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Massachusetts woman wastes no time claiming $758.7 million Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
Includes video report By Todd Northrop Some lottery winners spend months hiring financial experts and planning how to best claim their lottery jackpot, but not so with the winner of the largest lottery jackpot ever claimed by a single ticket. Upon learning that she held the winning ticket, 53-year-old Mavis Wanczyk just walked into Massachusetts Lottery headquarters the morning after the drawing and handed over the ticket for validation of her prize. Her half-billion-dollar lump-sum cas
Aug 24, 2017, 2:21 pm - Lottery News

NJ lawmaker files bill to block new keno gameNews Story
A new keno being offered by the New Jersey Lottery Commission essentially expands casino-style gaming outside the resort, according to legislation introduced by Assemblyman Vince Mazzeo, D-Atlantic. In the proposed legislation, Mazzeo seeks to block the state lottery from introducing Quick Draw, a keno-style game for the lottery. Earlier this month the state lottery announced 400 locations across the state will soon offer the game. The State Lottery is grossly overstepping their authority
Aug 1, 2017, 7:58 am - Lottery News

Georgia court awards Alabama man $1 million lottery winNews Story
This is the tale of a ticket a lottery ticket, that is. It began on a February day in 2013 and it ended last week in an Atlanta courtroom, leaving an Alabama man $1 million richer. Gadsden attorneys Jack Floyd and John Floyd represented Attalla retiree Larry Payne when a Gadsden woman claimed a winning lottery ticket belonged to her. Jack Floyd recounted details of the case. Larry's hobby is restoring old vehicles. On Feb. 13, 2015, he and his cousin, Jimmy Payne, went to Jasper, Tennessee
Jul 31, 2017, 9:33 am - Lottery News

New Jersey Lottery launches new Quick Draw gameNews Story
Kick-off party to be held Tuesday in Hoboken By Todd Northrop The New Jersey Lottery today launched the fast-paced Quick Draw game in 400 locations across the state. Quick Draw, a keno-style game, offers a type of lottery play new to the state, in which winning numbers are electronically drawn and then displayed on a television screen that is installed in retail locations where tickets are sold. Drawings are held every five minutes. Quick Draw is a strong addition to the Lottery's p
Jul 17, 2017, 12:11 pm - Lottery News

Meet the NYC men who won the lottery hundreds of times and collected millionsNews Story
Includes video report He can barely walk. He has one eye. But Enrico Del Rio is one lucky, lucky guy. The 94-year-old Washington Heights man has scored lottery prizes of $600 or more an astounding 376 times between 2009 and last year. His total winnings more than $1.4 million. I seem to win all the time, the ex-Navy officer said in his cramped studio apartment, filled with crates of old lotto tickets. My mother passed it to me. My family tells me I took all the luck. Del Rio
May 28, 2017, 6:18 pm - Lottery News

Long Island friends win $8.3M lottery jackpotNews Story
Two friends from Lido Beach, New York, won $8.3 million in the Lotto drawing on March 18, the New York State Gaming Commission announced Wednesday. Longtime friends Randi Bernstein, 63, and Elizabeth Kelly, 56, both of Lido Beach in Nassau County, New York, collected $8.3 million in winnings. The friends who plan to share the profits matched all six numbers of the Lotto drawing on March 18. Bernstein, an Avon rep and mother of two, said she's going to use the money to pay for some of the p
Apr 27, 2017, 9:53 am - Lottery News

NJ Lottery adding Quick Draw game to its lineupNews Story
Keno-style game will have drawings every five minutes The New Jersey Lottery announced that it will soon be adding a new style of lottery play to its product lineup with Quick Draw, a game with drawings held every five minutes. Winning numbers are displayed on a television screen installed in retail locations where tickets are sold. Quick Draw will most commonly be played in social settings such as bars, restaurants, bowling alleys, etc., where players stay for a period of time to socializ
Apr 19, 2017, 10:12 am - Lottery News

Free lottery ticket wins Indiana man $300,000News Story
An Indiana man could hardly believe his eyes when he saw that he won $300,000 in the state's Quick Draw game. I was at work, and I looked it up on my phone, Tim Ruston said. Finally, I saw ten numbers matched. I thought, 'No way!' Tim matched 10 numbers on Quick Draw on Friday, March 24. He drove to Hoosier Lottery headquarters in Indianapolis from his hometown of Evansville the following Monday to claim the prize. After discovering he won, Tim immediately called his wife from work to
Apr 4, 2017, 7:35 pm - Lottery News

$11 million Illinois lottery winner had goosebumps head-to-toeNews Story
After nearly two weeks of mystery an Illinois man from Benton has been identified as the winner of the Feb. 13 Illinois Lottery drawing. Donald Wendell's $1 Quick Pick ticket matched all six drawn numbers, 2, 21, 33, 36, 37, and 41, earning him the full $11.25 million jackpot. I think I'm in shock, Wendell said as he handed in his ticket to the Illinois Lottery Prize Center in Fairview Heights. In a news release, Wendell said he would buy tickets once or twice a week and always joked w
Feb 26, 2017, 9:53 am - Lottery News

S.C. man wins lottery jackpot twiceNews Story
By Todd Northrop A South Carolina man became a two-time lottery winner in a single day when he cashed in a pair of tickets worth $100,000 and $200,000. The lucky Darlington resident has been playing the Palmetto Cash 5 daily drawing game for more than a decade, trying out different strategies to win, and yesterday he cashed in two winning tickets worth $100,000 and $200,000. This is life changing, he said. His idea to quick pick five numbers at the Situ LLC on South Main St. and the
Feb 9, 2017, 2:21 pm - Lottery News