Michigan Lottery Results

Michigan Lottery Results, After waiting patiently for the Mega Millions results Friday night, the March 9, 2012 Mega Millions winning numbers were finally posted. The lottery numbers are 9, 10, 27, 36, 42, the Mega Ball number is 11, and the Megaplier is X 4.

The winning lottery numbers are normally posted within 30 minutes of the drawing; however, last night’s lottery results were much later than expected, resulting in frenzied searches to see if anyone won the Mega Millions jackpot. Did you buy lottery tickets for March 9th, and if so, were you one of the lucky Mega Millions winners?

Unfortunately for over one-million lottery players, there were no Mega Millions grand prize winners Friday night. That doesn’t mean there aren’t lots of people waking up Saturday morning with tens of thousands of dollars to fatten up their bank accounts. In fact, there were fourteen (14) Match 5 + 0 prizes for $250,000. The winners matched five out of six Mega Millions winning numbers, but not the Mega Ball number for the second-tier lottery prize.

Three (3) of the lottery winners purchased their tickets in California, two (2) winners each in Georgia and New York, and one (1) Mega Millions winner each from Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Virginia.

If any of the above winners purchased Megaplier tickets for this wager, they’ll be thrilled when they get to their local lottery headquarters and find that their prize winnings instantly increased to $1,000,000! That would definitely make the extra dollar worth the price!

There were also seventy-nine (79) Match 4 + 1 winners for $10,000 each. Since the Megaplier number for March 9th was X 4, anyone holding Megaplier tickets will be receiving checks for $40,000 instead.

There were over 3000 Match 4 + 0 winners for $150 each. Again, anyone with Megaplier tickets will have their prize winnings multiplied by 4 to $600! All together, there are a total of 1,245,921 Mega Millions lottery winners in Friday’s game. Surely you were you one of them?

The next Mega Millions drawing is March 13, 2012 at 11:00pm EST, and you don’t want to miss it, so buy your tickets now! That’s because Tuesday’s estimated jackpot is $171,000,000 annuity, or $124,000,000 cash-value before taxes! Mega Millions winning numbers are drawn Tuesday and Friday evenings at WSB-TV in Atlanta, Georgia. Tickets are sold in 41 states plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The final Mega Millions results are usually available within a few hours of the drawing.

Colton Harris Moore

Colton Harris Moore, At times, Colton Harris-Moore’s two years on the run were euphoric – the nights of beatific solitude in the woods, the soaring adrenalin rush of his first moments airborne in the cockpit of a stolen plane.
But most other times were far less glamorous: sleeping in portable toilets or culverts as he sought shelter from the elements and the police.

The youthful thief who rocketed to international notoriety as the “Barefoot Bandit” is done with both extremes for the moment. He was sentenced Friday to more than seven years in a Washington state prison after pleading guilty to dozens of charges, including burglary and identity theft, stemming from his crime spree.

Harris-Moore, now 20, showed no reaction as the sentence was delivered by a judge who took pity on his bleak upbringing at the hands of an alcoholic mother and a series of her convict boyfriends – a situation she described as a “mind-numbing absence of hope.”

“This case is a tragedy in many ways, but it’s a triumph of the human spirit in other ways,” Island County Judge Vickie Churchill said. “I could have been reading about the history of a mass murderer. I could have been reading about a drug abusive, alcoholic young man. That is the triumph of Colton Harris-Moore: He has survived.”

Harris-Moore’s daring run from the law earned him international fame and a movie deal to help repay his victims after he flew a stolen plane from Indiana to the Bahamas in July 2010, crash-landed it near a mangrove swamp and was arrested by Bahamian authorities in a hail of bullets.

California Lottery

California Lottery, For San Franciscans, all of their vacation dreams are about to come true. A winning ticket worth nearly $ 5 on Wednesday night and Fantasy develop 292,000 was bought at a station in San Francisco Gas, said the California Lottery. The ticket that matched all five numbers in the draw was bought from a Chevron gas station located at the corner of Geary and Arguello Boulevard.

