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Mass. Lottery ends some scratch ticket games before grand prizes paid outNews Story
Includes video report It's an enticing gamble: a few bucks for a chance to win $1 million, $4 million, or more. But all of those big, bright prize amounts we see stamped on scratch tickets won't necessarily be given away. Lottery players at Kiki's Kwik Mart in Brighton, Massachusetts, did not receive this news well. It's not really fair is it, replied one frequent player. And another told us it's a little unfair they can pull the million and not put it back into the game that people have s
Nov 29, 2017, 9:36 pm - Lottery News

Bob Newhart brings back Papa Elf in new Kentucky Lottery holiday commercialNews Story
Includes video report You may do a double take when you see the latest commercial from the Kentucky Lottery. Yup. Legendary actor Bob Newhart dusted off his Papa Elf costume from his turn in the Christmas blockbuster movie Elf to work with the Kentucky Lottery promoting its Holiday Gift Series Scratch-Off campaign. The 88-year-old actor's popularity spans multiple generations thanks to his television work on Newhart and The Bob Newhart Show, which aired in the 1970s and '80s. He was int
Nov 29, 2017, 7:10 pm - Lottery News

$650 million in lottery jackpots up for grabs this weekNews Story
Powerball, Mega Millions each worth more than $300 million Includes video report By Todd Northrop The USA's two powerhouse multi-state lottery games have been steadily growing their jackpots over the past several weeks, and this week they offer a combined $650 million to lottery players who will take a chance to beat the odds. Up first is Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing, featuring a whopping $346 million grand prize the largest jackpot that game has seen in more than a year. It has b
Aug 7, 2017, 1:10 pm - Lottery News

Michigan Lottery offers a way to win nearly 100% of the timeNews Story
And it appears the lottery is OK with you taking advantage of it Includes video report Michigan Lottery players have discovered a way to play the lottery's online games so that they win every time they play and the lottery seems to be OK with it. There is evidence some players used a low-risk keno game to turn tens of thousands of dollars in lottery bonus money into free cash. The 'loophole' centers on a specific game on the Michigan Lottery's online gaming platform. The online versi
May 25, 2017, 4:52 pm - Lottery News

Documentary: The Lottery LiarNews Story
Includes video report This is the incredibly strange tale of Howard and his wife Kathy Walmsley. One day back in the late 90's Howard told Kathy a whopper of a lie that he won a 8.9 million (US$11.5 million) jackpot in the British National Lottery. And Kathy believed him. As a result the two went on a shopping spree, buying fast cars, a dream home and a lifestyle fit for a multi-millionaire but it was all one big deception, as Howard hadn't actually won a single penny. The film was c
May 9, 2017, 8:54 am - Lottery News

N.J. woman speechless after finding out she won $2 millionNews Story
Includes video report A New Jersey woman was rendered speechless when she was told she had won $2 million in Wednesday's Powerball jackpot and her stunned reaction was captured on video. Jessica Macarone learned of her lottery win in front of reporters at the News Day newsstand in Newark, New Jersey, where she purchased the Powerball ticket. Macarone returned to the newsstand on Thursday to check her numbers. Winning ticket for $435 million Powerball jackpot sold in Indiana Are you
Feb 24, 2017, 7:07 pm - Lottery News

Older Pennsylvanians lose from lawmakers' raid on lottery fundNews Story
Includes video report Pennsylvania is now six years into the glut of baby boomers aging into their senior years and it's taking a toll on the Pennsylvania Lottery, which pays for the programs that serve them. Unless some changes happen and/or lottery ticket sales rise dramatically, the budget office projects the lottery fund that pays for senior programs could come up more than $70 million short in the next fiscal year and the situation worsens in ensuing years. We've been hit by the t
Jan 13, 2017, 7:32 pm - Lottery News

Florida store employee arrested for 'micro-scratching' lottery ticketsNews Story
Includes video report Authorities say a Florida convenience store clerk was cashing in by cheating, while selling customers worthless lottery tickets. Lottery officials say he got greedy and tried to cash in too many big winning lottery scratch-off tickets at the Tampa Lottery District Office. One major red flag was when he tried to claim a $500 winning scratch-off ticket that hadn't even been scratched. For more than a year, lottery officials believe an employee of a Radiant conveni
Jan 6, 2017, 9:10 am - Lottery News

Custodian wins $2M scratch-off lottery ticketNews Story
Includes video report A high school janitor won 2 million dollars from a scratch-off ticket bought in Gurnee, Illinois. Dave Martinez stopped at a local gas station Nov. 19 where he bought the winning lottery ticket. I started scratching off on the dining room table and thought it was just a hundred thousand at first and then I looked at it again and it said a hundred thousand times twenty and was just mind-boggling, Martinez said. I was jumping up and down and my wife was still ha
Dec 8, 2016, 8:46 am - Lottery News

20 co-workers to split $421M Powerball jackpotNews Story
Includes video report By Todd Northrop A group of 20 co-workers are the winners of Saturday's $421 million Powerball jackpot on a ticket sold in Tennessee. The employees of the North American Stamping Group in Portland, Tennessee, play the lottery twice a week, buying at least 60 tickets and usually rolling any of their winnings into the next drawing. While they said they would be playing again, they aren't investing the $254.7 million lump sum this time around. Each of the Tenn
Nov 29, 2016, 2:13 pm - Lottery News