Lucky lottery player scores big prize in Virginia — again. ‘It feels wonderful!’
A Virginia woman scored a big prize playing Powerball, but it wasn’t her first time to strike it lucky with lottery games, officials said. Jennifer Helfman, from Alexandria, won $100,000 in the Dec. 7 Powerball drawing, about two years after winning $399,392 in an online lottery game, the Virginia Lottery said in a Jan. 21 news release.
Virginia woman's $100,000 Powerball win is her second major lottery prize
A Virginia woman scored $100,000 from a Powerball drawing about two years after she collected $399,392 from an online lottery game.
Lottery player ‘cried tears of joy’ when he won a Christmas Day jackpot in Virginia
Stanley Dawson said he “cried tears of joy,” when he realized he won a $431,457 jackpot prize in the Castle of Crystals game, the Virginia Lottery said in a Jan. 22 news release. Dawson’s wife initially thought it was too good to be true and was weary about it being a scam,
Lottery player thinks life-changing Virginia win is scam. ‘Didn’t know what happened’
Manoj Chhetry, from Woodbridge, won a jackpot prize worth $4,303,499 in the Dec. 22 drawing for the Merry Money Mania game, the Virginia Lottery said in a Jan. 22 news release. Chhetry told lottery officials he thought it was a scam at first and had to call his wife to help him verify that he really had won. “I didn’t know what happened!” he said.
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Is it time for Virginia to implement rent control laws? A look at legislation.
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Mother on trial in West Virginia denies locking adopted teens in shed
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Virginia breaks five-game losing streak, beats stumbling Boston College
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