tickets for Tuesday's $380-million drawing was purchased in Post Falls, Idaho.

Winning Mega Millions lottery tickets in Idaho, Wash.

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 5, 2011 - 11:57pm

EPHRATA, Wash. -- The suspense over who bought the two winning tickets in the $380 million Mega Millions lottery focused Wednesday on two small towns nestled just 125 miles apart in the snow-covered Pacific Northwest.

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Idaho Mega Millions ticket sold in Post Falls

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 5, 2011 - 11:57am

BOISE, Idaho -- After a nationwide frenzy for a life-changing chance to win a $380 million Mega Millions jackpot, the two winning tickets were sold in small Pacific Northwest towns just 125 miles apart.

Idaho Lottery officials said Wednesday that one winner is from the northern Idaho town of Post Falls. That's just across the border from Washington, where the other winning ticket was sold at a Safeway supermarket in the town of Ephrata.

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1 in Idaho, 1 in Wash. state win $355M jackpot

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 5, 2011 - 10:05am

PHOENIX -- At least two people are waking up to find themselves millions of dollars richer.

The holders of a ticket sold in Idaho and another in Washington state will be sharing Mega Millions' $355 million jackpot from Tuesday night's drawing, lottery officials said Wednesday.

The prize is the fourth-largest in U.S. history and the second-largest in Mega Millions' history, said Arizona Lottery spokeswoman Cindy Esquer.

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