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What Would You Do with $2 Million Dollars? Winning Powerball Ticket Sold in Canaan

Mac Dickson — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:10:48 +0000

Over the weekend a $2 million Powerball ticket was sold at the Canaan Superette. The winner matched five numbers and turned the $1 million prize into $2 by playing the Power Play option.The lucky numbers were 2,5,31,39,41 with a Powerball of 29. The Maine State Lottery talked with store owner Tom Ward. We don’t know [...]

Brothers Blow-Up House After Winning Lottery

Joe Student — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:55:30 +0000

Everyone who plays the lottery has their own fantasy of what they’d do first if they won. Two brothers from Wichita, Kan. celebrated their big lottery win by buying meth and weed, which resulted in them accidentally blowing-up their house and getting arrested. Authorities said the two brothers were celebrating a $75,000 winning lottery ticket [...]

Happy Holidays! Man Gives Away Lottery Tickets to the Unemployed

Drew Weisholtz — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:47:05 +0000

Goodwill towards man has become goodwill towards the unemployed man this holiday in Spain. Bartolome Florido, 60, is a driving instructor who coughed up $2,000 on 333 lottery tickets. No, he’s not hoping to hit the jackpot — he’s hoping someone else does because he donated the tickets to people without jobs. Florido approached people [...]

Photo of Winning Lotto Ticket That Went Viral Is A Fake

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:55:16 +0000

Nolan Daniels did not win hundreds of millions of dollars as part of last week’s record breaking Powerball $588 million jackpot. But he did trick millions of people on Facebook into thinking he had. On Thursday, Daniels posted a photo of himself holding a ticket with what looked to be the winning numbers on his Facebook page. [...]

The Other Winner of That Big Powerball Prize? The I.R.S. — Dollars and Sense

Chris Chaberski — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:27:52 +0000

On Wednesday, the Powerball lottery reached a record $587.5 million. So far two winning tickets have been announced, one in Arizona and one in Missouri. But there's at least one more guaranteed winner: the Internal Revenue Serv

Video of Man Who Maybe Won Powerball Jackpot Surfaces

Emerald Catron — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:44:44 +0000

We'll probably never be this excited, even if Ben & Jerry's comes out with that Jeff Goldblum-themed ice cream we've been dreaming of. This is video of a man who is just realizing he won the massive $587.5 million dollar Powerball Jackpot. Apparently he went around showing everybody because he actually couldn't believe his eyes. The ticket was bought in Arizona, but the video taken is from Maryland. Sounds like he made the best decision that's ever been made on a road trip ever.

You Didn't Win Powerball, but You Did Help Maine's Bank Account

Renee Nelson — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:24:42 +0000

I have a big fat loosing Powerball ticket sitting on my desk. Heck, it was fun to dream for a little while about the 'what ifs' of winning $579 million and what great things I could do! I would have been VERY generous with the money if I had won. But every Maine lottery ticket, winner or loser helps Maine’s General Fund. Winning tickets were bought in Arizona and Missouri.

What Would You Do With A Half Billion Dollars?

Greg Michaels — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:32:52 +0000

What would you do with $500 million dollars? I just went to fill up the Moose Caboose at the Irving on Western Avenue in Augusta. The sign reads "Wednesday night’s Powerball jackpot is $500,000,000" (annuitized). As a game show host would say, “a half billion dollars.”

Man Wins $250,000 on Live TV Ending Streak of Bad Luck

Emerald Catron — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:10:38 +0000

Maybe karma is real -- the man in this video, Bill Morgan, was in a car accident. Then he developed a heart condition. He was allergic to the medicine doctors gave him to treat it and had a heart attack. In fact, his heart stopped for 14 minutes, and he went into a coma. They were about to pull the plug on his life support when things turned around.

What Would You Do With 143 Million Dollars?

Greg Michaels — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:15:12 +0000

It’s the day after the election, now what? I wanted to write on something else, so here we go. Wednesday and Saturday is when they have the ‘Megabucks’ and ‘Powerball’ drawings. The other big two lotteries here in Maine are ‘Hot Lotto’ and ‘Mega Millions.’ Tonight’s ‘Powerball’ jackpot is at an estimated 143 Million dollars. [...]