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Deadline Passes for Collecting Texas Lottery Jackpot21 December 2001AUSTIN, Texas –– As reported by the Associated Press: "A $13 million Texas Lottery jackpot is going unclaimed Friday, with no one coming forward to personally claim the winnings before a six-month deadline passed. "Unless the winning ticket arrives at Texas Lottery Commission headquarters by mail with a postmark date of Dec. 20, the jackpot will go to the lottery's unclaimed prize fund and an account for health care to benefit the poor. "…The Quick Pick ticket -- containing winning numbers of 10-12-16-25-29-41 for the June 23 jackpot -- was purchased at a liquor store in Humble. The buyer chose the cash value option, making the ticket worth $7.3 million before taxes. "…The only other time a Lotto Texas jackpot went unclaimed was in 1995. A ticket worth $12.4 million, purchased for the drawing held Oct. 26, 1994 in Flower Mound, was never turned over to lottery officials in Austin by the deadline date of April 24, 1995…" |