International Business News - Winner http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif The winner of last week's $57 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot is a registered sex offender who also pleaded guilty to two breaking and entering charges in the 1980s. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080619/sex-offender-wins-57-million-lottery-jackpot.htm Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:57:24 EDT University of Utah geneticist Mario Capecchi got a bonus after winning the Nobel Prize for medicine last fall: He learned he has a younger sister. Capecchi, 70, and half-sister Marlene Bonelli, 69, met last month in northern Italy. It was technically a reunion, but really more of an introduction; they were too young to remember when they were separated in the early days of World War II. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/65777-us-nobel-winner-lost-sister.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080606/nobel-winner-reunited-with-sister-lost-in-wwii.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080606/nobel-winner-reunited-with-sister-lost-in-wwii.htm Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:27:14 EDT A lucky lottery player who stopped into a suburban Cincinnati liquor store has a Mega Millions ticket worth $196 million. Lottery spokeswoman Marie Kilbane said Friday night that the ticket for the drawing was bought from Main Street Wine & Spirits in Amelia, a village of about 3,500 in southwest Ohio. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/winning-mega-millions-ticket-sold-near-cincinnati.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 23:28:55 EDT A construction company owner who lost two homes in Hurricane Katrina claimed a $97 million Powerball prize, a jackpot won off a ticket he bought at a convenience store where he stopped to buy his wife a gallon of milk. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/45017-powerball-winner.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080509/man-who-lost-homes-in-katrina-claims-97m-powerball-prize.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080509/man-who-lost-homes-in-katrina-claims-97m-powerball-prize.htm Fri, 09 May 2008 07:00:08 EDT A woman who won $5 million in the Georgia lottery a year ago has been found stabbed to death in her home, and her former boyfriend has been charged with murder, authorities said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080507/5-million-lottery-winner-found-slain-ex-boyfriend-charged.htm Wed, 07 May 2008 23:02:40 EDT Paul and Sue Rosenau say they already have everything they need, so their lives won't change that much after winning a $180.1 million Powerball jackpot. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/44433-powerball-jackpot-winner.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080506/minnesota-couple-claims-180-million-powerball-jackpot.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080506/minnesota-couple-claims-180-million-powerball-jackpot.htm Tue, 06 May 2008 23:00:30 EDT Somewhere, someone's holding a small slip of paper purchased in southern Minnesota that's worth up to $180.1 million. Minnesota State Lottery officials say the sole winning Powerball ticket from Saturday night's drawing was sold somewhere in Rice County. Lottery officials won't specify exactly where it was sold until the winner comes forward. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080504/powerball-ticket-worth-180-1-million-sold-in-southern-minn.htm Sun, 04 May 2008 23:58:25 EDT David Sneath has worked at a Ford Motor Co. parts warehouse for 34 years, but it didn't take him any time at all to walk out once he discovered he had won a $136 million Mega Millions jackpot. "I y... http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/38005-mega-millions-winner.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080403/jackpot-winner-to-boss-im-out-of-here.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080403/jackpot-winner-to-boss-im-out-of-here.htm Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:30:01 EDT After claiming a Powerball ticket worth $276.3 million, eight employees of a sheriff's department tax office talked Tuesday about their relationships, helping family first _ and getting back to work. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080318/tax-office-workers-win-276m-in-lottery.htm Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:56:39 EDT The West Virginia Lottery worked Monday to confirm that eight women in the Monongalia County Sheriff's Department Tax Office hold a winning Powerball ticket worth $276.3 million. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080317/8-may-hold-276-million-powerball-ticket.htm Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:26:28 EDT People in this town have been chattering since Georgia Lottery officials confirmed that the winning ticket for the $270 million Mega Millions jackpot drawing was purchased at a local convenience store. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080224/270m-mega-millions-ticket-sold-in-ga.htm Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:44:35 EST Donald Ertman got a little agitated when he found out he'd have to make the 150-mile trip to Lansing to collect his lottery winnings. All that for $150, he complained. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080212/mich-lottery-winner-makes-great-mistake.htm Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:44:05 EST The luck keeps rolling for a convicted bank robber who won a $1 million lottery prize: Though he violated his probation by buying the ticket, a judge says he can keep the money. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080118/robber-on-probation-can-keep-1m-jackpot.htm Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:57:59 EST Residents were abuzz Thursday over the chance that a local _ maybe someone who helped fix some of what Hurricane Katrina and the looters did _ is the person sitting on a $97 million Powerball ticket. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/10538-powerball-winner.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080117/n-o-suburb-hopes-97m-winners-a-local.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080117/n-o-suburb-hopes-97m-winners-a-local.htm Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:47:09 EST About three weeks ago, Sheila Botelho told her boss at an Ann & Hope outlet store that she and her husband were retiring earlier than expected. She didn't mention why: a $151.9 million winning Powerball ticket, the largest lottery prize in Rhode Island history. The Botelhos lawyer and two bodyguards cashed in the prize for them Friday at the Rhode Island Lottery. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20071221/powerball-winners-claim-151m-jackpot.htm Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:51:18 EST