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16 nurses split $6 million Florida Lotto jackpotNews Story
Sixteen Southwest Florida Regional Medical Center employees apparently are $6 million richer after picking all six of Saturday's winning Florida Lotto numbers. The employees, who have not yet been identified, purchased the only winning ticket at the 7-11 at 12100 Three Oaks Parkway in Estero. Margaret Chabris, spokeswoman for 7-11 stores, said a regular customer picked up the winning ticket on behalf of the employees and the group is planning to speak with the media after they pick up thei
Sep 5, 2006, 11:03 am - Lottery News

Newspaper apologizes for lottery results errorNews Story
Editor's Note: The man should have gotten his lottery results from Lottery Post's Quebec Lottery Results page. Newspapers often post erroneous results, and mistakes and apologies cannot be re-printed until the next day. A Quebec man recently threatened to sue the Montreal Gazette after the paper's error made him think he'd won a huge lottery jackpot when he hadn't. Today the paper ran a Note to Readers on A2 from its publisher, Alan Allnutt. He apologizes for the mistake which he
Aug 23, 2006, 2:27 pm - Lottery News

Penn. Lottery chief takes job with newspaper publisherNews Story
The executive director of the Pennsylvania Lottery is leaving his post to work for the owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News, the state and the company announced Thursday. Ed Mahlman will be chief marketing officer for Philadelphia Media Holdings, which is trying to prove the notion about daily newspapers being in decline wrong with its recent purchase of the Inquirer, Daily News and related properties. In a statement, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell lauded the work Mahlman d
Aug 11, 2006, 12:00 pm - Lottery News

Reporter honored for lottery coverageNews Story
Steve Geissinger, the Sacramento bureau chief for ANG Newspapers, received a national award Friday night from the Association of Capital Reporters and Editors for coverage of California's controversial entrance into the multi-state Mega Millions lottery. Geissinger won third place. The association is composed of journalists from the capitals of all 50 states. Early last year Geissinger began writing more than two dozen lottery stories, which also appeared in the Los Angeles Daily News and
Aug 7, 2006, 11:38 am - Lottery News

Arrest Made in Crackdown on Internet BettingNews Story
In a sharp escalation of their crackdown on Internet gambling, United States prosecutors said yesterday that they were pressing charges against the chief executive of BetOnSports, a prominent Internet gambling company that is publicly traded in Britain, and against several other current and former company officers. Federal authorities arrested the chief executive, David Carruthers, late Sunday as he was on layover at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on his way from Britain to Costa Ric
Jul 18, 2006, 7:37 am - Lottery News

One of two winning Florida Lotto tickets from Port St. LucieNews Story
The Cumberland Farms store on Floresta Drive was a revolving door of media and frequent customers who had heard the news Thursday morning that one lucky Florida Lottery player bought the winning ticket there. By 11:30 a.m., store clerk Keri Frosch stopped curious people short and just said with a smile, No, we don't know who it is. But she does know that receipts show about 4,000 people bought tickets Wednesday night alone. When it's that high it happens, Frosch said, referring to h
Apr 21, 2006, 7:42 am - Lottery News

ABC duped by Powerball lottery winner hoaxNews Story
The brief hoax involving a man claiming to be an out-of-work truck driver who won the $365 million Powerball jackpot was months in the making. It involved two men who have jerked the chains of the national news media for years and was financed by a Texas author seeking publicity for his books, one of the pranksters said Tuesday. We had decided that one of these days, there'll be a record jackpot, and we'll have to go, said Bob Pagani, who portrayed the unemployed man who spent $2,000 on
Feb 22, 2006, 12:59 pm - Lottery News

Lottery Post reveals N.C. Lottery logo misfireNews Story
North Carolina Lottery officials had to pull the plug on their new logo after it was learned that copyrighted material was used to make it. After pulling the logo, lottery officials made efforts to conceal the logo from public view by asking media outlets to not show it. Lottery Post feels that if CBS News can knowingly display forged documents to hurt President Bush in the weeks before a presidential election, then showing a small logo graphic is not too bad.
Feb 16, 2006, 10:48 am - Lottery News

Ohio couple hits lottery jackpotNews Story
Even before they won a $1 million prize in the Ohio Lottery, Gregory and Shelley West, of Marietta, were winners to their next door neighbor, Edee Starcher. I'm so excited for them. They are perfect neighbors, Starcher said. If Shelley makes a wonderful dessert, she'll bring some over and say, Finish this.' The couple visited Starcher, of 622 Seventh St., Sunday to relay the good news that they had just won one of the 20 prizes of $1 million in the lottery's $200 Million Cash Spectacular insta
Jan 26, 2006, 8:33 am - Lottery News

Wisconsin Megabucks lottery winners come forwardNews Story
And the winners are ... Brian Schultz of Oak Creek and his two sons, Todd and Matthew.They've finally come forward and are splitting an $11.1 million Megabucks lottery jackpot from the Christmas Eve drawing, lottery officials announced Tuesday.The winning ticket was purchased at Gary's Beer and Liquor in Oak Creek.A news conference was scheduled at the store Wednesday for the winners to tell their story and answer questions.The liquor store earns a commission of $100,000 for selling the ticket.
Jan 26, 2006, 7:24 am - Lottery News