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CHARLESTON - Powerball winner Jack Whittaker has been ordered by a Kanawha Circuit Court judge to honor the terms of an agreement with a woman who said he assaulted her in 2004. Judge Tod Kaufman also ordered Whittaker to pay $5,000 in court costs and attorney's fees, in addition to the settlement. The settlement is between Rhonda L. Lilly and Whittaker. Lilly is one of three women who worked at Tri-State Racing and Gaming Center, who filed a suit against Whittaker, seeking damages after he allegedly assaulted them. Lilly's suit was filed March 23, 2004. On May 26, 2006, Whittaker...

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The businessman who won the nation's richest undivided lottery jackpot was sued Friday by the family of a teenager who died of a drug overdose at his home in September. The wrongful death lawsuit said Jesse Joe Tribble was led astray by Jack Whittaker's late granddaughter, and it said he should have exercised more control over her since she was in his custody. Tribble, 18, was found dead Sept. 17 at Whittaker's home in Scott Depot. The night before, according to the lawsuit, Tribble had used drugs at the home with 17-year-old Brandi Bragg. When Tribble...

CHARLESTON, West Virginia (AP) -- The businessman who won the nation's richest undivided lottery jackpot was sued Friday by the father of a teenager who died of a drug overdose at his home in September. The wrongful death lawsuit said Jesse Joe Tribble was led astray by Jack Whittaker's late granddaughter, and it said he should have exercised more control over her since she was in his custody. Whittaker promised to fight the case by Tribble's father, Jimmy Tribble. "I'll be dead and gone to hell before he gets a dime out of me," Whittaker said. Tribble, 18, was found...

CHARLESTON, W.Va.-Record powerball winner Jack Whittaker has reported his 17-year old granddaughter missing, police said late Thursday. Family members had not seen or heard from Brandi Lasha since 9 pm Saturday when she was at her Hurricane home, Putnam County Sheriff's Sgt. Lisa Arthur said.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The world's first glimpse of Jack Whittaker, winner of the richest undivided lottery jackpot in U.S. history, was of a boisterous, happy-go-lucky guy in a big cowboy hat who loved his family, work and God and promised to share his good fortune with the church and the poor. Two years later, the picture the public is seeing now is a mug shot of a haggard, somber Whittaker. Whittaker, 57, has been arrested twice for drunken driving in the past year and has been ordered to go into rehab by Jan. 2 for a 28-day stay. He...

By JENNIFER BUNDY, Associated Press Writer CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A man who won a record $315 million in the Powerball lottery was taken to jail on charges of drunken driving and carrying a pistol, authorities said. Jack Whittaker, 57, was arrested Tuesday night after his Hummer struck a concrete median on the West Virginia Turnpike near Beckley. Senior Trooper M.J. Pinardo reported that he smelled alcohol but Whittaker refused sobriety tests and was "extremely belligerent." Troopers also said they found a small pistol in Whittaker's boot and he was carrying $117,000 in cash. Whittaker, who was alone, complained of back...

Click here for printable version of storyE-mail this article to a friend Record highWest Virginia contractor wins largest single lottery jackpotThursday December 26, 2002 By Gavin McCormickThe Associated Press A 55-year-old West Virginia water and sewer contractor has won the $314.9 million Powerball jackpot, the largest single lottery jackpot in history.Andrew Jackson Whittaker Jr. received a $10 million advance check from Gov. Bob Wise Thursday at a news conference. The balance of Whittaker's $314.9 million won't be presented for another two weeks.Whittaker said he originally thought he had lost the jackpot because the numbers came up wrong on the televised...

W.Va. Pastors Mull Over Powerball Funds Three West Virginia Pastors Prepare for Possible Windfall From Powerball Winner's Fortune CHARLESTON, W.Va. Dec. 28 — One of the Church of God's basic tenets is the tithe the donation of 10 percent of one's earnings to the parish. In Summers County, where the median income is $21,147, that doesn't necessarily add up to big bucks. Ten percent of $170 million, though that's another story. On Saturday, two days after Powerball mega-jackpot winner Andrew "Jack" Whittaker announced plans to donate $17 million to three pastors, two of the likely recipients said they're excited, and...

<p>St. Albans, W.Va. — The letters never stop. Requests, pleas, hard-luck stories, tales to break your heart: thousands of them, enough to fill hip-high filing cabinets that line three conference-room walls in Andrew "Jack" Whittaker's new office. They come by the dozens, day after day, though it has been a year since Whittaker won the richest undivided lottery jackpot in U.S. history — $314.9 million, payable in an after-tax lump sum of $113 million — in a Christmas Day drawing.</p>

After icy weather near Nitro forced Powerball multimillionaire Jack Whittaker off the road, the State Police say they found him drunk and slumped over the steering wheel of his dark green Cadillac. Whittaker, who hit the $314.9 million Powerball jackpot on Christmas 2002, was charged Sunday with drunken driving. Whittaker said he was on his way to Tri-State Racetrack and Gaming Center when he pulled off Interstate 64 near Nitro because ice was covering the roads. “I’m nowhere near intoxicated,” Whittaker told WSAZ NewsChannel 3 Sunday as police escorted him into Kanawha County Magistrate Court. But State Police Trooper B.R....

Jack Whittaker was robbed, again Robbed again! Jack Whittaker, the Powerball winner, is out another $85,000, a Rolex watch and an ostrich skin jacket. Police say someone stole a car from a Teays Valley Auto Shop, then drove it to Whittaker's home. The person or persons took $85,000 out of his car. Witnesses say the robbers dumped the stolen car near the Foodland in Teays Valley.

WINFIELD, W.Va. — Three men burglarized the home of Jack Whittaker (search), winner of the biggest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, as an acquaintance of Whittaker's lay dead inside, police said Tuesday.The break-in took place Thursday night or Friday morning..... One of those arrested reported Tribble's death late Friday morning, Dailey said. Tribble was a friend of Whittaker's granddaughter, and all three suspects were acquainted with Tribble.

WINFIELD, West Virginia (AP) -- Three men burglarized the home of Jack Whittaker, winner of the biggest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, as an acquaintance of Whittaker's lay dead inside, police said Tuesday. Whittaker was not home at the time, and Chief Deputy John Dailey said the death of Jesse Joe Tribble, 18, was not related to the burglary and was not a homicide. It may have been drug-related, Dailey said.