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Florida Lottery:
The Florida Lottery announced on January 20th, 2010 that FLORIDA LOTTO winner Carolyn DeVore, 65, of Chiefland, claimed the January 16, $9 million jackpot!
DeVore chose the one-time, lump-sum payment for her winnings in the amount of 5,098,458.00. The winning FLORIDA LOTTO ticket was purchased from Winn-Dixie, located at 2200 N. Young Boulevard in Chiefland The retailer received a bonus incentive of $25,000 for selling the jackpot-winning ticket. A big shout out of Congrats to this lucky lady!
Powerball:
The jackpot in America’s favorite lottery game continues to get bigger and bigger. Even though the grand prize was not awarded Saturday evening, a lucky ticket in Indiana matched all 5 white numbers with the Power Play and won $1 million cash! This was a result of the new Power Play feature that turns any match 5 white ball win with the Power Play into a 5X multiplier and pushes the prize up to $1 million! Two tickets from Kansas and Pennsylvania matched 5 white balls and won $200,000 cash each. In addition, 610,531 tickets across the nation won a total of $4,746,428 in prizes!
Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday’s drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $76 million!
The cash option for the Wednesday, January 27th drawing will be an estimated $37.8 million.
Mega Millions:
Nine lucky players each matched 5 of the 6 lotto numbers on the January 22nd, 2010 drawing and won $250,000 in cash and prizes!
The Mega Millions estimated jackpot has reached a whopping $121 million and the next drawing will be held January 26th, 2010.
California Lottery:
Kevin Lu, a 26 year old Gardena, California resident and former computer student, is California’s newest millionaire! Lu won the $3.6 million jackpot, becoming the fifth millionaire on the California Lottery’s game show. Congrats to this lucky gentleman!
Also, in the California Lotto News, a Retired United Airlines pilot Dale Elliott had one thing on his mind when he learned he was the owner of Tuesday night’s winning MEGA millions ticket: a car. Now after claiming the $201,128 prize this morning at the Lottery’s San Diego District Office he plans to make his dreams come true by purchasing a Camaro.