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Lottery Winner Who Threw Away Ticket: 'It's My Money. I Deserve The Money'

The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 05.14.2012

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An Arkansas woman who threw away a $1 million winning lottery ticket told the "Today" show Friday that she does not feel bad for Sharon Jones, the wom...

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Bummer! Lotto Ticket Misprint Fools Man Into Thinking He's A Millionaire

The Huffington Post | Emily Cohn | Posted 05.10.2012

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Imagine holding what you believe to be a winning lottery ticket worth $1 million, only to find out that the ticket was printed in error and is worth n...

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What We Could Have Spent All That Money On

AP | PAUL WISEMAN | Posted 05.30.2012

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WASHINGTON — Americans are expected to spend $1.46 billion on Mega Millions lottery tickets. So how far does $1.46 billion go? How much of the ...

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Doug's Dozen: 12 Things I'll Do As Soon As I Win That $640 Million in the Lotto

Doug Molitor | Posted 05.30.2012

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Doug Molitor

If I won Mega Millions, I'd buy a $40 million house... with a $600 million wall to keep all you envious poor people out.

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Mega Millions: Why We Buy Into The Lotto

The Huffington Post | Laura Schocker | Posted 03.31.2012

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Americans have come down with a serious case of lotto fever. Symptoms, we've found, include a suspension of statistical reality, extreme optimism and ...

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Why Felix Salmon Is Buying A Lottery Ticket

Reuters | Felix Salmon | Posted 03.20.2012

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Have you bought your lottery ticket yet? The jackpot’s up to $241 million! An interesting thing happens, when the jackpot gets this big: if you a...

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This State's Residents Are The Biggest Suckers

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 03.15.2012

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Georgia residents are the biggest suckers for the lottery in the country, according to Bloomberg's Sucker Index, which ranks states according to how ...

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How To Win The Lottery

Scientific American | Garth Sundem | Posted 05.12.2012

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So goes popular opinion: the lottery's an egregious societal evil implemented and overseen by shape-shifting, blood-drinking reptilian aliens. And tha...

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Win This Lottery Once, Get Paid For The Rest Of Your Life

AP | SUSAN HAIGH | Posted 05.10.2012

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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) — Lottery officials in the six New England states have joined forces for the first time to offer a regional game, hoping to l...

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Coworkers Going To Court Over Huge Lottery Jackpot

AP | Posted 05.06.2012

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ELIZABETH, N.J. — Five New Jersey construction workers are suing a former colleague who claims he was the sole winner of a $38.5 million Mega Mi...

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They Don't Play To Win: Lottery Ticket Collectors Eye Keepsakes, Not Money

AP | By KATHY MATHESON | Posted 09.29.2011

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Among the mountains of losing lottery tickets piled high in a hotel conference room, someone may yet hit a jackpot. But it won...

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On Winning the Lottery, "Sin City" & "Big Money"

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

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Don McNay has been on a book tour, promoting his book, Son of a Son of a Gambler: Winners, Losers, and What to Do When You Win the Lottery. In a ...

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Lottery Winners Give Clerk, Anthony Eckman, $740 For Being A Good Luck Charm

Posted 05.25.2011

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Anthony Eckman, or "Lighting" as many Johnson Siding, South Dakota residents call him, seems to be local lottery players' secret weapon. Carl Schwarze...

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Kidney Cancer, Medical Bills Force Washington Man Into Homelessness

HuffPost | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

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As part of our Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up local stories of formerly middle-class families who are now struggling ...

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Lottery Officials Mull Over National Game

AOL | Melanie S. Welte | Posted 05.25.2011

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The nation's two biggest lottery games are talking about cross-selling tickets in U.S. lottery jurisdictions with the potential for a national lottery...

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What "Never to Say" at a Job Interview

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 05.25.2011

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Francesca Biller-Safran

Do you have any hot looking daughters? My 27 year-old adult soon still lives at home and I'd do anything to marry him off, or at least have him shack up somewhere else.

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My Lottery in Life: Pat Sajak and Adventures in Gambling

Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 11.17.2011

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Joel Schwartzberg

I'm not one to normally buy lottery tickets. I've bought fewer than 25 in my lifetime, all of them scratch cards I impulsively selected based on my ...

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Instant Games Now Fuel Lottery Business

New York Times | Nelson Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

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With the popularity of traditional lotteries waning across the country, many states are turning to instant games priced at $20, $30 and as high as $50...

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