Judge awards excluded worker $1 million share of Big Game jackpot
A New Jersey Superior Court Judge ruled that a supermarket employee who thought she was included in a ticket-buying pool even though she couldn't immediately pay is entitled to share in a $32.9 million Big Game lottery jackpot.In a non-jury trial, Judge Mitchel Ostrer ruled Wednesday that Mary Marinelli, 49, of Dover Township is entitled to one-34th of the money won by employees of the Pathmark supermarket in Brick Township.David Mazie, the woman's attorney, said her share will be about $1 milli ...
Feb 13, 2004, 8:03 am - - Lottery News forum
N.J. Lottery announces online lottery game
New Jersey plans to take the lottery to the Internet next year.The new game, called Cyber Slingo, has a scratch-off instant ticket portion and an online component, giving players two chances to win. Tickets will go on sale Feb. 23.To access the online portion, players will log on to the state's lottery Web site, input an access code printed on the ticket and play a five-minute version of the popular online game Slingo.Game results are predetermined and are not based on skill, but are intended as ...
Dec 23, 2003, 5:28 am - - Lottery News forum
$3M lottery win is ticket to retirement
Plumber from Denville can quit after 40 years, thanks to wife's lucrative Pick 6 Lotto purchaseAnytime Robert Hanson noticed that his wife, Karen, had purchased lottery tickets, he asked her the same question. Do I have to go to work tomorrow? asked Robert, a plumber for more than 40 years.Karen's answer was always yes. But not anymore.As of Nov. 3, Karen Hanson's lottery habit has her husband on his way to early retirement.The Hansons, Denville residents for more than 30 years, are the lates ...
Nov 20, 2003, 12:09 pm - - Lottery News forum
NJ Woman Wins Cash 5 Jackpot
A winning lottery ticket from the One Stop Shoppe on Corkery Lane landed a Monroe Township woman the claims to the Jersey Cash 5 Jackpot.Joan O'Brien played the birthdates of her children for a year in the state's Jersey Cash 5 game and on Oct. 29 it paid off.According to lottery Executive Director Virginia S. Bauer, O'Brien was the lone winner in the Oct. 29 drawing. Her prize was $166,152 --minus the 25 percent federal withholding tax. The winning numbers were: 01, 09, 20, 26 and 27.Since its ...
Nov 13, 2003, 5:24 am - - Lottery News forum
Man gives kids $6M lotto prize
Hector Rivera played the New Jersey Lottery for 20 years, promising any jackpot he won would go to his five children.Like most people who talk about winning a multimillion-dollar jackpot, Rivera was dismissed by his children as a dreamer. Nobody ever thought anything about it, said Michael Cioffi, Rivera's oldest son. We just thought he had a lot of fun dreaming about winning some day. Rivera's dream came true Oct. 13, when the Vineland man was the only winner to hit a $6.1 million Pick 6 jack ...
Nov 4, 2003, 4:50 am - - Lottery News forum
Lost and found? $1.4M lottery ticket winds up in court
On Sept. 16, 2002, a New Jersey Pick 6 lottery ticket was sold from the Sunshine Grocery store in Hoboken. The numbers, randomly generated as a quick pick, proved to be the very lucky indeed. But a court will have to decide for whom.Several days after the ticket was sold, a brother and sister from Union City presented the lone winning ticket in the $4 million drawing to the New Jersey Lottery Commission in Trenton. Ecstatic at their good fortune but uncertain of their English (they are from Pu ...
Oct 30, 2003, 5:16 am - - Lottery News forum
N.J. Lottery ticket worth $6.1M
Someone who bought a lottery ticket in Cumberland County has won $6.1 million dollars.According to a statement released by New Jersey Lottery, the owner of a Pick 6 ticket sold in Vineland won the contest's top prize in Monday's drawing, but has yet to come forward to claim the prize.The winning ticket was sold at Ed Alba's Food Mart on North East Boulevard, and the winning numbers were 11, 12, 17, 18, 31 and 38.New Jersey Lottery reports that the ticket was the only one of more than 1.1 milli ...
Oct 16, 2003, 3:28 am - - Lottery News forum
Store's trash proves to be lotto treasure
The manager of a Hackensack, New Jersey video store thought he had found a modern-day pot of gold this week when hundreds of unused, scratch-off instant Lottery tickets were discovered in the store basement. We thought we hit it rich, Nilesh Maheshwary, manager of the West Coast Video store on Passaic Street, said yesterday. I didn't know what to do. Making a similar find, others may have grabbed a penny and started scratching -- some lotto games offer players a chance to win thousands of doll ...
Oct 15, 2003, 3:28 am - - Lottery News forum
NJ Changes Cash 5 Game
The New Jersey State Lottery announced improvements to its Jersey Cash 5 game, starting with the September 15 drawing, that are designed to produce higher jackpots and more player excitement. Since its inception in 1992, Jersey Cash 5 has served as a roll-down game, whereby if there was no top winner (five out of five numbers), the jackpot was divided into the remaining prize pools (four out of five numbers). Jersey Cash 5 now will change to a roll over structure, where the jackpot grows an ...
Sep 22, 2003, 4:14 am - - Lottery News forum
Jersey Lottery Winner Accused Of Murder
A south New Jersey lottery winner was arraigned Tuesday on charges that he murdered his mother-in-law and stabbed his wife at the family home in Egg Harbor Township.Oscar Cordoba, 50, bought the house shortly after winning $17.9 million in the state's lottery in 1989.In court, Cordoba told the judge that he understood what he was charged with. He also asked where his mother was. She lives in Argentina. Authorities said Cordoba attacked his wife, Sylvia, with an 8-inch kitchen knife Monday. The c ...
Sep 17, 2003, 2:48 am - - Lottery News forum
