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Mistrial declared in $4M lottery ticket disputeNews Story
A former convenience store clerk will keep collecting winnings from a $4 million Massachusetts Lottery scratch ticket after a Superior Court judge declared a mistrial yesterday in a dispute over ownership of the ticket.The civil jury in Barnstable Superior Court was deadlocked after nearly four days of deliberations, unable to decide if the winning ticket properly belonged to a Falmouth retiree who sued to claim the prize.Julie Prive has been collecting winnings on the ticket since 2002. Lottery
Aug 19, 2004, 8:07 am - Lottery News

Lottery ticket number crucial to trialNews Story
When did Julie Prive learn the number of a lottery ticket worth $4 million?The outcome of a civil case pitting Prive, 27, who worked at the Tedeschi's in East Falmouth when the $10 scratch ticket was sold, against two other Falmouth residents could hinge on the answer to that question.Prive is being sued by Raymond MacDonald, 65, and Monica Hertz, 62, who both claim ownership of the $600 Million Spectacular ticket.MacDonald and Hertz both say they bought the ticket May 17, 2002, but did not real
Aug 13, 2004, 8:56 am - Lottery News

Store clerk tells how she found winning ticketNews Story
Battling the sniffs and coughs of a summer cold, Julie Prive, 27-year-old mother of two, stood before a jury in Barnstable County, Massachusetts Superior Court yesterday and recalled the evening in May 2002 when she had believed her life had changed forever.Prive said she was at home, sorting through a pile of lottery tickets she had collected from the trash at the Tedeschi convenience store where she worked, checking them and repackaging them for a second-chance game run by the state lottery to
Aug 12, 2004, 8:25 am - Lottery News

Two couples in court over ownership of $4 million scratch ticketNews Story
Two couples are fighting in court over ownership of a Massachusetts Lottery scratch ticket worth $4 million.According to testimony in the civil jury trial in Barnstable Superior Court, which got under way Monday, Julie Prive was a clerk at a Tedeschi's market in Falmouth in 2002, and began regularly collecting discarded losing scratch tickets. She entered these tickets in the Clean Fun Sweepstakes, the lottery's second-chance game designed to keep used tickets from becoming litter.Prive said tha
Aug 10, 2004, 9:47 am - Lottery News

Connecticut recalls 300 scratch ticketsNews Story
A printing glitch on tickets for a scratch-off lottery game has prompted a recall of 300 tickets, Connecticut lottery officials said Friday.Printing omissions were discovered on a Tropical Fun $10 scratch-game ticket by a customer. The mistake could lead customers to believe tickets were winners when they actually were not, said James Vance, president and CEO of Connecticut Lottery Corp.About 300 tickets were deactivated because of the glitch, 102 of which were sold before the error was discov
Aug 2, 2004, 9:48 am - Lottery News

Winning Scratch-off, Twice Cashed and Once StolenNews Story
A Florida convenience store customer scratched off a winning ticket two weeks ago. But since he cashed in the winning lottery ticket, there's been trouble.After the winner cashed in his 5-hundred dollar prize, the ticket was stolen. A second man now admits he took the ticket and also cashed it in.Lottery tickets are big business at Pat's Kwik Stop. According to Ravi Patel, the store'sowner, lottery ticket sales amount to Something like 800, 900 dollars a day. Patel has owned the Nothwest Gain
Jul 30, 2004, 8:19 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner enjoying lifeNews Story
Donald Boo-boo Smith is, in his own words, a Greenwich original. At 60 years old, the Chickahominy native has never had a telephone -- let alone a cell phone -- or used a credit card. He has not owned a car since the late 1960s. Until recently, he had never opened a bank account. I'm living my life the way I want to, Smith said over coffee yesterday at the Plaza Restaurant on Railroad Avenue, where he can be found most mornings. I don't live for the Joneses. Instead, Smith said he has spent
Jul 29, 2004, 1:48 pm - Lottery News

Lucky Iraq vet scratches way to lottery richesNews Story
Just back from a tour of duty in Iraq, a Norwood, Massachusetts National Guardsman was welcomed home by Lady Luck - netting $140,000 a year for life from a state Lottery scratch ticket. John A. Morrissey, 42, says the Massachusetts Lottery Lifetime Spectacular windfall will blast him out of bankruptcy, and help put his daughter through college. I always had faith that I'd hit it big, Morrissey said in an exclusive Herald interview. And hit it big is just what he did after stopping by his neigh
Jul 21, 2004, 9:29 am - Lottery News

Scratch tickets are boon for Ohio LotteryNews Story
Crystal Knox is partial to Fast Cash Bingo and Nifty Fifty, but she also likes Doubling Dollars and Wheel of Fortune. The certified nurse assistant estimates she spends up to $20 a day on scratch-off lottery tickets, usually breaking even or better. To me, it's easier, Knox, 37, a certified nurse's assistant, said of her preference for instant tickets over games like Super Lotto. The odds are better. Citing high growth in sales of instant games, the Ohio Lottery said Wednesday it earned $10 mi
Jul 1, 2004, 8:10 am - Lottery News

Mass. woman scratches off $1M lottery ticketNews Story
An Adams, Massachusetts resident is $1 million richer thanks to a $10 instant lottery ticket she bought at Nassif's Professional Pharmacy Friday.Linda Charon picked up her first $35,000 check, which she won from a Lifetime Spectacular instant game, Monday afternoon at the Massachusetts Lottery headquarters in Braintree, according to Massachusetts Lottery spokeswoman Amy Morris.Morris said Charon will receive a $50,000 annual payment for the next 19 years, before taxes.Charon could not be reach
Jun 23, 2004, 7:17 am - Lottery News