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  • While no one in our area hit the big Powerball jackpot over the weekend, we now know that someone still hit a big prize in our area.
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  • One single ticket in Florida has beaten the odds by matching the numbers drawn for the highest Powerball jackpot in history.
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  • There were two winning tickets from Friday's $190 million Mega Millions drawing and one was sold in New Jersey.
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  • Mega Millions and Powerball
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  • The Powerball jackpot has jumped to $600 million, a major climb less than a day after the latest drawing produced no winning ticket.
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  • Mega Millions and Powerball
  • With the Powerball and MegaMillions lotteries both hitting high jackpots this weekend, plenty of people are dreaming about winning one of the prizes. That is for people who don't know how to set goals. Dream about winning both prizes.
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  • Insurance agent Joe Williams is trying, like so many others, to get lucky with Powerball.
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  • With no winner over the weekend, the Powerball jackpot has jumped to an estimated $350-million.
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  • One of two brothers accused of conning a man out of a winning $5 million scratch-off lottery ticket in New York has been found guilty of one charge.
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  • Calling it a bizarre case fraught with inconsistencies, a prosecutor said there was one compelling factor in the charges lodged against two brothers accused of conning a man out of a winning $5 million scratch-off lottery ticket.
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  • Pedro Quezada
  • The New Jersey man who just won a $338 million Powerball jackpot has resolved a child support warrant.
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  • Pedro Quezada
  • The New Jersey man who won the $338 million Powerball jackpot owes about $29,000 in child support.
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  • A dozen real estate agents who won $1 million in the Powerball are paying it forward and sharing part of their earnings with a new employee who opted out of joining the South Florida agency's office pool.
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  • Pedro Quezada
  • The son of an immigrant who won the $338 million Powerball jackpot said he knows his father will "do something good."
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  • Winning Powerball ticket sold in Passaic, NJ
  • A 44-year-old New Jersey man has been identified as the winner of a $338 million Powerball jackpot.
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  • Powerball officials announced on Monday morning that the winning $338.3 million ticket was purchased in Passaic, New Jersey.
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  • A truck stop in South Jersey says Saturday's winning Powerball ticket worth $338.3-million was sold there.
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  • Your hopes of hitting it rich will have to wait. No one won last night's $260-million Powerball jackpot.
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  • A medical examiner says an autopsy on the exhumed body of a Chicago lottery winner who was poisoned with cyanide yielded no significant new clues about his death.
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  • Seven hairstylists who are fighting for a share of a $9.5 million lottery prize bought by a co-worker at an Indianapolis salon testified Wednesday that they had all agreed to share any winnings from tickets purchased at the same time as those for an office pool.
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  • Tom Corbett
  • Gov. Tom Corbett is expected to say how he'll respond now that Att'y Gen. Kathleen Kane has rejected his effort to hire a British firm.
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  • Gov. Tom Corbett
  • A top budget aide to Gov. Tom Corbett says a British firm has extended its bid to manage the $3.5 billion Pennsylvania Lottery.
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  • State Attorney General Kathleen Kane is preparing to announce her office's review of a contract to hire a British firm to manage the $3.5B Pa. Lottery.
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  • Action News
  • Iowa investigators have subpoenaed phone and email records in an attempt to unravel the mystery behind a winning $14.3 million lottery ticket that was withdrawn after the winner refused to be identified, the agent overseeing the wide-ranging inquiry told The Associated Press.
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  • State senators may have a lot of questions about a deal to hand the Pennsylvania Lottery's management to a British firm.
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  • A judge Friday granted prosecutors permission to exhume the body of a Chicago lottery winner who was fatally poisoned with cyanide just as he was about to collect his $425,000 payout.
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  • Joe Ryan decided to try his luck again.
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  • A Chicago medical examiner says he plans to exhume the body of a lottery winner poisoned with a lethal dose of cyanide.
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  • This undated photo provided by the Illinois Lottery shows Urooj Khan, 46, of Chicagos West Rogers Park neighborhood, posing with a winning lottery ticket. The Cook County medical examiner said Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, that Khan was fatally poisoned with cyanide July 20, 2012, a day after he collected nearly $425,000 in lottery winnings. (AP Photo/Illinois Lottery)
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  • When two winning tickets for a record $588 million Powerball jackpot were claimed from the Nov. 28 drawing, the world focused on the winners.
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  • What are the odds?
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  • Action News cameras were rolling as a lucky local lottery winner found out she is now $700,000 richer this Christmas.
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  • Lottery tickets
  • A union representing state workers has filed a lawsuit that seeks to prevent Gov. Tom Corbett's administration from privatizing the Pennsylvania Lottery.
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  • Pennsylvania Lottery
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  • Pennsylvania Lottery
  • Pennsylvania Lottery officials say the jackpot-winning Cash 5 ticket from Monday's drawing was sold in Philadelphia, making someone in the Delaware Valley $325,000 richer.
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  • Arizona Lottery officials on Monday identified Matthew Good, a married man in his 30s, as the second winner of last week's $587.5 million Powerball jackpot.
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  • Pennsylvania Lottery officials say one jackpot-winning Powerball ticket from Wednesday night's drawing was sold in Bucks County.
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  • Pennsylvania Lottery officials say one jackpot-winning Powerball ticket worth $50 million was sold at Levittown News and Tobacco on South Oxford Valley Road in Fairless Hills.
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  • Three lottery tickets purchased in New Jersey worth nearly $1 million will soon expire.
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  • Members of the Assembly Budget Committee are slated to examine a plan to transfer management of the New Jersey State Lottery to a private company.
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  • Pennsylvania Lottery
  • Democratic lawmakers say the Corbett administration's move to privatize Pennsylvania Lottery management is shrouded in secrecy.
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