I Could Handle Getting This Lucky

Lottery winner gets lucky — 10 times
Seattle man takes home $1.75 million with multiple winning tickets

SEATTLE - Archie Herring of Seattle just missed winning this week’s huge $130 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot, correctly guessing five of the six numbers drawn but missing the all-important Mega Ball number.

He is crying all the way to the bank.

Herring, 68, played his five-number combination on 10 separate tickets, each one good for a second prize of $175,000, or a total of $1.75 million.

Herring brought his winning tickets into the Washington Lottery’s Seattle office Wednesday and walked away with a check of $1,312,500 after taxes.

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And in other news, Roger Clemens will be back with the Astros in 2005 at a paltry rate of $18 mil-yun. Not bad for a year's work.