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Winning lottery ticket wasn’t too lucky for alleged thievesNews Story
Two Ohio men appeared in County Municipal Court Eastern Area Division Thursday accused in the connection of theft of items from Akenheads Dairy, including 395 lottery tickets.Adam Lee Coburn, 19, 137 N. Market St., is charged with breaking and entering, a fourth-degree felony. According to police, early Tuesday Coburn allegedly broke out a window of the store and entered. Taken from the store were 24 cartons of cigarettes, 15 cigarette lighters, three boxes of cigarette rolling papers, two bottl
Sep 5, 2003, 9:55 am - Lottery News

Last NJ Lotzee drawing will be Sept. 13News Story
The last drawing of the New Jersey Lottery's Lotzee game will be Sept. 13. The game is being discontinued due to declining sales that do not support fixed prize levels, officials said Friday.Sales for the $2 game, which debuted in 1998, dropped by more than 32 percent in fiscal year 2003 compared to the previous year. Just over $16 million worth of Lotzee tickets were sold compared to almost $24 million in fiscal year 2002. A game cannot survive when the average draw sales are less than the top
Sep 5, 2003, 9:50 am - Lottery News

$135 Million Powerball Winners From New Hampshire, MassachusettsNews Story
The winners of last week's $135 million Powerball jackpot are from New Hampshire and Massachusetts and will go public this afternoon.The lottery says the winners are family members who live in the Conway, N.H., area and in the greater Boston area. They plan to hold a news conference at the New Hampshire Lottery offices in Concord.The winning ticket is the largest Powerball jackpot ever awarded in New Hampshire. It was sold at the State Line Store in Center Conway, along the Maine border. It's be
Sep 5, 2003, 8:32 am - Lottery News

Welcome back — here’s $45,000News Story
When most people return home from vacation, theyre greeted with stacks of mail, overdue bills and a lawn thats grown knee high.When Rich Smith of Fond du Lac arrived home from vacation, he found out the lottery ticket he bought before leaving won him $45,000.My friends dont believe me because Im such a BS-er, Smith, 35, said, adding that he had to go around to his friends houses Wednesday and show them proof that he had won.Smith bought a weeks worth of Badger 5 Quick Pick numbers at Pump n Pant
Sep 5, 2003, 3:39 am - Lottery News

Texas couple claims $49 million prizeNews Story
Bryon Woods pleaded with his wife Barbara to sell him another $5 worth of lottery tickets at the store where she worked. Good thing she agreed. The Eagle Lake couple on Wednesday claimed a winning Lotto Texas ticket worth $49 million. After tearfully accepting an initial check of $2.9 million, the couple will collect $1.95 million every year for the next 24 years.Bryon Woods said he chose the annuity instead of the lump sum cash payment option because I intend to live another 24 years. I want m
Sep 4, 2003, 3:34 am - Lottery News

N.J. Lottery revenue tops $2 billion for second straight yearNews Story
New Jersey Lottery sales topped the $2 billion mark for the second consecutive year even though sales of tickets for both the Pick 6 Lotto and Lotzee games dropped significantly. The lottery, which is New Jersey's fourth-largest revenue producer, brought in $764 million to state coffers in the fiscal year that ended in June. That was an increase of $10 million over the previous year. The biggest sales gains last year were registered for the state's instant games, which increased by 16.5 percent
Sep 4, 2003, 3:32 am - Lottery News

Merchants: Not enough terminals for N.D. lotteryNews Story
Many North Dakota merchants, who are hoping a new state lottery will draw more customers, are fretting there wont be enough ticket terminals to go around -- and state officials say theyre right. If (a lottery machine) is available to my competition, then that is a tool that I must have, said Bob Johnson of Cavalier, who owns a convenience store and off-sale liquor outlet near the Icelandic State Park. If they put one in the Cenex in Cavalier, I need one. North Dakota may not have enough lotter
Sep 3, 2003, 3:49 am - Lottery News

Pembroke Pines man has mom to thank for the jackpot winningsNews Story
A Pembroke Pines man who originally thought he had won just $4.50 on a Florida Lotto ticket, yesterday redeemed the jackpot winning ticket from the Aug. 23 drawing.Peter J. Pillar, 52, chose a lump sum payment of $15.4 million rather than $27 million paid in 30 annual installments of $900,000. My mother told me I had three numbers right, said Pillar. She didn't tell me she had only heard three numbers. I couldn't believe it, but I had the other three numbers, too. Expecting $4.50, Pillar ask
Sep 3, 2003, 3:42 am - Lottery News

Supermarket sells another winning lottery ticketNews Story
For the second time, the Quality Market in the Buffalo suburb of Tonawanda, NY has been told it sold the winning ticket for a major lottery prize. Saturday's $33 million New York Lotto jackpot winner purchased the ticket at the same store that sold a $500,000 winner to an Amherst autoworker in January 2000. No one had come forward to claim Saturday's prize by midmorning Tuesday. This is a very exciting time here, the store's manger, Frank Lignos, said. It's a lucky store. More and more people
Sep 2, 2003, 10:16 am - Lottery News

Woman bilked out of $9,000 by 'Latin lotto scam'News Story
West Texas authorities are urging residents to be on the lookout for con artists running what has been dubbed the Latin lotto scam. Investigators said a Tahoka woman was bilked out of $9,000 on Saturday.She told authorities that a Hispanic woman approached her at a Slaton store and said she needed $20,000 to collect on a lottery ticket worth $24,000.Slaton is 15 miles southeast of Lubbock.The victim said she had only $9,000, but a man posing as a passer-by offered to cover the difference.The v
Sep 2, 2003, 4:01 am - Lottery News