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Jamaica making new efforts to curb lottery scamsNews Story
Jamaican officials said Thursday that they are hopeful new legislation will finally result in a stream of convictions and lengthy sentences for fraudsters behind a multimillion-dollar lottery scam that has swindled mostly elderly Americans out of their retirement savings for years. National Security Minister Peter Bunting told reporters that the law reform act will result in a vastly accelerated number of successful prosecutions of swindlers who have made the island a center for cross-border
Mar 15, 2013, 10:48 am - Lottery News

Maine man sees $2M lottery win as ticket to new jobNews Story
The story goes that when James Lovell picked up his wife from work last week he asked her if she wanted to kiss a millionaire. Lovell's wife, a school social worker obliged when he found out he'd won $2 million in Powerball. Then she told him they couldn't kiss any more in the schoolyard. The 59-year-old unemployed truck driver from Clinton, Maine, believes that his exposure from winning $2 million could be his ticket to a new job, according to the Maine State Lottery, which also made the
Mar 5, 2013, 10:21 am - Lottery News

Maine couple claims $8.2M Tri-State Megabucks jackpotNews Story
Includes video report Nobody was more surprised than Linda Von Oesen to find she'd won $8,190,000 in the September 26th Megabucks Plus drawing. She was sleeping with her husband Bob in their camper, parked in a Walmart parking lot, when one of her daughters called to see if she'd bought a ticket. So she says, 'check your ticket'. I said, 'oh, alright', explained Linda Von Oesen. So here we are in a camper, pitch dark and so I says, 'I got to find it, just give me the numbers.' And so I
Oct 12, 2012, 8:07 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner indicted on 31 countsNews Story
Days after a Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, woman sought permission to subpoena Frederick Rick McMenimen's bank records, the former Exeter financial adviser sought Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection, court records show. The bankruptcy claim essentially halted Susan Wagstaff's lawsuit seeking to recoup $900,000 that she claims McMenimen took from her under the ruse that he was investing the money. It also stopped legal action connected to another $1.5 million civil judgment against McMenimen fo
Oct 10, 2012, 7:32 am - Lottery News

Illinois to become first state to allow online lottery salesNews Story
A Justice Department opinion issued last year cleared the way. It said the Wire Act of 1961, which bars wagering over telecommunication systems across state or national boundaries, applies only to sports betting. At least 21 states and the District of Columbia are considering online lottery sales or other wagering such as poker, says Frank Fahrenkopf, president of the American Gaming Association, which represents commercial casinos. New York and several other states sell lottery subscripti
Mar 23, 2012, 12:36 pm - Lottery News

New England states start new lottery game ThursdayNews Story
Updated Mar. 13, 2012, 11:12 am: New game replaces Weekly Grand Extra. By Todd Northrop For the first time ever, the six New England states will jointly run a multi-state lottery game, starting this week. The new Lucky for Life regional draw game begins this Thursday, March 15 for the six following states: Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massechusetts, and Rhode Island. Ticket sales for the new game started Sunday. For Connecticut, the new Lucky for Life replaces a simila
Mar 13, 2012, 9:00 am - Lottery News

Mass. Lottery ends game that was exploited by high-rollersNews Story
State will add New England multi-state game in March By Todd Northrop Massachusetts lottery players looking to buy Cash WinFall tickets this week had their last chance on Monday, the game's final drawing. The canceled game was the talk of the lottery industry last year, when it was revealed that a small group of high-rollers had identified a weakness in the game's prize structure that would occasionally make the payouts astronomical for players who could afford to wager huge amounts of
Jan 27, 2012, 7:57 am - Lottery News

Tri-State lottery players get extra chance to win Pick 4News Story
Players of the Tri-State Pick 4 lottery had two chances to win this week when a ball left in the drawing machine led to two sets of winning numbers. Lottery officials said they discovered that a ball was inadvertently left in the chute of the drawing machine before Tuesday's evening winning numbers were drawn, so the number wasn't included in the drawing. Officials decided to hold another drawing Wednesday and pay out on both sets of Pick 4 numbers for the Tuesday evening draw. The two
Aug 3, 2011, 5:43 pm - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery celebrates second Powerball jackpot in JuneNews Story
Another winning ticket from Montana will split jackpot On the heels of its first jackpot-winning Powerball draw, the Ohio Lottery has already sold its second jackpot-winning Powerball ticket. The winning ticket was sold at Shirley's Carryout in Curtice, near Toledo. Ohio Lottery officials traveled to the store location Thursday morning to present store owners with a $48,500 retailer bonus check for selling the winning ticket. The $97 million jackpot will be split with another winning ti
Jun 24, 2010, 10:12 am - Lottery News

L.A. TV employee wins $266M Mega Millions lottery jackpotNews Story
Winning ticket was sold at a Hawaiian barbecue restaurant His wife wanted KFC. But a Southern California man insisted on barbeque. After Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing, he can have all the barbeque he wants. It was during Gilbert Cisneros' visit to L L Hawaiian Barbecue at 8760 Washington Blvd. in Pico Rivera that the winner of the estimated $266 million Mega Millions jackpot, bought his ticket. The numbers in Tuesday night's multi-state Mega Millions draw were 9, 21, 31, 36, 43
May 6, 2010, 7:18 am - Lottery News