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    Calif. school workers win lottery prize _ again

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — A group of employees at a California school district who won a $12 million lotto prize last year has done it again and now stands to collect another pot worth more than a quarter of a million dollars.

    State lottery officials announced Friday that the same Montebello Unified School District workers who won $12 million last February have won a MEGA Millions prize worth $262,743.

    The group, which now consists of 16 members, has been playing together for over two years and is a mixture of part- and full-time clerical workers.

    The winning ticket was sold at Arrow Liquor in Commerce. The MEGA Millions draw was Dec. 2, and the group claimed its winnings Friday.

     

    15 comments

    • mikeyfinn60  •  San Antonio, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      I wish i can win the big one! I came close a long time ago. When i picked my own numbers
      I got 4 right and missed 1 by two numbers and 1 by 1 number. YOU never hear about those stories. That was for the Texas lotto. I might pick some for tonight's mega millions. Maybe Friday 13h will bring me good luck. I Doubt it.
    • Buster Deekatt  •  St Charles, Michigan  •  4 mths ago
      Somehow, that kinda takes the wind out of the sails,,,,jeeze, lucky to clear $2 on a scratch-off. pffft!
    • Witz  •  Freeport, Illinois  •  4 mths ago
      Outstanding!
    • MRS  •  4 mths ago
      I do not play as much as I used to, but I am going to win one day. I just know it.
    • Andrew  •  Lexington, Kentucky  •  4 mths ago
      could i have the secret formula i guaranteen they have one to beat the odds congraulations
    • Wile E. Coyote--Supergeni ...  •  4 mths ago
      Hmmm.
    • anon  •  4 mths ago
      lucky sons on beetches
    • Philip  •  4 mths ago
      INVESTIGAION IS WARRANTED. They should look into whether any of these "employees" is a teacher in something like math, statistics, or computer programming, who could figure out the algorithm for how the winning numbers are drawn, or maybe is related or has ties to someone who could do that. A former lottery worker got caught doing that not too long ago, and I suspect somebody in this group of "employees" got a clue how to do it. Two big prizes in less than a year is too "coincidental" for me. Somebody's cheating. Gotta be.
    • JaniceG  •  4 mths ago
      Are they hiring ?
    • Edward  •  4 mths ago
      Now dang it......That's just not right!
      • George 4 mths ago
        I agree with you, Edward. I deserve to win the lottery more than these guys - I deserve to win even more than you.
    • Randy  •  Walnut Creek, California  •  4 mths ago
      I'd like to see the odds of that! It sounds a little fishy to me.
    • Thomas  •  4 mths ago
      At least we are getting some recycled use of our tax money by these school employees paying the dumb tax of the lottery.
      • Douglas 4 mths ago
        you are an idiot. Spend a couple of days in a school and watch what we have to put up with. Then you might know what you are talking about.
      • G P 4 mths ago
        Doug, it is likely that Thomas never spent more than two days in a row in any school, even as a student.
    • Dennis  •  4 mths ago
      To the 12 Million dollar lottery winners: "what are you gonna do with all that money"
      Winners: "we'll just keeping working for the school district 'till it's gone"

      Yeah, these people with the cushy government jobs have it too good. Cops, teachers, firemen, soldiers... it's not the millionaires that aren't paying enough taxes it's these gold bricking government workers. Heck, if we started taxing investment income at the same rate that we taxed wages all job creators would quit creating jobs and go get one instead, the country would be ruined,
      • G P 4 mths ago
        You have a major problem with something called "thinking before speaking". I'm guessing you have none of the jobs you describe as 'cushy', because they all require skills you do not have and are likely never to have given the level of your ignorance as demonstrated by your comment.
      • fourtyfivefan 4 mths ago
        You included SOLDIERS as a "cushy job?" GP is right; you need to think before you speak. As an Army Vet, I find your remark very insulting, demeaning and just downright uninformed. Let's see you guard the DMZ in Korea in January, looking over at people who want nothing more than to slit your throat. Let's see you drive on a road in Falujah or Afghanistan wondering when the next IED will take off your legs or worse. Let me see you be away from your family for all the holidays, sometimes for years at a time, walking a guard post at Guantanamo, or in the dead of winter in Alaska or Germany...then come back and tell me just how "cushy" we have(had) it; uninformed, ignorant liberal #$%$ant!
    • Oliver Clothesoff  •  4 mths ago
      They should be excempt since they already won $12 mil.....
    • Ben  •  4 mths ago
      Dennis,
      Not all govt workers have cushy jobs. A GS-5 govt worker barely makes more than minimum wage despite having a college degree.
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