Lightning protection company employee experiences a hit of his own
The odds of being hit by lightning are 576,000 to one, while the chance to win
the CT Lottery’s Classic Lotto jackpot are more than 12 times greater, at 7.1 million to 1. Yet, for Torrington resident Jim Seitz, who is employed in the lightning protection industry, winning the March 18 Connecticut Lotto jackpot worth $5,511,009 was a jolt he didn’t mind experiencing.
Connecticut’s Newest Millionaires, Jim and Jean Seitz, today claimed the Classic Lotto jackpot they won,
at Connecticut Lottery headquarters in New Britain. Their ticket was the only one sold statewide that had the jackpot winning combination for that night’s Lotto drawing.
It’s a matter of habit for Jim Seitz to stop by the Winsted Road Mobil Station in South Torrington each Tuesday and Friday before the game’s drawing, and then to check the numbers on his ticket in the next day’s news. Jim noticed the first number on his Quick Pick Connecticut Lotto ticket was a match. The second number matched as well. And, the third. Seeing a fourth number match, Jim was pleased, thinking he’d won a prize of around $40. It was then that he realized that all six numbers on his ticket matched those in the paper, and the jackpot win was his.
Jim and Jean relied on the Connecticut Lottery’s web site to check their
numbers again, against the results shown there. About a dozen times,
Jim joked when asked about verifying the numbers. Searching the site,
they located information about steps to take if you’re a winner, which
includes encouraging winners to seek professional legal and financial
planning advice.
That advice helped the Seitz’s to determine a one-time cash lump sum payment, rather than a 21-year annuity option, would most suit their long-term financial needs and goals. The jackpot’s lump sum value was $3,400,807. which brought the net amount of their prize to $2,380,568.
We are pleased that, like the vast majority of our jackpot winners, Jim and Jean have taken a thoughtful approach to planning for their future. We applaud their actions, and wish them all the best as they venture into this new phase of their lives, noted the President and CEO of the Connecticut Lottery.
WORKERS BUILD POOL TO WIN BIG 21 Co-Workers Form Pool for Mega Millions
OLYMPIA Are you in? Ted Maus enthusiastically asks as he makes his rounds
collecting $10 from his colleagues. Maus has organized a Mega Millions
lotto pool at work for years and says whenever the Jackpot gets above $100
million they buy tickets. So when the Jackpot reached $270 million
for the February 22 drawing, 21 employees of Gary Merlino Construction
in South Park pooled their money to purchase 221 Washington Mega Millions tickets.
According to Maus, participants buy into the pool at $10 each
and this time, that 10 bucks paid off as the coworkers won the
$250,000 second tier Washington Mega Millions prize. Once the shock subsided,
the pool of 21 winners decided to form the R.U.N. Trust,
named in honor of Maus’ lucky query.
I purchased the ticket from Safeway in Maple Valley and when I went back
to check it, the cashier was speechless. She couldn’t get the words out
so I knew we must have won big, Maus said. When we finally found out
how much we won my wife and I couldn’t contain our excitement! I called everyone in the pool immediately!
Once the money is divided equally, each pool member will walk away with approximately $8,000 and they all plan on spending it on something they’re passionate about.
I’m going to take my wife to Italy for her 50th birthday, Maus said.
Some other guys bought motorcycles and some bought parts for the bikes
they already have this is a dream come true for all of us.
The Virginia Lottery mystery has been solved. The question Where is that winning ticket? has finally been answered.
For four months, Sushil Thapa of Winchester was in possession of a top-prize ticket in the Virginia Lottery’s Win For Life game and he didn’t know it!
We knew that someone in Winchester had hit, he told Virginia Lottery officials. We searched frantically,
but didn’t find it, so we gave up. All the time, the winning ticket was tucked
in a book belonging to his wife. The lotto ticket matched the first six
numbers in the November 24, 2007, lottery drawing. Those winning numbers were
4-10-11-13-31-41. He will receive $1,000 per week for the rest of his life.
When I found the VA lotto ticket, I was speechless, he said. I jumped in the air. I have no words to describe my excitement.
He bought that winning lotto ticket at Gas Mart, located at 2118 North Frederick Pike in Winchester. The store received a $10,000 bonus
for selling a top-prize Win For Life ticket.
On March 28, he received the first of a lifetime of checks from
Virginia Lottery Deputy Executive Director Richard Williams. The presentation took place at the Virginia Lottery’s Shenandoah Valley Customer Service Center in Harrisonburg. Mr. Thapa becomes the 19th Virginia Lottery player to win the top prize in Win For Life since the game began in February, 2006.
