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Evidence mounts against defendant in Mega Millions lawsuitNews Story
Stephen Kyle may have to reconsider his retirement plans.Kyle, an Olmsted Falls mail carrier, won $175,000 in the Mega Millions lottery last month but neglected to tell 19 co-workers in his lottery club.Kyle called the ticket a godsend, arriving just as he was preparing to file for bankruptcy. He said he hoped to retire within three years.Kyle, 51, of Amherst, told his deflated colleagues that he used $10 from his own pocket to buy the $175,000 ticket.The $100 from the club produced a measly $2
Jul 30, 2004, 8:04 am - Lottery News

$294M lottery winner is 68-year-old cleaning womanNews Story
Updated July 09, 2004, 11:21pmThe winner of the $294 million Mega Millions jackpot, the largest in Massachusetts lottery history, is a 68-year-old cleaning woman.Geraldine Williams cleaned homes after retiring as a custodian at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, The Sun of Lowell reported Friday. She was a wonderful person, Mary Recko, a worker in the physical plant department at UMass-Lowell, told The Associated Press on Friday. Everybody liked her. All of us here are so happy that it wa
Jul 9, 2004, 11:08 am - Lottery News

Players use computer for chance at record Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
Some people use birthdays or anniversaries to pick lottery numbers, but truck driver Tim Lombardy plays a number he saw on a State Highway Patrol car 10 years ago.He hopes that someday it will make him rich, like Friday night, when numbers are drawn in the record $290 million Mega Millions jackpot.Most players taking a shot at lottery jackpots truly trust Lady Luck. According to Ohio Lottery Commission data, the majority let the computer pick their numbers for jackpots.Computers and humans are
Jul 2, 2004, 8:23 am - Lottery News

Missouri Lottery sets profit recordNews Story
The Missouri Lottery posted a record $230.3 million in profits for the 2004 fiscal year, well above state projections and the previous year's results.A year ago, state lottery director Jim Scroggins predicted a sharp downturn in sales, and thus lottery profits for education, following a second consecutive year of advertising budget cuts by state lawmakers. Despite record sales the past year, Scroggins said he was sticking by his story that the ad cuts dventually would take their toll.Up to now,
Jun 24, 2004, 8:02 am - Lottery News

Boss's kind gesture wins him and co-worker $1 millionNews Story
The way the story's told at Slim's Stop Go, Sara Vosters was having a really bad day a few weeks ago.So her boss, James Royser, bought her an instant lottery ticket at the store on M-89 in Richland and let her scratch it to expose the numbers. It became a daily routine every morning when he went to Slim's to buy newspapers.Now that gesture is worth a million dollars.Vosters and Royser are splitting $1 million as winners of the top prize in the Michigan Lottery's Million Dollar Mania Instan
Jun 2, 2004, 11:51 am - Lottery News

Mass. Lottery to replace Mass Millions with new gameNews Story
Massachusetts Lottery officials are replacing Mass Millions with a game aimed at increasing the odds of winning.Cash WinFall tickets, which go on sale Sept. 13 at $2 each, will award thousands of lower-level prizes whenever the jackpot reaches $2 million. The odds of winning a prize would be one-in-six. The jackpot starts at $500,000.The unveiling of the new game coincides with the Lottery's celebration of the 30th birthday of the widely popular scratch ticket. We celebrate a Massachusetts suc
May 27, 2004, 7:34 am - Lottery News

$100,000 Powerball lottery prize shared by five in North DakotaNews Story
Five players who bought a ticket in Valley City, North Dakota are claiming a $100,000 prize from the weekend Powerball drawing, the largest prize paid since the state joined the game.The winning ticket, bought at a Valley City convenience store, matched the first five numbers, but missed the Powerball, state lottery officials said. Players matching all six numbers would have won or shared the $33.2 million jackpot, but none of those tickets was sold.The $100,000 prize had people buzzing in Valle
May 25, 2004, 6:34 am - Lottery News

Courts freeze half of $30 million lottery winner's assetsNews Story
After picking up his $30-million jackpot from the Super 7 lottery last month, Ray Sobeski enjoyed the kind of financial freedom that most Canadians can only dream of: He cancelled his credit cards, bought $28-million worth of GICs, put $640,000 in a cash account, bought a series of airline tickets and wrote substantial cheques to a few close friends.A lifelong car enthusiast, Mr. Sobeski now had the money to buy whatever model he chose. But on May 4, his financial affairs took an unexpected turn
May 24, 2004, 8:43 am - Lottery News

New York lottery sales go up 8.2%News Story
$5.84 billion in tickets sold, setting a record for fourth yearSales of New York state lottery tickets totaled $5.84 billion in the fiscal year that ended March 31, officials said this week. Thats up 8.2 percent from $5.39 billion the previous year.New York remains the most successful state lottery in North America in terms of sales. The next highest was in Massachusetts, with $4.19 billion in sales.Its the fourth year in a row that New York broke a record. This past years sales alone were more
May 8, 2004, 2:03 pm - Lottery News

Michigan man wins $1 million lottery jackpot twiceNews Story
Russell Tanner better stay inside during a thunderstorm, because if somebody has a chance of being struck by lightning, it's him.The 78-year-old Dexter resident won his second $1 million scratch-off lottery game last week the only known two-time winner of the game in Michigan.The retired custodian and factory worker who still lived in a manufactured home following his June 2002 winning ticket, said he was stunned to win again. I couldn't believe that I could be so blessed. It just feels great to
May 7, 2004, 4:44 pm - Lottery News