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Court says woman can’t claim jackpot
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The Alabama Supreme Court says a woman who thought she had hit a jackpot worth almost $42 million at the Victoryland electronic bingo center will end up empty handed.
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The court ruled that an electronic bingo machine that showed Sherry Knowles had won $41.8 million obviously malfunctioned and that she was actually due no more than $2 from the operation in Macon County. The decision reversed a Macon County court ruling that said Victoryland owed Knowles $10 million. Knowles had bet $1 on an electronic bingo machine on May 2, 2006 when the machine started adding credits, eventually showing she had won $41.8 million. Victoryland officials said the machine displayed the symbol “snake eyes,” which only pays two credits, or $2.
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MONTGOMERY, ALA.
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