Maine Lottery holds final Summer Spectacular raffle drawing
The Maine Lottery yesterday completed the third of its three Summer Spectacular raffle drawings, which awarded cash prizes, as well as some prizes not normally associated with a state lottery.
A complete list of winning numbers for the raffle drawing can be found on Lottery Post's Maine Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/me).
Unlike most other state lotteries in which raffle tickets typically cost $10 or $20 each, Maine's raffle tickets were given away for free after a minim ...
Jul 14, 2009, 11:06 am - - Lottery News forum
Unemployed woman gets lotto winnings after 4 years
An unemployed woman who won $1 million in a Maine State Lottery game has collected her winnings four years after she bought the scratch ticket in a store that's since burned down.
Brenda Ripton told the Central Maine Morning Sentinel that she had received her $700,000 check from the lottery on Thursday.
Ripton had just learned two days earlier that she won the million-dollar prize in the Texas Hold 'em game. The government took the rest of her winnings for taxes.
Ripton said both she an ...
Apr 19, 2009, 8:39 am - - Lottery News forum
Lawmakers steamed about lottery promotion
The Maine Lottery is getting strong, bipartisan criticism for its Funds For Fuel promotion as lawmakers say the lottery should not be using Mainers' fear of high fuel prices this winter to sell more lottery tickets.
I think it is misleading, Sen. Debra Plowman, R-Hampden, a member of the Legislature's Legal and Veterans Affairs Committee that has oversight of the lottery, said this week. It almost sounds like some of the money will go to fuel assistance. It doesn't. It is just another way to ...
Nov 14, 2008, 7:39 am - - Lottery News forum
Before drawing, lottery finalists agree to split jackpot
Eight finalists agree a 4-in-5 chance of share is better than a 1-in-10 chance of winning it all
While the Maine State Lottery did not draw either of Angelina Bittues' numbers Thursday evening, the Winthrop woman could still claim a piece of $2.25 million.
Bittues was one of the eight finalists in the lottery's $2.5 million Extravaganza Instant Ticket game who agreed to split the spoils from a live drawing held Thursday at the Augusta Civic Center.
The agency invited 10 finalists each ...
Apr 25, 2008, 6:21 pm - - Lottery News forum
Police seize winning lottery ticket bought with drug money
A Maine man who was arrested Thursday for selling methadone to an undercover police officer apparently used money from the sale to buy a lottery ticket that won him $1,000.
Michael David, 46, will not be allowed to keep the winning ticket.
I guess it will be up to a judge to decide, but it's in our possession right now as proceeds from a drug transaction, Ellsworth Police Chief John Deleo said Friday.
David, who has been staying at a motel on High Street, went into the Irving Mainway ...
Jan 21, 2008, 9:00 pm - - Lottery News forum
Vermont Lottery announces largest Megabucks jackpot in 14 years
The Megabucks prize for Wednesday's draw has surpassed recent record levels, with a current (annuitized) jackpot of $8,900.000. The last time the Megabucks jackpot exceeded $8.9 million was 14 years ago in July of 1993.
Between December 2006 and January 2007, Vermont had three Megabucks winners in a row, winning jackpots of $500,000, $950,000 and $4.5 million. To date, there have been 75 winning Megabucks jackpot tickets sold in Vermont since the game began in 1985.
The highest jackpot t ...
Jul 30, 2007, 8:08 am - - Lottery News forum
Newspaper photo reveals lottery winner's personal information
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by Todd Northrop
Maine's Morning Sentinel newspaper appears to have revealed a lottery winner's address and social security number in a published photo.
In a story that ran in the February 27 edition of the Sentinel, Newport resident Venison Turner Jr. was pictured together with his son, holding a copy of a winning ticket worth $300,000 and the paperwork filed with the Maine Lottery. The man's personal information is clearly visible.
In the Sunday, March 11 edit ...
Mar 14, 2007, 1:28 pm - - Lottery News forum
Most lottery winners crave privacy
Whatever other effects winning the lottery might have on Mainers, in the long term it certainly turns them into a reclusive lot.
If they hadn't moved out of state or changed their phone to an unlisted number, they either refused to answer their phone or return calls. Most of those who did talk quickly stopped for fear that additional publicity would invite a wave of long-lost relatives asking for handouts.
The most recent Megabucks winners, Edward Cardali Jr. and Regan Cardali of Oakland ...
May 15, 2006, 6:45 am - - Lottery News forum
Maine woman seeking second lottery jackpot
Janet and Ernie DeCosta can finally get some sleep tonight. I plan on being up all night, Janet said Tuesday as she headed out to her traditional weekly bingo game on the eve of a live drawing that could net her $1 million this evening. I'm a basket case. More than a year ago, the 50-year-old Weeks Mills resident was on her way to a temporary job at MaineGeneral Medical Center when she scratched off a $10 state instant lottery ticket that handed her a $250,000 prize and a chance to win another ...
Oct 12, 2005, 9:42 am - - Lottery News forum
New tri-state lottery game to go on sale Sunday
Declining sales have prompted lottery officials from Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont to replace the Tri-State Heads or Tails game.The last Heads or Tails drawing is Saturday.Tickets for a new game, Tri-State Triple Play, are to go on sale Sunday, and the first drawing is Tuesday. Subsequent drawings will happen twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays.Triple Play tickets will sell for $2.In the new game, players may choose 5 numbers from a field of 1 through 45, or they can have the lottery termina ...
Jun 24, 2005, 11:33 am - - Lottery News forum
