Lottery Post

News story: http://www.lotterypost.com/news/258838 Contrary to rumors swirling in the media and on Web sites this morning, the New Jersey Lottery announced this morning at a press conference that the winning Powerball ticket for Saturday's $338.3 million jackpot was sold at a liquor store in Passaic.

Marking the 40th anniversary of the Maryland State Lottery, this video explores the Lottery operations over the four decades, including the introduction of many of the Lottery's most popular games, iconic marketing campaigns, and the benefits the gaming agency has provided the State since 1973.

News story: http://www.lotterypost.com/news/251832 The Von Oesens have five daughters and fourteen grandchildren, and have already begun planning ways to use their money to help them.

Full story: http://www.lotterypost.com/news/262064 Raw footage of the Florida Lottery's press conference on June 5, 2013, announcing the winner of the record $590.5 million Powerball jackpot. Note: Sorry for the poor volume level. The video feed provided by the Florida Lottery had awful volume levels. I did my best to gain-up the volume level to the highest amount I could.

A husband and wife who work for the Department of Defense won the Virginia Lottery's $217 million Powerball jackpot, the second-largest lotto prize the state has ever awarded.

The mystery of the winner's identity is revealed, and Jay Leno talks about 84 year-old Gloria C. Mackenzie's tax burden.

News story: http://www.lotterypost.com/news/265605 Describes how the new Illinois Lottery Fireball feature works with the Pick 3 and Pick 4 games.

Full story: http://www.lotterypost.com/news/265057 Major League Baseball player Wade Miley was fooled by his fellow Diamondbacks teammates last Sunday when they mixed in a fake scratch-off ticket with his real ones.

Full story: http://www.lotterypost.com/news/264851 Among the 16 co-workers who came forward today to claim their piece of a $448 million Powerball jackpot were a woman who lost her home in Superstorm Sandy and the daughter of the man who is credited as the "father of the New Jersey lottery." Note: Sorry for the poor audio quality! Again, the NJ Lottery provided a video feed from a handheld camera, and the camera operator kept apparently covering the microphone with their hand.

Full story: http://www.lotterypost.com/news/264650 Raw press conference footage of Paul White, the Minnesota project engineer who claimed one-third of a massive $448.4 million Powerball jackpot from the August 7, 2013, drawing.

Sculptor Lauren Was and painter Adam Eckstrom decided to make a car out of "people's lost dreams", as they put it. And so, they turned thousands of used lottery tickets into a possible object of people's desires. The dream car chosen was a Lamborghini Countach, the car which dominated everybody's bedroom wall from 1974 way up until production stopped in 1990.

An elated Maryland Powerball winner even has the cameraman laughing with her as she celebrates her win from behind her giant $1 million check.