Lottery winner surprised ticket worth $250,000
Donald Ertman got a little agitated when he found out he'd have to make the 150-mile trip to Lansing to collect his lottery winnings. All that for $150, he complained.
Then the owner of the store that sold Ertman the $1 Mega Millions ticket set him straight: It was worth not $150, but a cool quarter of a million.
I didn't believe him not at first, Ertman told The Bay City Times.
The 71-year-old laid-off factory worker bought the ticket in late December at the Bad Axe Party Store B ...
Feb 14, 2008, 4:31 pm - - Lottery News forum
$250,000 winning lottery ticket sold in Massachusetts expires
Massachusetts Lottery officials announced yesterday a $250,000 Mega Millions ticket sold at a market in Revere won't be honored because the winner waited too long to claim the prize if he ever even realizes he won.
Meanwhile, callers to the Herald yesterday claimed that a Lowell adult bookstore owner was the mystery millionaire from a winning Jubilee 25 scratch ticket that has gone unredeemed.
The Herald reported yesterday that Lottery officials had launched an all-out search to discover ...
Dec 13, 2007, 8:54 am - - Lottery News forum
NY Lottery says it goofed: Mahopac winner got $31 million after taxes
The New York State Lottery has acknowledged that it made a $14 million mistake when it announced the amount of last week's Mega Millions award to a Putnam County man at Grand Central Terminal.
The winning ticket bought by William James Albertson from Mahopac actually brought him an after-tax prize of $30.7 million. At the big announcement, presided over by Lottery Director Gordon Medenica and Lottery announcers Yolanda Vega and Ralph Buckley, Lottery staff told reporters that Albertson would ...
Nov 16, 2007, 8:29 pm - - Lottery News forum
Mega smiles for New York lottery winner
William James Albertson held his 5-month-old baby as he checked the numbers on his Mega Millions lottery ticket with those on the computer screen Sunday morning.
The first two matched. So did the second pair.
Then, as Albertson sat at the computer in his Mahopac home, the unthinkable happened.
I kept looking at it and they all matched, so that's when I got a little shaky, the 35-year-old insurance manager recalled.
The shakes were gone yesterday, when Albertson was revealed as the ...
Nov 12, 2007, 11:08 am - - Lottery News forum
Mega lottery winner to open school for witches (well, not quite)
Believes 'gods' want him to 'take the bull by the horns'
Ellwood Bunky Bartlett Mega Millions lottery winner, Wiccafn high priest, recently retired accountant would like to clear up a few misconceptions about his plans for a witch school.
Yes, he'd like to start a pagan seminary. But no, it's not going to be some sort of Hogwarts-on-the-Patapsco, with precocious adolescents running around in wizard hats and casting spells.
Bartlett instead envisions the place as sort of a yeshiv ...
Nov 5, 2007, 3:16 pm - - Lottery News forum
Janitorial entrepreneur sweeps up lottery millions
After playing for years, a California woman hit the Mega Millions jackpot for $60 million.
Zorina Kroop, a California businesswoman who helped build up a thriving overnight janitorial service over the past 27 years, cleaned up somewhere new this week: the lottery.
The 63-year-old Sherman Oaks resident will be announced today by California Lottery officials as the winner of a $60-million Mega Millions jackpot.
Kroop found out that she was the big winner in the multi-state game late Wedne ...
Sep 28, 2007, 11:31 am - - Lottery News forum
Mass. Gov. promises to protect lottery revenue
Seeking to nullify a major complaint about expanded gaming, Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick is pledging to protect state Lottery revenues from being ravaged by casinos.
As part of his proposal to establish three casino resorts, including one in Western Massachusetts, Patrick said he will hold harmless the state Lottery, a major source of state aid to cities and towns.
The governor said he would cover any loss in lottery revenues with money from a proposed annual 27 percent tax ...
Sep 26, 2007, 10:52 am - - Lottery News forum
N.J. couple claims $82M lottery prize
Villas, New Jersey, residents Sandra and John Belawsky today claimed their portion of the near-record $330 million jackpot from the Mega Millions drawing held on Aug, 31. They chose the cash option, to receive $48,615,187 before the 25 percent federal withholding tax.
The Belawskys went to Lottery Headquarters to stake their claim to one of the largest lottery jackpots in North American history.
Congratulations to the Belawskys, the winners of this incredible jackpot, said William T. Jou ...
Sep 7, 2007, 7:38 pm - - Lottery News forum
NJ store waiting for lottery winner to claim jackpot
A Cape May County grocery sold one of four winning tickets that will divide Friday's near-record $330 million jackpot in the multistate Mega Millions Lottery, New Jersey lottery officials said.
The owner of the ticket, expected to be worth $82.5 million in 26 annual installments, had not stepped forward by last evening, lottery spokesman Dominick DeMarco said. Folks take their time sometimes, he said.
For the store, the brush with fortune turned an ordinary Labor Day weekend into an even ...
Sep 6, 2007, 7:40 am - - Lottery News forum
Bunky the lottery winner claims his prize
Bunky has officially claimed his bread.
Maryland's latest jackpot winner, Ellwood August Bunky Bartlett, claimed his share of the $330 million Mega Millions winnings at lottery headquarters in Baltimore yesterday afternoon. The soon-to-be retired Dundalk accountant was greeted by Maryland Lottery Director Buddy W. Roogow.
This is Bunky Bartlett, our new Mega Millions winner, Roogow announced to reporters. Bartlett was one of four jackpot winners. The other three winning tickets were pu ...
Sep 5, 2007, 7:45 am - - Lottery News forum