Some tickets that matched 5 Mega Millions lotto balls without the bonus ball were sold in
Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey Mega Millions , Texas and Virginia Mega Millions .
The winning Missouri Lotto ticket from the March 12 drawing purchased at
Casey’s, 2520 Range Line St. in Columbia, was claimed on March 17. RNC and MRC 2008 Revocable Trust, Columbia, claimed the $850,000 prize. There were two winning tickets that matched all six numbers drawn on March 12 to split the $1.7 million Lotto jackpot. A Park Hills man claimed the other half of the prize. Each winner receives $850,000 before taxes if they choose the annuity and $425,000 before taxes if they choose the lump sum payment.
The winning Missouri lotto numbers on the ticket purchased by RNC and MRC 2008
Revocable Trust were selected by Quick Pick. The winning Missouri lotto numbers
were: 1, 8, 17, 23, 27 and 37.
In addition to the Trust’s prize, Casey’s in Columbia will receive a check
equal to 1 percent of the prize amount, which is $8,500, for selling the
winning ticket. The Trust’s prize is the 174th Lotto jackpot and the 249th
overall jackpot since the MO Lottery began in 1986.
03/17/08 When Edmund J. Babcock was recently called into work at the Hull sewage plant, he stopped off on his way at a nearby convenience store to buy a Billion Dollar Blockbuster ticket. The brief detour changed his life when he won $10 million in an instant.
Babcock, his wife Cheryl, received his first of 20 annuity checks for $500,000 before taxes today at Massachusetts Lottery headquarters in Braintree.
A lifelong Hull resident, Babcock’s first purchase will be the house he currently rents.
He bought the lucky ticket at the Tedeschi’s at 672 Nantasket Ave. in Hull. The store will receive a $50,000 commission on the sale.
Billion Dollar Blockbuster is the biggest game ever created by an American lottery. The game features 10 instant prizes of $10 million and 130 instant
prizes of $1 million. One lucky Massachusetts lotto player will win $1 million a year for life.
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1 B30 33 03/12/08
2 B19 32 03/12/08
3 B43 32 03/15/08
4 B54 32 01/30/08
5 B02 31 03/01/08
6 B08 31 03/19/08
7 B35 31 01/26/08
8 B42 31 03/15/08
9 B13 30 02/23/08
10 B16 30 03/05/08
11 B12 29 03/26/08
12 B23 29 03/05/08
13 B38 29 02/13/08
14 B40 29 01/05/08
15 B48 29 03/22/08
16 B24 28 02/27/08
17 B26 28 02/02/08
18 B55 28 03/01/08
19 B47 27 03/15/08
20 B15 26 03/05/08
21 B22 26 03/15/08
22 B49 26 03/26/08
23 B50 26 12/15/07
24 B10 25 03/05/08
25 B14 25 02/02/08
26 B37 25 03/26/08
27 B27 24 01/19/08
28 B34 24 03/12/08
29 B53 24 02/27/08
30 B03 23 02/16/08
31 B20 23 03/26/08
32 B28 23 03/22/08
33 B36 23 03/12/08
34 B41 23 03/19/08
35 B45 23 09/19/07
36 B07 22 03/22/08
37 B01 21 12/05/07
38 B04 21 02/16/08
39 B09 21 03/26/08
40 B21 21 03/01/08
41 B31 21 03/08/08
42 B32 21 02/13/08
43 B39 21 01/26/08
44 B11 20 01/26/08
45 B18 20 01/16/08
46 B05 19 02/06/08
47 B46 19 03/22/08
48 B51 19 02/13/08
49 B52 19 11/17/07
50 B06 18 03/19/08
51 B17 18 03/08/08
52 B29 18 03/19/08
53 B25 17 03/22/08
54 B44 17 02/02/08
55 B33 14 01/05/08
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3/27/2008 The Powerball lotto jackpot continues to build. Even though the
grand prize was not hit Wednesday evening, 425,884 players across
the nation won a total of more than $2.8 million in prizes.
Because no one correctly matched all six Powerball numbers the jackpot will grow
to an estimated $36 million for Saturday night’s drawing.
The numbers drawn Wednesday were 9, 12, 20, 37, 49 and the Powerball was 17.
The Power Play multiplier was 2.
One lucky Powerball ticket in Oklahoma correctly matched the 5 white numbers and won $200,000.
22 Powerball lotto tickets matched 4 white numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000.
Four additional winners of that prize category also had the Power Play option that multiplied the win 2 times for a total of $20,000!
A total of 87,052 winning Powerball players multiplied their prize by 2 Wednesday.
Players purchased $17,872,443 in tickets between Sunday and Wednesday night.
