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The Lottery Office is closed until Monday but speculation in Lapeer rages onNews Story
Michigan is suddenly a richer place this weekend, first with all that Olympic gold coming in from London, and now with the wining ticket to the Powerball Lottery purchased by someone at a Michigan gas station. Local residents may be hoping it wasn't someone passing through to Toledo or Indianpolis. In the meantime in the town of Lapeer in Michigan's thumb the wait continues for the ticket purchaser to surface. It just happens to be Lapeer Days their three day summer festival in the sleepy tow
Aug 18, 2012, 11:06 pm - Lottery News

$337 million Powerball jackpot ticket sold at gas station in small Michigan cityNews Story
Includes video report Update: Cash value was second-highest ever for any US lottery game Update 2: Cash value reported by MUSL was wrong! Actually $224.6 million. By Todd Northrop, with wire reports A gas station in a small Michigan city is buzzing with excitement after the state lottery announced Thursday that a $337 million jackpot-winning Powerball ticket was sold there. The Michigan Lottery said the ticket was sold in Lapeer, about 45 miles north of Detroit. There wasn't immed
Aug 16, 2012, 3:21 pm - Lottery News

Mich. lottery winner to plead guilty to felony firearm chargesNews Story
Man previously under fire for claiming welfare benefits after lottery win A Williams Township, Michigan, man who had nearly $1 million in cash two years ago and is now destitute and charged with four firearm-related felonies is set to accept a plea deal in Bay County Circuit Court. Leroy N. Fick, 60, is scheduled to make his plea before Circuit Judge Kenneth W. Schmidt at 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 4. Court records show that prosecutors have offered to dismiss two counts of felony firearm if Fick
Jul 26, 2012, 8:38 am - Lottery News

Michigan lottery winner convicted of welfare fraud gets probationNews Story
The Lincoln Park, Michigan, woman who made national headlines for continuing to accept food stamp benefits after winning $1 million on a Michigan Lottery game show was sentenced today in Wayne County Circuit Court to nine months of probation. Amanda Clayton, 25, won the money on the show Make me Rich! last year and took home more than $700,000 after taxes. She was charged in April with two felony counts of welfare fraud failure to inform for not alerting the state Department of Human Services
Jul 24, 2012, 4:51 pm - Lottery News

Michigan couple killed after lottery winNews Story
Police in Michigan are investigating the stabbing death of a couple, and family members believe they were killed over a winning lottery ticket. I just ask that if anybody know anything, just please. Because they didn't deserve this, my daddy helped the community. He would have done anything for anybody. They could just have got the ticket and left them alive, said the victims' daughter Tierra Evans. Evans believes a winning ticket proved unlucky for her parents William and Brenda. The
May 16, 2012, 1:58 pm - Lottery News

Lottery winner who kept cashing welfare checks charged with fraudNews Story
A Michigan lottery winner was charged with fraud Tuesday for collecting food stamps and public health insurance despite pocketing a $735,000 jackpot. Amanda Clayton, 25, was silent during a brief court hearing after spending a night in jail. A not-guilty plea was entered, and her lawyer vowed to fight the charges. Clayton is the second person in Michigan caught with food stamps despite newly minted wealth. Gov. Rick Snyder last week signed a law requiring the lottery to notify the Human Se
Apr 17, 2012, 7:14 pm - Lottery News

State cuts lottery winner's benefitsNews Story
Michigan woman who won $1M continued to collect $200 a month in food stamps A Lincoln Park, Michigan, woman who won $1 million in the state lottery but continued to get food stamps has an unusual connection to the legislator seeking to outlaw what she was she's doing. Amanda Clayton, 24, won $1 million in the lottery in September and until recently was still receiving $200 a month in food stamps to feed her and her two children. Late Wednesday, the state Department of Human Services sai
Mar 8, 2012, 7:28 am - Lottery News

Mich. lottery winner burns through money, gets jail time for drugsNews Story
A Williams Township, Michigan, lottery winner will be spending about the next month and a half behind bars for illegally possessing a prescription painkiller. Isabella County Trial Court Judge Mark H. Duthie on Thursday sentenced Leroy N. Fick, 59, to 45 days in jail with credit for three days served. Upon release, he will serve one year of probation and must also pay several court fines and costs. Fick was late in appearing for the 2 p.m. hearing in Duthie's courtroom and had to be picked
Jan 14, 2012, 1:09 pm - Lottery News

Michigan man quits job, wins lotteryNews Story
Includes video report A western Michigan man said he quit his job so he could show up to qualify for the lottery drawing Monday night in Detroit, and it paid off. David Becker, of Wyoming, Michigan, is a high-low operator for a Grand Rapids-based company. Becker said he requested Monday off to get down to Detroit for the lottery drawing during the fireworks. He said when his work did not grant him the day off, he quit. Becker is a retired General Motors worker and is collecting a pensio
Jun 29, 2011, 9:25 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner faces murder trial in Detroit landlord's deathNews Story
Witnesses: Father shot Australian in dispute over daughter's rent A Michigan Lottery millionaire was ordered on Thursday to stand trial for first-degree premeditated murder. Freddie Young, 62, whose 13-member lottery club hit a $46.5 million Mega Millions jackpot in February, was bound over by 36th District Judge Patricia Jefferson on charges related to the May 7 slaying of his daughter's landlord in an alleged dispute over two months' unpaid rent. Witnesses testified at a preliminary e
May 27, 2011, 2:12 pm - Lottery News