An Osage County resident, who for more than two months didn t realize they had a raffle ticket worth $1 million in their vehicle s console, recently came forward to claim their prize in that amount in the Kansas Lottery s Holiday Millionaire Raffle.
The winner has chosen to remain anonymous, the Lottery said in a news release Tuesday.
The winning ticket was sold at Bryan’s Liquor at 840 N. Washington in Auburn, Lottery spokeswoman Jessica Herrera said in the release. The retailer is eligible for a $1,000 selling bonus for selling the winning ticket, she said.
Holiday Millionaire Raffle tickets costing $20 each went on sale Sept. 1 for the raffle, which featured a $1 million grand prize and other prizes in smaller amounts.
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Kenneth Thompkins of Woodbridge was one of four $1 million winners in the lottery s Virginia New Year Millionaire Raffle. (Virginia Lottery )
WOODBRIDGE, VA – Kenneth Thompkins double-checked to make sure that the numbers he was reading on his computer were correct. And then, just to make sure that he was sure his life was about to change, he looked for a third time.
Each time he reviewed what he was seeing in front of him, the Woodbridge resident confirmed the truth as the numbers of the Virginia Lottery ticket he purchased at a 7-Eleven store in Woodbridge matched one of four $1 million winners that were drawn on New Year s Day as part of Virginia s New Year s Millionaire Raffle.
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A winning Cash 5 ticket was sold at a Washington Township store, officials with the Pennsylvania Lottery announced Monday.
The winner, who purchased the ticket at Thomas’ General Store along Saltsburg Road, will take home $195,000. The ticket was one of two that won the $390,000 jackpot. The other winning ticket was purchased at Rutter’s in York County.
The winning numbers, which were picked Saturday, were 12-14-28-32-35.
To play Cash 5, five numbers between 1 and 43 must be selected. All five numbers must be drawn to win the jackpot. Other prizes are awarded to players who match two, three or four winning numbers. According to lottery officials, more than 25,300 Cash 5 tickets also won prizes during Saturday’s drawing.
Some Pennsylvania residents are starting out the new year feeling like a million bucks.
The four, $1 million winning tickets for the Pennsylvania Lottery’s New Year’s Millionaire Raffle drawing on Saturday, Jan. 2 were sold in Bucks, Erie, Montgomery and York counties.
The winning ticket numbers were:
00185442, 00237745, 00351937 and 00469412.
Those tickets were purchased from the following stores:
Pantry 1 Food Mart, 123 Woodbourne Road, Langhorne, Bucks County;
GetGo, 6400 Peach St., Erie, Erie County;
Royal Farms, 1780 Sumneytown Pike, Kulpsville, Montgomery County; and
Rutter’s, 1520 Pennsylvania Ave., York, York County.
Four winning tickets worth $100,000 each were sold in Allegheny, Mercer and York counties.
The winning numbers selected were
Updated: 1 Jan 2021, 13:54
A FUNERAL service for Emma McManus, a daughter-in-law of Irish horse racing magnate JP McManus, is to take place in Barbados next Friday.
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Emma McManus with her husband John and father-in-law JP in 2011Credit: Don MacMonagle
Emma, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, had been preparing to celebrate New Year’s Eve with loved ones at a private residence on the grounds of the luxury Sandy Lane resort, Barbados.
The residence was purchased in the late 1990s by JP McManus, financier Dermot Desmond, and horse breeder John Magnier.
Emma, late of London and Blackrock Co Dublin, is survived by her husband John and their three “adored” young children Milly, Lauren, and Annie, and “deeply regretted by her heartbroken parents and parents-in-law, Peter and Paula, JP and Noreen, her grandmother Veronica, siblings Juliet, Katie and Nick“, a funeral notice read.