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The Florida Lottery announced today that two players matched all five winning numbers in the Friday FANTASY 5® drawing and will share a $231,158.62 top prize. The lucky winners will each receive $115,579.31. The winning FANTASY 5 numbers were: 02 - 06 - 19 - 20 - 21 which was matched by a person in North Port. The winning tickets were sold at the Hess Mart - Quick Pick (Free Play), 14807 Tamiami Trail North Port and Publix, 250 Citrus Tower Boulevard in Clermont in Lake County. Both locations also receive  

Some call it luck but Brampton resident Orbiton Ollivierre is thanking God and his dead brother for a $7.1 million Lotto 6/49 win. The 43-year-old won the jackpot after a few months of playing the numbers he found an old Lotto Super 7 ticket in his brother's wallet. Yesterday, a day after he picked up his cheque from the OLG prize centre, Olliverre was still working as a dispatcher at Sterling Concrete Sawing.  

State lawmakers are already eyeing another special session on the budget next month, including a proposal to ask voters to breathe new life into the Arizona Lottery. The plan comes even though the Republican-controlled Legislature has yet to give final approval to plans to cut about $300 million in state aid to education and welfare agency funds. That effort stalled Thursday when two GOP lawmakers refused to go along with a piece of the package to let state agencies raise their fees to make up for the  

State lawmakers are already eyeing another special session on the budget next month, including a proposal to ask voters to breathe new life into the Arizona Lottery. The plan comes even though the Republican-controlled Legislature has yet to give final approval to plans to cut about $300 million in state aid to education and welfare agency funds. That effort stalled Thursday when two GOP lawmakers refused to go along with a piece of the package to let state agencies raise their fees to make up for the  

The Minuteman Career & Technical High School chapter of DECA, an international organization for students studying marketing, management and entrepreneurship, will hold its 20th Annual "Breakfast with Santa" Saturday, Dec. 19 from 8 to 11 a.m. at the school, 758 Marrett Road in Lexington. Admission is $6. The ticket price includes an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast, a photo with Santa, and arts and crafts.  

The Lotto trademark is generic and does not belong to the National Lotteries Board, according to a recent court ruling, Business Day newspaper reported on Wednesday. "The expunging of the Lotto trademark opens the floodgates. This means that third parties who wish to sell or deal with lottery matters can use the name Lotto freely," said patent lawyer Don MacRobert. The ruling was made by the Supreme Court of Appeal on Monday in favour of the On-line Lottery Services, which allows consumers to play on  

Television viewers have been urged to help an educational support group for struggling young mothers to win a funding battle. The Hanley Community Learning Group is bidding for a £50,000 grant from the Big Lottery Fund. It wants the money to provide a programme of family classes at The Hope Centre, on Garth Street. If funding is secured, the group will set up a five-month run of weekly workshops to help struggling young mothers and their families develop essential skills.  

South Shields-based Arts 4 Wellbeing is one of six groups in the ITV Tyne Tees region battling it out for a share of £200,000 from the Big Lottery Fund. Four will win awards of up to £50,000 each, which Arts 4 Wellbeing would use to establish outreach sessions in the community. Each group will feature on regional news programme North East Tonight next week, with Arts 4 Wellbeing appearing on Tuesday evening.

I will be using all of my contacts and calling in a few favours to get as many votes as possible!   -Dave Wood

 

Amanda Lake kept playing the People's Postcode Lottery despite her financial problems because she "wanted to do her bit". Now the mum-of-four's commitment has paid off – after scooping a £25,000 prize. And it couldn't have come at a better time as Amanda was just days away from borrowing money to pay off solicitors' fees in order to declare herself bankrupt.