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Have you ever thought about winning the lottery? Students of Arkansas looking to fund their education can now enjoy the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery, which is meant to increase not only the quantity of awards but also the number of students who can apply. Cheryl Lyons, director of financial aid at UCA, said that “we want everyone to know about the scholarship and everyone apply early and do their FAFSA…it’s actually the same thing as the Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship (ACS)”.
For some reason many students did not understand how exactly the Scholarship Lottery works. In fact it is a big expansion to ACS because students already in school and nontraditional students’ categories were included although the requirements for current students vary significantly from the requirements for freshmen. Another great feature of the Scholarship Lottery is that no financial need is required to be entitled of the money.
So how much money are we talking about? The Scholarship Lottery funds $2,500 for freshmen year, $2,750 for sophomore year, $3,000 for junior year and $3,500 for senior year. For students already receiving ACS the sum will increase to $5000.
In Canada Lottery life it was a case of good and bad news for Barry Shell. The good news was when he discovered that he’d won over $4 million in the lotto, the bad news was that by the end of the day he’d ended up arrested and placed in jail. Barry Shell, from Brampton, Ontario in Canada chose to pick up his winning check for $4,377,298, which was the jackpot prize in the July 18 draw for the Lotto 6/49.
“I went to the store and checked my ticket on the self-serve ticket checker,” Shell was quoted as saying in a news release from the Ontario Loterie and Gaming Corporation. “As soon as I saw how much I had won, I grabbed a pen and signed my ticket.”
On Monday afternoon, a happy and joyous Barry Shell was published in a photo holding up his winning check outside the OLG headquarters on Dundas Street West in Toronto. After the photo was taken he walked away from the building and straight into the waiting arms of the local Peel Police officers. Shell was apparantly wanted by police on a six-year-old charge for failing to appear in court in relation to a theft of $5,000 and being in possession of property obtained through crime.
According to a spokesman for the OLG, every lottery winner undergoes a security check, and if anything is turned up during the course of the investigation the matter is turned over to the Ontario Provincial Police. Shell, 45, was held overnight and appeared in court on Tuesday. He has been charged and released.
The news release said Shell “has no immediate plans for the windfall.”
To end the month of July Lottery Tips, I’m writing about that ever elusive lottery bonus ball. We get emails every day on a variety of questions ranging from the elementary like this one ‘What is the Lottery Bonus Ball” through to asking for our recommendations on which is the best USA state lottery to play. Obviously questions like the latter we’re unable to answer for obvious legal reasons, though the former we are happy to help.
so… WHAT IS THE LOTTERY BONUS BALL:
In almost every lottery game available six numbers are chosen by the entrant for each draw, 6 balls are then drawn PLUS one or more extra bonus balls. In these lotteries your entry consists only of the basic numbers, 6 in this example, and does not include a special guess for the bonus numbers.If you manage to guess all the basic numbers correctly, regardless of the bonus ball(s), you win the jackpot simple as that. The bonus balls are used to determine lower prize groups, according to the different prize categories shown in each of the lotteries in their Lottery Info page accessible through one of the 3 easy ways to choose your specific information at Lottery Info section at the site.
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