$1 million lotto winner is Bob Stewart of Aurelia won $1 Million in the Lifetime Riches. The store clerk who sold him the winning ticket asked if she could verify it for him. The One Stop Shop 1101 N. Lake Ave. in Storm Lake sold this winning ticket.
06/24/10 2 Men Split $1 Million Prize. Rolle Zellers and Keith Olson of Whiting will split the $1 million prize. Casey’s at 706 Tenth St. in Onawa sold this winning ticket. He added the Power Play option.
James Lumley hit the top prize of $50,000 on the "Double Blackjack Double Play" Scratch Game James Lumley claimed his jackpot at Iowa Lottery's headquarters in Des Moines. The Kum & Go 745 51st St. in West Des Moines sold this winning ticket.
04/7/10 Dave Lyons hit the Iowa Powerball lottery for $1,000,000 ,he'd won this $1 million prize ticket on April Fool’s Day. The Shortstop convenience store 1010 S.E. National Drive in Ankeny sold this winning ticket.
04/02/10 Eric Petersen of Woodbury wins $30,000 Powerball jackpot Eric claimed his winnings at the Iowa Lottery's regional office in Storm Lake. The Mapleton BP station Highway 141 and 175 in Mapleton sold this winning lotto ticket. The actual winning numbers for 3/24/10 Powerball lottery were : 14-20-24-39-49 and Powerball 7. The Power Play =3.
03/16/10 Iowa Group Wins $200K. A group of Fort Dodge co-workers won $200,000 Powerball. It’s been a great story and a great run with all these people” said Randy Lohmeier, who buys the group’s tickets. We've been doing this a long time. The members of the group are all current or past employees of the Sears department store in Fort Dodge who pool their money to buy Powerball tickets. The 28 members of the Sears Fort Dodge Funtastics are Jacob Armstrong, Jason Bahr, Diann Brueschke, Gordon Carpenter, Chester Guthrie, Amy Hanson, Rick Jones, Darrel Larson, Darrel Lilly, Randy Lohmeier, Dennis Mernka, Michael Moore, Mike Mulroney, Linda Oester, Brian Sauers, Roger Simonson, Phil Stephenson, Melissa Vershoor and Woodward Wolfe. Cheryl London Kimberly Cabrera Mitchell Kruse of Callender, Bob Bartlett and Vicki Knutson, Cherryl Eslick Lindsay Hoeppner Laura Shelton and Bruce Maley.
03/15/10 David Hoing wins $50,000 with the Black Pearls Scratch Game. David Hoing said he never thought he'd win twice in a row, once on each ticket, let alone win the top prize of $50,000. "It was a lot of luck. The first one won five bucks and I thought, Well, you don't win two in a row and I guess I was wrong!" Hoing said. I called virtually half of the known planet, Hoing joked. I guess I have a reputation of being pretty lucky in the lottery, Hoing said. The Hy-Vee store at 306 Byron St. in Waterloo sold this winning ticket. He plans to use some of his winnings to pay bills as well as take his wife on a trip to Las Vegas.
Sheryl Crossett said she visited the Iowa Lottery's Web site and looked at the scratch tickets with the largest top prizes and the most top prizes left to win. She decided on Lucky Diamonds, and then bought a ticket. "I went back to my vehicle and I scratched the ticket, and I couldn't believe it!" said Crossett. "So I went back inside and I asked if anybody had better eyes than me because I wanted to be sure it was real!" The Petropointe 11408 Forest Ave. in Clive sold this winning lotto ticket.
Kim Hertel won a $500,000 prize and five other lottery players from Iowa and Kansas won $10,000 prizes in a joint drawing by the Kansas and Iowa lotteries. Kim Hertel of Washington was selected as the top-prize winner of $500,000 in the "Midwest Millions" drawing conducted by lottery officials in Topeka, Kan. "This isn't a joke is it?" Hertel asked when she was contacted Friday by lottery officials. "$500,000? For me? My legs are going numb, I have to sit down!"
Robert Kelley hit the Iowa Powerball lotto for $200,000. About four or five years ago, Robert Kelley's wife, Carolyn, tracked the Powerball numbers to help find their lucky set of numbers. "My wife kept track of all the winning numbers for about three months," explained Kelley to lottery staff. They made a list of the ones that hit most often and have been playing the same numbers ever since.
"My wife, she was going to bed last night and I told her to come downstairs, I had something to show her," laughed Kelley. "She couldn't believe it. She says, 'What?' I said, 'Come down here.' She got downstairs and I said, 'Look here, we got the winning numbers!' She still didn't believe it." "We're going to pay our house off and our vehicles. Put the rest in savings," stated Kelley. The Casey's store 504 S. Main St. in North English sold this winning lotto ticket.
10/24/09 10 Iowa Co-Workers from the Des Moines Firestone plant tire plant claimed $1 million Powerball jackpot from the 10/10/09 Powerball lottery. Firestone plant are calling themselves“ The Local 310 Ten” because they re all members of Local 310 of the United Steelworkers Union. They've pooled their money to buy Powerball tickets together for about five years and made as news of their good fortune spread. Dan Kelley of Urbandale bought the winning ticket at Casey s, 4560 E. 14th St. in Des Moines. As the group claimed its prize, the members of The Local 310 Ten were pooling their money to buy more tickets for the next drawing.
10/04/09 Aaron McDermott picked up his $10,000 playing Hot Lotto jackpot from the 9/26/09 drawing. The Jamboree Foods 1119 Market St. in Gowrie sold this winning Iowa lotto ticket. McDermott won a $10,000 prize by matching the first five numbers.
09/22/09 KANSAS, IOWA LOTTERY BEGIN THIRD EDITION Joint multi state instant scratchier has successful record, begins 2009 sales this week The popularity of the nation's first instant-scratch game sold in 2 states Kansas and Iowa to release a third version of "Midwest Millions."
One $1 million cash sold ticket in Wisconsin hit 5 white ball numbers with PowerPlay 2 $200K cash winners, one in Iowa and one in Kansas.
08/22/09 $1 Million Powerball Prize.The Chambers of Columbia and Rick Hamilton and Sharon Susler of Chariton bought this winning ticket together while camping. The Hy-Vee Gas station 4910 Maple Drive in Pleasant Hill, Iowa sold this winning lotto ticket.