Ohio Lottery Posts Wrong Results on Official Web Site
Ohio Lottery Commission officials say two employees responsible for posting an incorrect Super Lotto Plus number over the weekend will be disciplined.The commissions deputy director for communications, Mardele Cohen, says the number 35, instead of 45, was posted Saturday night as one of the winning Super Lotto Plus numbers on the lotterys Web site and on its winning numbers phone line.It stayed that way until Monday morning.The correct winning numbers were 7, 9, 26, 27, 34 and 45 with a bonus ba ...
Mar 8, 2005, 9:54 am - - Lottery News forum
Mystery winner claims $7 million Ohio lottery jackpot
Someone finally claimed the Ohio Super Lotto Plus $7 million winning ticket sold Dec. 8 at Al's Convenience Store in Tiffin, but the person's identity is still a mystery.Attorney Catherine L. Evans of Hamilton, Ohio claimed the prize for her client Friday at the Toledo regional Ohio Lottery Commission office. The winner, who chose the cash option, hired Evans to claim the prize for a trust fund called The Gottrich Presentation Trust.Sandra Neal, public information officer for the Ohio Lottery Co ...
Jan 27, 2005, 1:48 pm - - Lottery News forum
Jury rules lottery pool members entitled to share Mega Millions prize
Only six Ohio postal workers sued Stephen Kyle for a piece of a $175,000 winning lottery ticket.But all 20 lottery-pool members -- including Kyle -- will share the jackpot evenly after a jury ruled Tuesday that Kyle was wrong to keep the money for himself, cutting his colleagues out of their fair shares.If all 20 stake a claim, each will be eligible to receive $8,750, before taxes. Three of the pool members who testified on Kyle's behalf during the two-day trial in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas C ...
Jan 20, 2005, 4:21 pm - - Lottery News forum
Ohio man claims $20 million Super Lotto jackpot
The winner of a $20 million Super Lotto jackpot from Nov. 24 has come forward to claim the prize, said Mardele Cohen, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Lottery Commission.Cohen said attorney Thomas W. Watkins claimed the prize at lottery headquarters Thursday on behalf of the ZSA Family Trust. The winners chose the cash option and the trust will receive $10 million before federal and state tax withholdings, Cohen said.The ticket holder picked the winning numbers of 8-13-21-26-31-41. The bonus ball was ...
Jan 14, 2005, 1:57 pm - - Lottery News forum
Ohio lottery pool lawsuit focuses on time of purchase
For nearly four years, Olmsted Falls postal worker Stephen Kyle faithfully delivered copies of losing lottery tickets to 19 co-workers every time the Mega Millions jackpot exceeded $100 million.Until June 25, that is -- which was the first time Kyle picked a winner, hitting on five of six numbers, worth $175,000.On that date, Kyle, who organized the pool, failed to provide his co-workers with copies of the tickets and neglected to tell them that one was a winner.Kyle, 51, of Amherst, later ex pl ...
Jan 14, 2005, 1:18 pm - - Lottery News forum
111 on 1-11 means one big loss for Ohio Lottery
Triple ones cost the Ohio Lottery nearly $3.5 million on 1-11.The Pick 3 Numbers day drawing was 111 on Tuesday, forcing the lottery to pay out more than $3.9 million to winners despite only $427,094.50 in sales.Everyone who played 111 on their $1 ticket won $500.It's the second time 111 has been drawn on 1-11. It happened previously on Jan. 11, 1982.Pick 3 was first drawn Dec. 6, 1979, the Ohio Lottery said.The odds of any three-digit number occurring in any one Pick 3 drawing are 1 in 1,000 (0 ...
Jan 12, 2005, 9:45 am - - Lottery News forum
Ohio player nets $208,000 in Rolling Cash 5 lottery game
James Gray of Campbell, Ohio won the top $291,000 prize in the Dec. 28 Rolling Cash 5 game.The Mahoning County resident matched all five numbers for his win. He filed a claim in the Youngstown regional office Thursday afternoon.After taxes totaling 28.5 percent, Gray will receive a check for $208,065.Rather than choosing his own numbers, Gray let the lottery machine select Quick Pick numbers.The winning numbers were 2-14-19-21-34. He bought the winning ticket from Smoker Friendly Cigar Express ...
Jan 4, 2005, 12:33 pm - - Lottery News forum
Lottery win latest miracle for Ohio family
Deana Stambaugh of Ironton, Ohio has two really good reasons to believe in miracles.In August, Stambaugh's daughter, Amy Palmer, gave birth 10 weeks prematurely to a little girl named Kendall Hope. Although she still faces additional, expensive medical procedures, the tiny infant miraculously returned from the hospital earlier than doctors had predicted after being delivered by Caesarean section.The other miracle: Stambaugh just won $20,000 on Christmas Day playing the Holiday Surprise Doubler i ...
Dec 30, 2004, 8:51 am - - Lottery News forum
One ticket wins $7 million Ohio Super Lotto Plus jackpot
The Ohio Lottery sold one Super Lotto Plus game ticket with the correct combination from the drawing Wednesday night.The winning ticket, sold at Al's Convenience Store in Tiffin, is worth $3,500,000, which is the lump sum amount the lottery would have invested in order to pay the $7 million jackpot over 30 years.The Ohio Lottery's Super Lotto Plus jackpot for the drawing Saturday will offer $4 million.In Kicker, no game ticket had all six numbers, so no one can claim the $100,000 top prize.One R ...
Dec 9, 2004, 8:18 am - - Lottery News forum
Judge Orders $5 M Seized In Lottery Scam Go To Charities
A Cincinnati judge has ordered that nearly $5 million seized in a statewide gambling scam be sent to the charities it was supposed to reach in the first place.The scheme was estimated to have raised more than $57 million through the sale of pull-tab instant-lottery tickets in hundreds of bars and restaurants.Hamilton County Judge Fred Nelson wrote in his decision that the gambling ring told people their donations would go to children with birth defects or disabilities.The judge has ordered Ohio ...
Nov 23, 2004, 8:22 am - - Lottery News forum
