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A 39-year-old woman from Westminster Maryland forgot about a lottery ticket she had purchased a week before but found it when she was searching for something in her purse. She was carrying around a quarter of a million dollars in her purse for a week and didn’t even know it. When she discovered the ticket…

Nick Slatten was excited to tell his fiancée that he’d won $1,178,746.00 in the Tennessee Lottery, so he headed over to her work, taking the ticket with him. Afterward, he ran some errands but later discovered that he’d lost the ticket—so he retraced his steps, finding the ticket about an hour later…

Over 20 years ago Tom Cook and Joe Feeney decided to split any lottery winnings they might have in the future, and they shook on it. In June of 2020 Tom Cook won, and true to his word, he is splitting his $22 million winnings with Feeney. Cook said, "A handshake is a handshake, man," —Jim L. Wilson https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/23/powerball-lottery-winners-wisconsin-friends-split-jackpot/5495208002/…

Ivan Dubinsky won $1 Million Canadian in the lottery, but delayed collecting it for a couple of months because of his job. He is a lighthouse keeper who cares for the Lighthouse near Port Hardy British Columbia and sends weather reports to aircraft and marine vessels. —Jim L. Wilson https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/01/21/Lighthouse-keeper-had-to-wait-two-months-to-collect-lottery-jackpot/4701579641965/?sl=16…

“Problem gamblers make up about 10 to 15 percent of lottery participants, but are responsible for 80 percent of the $73 billion in sales of state lotteries. The higher the poverty rate in an area, the higher the sales of lottery games. It is the desire for money they don’t have that lead those struggling…

Les Bernal is the national director of the nonprofit organization, Stop Predatory Gambling. All but six states sponsor a state lottery with a goal that is often getting more people to play or extracting larger sums of money from dedicated fans. “An enormous amount of their profits comes from people who…

The customer was in a hurry. She failed to scratch off the last number—the million-dollar number and handed the lottery ticket to an employee to throw away for her. Ten days later, Abhi Shah, the son of the owner of the Lucky Stop convenience store in Southwick, Mass noticed the unscratched ticket in…

Outside Walmart in Erie Pennsylvania, someone was thinking of the needs of others when he/she dropped a winning lottery ticket into the Salvation Army’s red kettle. A “Fantastic 10’s” lottery ticket was pulled out amongst the quarters, dimes, and nickels worth $1,000 jackpot. Instead of reaping the reward…

Jack Whitaker was always kind to people and lived a normal life as a contractor in West Virginia. He was focused on the needs of others, including his wife Jewell and his granddaughter Brandi. Everyone thought that Jack and Jewell had the perfect marriage. Jack loved his wife dearly and she him. Each…

For most people, the airport experience is a necessary, if dreaded, part of travel. But with travel impossible for many in Taiwan, the Taipei Songshan Airport found 7000 people willing to endure the indignities of airport security without taking any trips. The airport chose 60 via lottery and invited…

States are approving new forms of gambling. Lotteries turned out not to provide enough state revenue. The next step is legalizing online sports gambling. Since New Jersey approved this form of gambling, hotlines for gambling addicts in the state have received 21 percent more calls involving sports betting.…

Kathy Gilroy is a prominent anti-gambling crusader in Illinois. She has crusaded against gambling of all kinds; lotteries, casinos, internet poker, and other games of chance. A local café notified her that she had won $25,000 in a sweepstake game sponsored by the café. She has run into some public relation…

Gillian Bayford worked nights in a hospital. Her husband worked days at his second-hand record shop. Then they won 148 million pounds in a British lottery. 15 months later, their marriage has “broken down irretrievably.” The divorce is final. In addition, Ms. Bayford, wept as she told how the windfall…

Americans have a fixation with winning lotteries. The one 99.99 percent sure thing with a lottery is that you will be poorer for playing. In a recent record setting Powerball lottery the odds of winning were 1 in 292 million. That is about the same as flipping a coin and getting the same result, (heads…

They say, “Patience is a virtue,” in the case of a New Zealand man, it pays. The anonymous man was waiting in line to purchase a lotto ticket, when a man cut in line in front of him. “I wasn’t in any hurry,” he said, “so I let them go ahead and didn’t say anything.” You guessed it—the patient man won…

Michael Gerson, an opinion writer for the Washington Post wrote an expose of state sponsored gambling, mainly lotteries.. Instead of reigning in spending and or raising taxes, the hard choices, the government is in the business of treating its own citizens as marks and dupes. “The lottery is a particularly…

Ron Elliott, 67, was a caregiver at a nursing home in London, when won a $12.8 million jackpot in the lottery. Today Ron Elliott is a rich caregiver at a nursing home in London. The day after winning he returned to work and plans to keep working as long as he can. “My clients have dementia and suffer…

Manuel Reija is a convenience store clerk in La Coruna, Spain. He found a lottery ticket on his counter and before throwing it away he checked the numbers. He discovered it was a $6.3 million winner. “I was standing up, but I had to sit down. I almost broke the chair, I was so flustered,” Reija told…

A mother of four won the lottery. After purchasing a mansion, two yachts, designer clothes, extravagant vacations, and new cars, she has returned to work. When asked why, the woman replied, “I wanted to do something more meaningful with my life.” —Jim L. Wilson and Brian Vogelesang http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/caring-lotto-winner-who-bought-3249893…

Salon.com reports that Americans spent $50.4 billion on lottery tickets. They further report that poor households spend a much greater portion of their income on lotteries—about 9 percent. While states continue to depend more on gambling income America’s couples continue to languish in poverty. Eleven…

This statistic is a reminder of society’s misplaced priorities. “Households with incomes of under $13,000 a year spend an average of 9 percent of their income on lottery tickets.” That’s almost a tithe of their income thrown away. If the legitimately poor can afford to squander 9% of their income on…

Mark and Cindy Hill hit the jackpot, literally. In the Missouri lottery they gathered in a $293 million fortune. Mark and Cindy have bought the town a new firehouse, a new baseball field, refurbished the town’s wastewater system, and topped off the high school scholarship fund. Their gifts have equaled…

During the opening chapters of The Hunger Games, it is time for the reaping of District 12, the selection of a male and a female to fight tributes from the eleven other districts for the amusement of the Capitol. Given the poverty of District 12, the selection almost guarantees death. Katniss Everdeen…

A West Virginia Pastor has announced plans to convert a former adult entertainment establishment into a church. Pastor Art Hage is heading up an effort he hopes will transform the former bar into a lighthouse of hope in the community. The club has been known for some very seedy acts in the past. In addition…