$10M lottery winner gets prison in fatal crash
Aug. 16, 2008 09:31 AM
Associated Press
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - A man who won $10 million in a California lottery game has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for a drunken-driving crash that killed three people.
Thomas Turnour had pleaded guilty to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and causing injury while driving intoxicated.
The winner of a SuperLotto game in 2001 was sentenced Friday in San Bernardino.
Authorities say the 52-year-old man from Victorville was driving a pickup truck that hit a car stopped at a red light in San Bernardino three years ago. Three people inside the first car died.
His attorney says Turnour essentially "turned over everything he has" to settle a lawsuit filed by the victims' families.
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2008/08/16/20080816lotterycrash-ON.html
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Saturday, August 16, 2008
Friday, May 9, 2008
Katrina took away house, gallon of milk gave 97 million reasons to smile
Man who lost homes in Katrina claims $97M Powerball prize
Published Friday, May 9, 2008 at 7 a.m.
BATON ROUGE, La. — 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.
When he turned in the winning ticket, Carl Hunter became the largest Powerball winner in Louisiana's history. He won the jackpot in January, but the 73-year-old small businessman waited nearly four months to claim the prize.
An avid lottery player, Hunter said he already had bought a Powerball ticket on Jan. 16 at the gas station less than two blocks from his home in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie. But he stopped at the station again that day to buy milk - at the request of his wife, Dianne - and got a second "quick pick" ticket.
"I had some change, and one dollar was used to buy this ticket," Hunter said Thursday at the Louisiana Lottery Corp. headquarters in Baton Rouge, where he claimed his prize.
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http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080509/APA/805090585
Published Friday, May 9, 2008 at 7 a.m.
BATON ROUGE, La. — 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.
When he turned in the winning ticket, Carl Hunter became the largest Powerball winner in Louisiana's history. He won the jackpot in January, but the 73-year-old small businessman waited nearly four months to claim the prize.
An avid lottery player, Hunter said he already had bought a Powerball ticket on Jan. 16 at the gas station less than two blocks from his home in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie. But he stopped at the station again that day to buy milk - at the request of his wife, Dianne - and got a second "quick pick" ticket.
"I had some change, and one dollar was used to buy this ticket," Hunter said Thursday at the Louisiana Lottery Corp. headquarters in Baton Rouge, where he claimed his prize.
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http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080509/APA/805090585
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
For grieving Wesley Chapel dad, Lotto win is bittersweet
Strange luck or blessing from above?
For grieving Wesley Chapel dad, Lotto win is bittersweetBy Helen Anne Travis, Times Staff Writer
Published Monday, April 7, 2008 8:55 PM
WESLEY CHAPEL — The day Gail Przybylski buried his oldest son, he also bought a lottery ticket.
And it won him a $9-million jackpot.
Przybylski's son Roy Hawkins, 30, died at home March 1. Przybylski, 52, did not wish to give the details, but said the death of his son — a musician who was trying to start a band — was unexpected.
The family buried Hawkins the afternoon of March 6. On the way home from the Oakside Cemetery they stopped at the Time Saver Food & General Store in Zephyrhills for soda.
Przybylski also bought $10 worth of lottery tickets for the March 26 drawing.
"I just happened to grab them because we stopped," Przybylski said Monday, saying he usually picks up some lottery tickets whenever he's at the store.
He randomly picked the winning numbers: 6-10-26-37-46-50. And, yes, he believes his son played a part in the winnings.
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http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/article447059.ece
For grieving Wesley Chapel dad, Lotto win is bittersweetBy Helen Anne Travis, Times Staff Writer
Published Monday, April 7, 2008 8:55 PM
WESLEY CHAPEL — The day Gail Przybylski buried his oldest son, he also bought a lottery ticket.
And it won him a $9-million jackpot.
Przybylski's son Roy Hawkins, 30, died at home March 1. Przybylski, 52, did not wish to give the details, but said the death of his son — a musician who was trying to start a band — was unexpected.
The family buried Hawkins the afternoon of March 6. On the way home from the Oakside Cemetery they stopped at the Time Saver Food & General Store in Zephyrhills for soda.
Przybylski also bought $10 worth of lottery tickets for the March 26 drawing.
"I just happened to grab them because we stopped," Przybylski said Monday, saying he usually picks up some lottery tickets whenever he's at the store.
He randomly picked the winning numbers: 6-10-26-37-46-50. And, yes, he believes his son played a part in the winnings.
go here for more
http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/article447059.ece
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