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LOS ANGELES - Two Southern California residents are bound to be feeling very lucky today. According to the California lottery, two Mega Millions jackpot tickets were sold at the same Encino gas station on Friday night. The Chevron gas station is located on Ventura Blvd near Lindley Ave. The two tickets held the winning numbers of 21-26-53-66-70 with a jackpot number of lucky 13. The unique win earned the ticket holders a grand prize of $395 million to share.

The California Powerball winner who landed a $2 billion jackpot last year was served legal papers at his $25.5 million Hollywood Hills estate in a suit claiming the ticket was stolen, according to a report. A pair of process servers arrived on April 25 at lucky lottery billionaire Edwin Castro’s palatial estate — where amenities include seven bedrooms, an infinity pool and a spa — and were greeted by a man in his 50s who initially tried to dodge being hit with the suit, The Sun reported, citing court filings. “The subject said we are serving the wrong Edwin Castro,”...

U.S.—Excitement across the nation has reached a fever pitch as the famed Powerball Lottery jackpot reached the staggering sum of two tanks of gas. "Two tanks! Can you imagine?" said local man Bob Porter as he waited in line outside a 7-Eleven. "I'd use one to fill up my truck, and sell the other to pay off my kid's college and buy me a mansion! Move over, Billy Gates!" The rush on lottery tickets is unprecedented since the creation of the Powerball. "I've never seen anything like it," said Ohio gas station attendant Marie Billings. "I will say though, part...

A Missouri man hit a $1 million jackpot on a scratch lotto ticket this week as he was on the phone with a friend who wanted to grab dinner — and he decided he could afford it once he learned he had won, according to state lottery officials. The winner bought a $10 Scratchers ticket from the Casey’s General Store at 602 E. Young Ave. in Warrensburg of Johnson County, Missouri, according to a Thursday news release. He told lotto officials he typically buys $10 tickets about twice per month.

Proposed Chicago casino unattractive to investors because of ‘onerous’ taxes; South and West side sites wouldn’t draw tourists, says a state-hired consultant ...a Chicago casino operator’s profit margin “would, in a best-case scenario, equate to a few pennies on the dollar,” according to a report from Las Vegas-based Union Gaming Analytics As a result of the high taxes and other upfront costs, the casino’s owner would reap low single-digit profit margins, at best, on any of the five sites suggested as possible locations, according to the study. “Put another way, tourists generally will not patronize a casino in an area...

The U.S. Justice Department now says that all internet gambling is illegal.A November opinion made public Monday reversed a 2011 opinion on the Wire Act, which established the law as applicable to only sports betting. The DOJ claims that the 2011 opinion misinterpreted the statute and reinterprets the Wire Act to encompass all forms of gambling that crosses state boundaries. The opinion could have wide-reaching effects in states that sell lottery tickets online or where online gambling is legal. This number has increased in recent months following the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize sports betting in the U.S. last year....

In late October, Mega Millions announced that someone had won its $1.5 billion jackpot. But two months have passed and still, no one has come forward to claim the enormous prize, Josh Whiteside, director of marketing at the South Carolina Education Lottery, tells CNBC Make It. "Everyone's talking about it," said Jee Patel, the manager of the KC Mart in Simpsonville, South Carolina, where the winning ticket was purchased. "It's a mystery." The winner, who beat the odds of 1 in 302 million, gets 180 days, or until April 21, to collect before the ticket expires. If the prize goes...

Because I sincerely hope that someone frequenting the FRee Republic website wins the power ball drawing tonight, especially a monthly donor and because that winner will be an (almost) instant billionaire, I am offering some sound advice on how to handle the situation.

http://www.calottery.com/play/draw-games/powerball

Caught cheating at Lotto on national television, the Serbian Lotto sweepstakes is now under investigation. Funny, they use the same machinery here in the USA too. Watch how the numbers appear on the screen on the LIVE broadcast before they are shown. Watch the consternation on the face of the spokesmodel. You can't win, if you don't play... LOL

A frequent lottery player who says she "had a dream about winning" cashed her $47 million ticket Friday. Germana Sodre, 47, of Hollywood, claimed the Florida Lotto jackpot from the drawing held on May 21. She chose to receive her winnings as a lump-sum payment of $30,863,975.44. It was the largest jackpot won via a ticket sold in Broward County since the Florida Lotto began in 1988. The numbers were 10-12-23-34-38-53.

A 16-year-old Texas girl who plummeted more than 3,000 feet to the ground in an Oklahoma skydiving accident survived and is recovering from her many injuries, a doctor said Tuesday. Dr. Jeffrey Bender, a trauma surgeon at OU Medical Center who treated Makenzie Wethington when she was flown Saturday from a skydiving school in Chickasha, said the girl hurt her liver and broke her pelvis, lumbar spine in her lower back, a shoulder blade and several ribs. She also has a broken tooth. "I don't know the particulars of the accident as I wasn't there. But if she truly fell...

Juanita Wallace, the president of the NAACP Dallas Chapter: “It’s the poor people, the uneducated people who spend the most money on the Lottery and it’s not going for [them] the way they thought it was going to go,”

ELIZABETH, N.J., March 7 (UPI) -- A New Jersey man claims his winning $77 million lottery ticket was purchased independently, and is not the ticket he bought for a pool of five co-workers. In a civil lawsuit that began Tuesday in Elizabeth, N.J., plaintiffs are accusing Americo Lopes of fraud, and demand that he share his winnings with them. Lopes was the organizer of a lottery pool at the construction company where he worked, and made regular purchases of betting tickets. On Nov. 10, 2009 he held a winning Mega Millions ticket, but did not inform his co-workers, instead telling...

Turns out no one in any state matched all six numbers that were drawn in Tuesday night's massive Mega Millions drawing, so the jackpot will be growing even more massive — to a record-breaking $476 million, according to the New Jersey Lottery, the Pennsylvania Lottery and the official Mega Millions lottery website.

President Barack Obama won't be joining the throngs of Americans lining up to buy a Mega Millions ticket, the White House said Thursday as the multi-state lottery's jackpot hit a record estimated $540 million jackpot ($389.8 million if you take the cash option). But "I'm going to run out and buy one," press secretary Jay Carney lightheartedly told reporters as he wrapped up his daily briefing. Earlier, at a deli a few blocks from the White House, customers lined up six deep to trade their greenbacks for the salmon-pink tickets, some of which bear the mention "D.C. Lottery Commemorative Ticket"...

Pricey picks: Powerball lottery tickets will double in price to $2 beginning in JanuaryBy Associated Press, Published: January 1 DES MOINES, Iowa — Powerball lottery organizers are betting that bigger jackpots will entice more people to play, but gamblers are going to have to dig deeper into their wallets to try their luck. Tickets for the multistate game are doubling in price to $2 beginning Jan 15. While the odds of winning one of the game’s giant jackpots also are improving, those in charge of the lottery are gambling that people are willing to pay more for the hope of...

Powerball was enormous, but now it's more so. Spurred by heavy sales - at $2 a ticket - the jackpot was raised this afternoon to $325 million. And the drawing's not till Saturday night. The advertised prize, payable in 30 annual installments, is the third biggest in the history of the game. The cash payout, already a Powerball record, is now $202.9 million. If this jackpot doesn't get hit, expect to see history: the first annuity to reach $400 million

After deliberating only 35 minutes Thursday, a Houston County jury awarded ownership of a $750,000 lottery ticket to an illegal alien who claimed he was taken advantage of by the man he had worked for as a day laborer.

Those of us working twopart-time jobs to pay our mortgage AND support this slime ball are MAD AS HELL!Sorry if this was already posted. I'm mad!!!