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Central Islip lottery winner feeling grandNews Story
What do you do with a million dollars?Long Island's latest big winner is paying off his credit card debt, for starters.Rich Vickers, 50, of Central Islip, said he will use most of his first payment to pay off $25,000 in charge card bills this week.Lottery officials presented Vickers with his first payment Friday at Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City. Vickers won $1 million with a $5 ticket for the New York Poker Instant game.He's the 17th Long Islander to win a million or more in 2005.Vickers,
Nov 28, 2005, 12:15 pm - Todd - Lottery News

That's a whole Lotto bread!News Story
They're rolling in dough.Ten bakery workers at a Staten Island Shop Rite are splitting some major bread - a $19 million New York Lottery jackpot. You can't explain the feeling, said winner Linda Revella, 55, who is already planning to buy a 2006 Land Rover SUV or a Mercedes-Benz SL 500. I've never had this much money. About three months ago, the 10 bakers from the supermarket on Hylan Blvd. in New Dorp decided to pool their money for good luck. We kept on losing [at Mega Millions], then we dec
Sep 7, 2005, 7:47 am - Todd - Lottery News

Grandmother calls in sick after $8.4 million lottery winNews Story
Vera Blondeau from Manitoba, Canada phoned in sick to her cashier's job Tuesday so she could cash in her lottery ticket worth CA$8.4 million (US$6.6 million). Blondeau, 62, said she hasn't been eating or sleeping very well since she checked her 6/49 numbers against the winning combination in Sunday's paper and found they all matched. Oh, I'm very nervous, Blondeau, 62, said as she and husband Jim, 70, faced the press for the official announcement in a downtown hotel. It hasn't sunk in yet. Jim
May 26, 2005, 12:53 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Student wins NY LottoNews Story
She's only 20, but a Queens college student can afford to throw herself one heck of a graduation party after hitting a $5 million lottery jackpot from a ticket she got from her dad.Baruch College senior Beenish Tariq and her family now are looking to trade their Flushing apartment for a big house on Long Island - with a Lexus and a sports car in the garage.But not before they pay those tuition bills. I had a mixture of feelings: shock, surprise, ecstasy, Tariq said yesterday at an announcement
Sep 15, 2004, 7:37 am - Todd - Lottery News

N.Y. Lottery Director To Head Georgia GamesReply
I don't know how honest DeFrancisco is, especially after the announcement that she made on TV on August 19, 2003 that the winning megamillion ticket for December 24, 2002 had not yet been claimed was purchased on December 24, 2002 when clearly the computer will reveal that it was not and after I notified the NY lottery the exact date the ticket was purchased and that it was stolen from my house. Moreover, I find it odd that she is now transferring to Georgia the state where the megamillion draw
Dec 22, 2003, 7:36 pm - jacaesar - Lottery News

Washington winner of $754.6 million Powerball jackpot claims prizeNews Story
Washington Lottery represents winner at press conference By Kate Northrop Today, the Washington Lottery announced that the sole winner $754.6 million Powerball jackpot stepped forward to claim the prize. The name of the $754.6 million Powerball jackpot winner is now known to the public after the Lottery announced the identity of the person who won the behemoth prize in February. The Washington Lottery revealed the winner's name to be Becky Bell of Auburn, a long-time Boeing emplo
Mar 3, 2023, 6:28 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Pennsylvania man wins his fourth lottery jackpotNews Story
Prolific player's luck is going strong, offers advice for jackpot-chasers like him By Kate Northrop A lottery enthusiast from Pennsylvania is raking in his fourth jackpot win since 1999, and he has some advice for others chasing millions. Mike Lucky Luciano won a $1 million top prize on a $20 Pennsylvania Lottery scratch-off ticket on Jan. 6, bringing his total winnings to $4.6 million since 1999. It's not the largest prize he's ever won. In 2016, he struck gold when he won $3
Jan 17, 2022, 3:08 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Two CT Lottery employees on paid leave during probe of botched drawingNews Story
The Connecticut Lottery Corp. said Wednesday that it has placed two employees on paid administrative leave while it investigates a human error that shut 100,000 eligible tickets out of Monday's drawing in the New Year's $1,000,000 Super Draw game, forcing a second drawing yet to be scheduled. (See Connecticut Lottery forced to redraw special New Year's raffle after 'human error', Lottery Post, Jan. 2, 2018.) Investigations are being conducted by both the CT Lottery and the [state] Departm
Jan 4, 2018, 3:22 pm - Todd - Lottery News

SC Lottery not paying winnings on game because of 'programming error'News Story
People who believed they were big winners in a simple South Carolina Education Lottery game over the Christmas holiday were angry to discover that they won't actually win anything. That's because a computer glitch awarded many would-be lucky lottery winners thousands of dollars through the Holiday Cash game. From 5:51 to 7:53 p.m. on Christmas Day, the same play symbol was repeated in all nine available play areas on tickets which would result in a top prize of $500, according to the South
Dec 27, 2017, 12:18 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Third suspect surrenders in national lottery rigging scandalNews Story
A third man charged in a still-unfolding, multi-million dollar lottery rigging scandal investigation surrendered to authorities in Iowa on Thursday, his attorney said. Robert Clark Rhodes II was arrested last spring in his home state of Texas by authorities there, after Iowa prosecutors charged him with two counts of fraud for helping a then-top lottery security official allegedly rig multiple jackpot drawings. Rhodes challenged the arrest in court, claiming investigators did not have suff
Apr 28, 2016, 3:43 pm - Todd - Lottery News