{"id":112063,"date":"2019-01-14T02:52:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T23:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/furloughed-workers-wife-wins-virginia-lottery\/"},"modified":"2019-01-14T02:52:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T23:52:20","slug":"furloughed-workers-wife-wins-virginia-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/furloughed-workers-wife-wins-virginia-lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"Furloughed worker&#8217;s wife wins Virginia lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainEntity articleBody\">\n<div id=\"module-position-Re6V88h6Or0\" class=\"story-asset video-asset\">\n<div class=\"ui-video-wrapper \" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">\n<div class=\"js-ui-video-init ui-pluto-video js-video-aps js-uw-iframe-video uw-iframe-video story-video inline-story-video priority smallarticleattophtml5\" style=\"width: 540px; height: 304px;\" data-video-id=\"38891537\" data-snow-enabled=\"true\"><iframe class=\"snow-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/uw-media.usatoday.com\/embed\/video\/38891537?sitelabel=reimagine&amp;placement=snow-smallarticleattophtml5&amp;keywords=lotteries%2Cdemocrats%2Csuffering%2Cexasperation%2Canger%2Coverall-negative%2Cdonald-trump%2Cdisney-world%2Cgovernment-shutdown&amp;simpleTarget=disasters&amp;simpleExclusion=disasters&amp;pagetype=story&amp;cst=news&amp;ssts=news&amp;series=\" name=\"snow-player\/38891537\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay; 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I couldn\u2019t believe it,\u2019\u2019 Walls told Virginia Lottery officials of finding out she\u2019d won the contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Her good luck came in a roundabout way. Walls\u2019 scratch-off numbers did not originally earn her a prize, but she entered them in a second-chance drawing and the fortuitous combination was selected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px;\">USA TODAY Analysis: <\/strong><a data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2019\/01\/10\/government-shutdown-donald-trump-trusts-gut-base\/2535601002\/\">The art of not cutting a deal: Trump trusts his gut and tends his base<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px;\">More: <\/strong><a data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ncaaf\/acc\/2019\/01\/13\/clemson-football-president-trump-white-house\/2565054002\/\">President Trump criticized for inviting Clemson to White House amid government shutdown<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Walls said the money comes at a particularly helpful time because her husband, whose name and job were not revealed, has been on furlough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Walls said the family had been planning the trip to the Magic Kingdom in Orlando before her husband was forced to take unpaid leave from work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">On Friday, Congress agreed to provide back pay to furloughed federal workers, and President Donald Trump has indicated he will sign the measure. However, with negotiations between Trump and congressional Democrats at an impasse,\u00a0there\u2019s no sign of when those paychecks will arrive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">For the Walls family, the wait just got a lot easier.<\/p>\n<div id=\"module-position-Re6V88ghKjk\" class=\"story-asset gallery-asset\">\n<div class=\"companion-story-gallery js-llc\" data-name=\"compStoryGallery\">\n<div class=\"companion-galleries embedded_story hasendslate galleries\" data-gallery-id=\"2502716002\" data-title=\"See the impact of the government shutdown across the nation\" data-seo-title=\"\" data-ssts=\"news\/nation\" data-cst=\"news\/national\" data-published-date=\"2019-01-07T18:18:35.262Z\" data-gal-pageurl=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/picture-gallery\/news\/nation\/2019\/01\/07\/see-impact-partial-government-shutdown\/2502716002\/\">\n<div class=\"feature-btns\">\n<p><span class=\"playbtn feature-btns-label\">Autoplay<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"thumbLabel feature-btns-label\">Show Thumbnails<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"captionLabel feature-btns-label\">Show Captions<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"slide-nav prev gallery-prev\" rel=\"prev\">Last Slide<\/a><a class=\"slide-nav next gallery-next\" rel=\"next\">Next Slide<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p-text p-text-last\" id=\"article-body-p-last\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read or Share this story: https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2019\/01\/13\/government-shutdown-furloughed-workers-wife-wins-virginia-lottery\/2565312002\/<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2019\/01\/13\/government-shutdown-furloughed-workers-wife-wins-virginia-lottery\/2565312002\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] CLOSE According to new polls, President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are losing the battle on who is to blame for the partial government shutdown. 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