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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Lottery officials say a Billings man has won $250,000 in a scratch-off game.

Lottery officials said Monday that Richard Schneider claimed the Quarter Million Cash prize with a ticket he bought at a Trading Post in Billings

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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Lottery officials say a Kalispell man and a Billings woman have claimed major prizes.

Alandus Thomas has claimed a $50,000 to prize in the "Super Monopoly" scratch game with a ticket he purchased at Town Pump on West Idaho Street in Kalispell

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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Lottery officials have announced the winners of three major prizes.

William Land Jr. of Modesto, Calif., won a $25,000 top prize for the "Twister" scratch game with a ticket he purchased at Short Stop in Miles City

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A defective lottery ticket raised and then dashed an out-of-work man’s dreams. It was like a printing machine played a cruel trick on him.

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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Lottery officials say a Great Falls man has claimed the $316,000 Wild Card jackpot from the April 21 drawing.

Robert Pearce purchased his ticket at The Cigarette Store in Great Falls

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It takes a lot of luck to pick the winning numbers in a million dollar lottery. It takes a lot more to lose the winning ticket and still be able to claim the cash.

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Not one, not two, but six $1 million Powerball tickets were sold at the same QuikTrip gas station located in Glendale, Arizona.

Only one person has come forward thus far to claim their ticket and therein lies the source of a difference of opinion between lottery officials and the owner of the establishment that sold the tickets.

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The odds of picking winning lottery numbers are remarkably slim — let alone doing it twice with the exact same numbers. Yet that’s what happened to a Virginia woman who won a $1 million Powerball lottery twice on the same day.

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Merle and Patricia Butler, a retired couple in their 60s from the small town of Red Bud, IL, stepped forward on Wednesday to claim their share of the record-breaking $656 million Mega Millions jackpot.

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Money may not buy happiness, but it just might buy you a whole heap of trouble.

One Michigan lotto winner discovered that firsthand after she was arraigned on two felony counts of welfare fraud.

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