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The Portland Trail Blazers had a disastrous season this year as they finished 27-55, which was the sixth-worst mark in the league. They traded away C.J. McCollum, finally breaking up his pairing with Damian Lillard. Lillard only played in 29 games due to a season-ending abdominal surgery. Portland wants to...

Is today your lucky day? Here are the Mega Millions winning numbers for Friday, May 20, 2022: 33 - 40 - 59 - 60 - 69 and Megaball 22Megaplier was 3x ...

May 20 (UPI) -- An unidentified woman in Maryland cured her boredom by buying a lottery ticket that led to $25,000 in winnings. The woman purchased a $6, one-draw, nine-spot Keno ticket with the Super Bonus feature and matched eight of the nine numbers. The 36-year-old said she plays the...

Before Joe and Jess Thwaite announced their record-breaking £184 million EuroMillions’ jackpot win, just six UK winners who had bagged more than £100 million in the National Lottery had made the decision to go public.A total of 15 players have won a jackpot of more than £100m in the history of the National Lottery.Here is a look at the other top winners who went public after scooping life-changing amounts of cash.– Colin and Chris Weir, £161,653,000Mr and Mrs Weir from Largs, North Ayrshire, bagged their historic winnings in July 2011, making them the biggest UK winners at the time.Mr Weir...

Are you tonight’s lucky winner? It’s time to grab those tickets and check your numbers. The Mega Millions lottery jackpot has reset again after back-to-back jackpot wins in Minnesota on April 12 and Tennessee on April 15. Here are the winning numbers in Wednesday’s drawing:. 33-40-59-60-69; Mega...

The Mega Millions numbers have dropped for the Friday, May 20 lottery jackpot worth an estimated $131 million, with a cash option of $74.9 million. The winning numbers for Friday night's drawing are 33, 40, 59, 60, 69 and the Mega Ball is 22. The Megaplier was 3X. When is...

Lucinda Britt’s birth year was a lucky number combination for her in the Virginia Lottery. Not once, or twice, but 41 times. Britt, a resident of Norfolk, bought dozens of tickets for a single Virginia Lottery Pick 4 drawing. She used her birth year as the number combination for each ticket — 1-9-7-2, lottery officials said in a May 18 news release.

This week, a British couple became the nation’s biggest EuroMillions winners by earning a jackpot of £148million. So, how did they celebrate?A family source told The Sun that Joe Thwaite, 49, and his wife Jess, 44, enjoyed a relaxed meal at Miller & Carter restaurant in Gloucester.“It was a low-key celebration, the Thwaites weren’t popping champagne but they enjoyed the moment with their extended family,” they said.“They were in such a celebratory mood — they left a sizeable tip.”The source added that the family raised a glass in memory of Mrs Thwaite’s dad, Tony Shearing, who died in 2015, and...

Cautionary tales as a Gloucester couple celebrate their record-breaking £184m win

A man who won $285,000 on the lottery has said he has no plans to stop working as a waiter despite his ripe age of 82. Vicente Mosquera – who still works at an Italian restaurant in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States – said he used a special combination of numbers someone told him about many years ago.

The man who bought the ticket that scooped the largest lottery jackpot in UK history waited until his alarm went off to tell his wife they had won £184mJoe Thwaite browsed property site Rightmove whilst he waited for Jess Thwaite to wake up, switching off the price filter for the first time.The couple, from Gloucestershire,won more than £184 million in the EuroMillions last week becoming the biggest lottery winners the country has seen.They have been married for 11 years, and share two children who are of primary-school age. Mr Thwaite also has two children studying at university from a...

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Wednesday night's Powerball jackpot had a cash-value option worth $59.0 million

May 19 (UPI) -- A British couple became the country's biggest-ever National Lottery winners after scoring a $230,357,184.62 EuroMillions jackpot. Joe and Jess Thwaite of Gloucester, England, won the EuroMillions jackpot May 10 after Joe purchased a ticket at 4 p.m. on the day of the drawing, the National Lottery announced.