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Nebraska man wins Iowa Lottery's $500,000 second-chance jackpotNews Story
A railroad worker from Lincoln, Nebraska collected a $500,000 check Friday from the second chance drawing of the Iowa/Kansas Midwest Millions scratch ticket lottery game. Fifty-year-old Ralph Kuwamoto says he bought the tickets at a store called Eddy's in Glenwood, Iowa and then mailed them in for the second-chance drawing. Kuwamoto says he didn't think anything about it until a friend called. He says he was coming home from St. Joseph, Missouri when he got a call from a buddy in Arizona
Jan 19, 2008, 11:36 pm - Lottery News

New Mexico man claims $200,000 prize hours before it would expireNews Story
Marguerite Padilla of Farmington wanted to rush to New Mexico Lottery headquarters three hours away in Albuquerque to claim a $200,000 prize. But her husband had other ideas. Timothy Padilla wanted to go elk hunting first. Not even a winning Powerball ticket could stop an elk hunting trip, he told lottery officials when the couple claimed the prize Wednesday. We had just enough time to do both things. Lottery officials warned last week that the $200,000 prize from the Aug. 15 drawin
Nov 12, 2007, 12:02 pm - Lottery News

'Idiot' claims big lottery prizeNews Story
Ed O'Neill's bank account just got a lot bigger, thanks to a co-worker who told him some idiot hasn't claimed an $800,000 Powerball lottery prize. O'Neill, 58, who works for the Clinton Chamber of Commerce, bought the ticket for a Jan. 6 Powerball drawing. He told Iowa Lottery staffers he didn't think to check the results until a couple days afterward when a chamber receptionist pointed out an article in the local newspaper. She said, 'Read this article about the idiot that hasn't claim
Feb 27, 2007, 10:40 am - Lottery News

N.Y. Gov. vows to review Lottery operationsNews Story
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is pledging to review the New York Lottery's operations amid bipartisan calls for reform prompted by a media report revealing that billions of dollars in bets were kept off the Lottery's books. Several state legislators said yesterday that the Lottery Division needed to fully account for all the cash generated by its video lottery terminals, after it was reported that only a portion of wagers was included in the Lottery's financial reports. This is a little
Jan 30, 2007, 7:36 pm - Lottery News

Witness Says N.C. Lottery Commissioner Met With Possible VendorNews Story
Within days of joining the state's lottery commission, Kevin Geddings met with a man who wanted to do business with North Carolina, an attorney testified Monday at Geddings' federal fraud trial. Joe Lucas, a Charlotte lawyer, said he arranged for Geddings to meet with a friend who maintained instant ticket machines for the Georgia lottery. The friend performed the work under contract with Scientific Games Corp., Lucas said. Prosecutors have accused Geddings of failing to disclose to the St
Oct 3, 2006, 12:29 pm - Lottery News

N.C. lottery fraud trial puts S.C. Lottery under microscopeNews Story
The federal trial of Kevin L. Geddings is probing as deeply into his pro-lottery work in South Carolina as it is into his activities leading up to his appointment last year to North Carolina's lottery commission. And the evidence presented so far by prosecutors suggests they see a pattern of conduct payments to Geddings by lottery vendor Scientific Games in exchange for helping the company win lottery business. Testimony and evidence show that creating a lottery in the Palmetto state
Sep 27, 2006, 12:57 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

Most lottery winners crave privacyNews Story
Whatever other effects winning the lottery might have on Mainers, in the long term it certainly turns them into a reclusive lot. If they hadn't moved out of state or changed their phone to an unlisted number, they either refused to answer their phone or return calls. Most of those who did talk quickly stopped for fear that additional publicity would invite a wave of long-lost relatives asking for handouts. The most recent Megabucks winners, Edward Cardali Jr. and Regan Cardali of Oakland
May 15, 2006, 6:45 am - Lottery News

Man claims Powerball lottery prize just before it was due to expireNews Story
With only two hours left, Jose Luis Martinez of Roswell walked into New Mexico Lottery headquarters and claimed a $200,000 Powerball prize that was about to expire. Martinez told lottery officials that he had carried the ticket in his wallet the entire 90 days, but never got around to checking it. The deadline, 90 days from the date of the January 7, 2006, drawing, would have been April 7, at 4:30 pm, when the Lottery's claim center closed for the weekend. Two days ago, Martinez and his
Apr 8, 2006, 10:21 am - Lottery News

Lottery millionaire Bud Post diesNews Story
William J. Bud Post, the Venango County man who won millions in the Pennsylvania Lottery and then endured a fortune's worth of troubles, has died.Post, 66, of 249 Grant St., Franklin, died Sunday morning at UPMC Northwest in Seneca.Post became a local celebrity and later gained nationwide notoriety after winning $16.2 million in the lottery in 1988. An extravagant spending spree followed, then Post's life began to unravel.His sixth wife moved out on him, his brother was convicted of trying to
Jan 17, 2006, 7:13 am - Lottery News