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A Nevada Lottery? The Line Forms in CaliforniaNews Story
On a recent afternoon, lines of customers snaked to the door of the Primm Valley Lotto Store, a bustling hut just over the border in California. The parking lot was packed with cars sporting Nevada license plates. The hut, on a dead-end street paved for the sole purpose of crossing that border, holds two important distinctions. It is the lottery ticket vendor closest to Las Vegas, 45 miles to the northeast. And it sells more lottery tickets than any other vendor in California, according to th
Apr 26, 2009, 12:36 pm - Lottery News

Reflecting bad times, some lotteries hit losing streakNews Story
State lotteries are down on their luck as players cut back on games of chance. From California, where sales for the past year are down 5%, to Florida, where sales slipped 7%, fewer people are gambling on scratch-off tickets and numbers games. The economy probably has affected lottery sales the way it's affected all discretionary spending, says David Gale of the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries. About half of Americans buy lottery tickets, according to a 2008
Apr 14, 2009, 8:47 am - Lottery News

More Calif. stores accused of stealing customers' lottery prizesNews Story
Perhaps you're not quite as unlucky in the lottery as you thought. That scratcher ticket you tossed? Well, it just might have been a winner with the cash prize going to none other than the store owner or clerk you passed it off to as garbage. Ten retailers and clerks are accused of trying to cash in customers' winning lottery tickets at three locations in San Jose, two in Milpitas and one in Santa Clara. Nine people were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of felony grand theft of lottery ticket
Mar 6, 2009, 7:59 am - Lottery News

Unemployed: Play the lottery or not?News Story
by Dan Weiser The Mega Millions lottery jackpot is worth an estimated $212 million. Right now, it is the largest lottery jackpot in the country, including the multi-state Powerball. In fact, it's the largest lottery jackpot in the world. The next drawing is Tuesday night and a winning ticket will bring riches to at least one person. $212 million dollars is the stuff dreams are made of, but in these uncertain times winning would be ... well, hard to put into words. The unemployment rate
Mar 2, 2009, 9:39 am - Lottery News

California school teachers hit $76M lottery jackpotNews Story
A group of 15 teachers and administrators at Shasta Lake School, who've been playing the state lottery together for seven years, picked the winning numbers for a $76 million SuperLotto Plus jackpot that was drawn on Saturday. I'm happy to say every person who won is at work today, said Helen Herd, principal of Shasta Lake School and one of the region's newest millionaires. The jackpot was drawn on Saturday and the winning ticket was purchased at a Circle K in town, but the group of school
Feb 10, 2009, 11:42 pm - Lottery News

Single ticket wins $76M Calif. lottery jackpotNews Story
A single California Lottery ticket purchased in Shasta Lake hit all six winning numbers in Saturday night's SuperLotto Plus game. At the time of the draw, the jackpot was the largest in the nation at $76 million. The winning ticket was purchased from the Circle K at 4833 Shasta Dam Boulevard. The winning numbers are 14, 23, 24, 25, 44, and the Mega number is 18. Also, four other tickets matched five of the six winning numbers and are each worth $29,473. Those tickets were purchased i
Feb 10, 2009, 7:55 am - Lottery News

Calif. Lottery introducing new game showNews Story
After nearly 24 years and millions in prizes, the California Lottery is replacing its Big Spin television game show with what it hopes will be a more attractive, four-part successor, Make Me a Millionaire. The weekly half-hour show will air for the first time Saturday on 10 stations in the same 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. time bracket as The Big Spin. Over the years, in the realm of game shows, we've seen a lot of newer, more exciting shows come along, said Alex Traverso, a lottery spokesman. This
Jan 16, 2009, 8:27 am - Lottery News

24 year-old Calif. man claims lottery richesNews Story
New Jersey native recently moved to San Diego Updated: Jan. 8, 2008 at 7:47 p.m. The $47 million winner of the Mega Millions lottery game was all smiles Wednesday afternoon when he claimed his winnings and was introduced at a news conference as Todd Moitz, California Lottery officials said. Moitz, a 24-year-old former Farmer's Insurance agent, said he's overwhelmed by the news and hasn't yet decided what to do with the windfall. He has elected the cash option, which is worth $32 mill
Jan 8, 2009, 6:36 pm - Lottery News

Time running out to claim $184,000 lottery ticketNews Story
California Lottery officials say time is running out for the buyer of a winning Mega Millions ticket at a Watts liquor store to collect the $184,000 prize. The ticket was purchased at Astro Liquor, at the corner of South Avalon Boulevard and East Century Boulevard, before the April 25 drawing. The winning numbers on the ticket are 19, 32, 37, 45 and 52, and the Mega number is 41. The 180-day claim period for the ticket ends in one week, after which the funds, if they remain unclaimed, will
Oct 15, 2008, 5:15 pm - Lottery News

Mega lottery bucks go unclaimed every yearNews Story
Imagine the luck: You beat the odds and hit the lottery. Now imagine this kind of luck: You don't even know it. Of all of life's weird twists of fate, this is pretty high up there. You could be living in fat city, if only you had checked your ticket or saved it from your jeans pocket before doing laundry. Last year, more than $600 million in lottery fortunes went unclaimed in the United States. That could build, like, half of a football stadium. In California, $29 million went unclaimed
Oct 5, 2008, 11:58 am - Lottery News