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Calif. man knew he won $1M but lost the lottery ticketNews Story
By Todd Northrop A California Lottery winner lost out on the opportunity to claim his $1 million Powerball prize after he misplaced his ticket. The man saw news reports about himself buying the ticket in Rosemead and came forward, saying he was the winner, KABC-TV reported. But, he said, he lost his ticket. Because Powerball rules require the winner to produce the actual winning ticket, he was ineligible to collect his winnings, California Lottery spokesman Alex Traverso said. We be
Mar 13, 2015, 2:32 pm - Lottery News

CT lawmakers again seek lottery winnings from 1995 ticketNews Story
By the time state Rep. Ernest Hewett met him, the kid was in his 30s. But to Hewett, the six-term Democrat from New London, Clarence Jackson's still the kid. And Hewett says he'll keep fighting for him until Jackson gets the $5.8 million Connecticut lottery jackpot that's eluded him for more than 18 years. 'Give the kid the money' that's what they used to say around the Capitol, Hewett recalled last week. That's what we ought to do. Jackson's oft-told story, revived again this month d
Feb 23, 2015, 11:01 am - Lottery News

$1 million lottery prize goes unclaimedNews Story
It's the big Christmas payout that will never be. Two months ago, someone won $1 million on a Powerball ticket at an Albuquerque, New Mexico, gas station. The deadline for claiming the huge prize came and went Wednesday, with nobody stepping forward with the winning ticket. If I had a million dollars, I could do a lot of good things with it, Kevin Chavez said. The ticket, which sold late September at the Circle K near Ellison and Coors was worth $1 million. That's crazy, Marianne H
Dec 26, 2014, 8:32 am - Lottery News

Unclaimed $12 million Florida Lottery ticket to expire Dec. 25News Story
You might want to check your junk drawer and anywhere else you might put a lottery ticket: a $12 million Florida Lottery ticket remains unclaimed. The Florida Lottery say the winning Quick Pick ticket is set to expire at midnight on Thursday, Dec. 25, 2014. The winning numbers are 12, 16, 23, 33, 46, and 50. The ticket was purchased at a 7-Eleven store at 4741 Northwest 79th Ave. in Miami and was for the June 28 drawing. If you have the winning ticket, the jackpot must be claimed at
Dec 1, 2014, 8:23 am - Lottery News

$12 million Texas lottery jackpot unclaimedNews Story
Somebody lost millions of dollars Monday evening that they probably never knew was theirs. Six months after beating astronomical odds to win the Lotto Texas jackpot, the simultaneously lucky and cursed person failed to materialize before a deadline to redeem the winning ticket officially worth $12 million, and $7.5 million in immediate cash. It was biggest unclaimed Lotto prize since 2001 and the third largest since the game started in 1992, according to the Texas Lottery Commission. I
Jul 2, 2014, 5:09 pm - Lottery News

$12M Texas Lottery jackpot set to expire MondayNews Story
According to the Texas Lottery Commission, there could be a multi-millionaire in the League City-area sitting on a winning lotto ticket from January 1. A ticket matching all six numbers drawn was purchased that day from the South Shore Shell gas station in the 3300 block of FM 518 in League City. The jackpot was $12 million. The ticket was a Quick Pick that had the cash value option. But that prize money could soon be gone with the wind, according to lottery brass, who say that the last
Jun 26, 2014, 8:29 pm - Lottery News

Man threw away $1.25 million worth of lottery ticketsNews Story
A Pennsylvania man mistakenly threw $1.25 million worth of winning lottery tickets in the trash. The guy, it goes without saying, was pretty upset. Wouldn't you be, said Wendy Hinton, who works at Zhou Grocery on South Queen Street in York. On March 13, 2013, she sold 25 Quinto tickets numbers 4-3-4-1-8 to one of her regular customers, a man who, at the time, lived a couple of blocks from the corner store. She remembered because he played the same numbers every day their significance,
Apr 13, 2014, 9:13 am - Lottery News

Two Scots fail to collect £1 million lottery prizesNews Story
Two people have missed out on the chance to become millionaires after failing to collect their lottery prizes in time. The deadline for claiming the two 1 million prizes expired at 11pm Wednesday, more than 180 days after the EuroMillions draw on July 26. One of the winning tickets was bought in Fife and the other in East Dunbartonshire. The money, plus the interest it earned, has now passed over to the UK National Lottery Good Causes. Earlier this week it emerged that another winner
Jan 24, 2014, 5:40 pm - Lottery News

Lottery tracks down $50 million winner who lost ticketNews Story
Credit card purchase key to tracking down winner An unbelievable set of circumstances have come together for Kathryn Jones, who won $50 million from an unclaimed Lotto Max prize drawn a year ago a win for which she lost the ticket and never checked the numbers. The Hamilton woman had absolutely no clue she could be a winner when Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation officials showed up at her door a while back wanting to talk to her, she said Tuesday at a news conference at the OLG headqu
Dec 5, 2013, 10:15 am - Lottery News

Florida lottery ticket worth $1.3 million about to expireNews Story
Someone who bought a Mega Money lottery ticket over the summer in south Miami-Dade is a millionaire and may not even know it. To make matters worse, unless they come forward in the next week or so they will be out of luck. Florida lottery officials said a Mega Money ticket sold June 18th at Davis Market, at 21630 Southwest 120th Avenue, is worth $1.3 million. However, it remains unclaimed. The 180 day limit to claim the jackprize expires on December 15th. The winning numbers drawn on Ju
Dec 3, 2013, 1:04 pm - Lottery News