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Christmastime battle over lottery jackpotNews Story
A lottery lawsuit is all the talk in The Villages. A group of friends hit the Florida Lotto jackpot, but one single dollar has led to a fight over $16 million. It's known as Florida's friendliest neighborhood, but there's scandal at the Hacienda Hills Country Club. Yeah, yeah. Everybody knows, golfer Otto Strunck told local media. Eight employees and players are in a tug of war. The controversy is over a Florida lotto ticket, a winning ticket worth $16 million. It'd be an awful sha
Dec 24, 2010, 9:04 am - Lottery News

Ontario lottery players finally get their share of jackpotNews Story
Fifth claimant pulled out of lawsuit early; won't get share Santa Claus is finally coming to town for four local families who've waited almost three years to see him. Slawomir Kowalewski, a former employee of Powco Steel Co. who believed that he'd been duped out of his share of a $24,520,300 Lotto 6/49 jackpot on Jan. 16, 2008, is one of four recipients of this week's settlement of approximately $4 million from the Ontario Lottery Gaming Corp. (OLGC). I'm so happy for my family and my
Dec 13, 2010, 11:51 am - Lottery News

Lottery winners get their checks, keep working at plantNews Story
A year ago, William Shanteau and his 13 co-workers at a Detroit auto plant were worried their jobs could be gone at any moment. Now they're all millionaires after winning a share of last week's $96.9 million Powerball drawing. Most of the group from the paint shop at a Chrysler plant that makes Jeep Grand Cherokees plans to keep working, Shanteau said Thursday after working a 12-hour shift. It's like family, he said, adding that at least two of the jackpot winners plan to retire, and h
Jul 2, 2010, 9:42 am - Lottery News

Store owner guilty of stealing lottery ticket, claiming it as his ownNews Story
Faces up to 14 years for claiming $5.75 million prize A former convenience store owner pleaded guilty Thursday to fraudulently claiming a $5.75 million winning Canada Lotto 6/49 ticket as his own. Hafiz Malik, 62, validated the lottery ticket at his now-closed convenience store near Dufferin Street and Dupont Street in June 2004 but didn't tell his customer she had won the jackpot. Seven months later, he claimed the prize, according to an agreed statement of facts read out in court.
Dec 7, 2009, 8:54 am - Lottery News

Missouri Lottery honors 'Clinic Gals'News Story
The Clinic Gals of Dexter, Missouri, have been named the December Lottery Team of the Month, earning the group of Powerball-playing co-workers and friends a prize package of Lottery merchandise. The Clinic Gals work together in a doctor's office in Dexter and have been playing Powerball together for more than two years. According to team captain Sherry Medler, a transcriptionist from Dexter, the team formed after one of the nurses who played regularly asked if anyone wanted to join her.
Dec 2, 2009, 9:42 am - Lottery News

Five-time lottery winner accused of taking ticket from groupNews Story
It will be up to the courts to decide if a Calgary-area man's amazing run of lotto luck will continue. Seguro Ndabene of Airdrie, just north of Calgary, has already won the lottery four times in the past five years including two wins of $1 million, another of $100,000 and a fourth prize of $50,000. But his biggest win of all $17 million in a Super 7 draw back in January is being disputed. Ndabene's claim as sole winner is being questioned by a man who alleges the winning ticket was part
Oct 28, 2009, 9:52 am - Lottery News

Iowa steelworkers group claims $1 million Powerball lottery prizeNews Story
A group of 10 co-workers from a Des Moines tire-manufacturing plant stepped forward Monday to claim a $1 million Powerball prize they'd won with a ticket purchased a local convenience store. The co-workers who all produce agricultural tires at the Des Moines Firestone plant are calling themselves The Local 310 Ten because they're all members of Local 310 of the United Steelworkers Union. They've pooled their money to buy Powerball tickets together for about five years and made for a happy bun
Oct 13, 2009, 8:42 am - Lottery News

N.Y. family wins $3M top prize in lottery scratch-off gameNews Story
For the past year, Jemps St. Fleur and his uncle, Chrisnel Josaphat, have been collecting $100 a week from their relatives to play the lottery. There have been a few small scratch-off wins here and there, but on Sept. 22, the Spring Valley family won $3 million, becoming the first winners of the top prize in the $10 Money scratch-off game. Family members, who emigrated from Haiti over the years, became Rockland's second lottery millionaires of 2009. The Brucale family of Pearl River won $7
Oct 8, 2009, 6:45 am - Lottery News

12 Michigan women + 2 men share $12.7M lottery jackpotNews Story
Twelve women from a small town in Michigan's upper peninsula have claimed a $12.7 million Classic Lotto 47 jackpot. Michigan Lottery officials said members of the Island Dreamers lottery club made the six-hour trip from Newberry to Lansing in a stretch Hummer limousine on Tuesday to claim their prize. Club member Debra Cummings said she doesn't remember anything after checking the first two numbers on the morning after the July 1 drawing. The Island Dreamers range in age from 25 years o
Jul 9, 2009, 8:38 am - Lottery News

Connecticut man sues friend for share of lottery prizeNews Story
A Connecticut man is suing a friend for a share of a $1 million lottery jackpot. Armando Martins of Trumbull claims that he and Nuno Nascimento of Bridgeport had an agreement to buy lottery tickets every week and to share if they won. Martins says he gave his friend $75 each week to buy tickets. On April 1, Martins said he only has $74 for his share. The lawsuit says that evening one of the tickets that Nascimento bought at a local grocery store was a $1 million Powerball winne
May 15, 2009, 9:06 pm - Lottery News