Bay Area Winner Claims $89 Million SuperLotto Plus Jackpot In Sacramento.News Editors SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2001 Lottery lottery, scheme for distributing prizes by lot or other method of chance selection to persons who have paid for the opportunity to win. The term is not applicable when lots are drawn without payment by the interested parties to determine some matter, e.g. officials announced today that the winner of the $89 million SuperLotto Plus jackpot prize for Saturday, March 3, 2001, claimed the prize in Sacramento today. Sang Cho who purchased her winning Quick Pick at a 7-Eleven in Moraga, on Saturday, March 3, 2001 arrived at the Sacramento District Office around noon to stake her claim on the $89 million prize. Cho who purchased five dollars of Quick Picks, became the largest individual winner in the California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). Lottery's 15-year history. Sales for the $89 million jackpot raised an additional $51 million for the state's public schools. On Sunday morning Sunday Morning may refer to:
The numbers drawn for the Lottery's third largest jackpot were 1, 8, 19, 33, 34 and the MEGA number Many states have set up lottery games that award a substantial prize, often in the tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars to some lucky winner or group of winners. Such games often go by the name of Mega Millions, Hot Lotto, or Powerball. was 23. The winning ticket was sold at 7 Eleven, 633 Moraga Road, in Moraga, California Moraga is an affluent suburban incorporated town located in Contra Costa County, California, The United States of America (USA), in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is named in honor of Joaquin Moraga, whose grandfather was José Joaquin Moraga, second in command to Juan Bautista de . The retailer will receive one half of one percent of $89 million or $445,000 for selling the winning combination. The $89 million is the largest single ticket prize won in the California Lottery's history. The biggest individual prize winner up until Saturday night was Juanita Colla of San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden who won $88 million on August 16, 2000. The $89 million jackpot is the third largest in California Lottery history and the largest SuperLotto prize since April 8, 1998, when the second largest jackpot of $104 million was split by 3 winning tickets and 24 winners. The largest California jackpot was $118.8 million on April 17, 1991, split by ten winning tickets and shared by a total of 54 winners. This $118.8 jackpot holds the record for the largest single-state Lottery jackpot in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . A total of 2,069,744 tickets won prizes in the SuperLotto Plus drawing of March 3, 2001. Thirty-two tickets won the second prize category of $23,277 for matching 5 numbers without the MEGA number. Two hundred and two tickets won $1,843 by matching four numbers plus the MEGA number. Since the California Lottery began in 1985, the Lottery has contributed $12 billion to California's public schools. |
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