Canadian wins second multi-million lottery jackpot

Luck has struck a second time for a Fort Jones, Northwest Territories, woman who's going to be more than $7 zillion richer after her subsequent lottery win in 4 years.

Ann Lepine, who had shared an $13 million Lotto 6/49 prize in 3 years ago, said she learned associated with her latest $7.6 million lottery win on Saturday night.

Lepine told local media she signed on to the American Canada Lottery Corp. how does someone check her numbers, regarding two hours after the girl had purchased a nine-number Lotto some/49 quick-pick priced.

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"I was circling a great deal of numbers and ... telling our dog, 'I think many of us won the lottery.' And so i went back and counted the numbers and there was six numbers there. So I had six out involving six," Lepine said in an interview Monday.

'I barely slept'

Lepine said the woman's aunt in Yellowknife plus a friend in Fort Smith both doublechecked the quantities for her. The succeeding ticket was confirmed Sunday morning.

"There was bouncing around," she said. "My spouse and i hardly slept on Saturday night I slept one or two hours and [my pal] didn't sleep that considerably, and my aunt decided not to sleep that much."

Lepine said Monday were her last day in the office not because she received the lottery and made a decision to quit, but because the girl one-year work phrase expired.

"It's kind of surreal, I guess, is what it is," she claimed.

"I just still can't believe it. I still keep on looking with the ticket and said, you realize, 'I actually won $8.6 million.'"

Lepine will certainly pick up her winnings at the lottery businesses offices in Edmonton.

Your woman said her immediate plan is to go on some sort of Caribbean cruise with the woman's daughter. After that, your lover said her plans tend to be up in the air.

Former husband won $11M in 2007

Lepine's then husband, Barkley Heron, won $12 million in a Lotto 6/49 draw within October 2007, netting him and Lepine the most significant jackpot to be honored in the Northwest Territories.

Upon learning he had won the jackpot, Heron briefly slashed the cost of gas at his services station, the Rapid Corner Store, to 50 cents a new litre.

Lepine has due to the fact separated from Heron, nevertheless she said she will need with her some instruction from the first drawing win.

"Don't really invest. That's the lesson My partner and i learned," she said, incorporating that her main plan's to "put the take advantage the bank."

Lepine explained she bought her successful ticket at the same place where Heron earned his millions at the particular Rapid Corner Store inside Fort Smith.

The American Canada Lottery Corp. examined Heron's win, since he previously purchased the winning priced from his own retailer, but concluded that he followed all the regulations.

As for whether she will continue buying lottery lotto tickets, the N.W.T's newest millionaire claimed she probably will.

"You can not win if you don't play," Lepine said. "You got to buy a ticket in order to win."

Mega Millions Winner of $355 000 000 video

Two very lucky US Mega Millions winners (From Washington State and from Idaho) can now lay their claim to one of the biggest jackpots in US Mega Millions Lottery history, $355,000,000. Winners Jim and Carolyn McCullar visited the MegaMillions offices and verified their ticket to receive the jackpot prize. Watch this video of what this couple from Ephrata, Washington had to say:

UK lotto winners 23 october 2010

It's a family affair for a three member syndicate from the Doncaster area, after a dad and his two sons scooped a massive £6,722,094 share of the Lotto double rollover on Saturday 23 October 2010.

Mark Holmes (28), his brother Ian (32) and dad Les (58) have been in a family syndicate for the last 12 years and have played with the same line and number combinations since then, buying a Lotto ticket every week.

Mark explains: "We religiously play the same numbers which we chose at the start, but we never thought we would land the jackpot! On Saturday night, me and my girlfriend Holly (24) were watching X Factor at our house and after a phonecall from my brother, we decided to check our numbers. I can't believe we have actually won, we are all over the moon!

"I called the Lottery Line five times just to check that the six numbers on our ticket matched the numbers drawn. When it finally sunk in, I spoke to Camelot to confirm we had the winning ticket, and for safe keeping, we put it in a metal tin - just in case!

"Holly saw a fortune teller back in June who told her she would have some luck and that the number 7 was important - this was the set of balls used in the machine when we won, so it must have been fate."

Mark says that the best thing about winning is financial security - especially during the current climate. He currently works as a manager but is also a bit of an entrepreneur. Holly and Mark co-founded two companies - Festi4, a festival coach transport company and Eastern Province, an online shop for Fairtrade furniture - and Holly runs them full time. In the future, Mark hopes to be able to build these businesses to be even bigger and better. Ian is a machine operator and has already decided that he will leave his role to join Mark and help develop the companies into true family businesses.

Mark added: "Holly and I will now do what we have always wanted to do - buy a retirement home in Corfu. We won't move house but maybe get a new car - something practical such as a 4X4 to help us with the festival company - we need something which can go through fields easily!"

Ian and his wife Debbie (28), who is a medical receptionist, are already planning to buy a new home in the local area. Mark adds: "It is a double celebration for them as it was their anniversary on 25 October as well. They have two young children and need more growing space, so a new home would be perfect."

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ONE NUMBER SHORT OF $20,000,000 FOR SOUTH AFRICAN WINNER

A regular PlayHugeLottos customer took home a substantial win after last night's Powerball draw (10 February 2010). Johann T., a resident of Pretoria, South Africa, has been playing for quite some time now and has won a number of smaller prizes in the past.

When he logged on and selected 5-8-29-37-38 as his main numbers, and 11 as his Powerball selection, little did he know that within 24 hours, one of the PlayHugeLottos representatives would be calling him to make him aware that his entry would make him $200,000 (£127,966) richer.

His number selection matched all five of the main numbers drawn, and would have raked in $20,000,000 had his Powerball number selection matched the number drawn.

While this type of win has happened on a number of occasions before, what always interests us is the perspective. The customer holding the ticket more often than not is thrilled at their good fortune, while all those around them tend to bemoan the fact that the ticket was one number short of winning millions of dollars.

Would you be happy with a second tier win, or would you spend your days regretting the opportunity that could have been?

Winners of EuroMillions Superdraw 18 september 2009

FIFTEEN FRIENDS SHARE FRIDAY'S €100,000,000 EUROMILLIONS SUPERDRAW JACKPOT

A group of 15 friends from a small village in the South of France woke up on Saturday with pretty good news waiting for them. They were on the verge of becoming multi-millionaires.

The friends all hail from a small town named Venelles, which has a population of 8000 people, all of whom were, no doubt, abuzz with excitement that some of their residents can now count themselves as super-wealthy.

To put things into perspective, the single ticket purchased resulted in the group winning the largest ever EuroMillions jackpot won in France (€100,000,000 / $169,000,000 / £87,000,000).

"The winners are people from Venelles, people who get up early in the morning and work hard," said Mayor Jean-Pierre Saez.

For security reasons, the full details of the winners has as yet not been disclosed, but it is likely that they will be making public appearances pretty soon, but the mayor believes that the group is made up of "good people".

Officials said the winning ticket had been bought in southern France and would be shared equally among the 15 winners. The draw for the nine country pan- European lottery took place on Friday 18 september 2009.