Lottery Latest News. Lottery Winnings and Events in the World of Lottery.

Lottery winning has nothing to do with luck, with the place where you buy the lottery tickets or when you purchase them. However, there are several towns or cities in the world where more lottery punters get more chances to win. One of the places in the world selling more winning tickets is Skibbereen, a small and beautiful coastal town in County Cork, Ireland. This town has sold jackpot winning tickets worth of approximately 19 million euros. 

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This week will be a great week for lottery punters playing Mega Million and Powerball because the jackpots will become really big. Mega Million jackpot is reaching $89 million to be drawn on Friday, Jan 25 and the Powerball will be $110 million.

On Tuesday, January 22nd, nobody bought the winning numbers of 16-39-7-54-11 with 13 as the Mega Number. The jackpot offered on that day was $89 million to be taken in a lump sum payment for 26 years or $50 if taken cash, before taxes.

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The need to protect lottery winners’ identities seems to increase after several violent incidents that happen to lottery winners causing them to be scammed, abused and even killed. Most states in the US and other countries in the world announce the names of the lottery winners in order to show the reliability of the lottery and attract more punters but now some states considered keeping the names anonymous.

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This week, a couple from Kansas is going to be a new millionaire after winning the jackpot in Kansas Lottery which is worth of $9.43 million. The couple, who does not want to have their identities revealed, said that nothing will change their life after the winning. Though they know that they will be having so much money in their bank account, they will still work and earn money.

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After the state of Indiana and Illinois who have their lottery service privatized, now it is Pennsylvania that will have its lottery run privately. This state is giving the right to run the lottery to Camelot, the operator of biggest British lottery, the National Lottery.  This privatization can hopefully increase the revenue and profit obtained from the lottery.

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She is not a rich woman feeling confused on how to spend the money in her bank accounts neither is she a lottery winner winning huge jackpots to share to the needy. No, Regina Jackson is just an ordinary worker who got laid off from her previous work in West Chester.

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Shabana Ansari, the wife of the murdered $1 million lottery winner living in Chicago really expects that the case can be revealed soon and that the people involved should be arrested. She thought that the conspiracy behind her husband’s murder is too cruel and she also thinks that she should know who has taken the happiest days when her husband was winning the lottery.

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Another lottery player has just been murdered in Chicago, growing another concern about lottery winners’ safety and giving more reasons for the lottery winners to stay more alerted and more aware that a lot of people will try to scam them. After winning the lottery winners’ life would not be the same anymore and it is necessary that they have good protection for their own sake.

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Last year has apparently been one of the biggest years in lottery world as many people have won big jackpots and the sales of the lottery itself have increased to a very significant number giving more funds to the education, charity and other social development. Many kinds of lottery increased their sales last year.

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A lot of people have won the lotteries in 2012 and almost all kinds of lottery in the world have made the players a lot richer. Powerball, EuroMillions and other famous lotteries have given new status for giving away hundreds of million dollars. The biggest lottery jackpots worth more than 500 million dollars was also won in 2012, marking the year as the most prosperous year for the lottery players.

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