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Search results for "lottery winners" ...
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Luck of the Draw
This is the story of 82-year-old Bob Edmonds, "who had his ticket stolen and then had to fight the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation for years to get his winnings back." This story also details other issues with the lottery in Ontario, Canada, like the fact clerks "selling lottery tickets were stealing from their customers."
Tags: Lottery; lottery winners; lost lottery tickets; Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation
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Billie Bob's (Mis)fortune
The Houston Press profiles lottery winner Billie Bob Harrell, who took his life less than two years after winning a $31 million jackpot. Harrell never found Easy Street. Winning the lottery lead Harrell into divorce and financial overextension. He cashed in his half of 10 years worth of lottery payments worth 6 million for $2.25 million -- still five weeks later he took his own life. "Winning the lottery was the worst thing that ever happened to me," he said.
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And the Winner Is
Dateline's investigation of the giant sweepstakes company American Family Publishers shows that what you see in all those mailings is not what you get. The fine print says, the odds are determined by the number of entries. Dateline asked the company for true odds. After working on it for over a week it finally sent this: "for the big prize - the chances are anywhere from 100 to 200 million to one." That is worse than almost any lottery in the land.
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Re Media (NJ) analyzes and compares New Jersey Pick-Six lottery drawings, focusing on the payouts for winners of the 5 - of-6 correct numbers; finds that the payouts were inordinately low, Oct. 27, 1994.
Tags: NJ Futornick 10 pages