INDIANAPOLIS,IN., Scott Torreson of Crown Point never thought this would happen to him: winning a $1,000,000 Hoosier Millions playing Scratch-off game Hoosier Millions.
"I was screaming and dancing at home," said a cool and calm Torreson. "I didn't believe it when I first scratched it."
Torreson, 26, stopped with a co-worker for a cup of coffee this morning at Speedway #6621 at 153
US Highway 30 in Valparaiso when he decided to make a Lottery purchase. After scratching it off in the car, Torreson immediately had his co-worker drop him off at home and called his father Jeff.
"We're going on a trip to Indy," he said on the phone. "You need to leave work now!"
Torreson and his father drove to Hoosier Lottery Headquarters in
Indianapolis today to claim the prize.
"It's a one in a million chance," said Jeff Torreson. "I'm glad it's his lucky break."
Torreson won a $1,000,000 annuity, so he will receive cash-value payments for the next twenty years.
Torreson hopes one day to become a police officer. Right now though,
he was thinking of heading to Arby's.
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1 B46 30 02/08/08
2 B53 29 03/25/08
3 B05 28 03/21/08
4 B07 28 03/04/08
5 B12 27 03/14/08
6 B25 26 03/18/08
7 B30 26 03/04/08
8 B48 26 03/25/08
9 B36 25 02/26/08
10 B40 25 02/05/08
11 B42 25 03/25/08
12 B51 24 02/05/08
13 B13 23 03/18/08
14 B24 23 01/04/08
15 B35 23 03/11/08
16 B38 23 03/25/08
17 B43 23 03/25/08
18 B56 23 03/04/08
19 B14 22 02/12/08
20 B16 22 01/01/08
21 B17 22 03/21/08
22 B18 22 03/14/08
23 B20 22 03/18/08
24 B33 22 03/07/08
25 B39 22 02/12/08
26 B44 22 03/18/08
27 B52 22 03/14/08
28 B54 22 01/08/08
29 B26 21 02/29/08
30 B31 21 01/04/08
31 B02 20 12/28/07
32 B21 20 02/08/08
33 B22 20 02/29/08
34 B45 20 01/11/08
35 B29 19 01/08/08
36 B32 19 03/07/08
37 B01 18 02/19/08
38 B03 18 03/14/08
39 B09 18 02/26/08
40 B15 18 03/18/08
41 B19 18 03/21/08
42 B34 18 11/02/07
43 B55 18 02/29/08
44 B04 17 03/11/08
45 B08 17 03/21/08
46 B10 17 01/08/08
47 B11 16 02/15/08
48 B23 16 01/29/08
49 B27 16 02/12/08
50 B49 16 12/18/07
51 B50 16 02/12/08
52 B28 15 12/28/07
53 B37 15 12/25/07
54 B41 15 03/21/08
55 B06 14 12/11/07
56 B47 12 03/11/08
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Mega Millons winning tickets mathing just 5 balls were sold
2 lotto winners in California,1 in New Jersey, 1 in New York and 1 in Texas.
Fortune Cookie Foretells $600,000 Idaho Powerball Winner, Nampa Store
Sells Second Six-Figure Idaho Powerball Winner in a Week
Boise,Idaho: What are the odds a fortune cookie will foretell you getting
a large sum of money and be true? What are the odds of the exact same
store selling a $200,000 winning Idaho Powerball ticket one week and a $600,000 winner the next? And what are the odds of both being true together?
In the case of John Garcia, Eddie Dietrich, and Maverik Store #273 at 2516 W. Karcher Road in Nampa, all of the above is true and it happened late last week. Garcia and Dietrich claimed last Wednesday’s $600,000 winning Powerball ticket they bought at the exact same store that Pam Schoppe bought her winning $200,000 ticket for the February 26, 2008 draw – the week before. Long-time Idaho residents Garcia and Dietrich ordered Chinese food a few days before last Wednesday’s Idaho Powerball draw. The fortune cookie was still in Garcia’s wallet when they claimed their winnings and it said, You will inherit a large sum of money. On Wednesday, Dietrich knew he wanted a Idaho Powerball ticket and just happened to pull into the Maverikon Karcher Road unaware of Schoppe’s good fortune the week before.
That kind of thing is just completely random, but I’m glad the fortune
cookie was right, said a happy Garcia as they became the eleventh $200,000
or higher Powerball winner in Idaho since October 2007.
Their winning ticket matched all five numbers of last Wednesday’s
Powerball drawing, but not the Powerball itself. It also had the PowerPlay multiplier which players can select for an extra $1 per play. The PowerPlay, chosen at the time of the draw, multiplies all non-jackpot winning tickets by the number chosen for the draw, in this case it was 3, turning the $200,000 winner into a $600,000 winning ticket.
