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My Quest: Find the Oreos

Greg Tillotson — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:50:00 +0000

Oreo has done it again. Two years ago they decided to put out a “candy corn” flavored Oreo cookie. I remember it well because we were living in Juneau at the time and the only store that had them were Targets – nonexistent in Juneau. So I put out the call to friends and family [...]

Heading Off to Get My Winning Tickets

Greg Tillotson — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:08:59 +0000

Finally out the door from work and now off to find the winning Powerball tickets for this Saturday night’s drawing. Who couldn’t use an extra $475 million dollars? As I said on the K-Bear Morning show today, I need to find a small town to purchase them in. I have read that statistically over the [...]

What Would You Do if You Won the Record High Powerball Jackpot?

Jami Bond — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:00:11 +0000

Let the Powerball frenzy begin! Nobody won the $325 million jackpot over the holiday weekend bringing Wednesday's jackpot to a new record high of $425 million! It's sure to go higher as lottery players snatch up their tickets and I would bet it will be closer to $500 million by the time the numbers are drawn Wednesday night! That's a lot of cash! So, it begs the question....What would you do if you won?

12 Unforeseen Downsides to Winning $656 Million in the Lottery

Danny Gallagher — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:00:12 +0000

Getting to take home a giant check worth millions in lottery winnings might sound like a dream come true, but it can also be a nightmare. Now someone out there has won at least a share of $656 million and we don’t know who will get the dough. Perhaps there’s a good reason for that.

Get Your Mega Millions Tickets Before 8 p.m. Tonight! [AUDIO]

Livin Large Larry — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:00:37 +0000

Even though the odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot today (March 30) is 1 in 176 million, I'm still playing. I stopped by J&J's Petro Mart after lunch today and purchased the winning ticket! On the K-Bear Morning Show, Jon and I were dreaming big! As of noon today the jackpot was at $640 million!

Mega Millions Reaches New Record High

Jami Bond — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:00:18 +0000

Get your Mega Millions lottery ticket before Friday! The jackpot is up to a new record high! Nobody matched all six numbers in the multi-state lottery game on Tuesday sending the jackpot to a whopping $476 million. 47 tickets came close matching five of the six numbers. Each of those tickets is worth $250,000. [...]

Teenager Finds Winning Lottery Ticket After Mom Makes Him Clean Room

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:00:17 +0000

Ryan Kitching’s mom had been nagging him to clean his room, as moms tend to do. When the 19-year-old from Midlothian, Scotland finally relented and attacked the mess, he found 12 old lottery tickets.

Figuring they must all be losers, he thought about throwing the tickets out with the rest of the junk. But then he had a “strange feeling” that he should check the numbers, and when he did, he was nearly $85,000 richer.

Entire Town Wins Lottery — Except for One Person

Shauna Wright — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:00:01 +0000

We’ve all seen those stories about groups of people who routinely buy lottery tickets together, only to have one member of the pack fail to do so the week they strike it rich.

Now something similar has happened again — in Spain.

Powerball is Going to Cost You More

Livin Large Larry — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:37:08 +0000

One of my New Year's Resolutions was to try and win millions by playing Powerball. You know the old saying, "You don't win if you don't play!" Beginning January 15, the price of Powerball tickets goes up from $1.00 to $2.00.

Iowa Lottery Winner Finally Materializes to Claim $16.5 Million After Year-Long Delay

Shauna Wright — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:00:31 +0000

On Monday, the deadline passed for an unknown $77 million lottery winner in Georgia to claim the prize. Unbelievable as that may have been, officials in Iowa had a similar situation — days before the deadline, a Hot Lotto ticket worth $16.5 million was still unaccounted for.

But no more. In a squeaker of epic proportions, an attorney for the unnamed winner stepped forward with the valuable little slip of paper on Thursday, just two hours before it would’ve been worthless.

Did Woman Who Won Four Lotteries Cheat Her Way to a Fortune?

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:45:09 +0000

Since 1993, Joan R. Ginther has hit the lotto jackpot four times, to the tune of $2 million, $3 million, $5.4 million and $10 million. The chances of this happening are one in 18 septillion. For a point of reference, there are about one septillion grains of sand on earth. Now there are doubts whether [...]

Janitor Wins $3.4 Million Lottery — and Continues to Be A Janitor [VIDEO]

K Bear — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:16:56 +0000

Tyrone Curry doesn’t have to wake up at 4 a.m. and mop the floors at Evergreen High School in Seattle. Not after the custodian won the Washington State lottery to the tune of $3.41 million five years ago. Curry stayed on because he was happy with his life. “I’m just Joe Citizen,” he told ‘Today.’ [...]