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French Couple Wins €73M EuroMillions Jackpot
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New Jersey Player Scores Historic Mega Millions Jackpot
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Mega Tax Bill For Mega Millions Winner $1.13B In New Jersey
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Jackpots Galore: Seminole Hard Rock Player Wins $1M On $25 Bet
A lucky visitor won more than $1M while playing last week at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa.
Identified as “Sheryl S.,” the winner collected $1,025,719.52 at the Florida gaming property on March 17.
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Oklahoma: Man Allegedly Wields a Snake, Robs Casino Patron
There’s a range of weapons robbers use to commit crimes. From knives to handguns, assault rifles and baseball bats, some culprits will stop at nothing to intimidate their victims and rob them of personal belongings. Generally speaking, in case a weapon is involved the charges and possible sentence against the person may be tougher. Whatever the case may be about robbery weapons, it is not often that stories are heard about a person using an animal to conduct a robbery.
In one such peculiar case from Oklahoma, a 43-year-old man is facing charges after allegedly using a snake to threaten and rob a casino visitor. The same person, likely with the same animal, allegedly also attempted to rob a gas station. Ultimately, the person was identified and apprehended by the Oklahoma City Police. As announced by News On 6, the strange criminal case involves a person with the initials J.M.
The 43-year-old, who allegedly used the snake to intimidate people and rob them, was arrested recently. Earlier this week, the person was charged with animal cruelty and robbery by force. Still, it is important to mention that charges are merely accusations before they are proven beyond reasonable doubt in court.
Msgt. Gary Knight of the Oklahoma City Police revealed that it is quite uncommon to hear a case where an animal is used as a weapon for a robbery. He acknowledged that such occurrences are extremely rare.
“You don’t see a snake or even an animal for that matter used as a weapon in a robbery very often.“
Msgt. Gary Knight of the Oklahoma City Police
An Unusual Weapon
The person who was detained was allegedly involved in two incidents. One of the incidents was related to a Remington Park Casino patron, who claimed he was robbed by the 43-year-old. While the visitor was gambling at a slot machine, he saw the suspect who approached him.
In a swift moment, the casino patron saw a snake that the 43-year-old pulled out. The wielding of the snake scared the visitor enough to leave the slot machine and in it was some $400. According to law enforcement, after the encounter, the alleged snake-wielding robber collected the receipt from the slot machine, cashing out some $445.80 and left the casino.
In a separate incident, the same person with the snake allegedly threatened a gas station clerk and other people in the vicinity. Before he was arrested, according to police, the suspect used a pocket knife to cut the head off the snake before throwing it away.
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‘Lottery Fever’ Swells Mega Millions Jackpot to $1.1B, Powerball to $750M
No Mega Millions ticket on Friday night matched the six drawn numbers. It marked the 30th consecutive drawing without a jackpot winner.
For only the sixth time in Mega Millions’ 22-year history, the estimated annuitized jackpot for the game’s next drawing on Tuesday, March 26, is upwards of $1 billion. Lottery officials with the Mega Millions Consortium, which conducts the drawings at 11 pm ET on Tuesdays and Fridays at the WSB-TV studios in Atlanta, are forecasting Tuesday’s jackpot to be around $1.1 billion.
Lottery fever continues to spread throughout the country,” said Georgia Lottery President and CEO Gretchen Corbin, who is the lead director of the Mega Millions Consortium. The Georgia Lottery oversees each Mega Millions draw.
The $1.1 billion jackpot ranks fifth all-time among Mega Millions jackpots. The richest came last August when a player in Florida won a $1.602 billion jackpot.
Top Mega Millions Jackpots — Winner
- $1.602B — August 2023 — Florida
- $1.537B — October 2018 — South Carolina
- $1.348B — January 2023 — Maine
- $1.337B — July 2022 — Illinois
- $1.100B — March 2024 — ?
Lottery Drought
The Mega Millions jackpot hasn’t been hit since Dec. 8 when two tickets sold in California split a $395 million prize. Powerball players have been equally unlucky in winning the jackpot.
The Powerball jackpot has been hit just once this year. The stroke of luck came early on in the year, as a player in Michigan won an $842.4 million prize during the Jan. 2 drawing.
Powerball is drawn three times a week and its jackpot has slightly better odds at one in 292.2 million. Hitting the Mega Millions top prize is one in 302.5 million.
Powerball will be drawn tonight at 10:59 pm ET from the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee. Saturday’s drawing will be the 35th drawing in the jackpot run.
At $750 million, tonight’s jackpot offering is the ninth-largest in the game’s 31-year history.
Top Powerball Jackpots — Winner(s)
- $2.04B — November 2022 — California
- $1.765B — October 2023 — California
- $1.586B — January 2016 — California, Florida, Tennessee
- $1.08B — July 2023 — California
- $842.4M — January 2024 — Michigan
- $768.4M — March 2019 — Wisconsin
- $758.7M — August 2017 — Massachusetts
- $754.6M — February 2023 — Washington
- $750M — March 2024 — ?
Play Responsibly
Lottery officials say massive jackpots increase interest and media coverage, which results in higher ticket sales and delivers richer benefits for participating lotteries. Mega Millions and Powerball reps, however, encourage the public to play responsibly.
Large jackpots provide entertainment and winnings for our players nationwide while contributing to the beneficiary programs funded by each lottery. We appreciate our players and dedicated retailers, and we encourage everyone to play responsibly,” Corbin said.
Players should also be on the lookout for scams, as heightened jackpots bring out swindlers who use an array of deceitful tactics to gain personal information.
Mega Millions said earlier this month that lotteries never require a person to supply their banking account information before receiving their prize. Lotteries also do not reach out to winners via social media or send emails saying a winner must first pay taxes on their financial windfall before receiving the payout.
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