Garica and Dietrich have no immediate plans for their
Powerball lotto winnings other than taking care of some debt. After taxes
they will take home $403,200. For their part in selling the
two winning six-figure tickets, Maverik will earn a bonus of $70,000
from the Lottery.
TALLAHASSEE,FLA. The Florida Lottery announced today that
GOLD RUSH DOUBLER Scratch-Off game winner Michael Wright, of Port Orange,
claimed the $500,000 top prize at Florida Lottery headquarters.
Wright purchased his ticket at Sam's Discount / Deli,
323 S. Yonge Street in Ormond Beach. The $20 GOLD RUSH DOUBLER game
Wright is the third GOLD RUSH DOUBLER winner to claim a top prize.
The game has five $500,000 top prizes remaining.
TALLAHASSEE-- The Florida Lottery announced today that four players matched all five winning numbers in the Sunday, March 23, FANTASY 5® drawing and will share a $181,528.84 top prize.
The lucky lotto winners will each receive $45,382.21.
The winning FANTASY 5 lotto numbers were: 11 - 14 - 22 - 33 - 35
The winning Florida Lotto tickets was sold at the following locations:
Publix5655 Red Bug Lake Road Winter Springs in Seminole County
Sweetbay 1951 S. McCall Road, Suite 300 Englewood
Sedano's Supermark - Quick Pick (Free Play) 13794 S.W. 152nd Street
7-Eleven - Quick Pick 4710 Commerical Way Spring Hill located in Hernando County
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1 B15 23 03/19/08
2 B18 22 03/08/08
3 B39 20 03/12/08
4 B33 19 02/23/08
5 B02 18 02/23/08
6 B16 18 03/22/08
7 B17 18 03/08/08
8 B24 18 01/02/08
9 B31 18 03/19/08
10 B36 17 03/01/08
11 B14 16 03/19/08
12 B21 16 03/12/08
13 B25 15 02/23/08
14 B34 15 03/05/08
15 B35 15 03/01/08
16 B41 15 03/08/08
17 B23 14 03/19/08
18 B40 14 03/19/08
19 B46 14 02/13/08
20 B10 13 03/12/08
21 B20 13 03/05/08
22 B26 13 12/29/07
23 B42 13 02/27/08
24 B03 12 01/05/08
25 B05 12 03/22/08
26 B19 12 03/12/08
27 B22 12 03/15/08
28 B27 12 12/29/07
29 B30 12 02/09/08
30 B32 12 01/26/08
31 B38 12 12/19/07
32 B45 12 02/20/08
33 B47 12 03/22/08
34 B04 11 03/22/08
35 B06 11 02/20/08
36 B07 11 01/19/08
37 B08 11 11/24/07
38 B11 11 03/15/08
39 B13 11 12/08/07
40 B37 11 01/09/08
41 B43 11 03/22/08
42 B01 10 01/12/08
43 B09 10 01/16/08
44 B28 10 01/30/08
45 B29 10 03/15/08
46 B12 8 12/29/07
47 B44 7 12/22/07
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1 B57 20 03/19/08
2 B50 18 02/27/08
3 B06 17 01/23/08
4 B36 17 02/06/08
5 B14 16 03/05/08
6 B19 16 03/15/08
7 B31 16 01/19/08
8 B41 16 03/22/08
9 B20 15 01/02/08
10 B21 15 03/12/08
11 B28 15 03/01/08
12 B33 15 03/22/08
13 B39 15 03/19/08
14 B40 15 03/05/08
15 B43 15 02/09/08
16 B45 15 01/26/08
17 B47 15 03/08/08
18 B53 15 02/13/08
19 B02 14 02/06/08
20 B05 14 01/26/08
21 B09 14 03/01/08
22 B12 14 03/05/08
23 B16 14 02/23/08
24 B22 14 03/15/08
25 B38 14 01/16/08
26 B07 13 02/16/08
27 B08 13 03/19/08
28 B13 13 03/01/08
29 B24 13 03/15/08
30 B25 13 03/22/08
31 B26 13 01/23/08
32 B34 13 03/01/08
33 B42 13 03/22/08
34 B44 13 03/12/08
35 B54 13 03/22/08
36 B01 12 03/15/08
37 B04 12 03/08/08
38 B15 12 03/12/08
39 B17 12 03/15/08
40 B27 12 03/01/08