The winning combination was 24, 2, 23, 21 and 25, and the ticket is worth 291,989.
According to the National Lottery, Fantasy 5 offers some of the best opportunities for all lottery games in California. The winning numbers are drawn every day for the first prize and that starts at 50,000 and increases daily until a winner is chosen.

Winners have six months to claim their prize before it expires, and may do so by visiting the local district office of Hayward or contact lottery officials.

To protect against theft of tickets, they should be signed and kept in a safe place.

Tickets can be purchased from one of more than 21,000 lottery retailers. Over 94 cents of every dollar spent on tickets goes back to the community in the form of education.

Since 2000, lottery players have helped and 1 billion for public schools each year. According to officials of the lottery, and over 23 billion has been paid since 1985.

Florida Lottery

Florida Lottery:No one hit it big in Wednesday night’s Florida Lotto or multistate Powerball drawings, but a Fantasy 5 player who bought a ticket in Margate will walk away with a quarter of a million dollars.

The Lotto jackpot for Saturday’s drawing rolled over to $24 million after no one matched all six numbers drawn Wednesday: 5, 12, 20, 21, 42 and 48, the Florida Lottery said Thursday. The Xtra prize multiplier for $2 tickets was 2.

Saturday’s Powerball jackpot grew to $200 million. Wednesday’s numbers were 17, 21, 37, 41 and 50, the Powerball was 1 and the Power Play prize multiplier for $2 tickets was 2.

Illinois Lottery

Illinois Lottery,Aldermen Monday night narrowly voted to allow a local woman to expand her small coffee and donut business inside the downtown Des Plaines train station by permitting the installation of an Illinois Lottery machine.

In addition, Rita Shah, owner of the small business, will be allowed to increase the number of items she sells to include prepackaged sandwiches and other food items.

Mrs. Shah, a Des Plaines resident, had obtained the approval of the Illinois Lottery Agency to install a machine for the sale of instant online tickets.

According to Mayor Marty Moylan, the Lottery was prepared to install the machine last week, but could not do so because terms of the city’s lease with Shah do not include the machine.

In addition, the 10-year lease city officials agreed to last year, limits the number of types of items that can be sold in the depot, which is owned by the city.

Mrs. Shah and the city signed the long-term lease last year at a beginning rate of $230 per month with increases every year.

At Monday night’s city council meeting, aldermen Jean Higgason (4th) and Dan Wilson (7th) expressed concerns about the proposal.

“I have no problem with food, but does she know if she can make any revenue?” said Higgason referring to the Lottery machine.

“She’s received the Lottery’s OK,” responded Assistant City Attorney Ray Bartel.

“That’s between the Lottery and Mrs. Shah,” added Ald. John Robinson (2d).

A few moments later, Ald. Wilson said he believes that if a Lottery machine is allowed inside the station it will become phenomenally profitable. He also said the $230 per month rent is very favorable to the tenant and that the city should re-bid the agreement to allow only one-year leases. Mrs. Shah was able to secure the lease through the city’s competitive bidding process.

“If you do a one year lease it’s like you’re asking for something to fail,” said Ald. Mark Walsten (6th) who added that he favors granting Shah’s request. “I’d like her to succeed,” he said.

Walsten also stated that he could support a four-year lease, not the one year Wilson proposed. Ald. Rosemary Argus (8th) suggested a minimum two-year lease.

“It’s almost like we’re afraid she’ll succeed,” added Ald. Jim Brookman (5th) in response to Wilson’s one-year proposal. Later, Higgason said she’s concerned other nearby companies that have Lottery machines might lose business to Mrs. Shah.

Aldermen rejected a motion to send the entire matter back to committee for further review and discussion. Wilson’s suggestion to delay a vote until the time when Ald. Patti Haugeberg is in attendance was also rejected.

The train station is located in Haugeberg’s ward. She was not in attendance at Monday’s meeting.

In the end, council members voted 4 to 3 to allow Mrs. Shah to install a Lottery machine and to sell the additional food items.