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Struggling family wins $77,777 jackpotNews Story
Patricia Fields' father always told her that good things come to those who wait, and that if she was thankful for a little, one day she would have a lot.The 48-year-old Woodstock resident was able to understand the true meaning of those words this month.Fields went to a local 7-Eleven to buy her usual lottery ticket. She said she just played for fun, only purchasing the occasional ticket when she could.She never expected to win anything, and if she did, it was a few bucks here and there. But thi
Dec 22, 2003, 6:03 am - Lottery News

Woman accused of stealing lottery tickets bound over for trialNews Story
An Wisconsin woman accused of stealing thousands of dollars worth of scratch-off lottery tickets when she worked at Denny's Super Valu in Algoma has been bound over for trial.Mary Jo (Jody) DeNamur, 44, waived her right to a preliminary hearing Thursday in Kewaunee County Circuit Court. She is charged with five felony theft counts and one misdemeanor charge.DeNamur's attorney, Jeffrey Jazgar, said his client agreed to waive the hearing in exchange for a preliminary plea offer from the district a
Dec 8, 2003, 4:37 am - Lottery News

$4 million winner lays low after jackpotNews Story
Luck runs in the Davis family, but the way its Lottery winners keep quiet, you probably wouldn't know it.Edward Davis of Ashland, Massachusetts has been lying low since hitting a $4 million Lottery jackpot Friday, but he bought a round of drinks for everyone at the American Legion James O. Carey Post No. 77, where he scored his winning ticket. I've been a nervous wreck. I haven't slept in three days, Davis said.Davis, who is wary of media interviews, said his brother was a $2 million winner fiv
Dec 2, 2003, 4:34 am - Lottery News

Passing through, worker hits lottery for $100,000 at mallNews Story
With the holidays around the corner, everyone is looking for a little extra cash.One man from Hershey found it at a lottery dealer at the Schuylkill Mall on Oct. 3 and collected his winnings Thursday.David A. Irwin was making his final delivery of the day for Hess Trucking to the Dollar General at the mall last month when he decided to grab a bite to eat.I was headed for the Italian restaurant in the mall, and as I was walking by the lottery dealer, I remembered that I had some winning instant t
Nov 19, 2003, 4:48 am - Lottery News

Store's trash proves to be lotto treasureNews Story
The manager of a Hackensack, New Jersey video store thought he had found a modern-day pot of gold this week when hundreds of unused, scratch-off instant Lottery tickets were discovered in the store basement. We thought we hit it rich, Nilesh Maheshwary, manager of the West Coast Video store on Passaic Street, said yesterday. I didn't know what to do. Making a similar find, others may have grabbed a penny and started scratching -- some lotto games offer players a chance to win thousands of doll
Oct 15, 2003, 3:28 am - Lottery News

Mass. Lottery needs to replace 2.2M defective scratch ticketsNews Story
More than two million state lottery scratch tickets will have to be replaced because they have a shelf life problem. If they sit around too long, the latex in the scratching area deteriorates and may become unscratchable.The problems with the $200,000 Bonus game tickets have prompted Treasurer Timothy Cahill to order an overhaul of the Massachusetts State Lotterys procedures for handling ticket glitches, according to a published report Monday. We expect flaws. Its part of the industry, said
Oct 14, 2003, 3:46 am - Lottery News

Lottery losers sue for changeNews Story
The Kentucky Lottery Corp. has been hit with another lawsuit challenging its Extra Cash game and its advertising.Keith B. Hunter, former general counsel for the lottery, said he filed the suit last week after seeing a news report about another one filed early this year.Both his lawsuit and the one filed earlier by Ronald Hub, of Stanton, take issue with the wording in a lottery brochure, which was changed after Hub filed his lawsuit. The original brochure said the single-digit numbers on the tic
Oct 13, 2003, 3:50 am - Lottery News

10,000 scratch tickets flawed?News Story
Ten thousand scratch tickets from Massachusetts' new $640 Million Jubilee game are potentially defective -- but state Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill is refusing to issue a recall, despite fears the flawed tickets could skew the odds or even deprive somebody of a big jackpot.The $10 tickets, which were just unveiled two weeks ago, contain an uneven coating of the chemical that makes the latex scratching surface stick to the ticket's paper -- making them unscratchable.Over the past 11 days, one Lotte
Sep 30, 2003, 4:10 am - Lottery News