Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 10, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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. Lotto Winner will take $117.6-m Lump sum b Raintree mass. ? meet Geraldine Williams a retired custodian and cleaning woman who will no longer have to mop her own floors or dust her own furniture. Williams stepped Forward yesterday to claim the $294-million Mega millions Jackpot the second largest Jackpot Ever to go to a single person in North Ameri Ca. Williams 67, said Shell take the payout in a Lump sum of $117.6 million after taxes. She said she a still in Shock a week after the numbers were drawn. I a in disbelief she said. I can to believe its Williams cleaned Homes after retiring As a custodian at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She said she had fully intended to keep an appointment to clean a clients Home this week until she was told she had to meet with financial advisers in Boston. Williams said keeping her Good for tune from everyone but her children had been difficult. Its horrible she said. I Don to like lying. I Don to like sneaking Williams said she plans to give the Money to her children and some Chari ties and to travel Peacock said Williams picks up trash in their neighbourhood of two and three family Homes. She added that Williams takes care of people that Are elderly. If i know Gerry Shell still want to go and take care of the largest single ticket lottery Jack pot Winner in North America was Jack Whitaker of Scott depot w.va., who won a Power Ball Jackpot of $314.9 million on Christmas Day 2002. ? associated press i Brief
journalist gunned Down Moscow ? a prominent american journalist who had written incisively about the connections of politics Busi Ness and crime in Russia throughout its Post soviet reorganization was shot to death last night outside the Maga Zine offices where he worked. Paul Klebnikov the editor in chief of Forbes Russia Magazine was shot four times As he left work and walked toward a nearby subway station a local radio station reported. Klebnikov a Brand of investigative journalism had Long irritated Many of Russia a elite. Sci sues former ceo new York ? Sci inc. Is suing its former ceo Bernard Ebbers saying he must repay $408 million us the company loaned him Over two years. The suit filed yesterday in . Bankruptcy court for the Southern District of new York also seeks to void Ebbers resignation agreement which promised him a lifetime pension of $1.5 million us a year an office and computer and use of the company Jet. Teacher sent to prison St Jerome que. ? a High school teacher who transformed a teenage student into his mistress has been sent to prison for three years. Louis Laurin pleaded guilty june 30 to two counts of sexual exploitation of a Young person and one charge of corrupting a child a morals. Teen targets gun maker Jacksonville Fla. ? a California teenager left paralysed by an accidental shooting a decade ago placed a bid in Federal bankruptcy court yesterday to buy the flawed handguns manufacturer so he can shut it Down. Brandon Maxfield 17, raised $175,000, much of it through his web site to buy bankrupt Bryco arms of Costa Mesa Calif. He wants to melt Down 70,000 a assembled guns and close the company for Good. Bryco filed for bankruptcy in 2003 after a jury awarded the teen $51 Mil lion in damages in a lawsuit. Tiger eaten men jailed Shanghai China ? a chinese court has sentenced two men to prison for killing and eating siberian Tiger a highly endangered species living in the country a Northeast an official news paper reported Friday. Zhang Lichen was sentenced to nine years and Gong Weishen to five years the Shanghai daily reported. Nude photo spurs Boycott Montreal ? a front Page photo of a naked boy hanging upside Down and clutching a rope attached to a tree has prompted one of Quebec a biggest Magazine distributors to Boycott the latest edition of a nudism publication. The photo which shows the boys genitals appears in the summer edition of naturism Quebec which Sells for $6. The boys father took the shot five years ago when his son was about 10. ? from the news services
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