Latest Michigan Lottery raffle offer $1,000 a week for life
Tickets on sale Monday; drawing is June 22
Michigan Lottery officials are banking they've come up with a winning formula for the next raffle game: A top prize of $1,000 a week for the rest of the player's life.
Win for Life raffle tickets go on sale Monday for $20 each, and once 300,000 are sold, that's it.
Lottery Commissioner M. Scott Bowen said the state's 12th raffle not only offers players a whole new way to win, it gives them a way to stretch out a win.
The prize that keeps on ...
May 8, 2009, 10:39 am - - Lottery News forum
Michigan Lottery winner gives prize to charity
A Kalamazoo-area man who won $10,000 in the Michigan Lottery's Club Keno game has donated his winnings to a charity.
Soon after winning the money on March 11, Jim Dancy of Richland decided others needed it more than he did. So he gave it all to the Greater Kalamazoo United Way.
I was heavily influenced by my close friend Julie, who taught me to think of others first, and to stop and think about what life is really about. I know the needs in the community are great right now, so for me it ...
Apr 19, 2009, 9:30 am - - Lottery News forum
Michigan Lottery to offer less-pricey raffle
Paying heed to tough economic times, new Lucky 7 offers players $10 chances at winning up to $700K
Responding to tough economic times, the Michigan Lottery is launching its latest raffle game and you won't see a $50 ticket price, or a $2 million top prize.
Tickets for the raffle, Lucky 7s, go on sale Monday for $10 each. The top prize is $700,000, the first time in the two-year history of the raffles that it will fall below the $1 million mark.
We have a lot of players who really like ...
Feb 25, 2009, 8:37 am - - Lottery News forum
Dream big: Mega jackpot for tonight is $103 million
Lottery business for the Mega Millions $103 million jackpot drawing tonight was unusually slow in downtown Detroit on Monday due largely to the closure of federal government offices, banks and financial markets for the Presidents' Day holiday.
But Hisham Haydous, manager of Wally's Convenience and Deli in the Murphy-Telegraph Building near Shelby and Congress, said things will be different today as workers return to their jobs.
Many customers don't even play the Mega Millions lottery unti ...
Feb 17, 2009, 8:50 am - - Lottery News forum
New Michigan lottery terminals are giving retailers fits
Numerous glitches have popped up on the touch-screen devices that use satellite technology
The new generation of Michigan Lottery machines is giving some retailers fits as the devices sometimes go on the blink in this winter's harsh weather.
The state began replacing 11,000 older model machines last fall, and the conversion should be completed by month's end.
But unlike the old system, which used phone lines, the new one relies on satellite technology.
In snowy, windy weather, the ne ...
Jan 16, 2009, 7:54 am - - Lottery News forum
Michigan Lottery celebrates 10th raffle drawing
Michigan: more raffle draws than any other state
The Michigan Lottery's Millionaire Raffle is back in action, now with its tenth drawing conducted.
The complete list of winning numbers for the latest raffle draw can be found on Lottery Post's Michigan Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/mi).
The $20 raffle tickets went on sale Nov. 10, and a total of 600,000 were available for the drawing. All the tickets were sold out prior to the draw.
In the drawing held earlier toda ...
Jan 5, 2009, 11:08 pm - - Lottery News forum
Ex-con held onto his lotto millions and started new life
While having a few drinks at a Hamilton Street bar, Aristeo Robelin saw a familiar face.
It was one of the police officers who helped put him in federal prison on drug smuggling and weapons charges.
The cop congratulated Robelin on his new life as a millionaire and bought him a beer.
Robelin, 40, took the meeting as an omen and stopped spending so much time in Hamilton Street bars.
Three years after winning $3.7 million in the Mega Millions lottery, the father of two and ex-con has l ...
Dec 10, 2008, 8:27 pm - - Lottery News forum
Lottery winner almost out of cash three years later
For fun, Keith Bryce and his wife, Elizabeth, play bingo on Tuesdays at a Knights of Columbus Hall, or watch movies on a mattress in the living room.
It's a long way from the craps tables, flashing lights and plush presidential suites at the swank Las Vegas hotels of their honeymoon.
Since Bryce won the Mega Millions lottery three years ago, he has clashed with family, spent close to $3 million and isn't far from the poorhouse a place he assumed he'd never visit again.
In the first 30 d ...
Dec 10, 2008, 8:05 pm - - Lottery News forum
Michigan Lottery replacing terminals statewide
Michigan celebrates 36th anniversary of state lottery
As the Michigan Lottery turns 36 this week, about 11,000 lottery machines across Michigan are being replaced with new state-of-the-art terminals.
The new Michigan Lottery terminals are smaller, faster and easier to use, with features including touchpad screens and laser printing instead of keyboards and the usual ticket paper.
About 3,420 retailers statewide already have converted to the new machines.
State's first lottery ticket ...
Nov 14, 2008, 10:42 am - - Lottery News forum
$42M lottery winner plans to become a pecan farmer
A Detroit-area man who won a $42 million Mega Millions jackpot plans to retire from Chrysler and become a pecan farmer in Georgia.
Chris Crane, 51, was given a ceremonial check Friday at the Michigan Lottery headquarters in Lansing.
The resident of Macomb County's Washington Township told reporters he will leave his job as a Chrysler service engineer within weeks.
I always wanted to do a little bit of farming, said Crane, who has some property in Georgia. This will be my chance.
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Oct 11, 2008, 3:20 pm - - Lottery News forum
