Unlucky Woman Wins Powerball Only to Find She Bought Ticket Too Late
Here’s proof that timing is indeed everything.
Here’s proof that timing is indeed everything.
There are about a million reasons why Jennifer Maldonado has the best coworkers in the world.
The Powerball jackpot is up to $425 million. That is a lot of money! The next Powerball drawing will be on Wednesday and someone has the chance to walk away with $425 million.
A little more than five months ago, a Los Angeles woman bought a lottery ticket at Michael’s Market & Liquor. She then left it in her car and forgot about it, obviously not that enthused with her 18 million-to-one odds of hitting the jackpot.
Unbeknownst to her, she hit that jackpot to the turn of $23 million.
According to a new survey from CouponCabin.com of 2,570 adults, 50 percent play the lottery. And of that percentage, 65 percent would continue to live frugally it they happened to win big.
But would a frugal life include keeping their job and continuing to draw their salary?
It takes a lot of luck to pick the winning numbers in a million dollar lottery. It takes a lot more to lose the winning ticket and still be able to claim the cash.
Money may not buy happiness, but it just might buy you a whole heap of trouble.
One Michigan lotto winner discovered that firsthand after she was arraigned on two felony counts of welfare fraud.
After setting one record amount, the Mega Millions has been raised yet again as the drawing gets closer.
We’ve all seen those stories about groups of people who routinely buy lottery tickets together, only to have one member of the pack fail to do so the week they strike it rich.
Now something similar has happened again — in Spain.
Since 1993, Joan R. Ginther has hit the lotto jackpot four times, to the tune of $2 million, $3 million, $5.4 million and $10 million.
The chances of this happening are one in 18 septillion. For a point of reference, there are about one septillion grains of sand on earth.