CA couple expecting first baby wins $208M lottery jackpot
San Jose, California, resident Daniel Bruckner visited relatives in New York for the holidays last month and came home with quite a souvenir: a $208 million winning lottery ticket.
A Silicon Valley financial analyst swept in Friday to collect a $208 million windfall after buying a single Mega Millions ticket last month at a Long Island supermarket.
The couple will return home to San Jose, Calif., with an after-tax windfall of $101,440,236.
They are happy for themselves, but I think it' ...
Jan 14, 2012, 1:34 pm - Lottery News forum
Cancer survivors win $20 million lottery jackpot
John and Norma Jean Crippen were revealed Tuesday as the lucky Coachella Valley couple who bought this past weekend's winning California SuperLotto Plus ticket valued at $20 million.
I've been playing these same numbers for a number of years, John said at a news conference in San Bernardino.
The Crippens of Rancho Mirage have been married for 60 years. They have two children and four grandchildren.
John, who bought the ticket at a nearby corner Chevron gas station at 36-101 Bob Hope Dr ...
Nov 16, 2011, 8:36 am - Lottery News forum
San Diego ranked luckiest town in U.S.
San Diego, which has been touted as having one of the best climates in the United States, is also the luckiest, according to a new ranking.
The sunny southern California city won the top spot in the Men's Health magazine list of America's 100 luckiest towns, with Baltimore, Phoenix, Wilmington in Delaware and Richmond, Virginia not far behind.
Luck is basically our modern world's magic, said David Zinczenko, editor in chief of the magazine. People need to believe in luck because it allows ...
Oct 14, 2011, 8:54 am - Lottery News forum
Would-be lottery winner to get new roof
Includes video report
Parlier, California, resident Elida Betancourt isn't going to get the $54 million she thought she won in this week's lottery when her newspaper printed the wrong winning numbers. But she will get something.
After hearing about Betancourt's illusive brush with fortune, two local businessmen have stepped up to give the 69-year-old Betancourt the first thing she had planned to spend her apparent Mega Millions jackpot on: a new roof.
Because I own a roofing company an ...
Sep 21, 2011, 10:56 am - Lottery News forum
Calif. woman uses family birthdates in lottery win
By Todd Northrop
A Southern California woman won half of an $18 million California SuperLotto Plus jackpot, and she has her children and grandchildren to thank for the win.
Audelia Ramirez of Alhambra, California, won the sizable lottery fortune by using her children and grandchildren's birthdays to pick the winning numbers.
The California Lottery said Thursday that Ramirez claimed her $9 million prize Wednesday and said she'd love to buy a new house after living in a small apartment fo ...
Sep 12, 2011, 8:44 am - Lottery News forum
Calif. store sells $2M lottery ticket 1 month after starting sales
By Todd Northrop
A winning scratch-off lottery ticket worth $2 million was sold at a Spring Valley, California, 'mom and pop' shop that had only been selling lottery tickets for a month, lottery officials announced Monday.
The winner wished to remain anonymous, but lottery officials said the Set for Life ticket was purchased last week at Ray's Market at 9762 Campo Road.
Ray's Market opened for business six years ago and just started selling California Lottery tickets in July.
It's a ...
Aug 30, 2011, 7:59 am - Lottery News forum
Millions in lottery jackpots expire every year
If you are the ticket holder for the winning Massachusetts Mega Millions consolation prize with the numbers: 2, 7, 10, 16 and 29, we have some bad news for you. You have just missed your chance to claim $250,000. The jackpot expired Wednesday.
In six more days, on Aug. 3, a $900,000 jackpot is in danger of becoming little more than wishful thinking for some unlucky winner in Florida.
ABC News have found at least six other jackpots ranging from $10,000 (two in Arizona expiring Aug. 8 and Au ...
Jul 29, 2011, 9:31 am - Lottery News forum
Man wins lottery with numbers from fortune cookie
A National City, California, man who has played the same Fantasy 5 numbers for a decade finally hit the jackpot, California Lottery officials announced Tuesday.
Miguel Bernal is one of two winners holding a ticket worth $153,681. The other ticket was bought in Belmont, in Northern California.
The winning numbers in Monday night's draw were 5, 7, 21, 32, and 33.
Bernal told lottery officials that he got the numbers out of a fortune cookie 10 years ago and started playing them. The winnin ...
Jun 29, 2011, 7:41 am - Lottery News forum
Robbery suspects caught on tape redeeming stolen lottery tickets
Cops are looking for a man who has been caught on tape redeeming stolen California lottery tickets.
Stockton investigators say the man robbed Sally s Beauty Supply on Pacific Avenue in January, the Quick Stop on Fremont Street in January and again in March, the 7-11 on Da Vinci Drive and the AM/PM in Manteca, both in March.
At the 7-11 robbery, cops say the man took lottery tickets. Winning tickets from that stolen bunch have been redeemed by a man and woman at a Quick Stop in Antioch. The ...
Apr 25, 2011, 7:15 am - Lottery News forum
Pair arrested for allegedly stealing lottery tickets
Police say they found stolen scratchers at the couple's hotel
Two Glendale, California, residents were arrested Sunday for allegedly stealing dozens of lottery scratchers after distracting a store clerk, police said.
Melody Keshishzadeh, 20, and Sevak Vardumyan, 21, were arrested about 4:40 p.m. at the Days Inn on Pioneer Drive after police spotted their Cadillac in the parking lot, Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said.
Either way, the scratchers would have been a losing prospect.
St ...
Apr 12, 2011, 2:35 pm - Lottery News forum
