Utah woman wins $9,632,620 at Mesquite resort

Friday, April 21, 2000 | 10 a.m.

Cathie Allred and her husband, Willie, had driven from their home in St. George to the Oasis Resort Casino in Mesquite, Nev., Wednesday night for dinner and some entertainment.

She said she started playing with $20 and the machine kept paying off for over an hour.

"Then the Megabucks hit and even though I saw the numbers, I grabbed a slot attendant and asked her how much I had really won," she recalled.

Allred said she won $8,500 several years ago and was overwhelmed.

"Now I'm just speechless," she said.

Allred, 37, has three children and is district manager for the St. George Spectrum newspaper.

Asked what she planned to do with the money, she responded "I'm going to pay off all our bills and then see about adopting two children."

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