41 B29 12 03/15/08
42 B52 12 01/23/08
43 B59 12 11/24/07
44 B03 11 03/19/08
45 B23 11 12/08/07
46 B30 11 03/22/08
47 B32 11 03/08/08
48 B37 11 03/12/08
49 B49 11 02/16/08
50 B55 11 02/20/08
51 B18 10 02/13/08
52 B35 10 11/10/07
53 B48 10 03/19/08
54 B51 10 02/13/08
55 B11 9 02/27/08
56 B46 9 03/19/08
57 B56 8 01/16/08
58 B58 8 02/23/08
59 B10 7 02/23/08
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1 B28 22 03/19/08
2 B22 20 03/15/08
3 B20 19 03/15/08
4 B27 19 03/19/08
5 B23 18 03/19/08
6 B37 18 02/02/08
7 B38 18 01/30/08
8 B41 18 02/02/08
9 B19 17 01/19/08
10 B33 17 03/19/08
11 B46 17 03/12/08
12 B04 16 03/05/08
13 B06 16 02/27/08
14 B07 16 03/22/08
15 B12 16 02/20/08
16 B13 16 03/22/08
17 B14 16 12/08/07
18 B32 16 03/15/08
19 B36 16 03/12/08
20 B42 16 02/06/08
21 B47 16 02/09/08
22 B50 16 03/01/08
23 B10 15 03/05/08
24 B29 15 03/12/08
25 B31 15 03/12/08
26 B44 15 03/19/08
27 B45 15 02/02/08
28 B01 14 03/22/08
29 B03 14 11/10/07
30 B16 14 03/15/08
31 B26 14 03/08/08
32 B34 14 03/05/08
33 B51 14 03/22/08
34 B53 14 02/27/08
35 B05 13 12/29/07
36 B08 13 03/22/08
37 B11 13 03/22/08
38 B24 13 02/09/08
39 B25 13 03/19/08
40 B48 13 03/08/08
41 B49 13 02/16/08
42 B15 12 01/26/08
43 B18 12 02/27/08
44 B21 12 02/06/08
45 B52 12 03/05/08
46 B02 11 03/08/08
47 B35 11 01/19/08
48 B39 11 02/20/08
49 B09 10 02/27/08
50 B40 10 02/02/08
51 B30 9 02/13/08
52 B17 8 02/23/08
53 B43 7 03/01/08
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1 B35 22 03/22/08
2 B14 20 03/12/08
3 B17 20 03/19/08
4 B31 20 03/15/08
5 B12 19 03/22/08
6 B16 19 02/20/08
7 B19 19 02/13/08
8 B21 19 02/23/08
9 B29 19 03/12/08
10 B34 19 01/19/08
11 B38 19 01/12/08
12 B49 19 03/01/08
13 B07 18 03/08/08
14 B18 18 01/23/08
15 B23 18 03/15/08
16 B26 18 03/22/08
17 B08 17 03/12/08
18 B10 17 03/05/08
19 B44 17 02/27/08
20 B52 17 01/02/08
21 B36 16 03/05/08
22 B03 15 03/05/08
23 B28 15 03/05/08
24 B30 15 02/27/08
25 B40 15 03/19/08
26 B43 15 02/23/08
27 B47 15 03/01/08
28 B04 14 03/05/08
29 B24 14 01/23/08
30 B53 14 03/22/08
31 B25 13 03/15/08
32 B46 13 03/19/08
33 B27 12 02/16/08
34 B41 12 03/01/08
35 B42 12 03/19/08
36 B50 12 02/23/08
37 B02 11 03/08/08
38 B09 11 02/16/08
39 B11 11 03/22/08
40 B32 11 03/15/08
41 B33 11 12/29/07
42 B37 11 03/22/08
43 B05 10 02/06/08
44 B15 10 01/23/08
45 B22 10 03/12/08
46 B45 10 02/02/08
47 B51 10 01/26/08
48 B01 9 02/02/08
49 B20 9 01/05/08
50 B39 9 01/19/08
51 B06 8 01/16/08
52 B48 8 03/19/08
53 B54 7 01/02/08
54 B13 6 05/23/07
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3/22/2008 Powerball lotto news: Powerball has reached an estimated $26 million jackpot for Wednesday night’s draw as the grand prize was not hit Saturday evening.
The jackpot for the Wednesday, 3/26/08 is $26 million.
The winning Powerball lotto numbers drawn on Saturday were 7, 25, 28, 46, 48, and the Powerball was 19. The Power Play multiplier was 3.
5 lucky Powerball tickets in Minnesota (1), North Carolina Powerball 3, and Oklahoma Powerball 1 matched 5 white balls winning $200,000 cash each.
27 tickets matched 4 of the 5 numbers plus the Powerball and won $10,000.
