Calif. Lottery pays out $264,000 after game show mistake
The California Lottery will pay $264,000 in additional winnings to nine people whose names were mistakenly transposed on forms during a lottery game show.
Lottery officials say a mistake during a taping in February of the Make Me A Millionaire television show resulted in the nine players playing a different game than they otherwise would have.
The nine players received another chance at winning Sunday because the Feb. 8 error had resulted in them playing a lower-paying game than they other ...
Oct 27, 2009, 11:00 am - - Lottery News forum
Calif. man claims half of $333M Mega Millions lottery jackpot
A Southern California man has claimed one half of the $333 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot.
The California Lottery said Wednesday that Kevyn Ogawa had the winning numbers for the August 28th drawing. He took the cash option, meaning he'll take home about $107 million.
Lottery officials say Ogawa, who preferred not to be interviewed, went to the Van Nuys lottery office Wednesday to claim his prize.
He bought his ticket from an Asian noodle shop in San Gabriel. The business will rec ...
Sep 4, 2009, 9:39 am - - Lottery News forum
2 lottery tickets split $333M Mega Millions jackpot
There will be no worldwide lottery jackpot record this time.
Two tickets have split last night's $333 million Mega Millions jackpot, one on each coast of the United States.
The winning tickets, which are now worth an estimated $166.5 million each, were purchased in San Gabriel, Calif., and the Bronx, New York.
The winning numbers were: 1, 17, 31, 37 and 54 with the Mega Ball 31. The Texas Megaplier was 4.
Also, 34 lucky players came very close to winning it all, macthing the first 5 ...
Aug 29, 2009, 8:46 am - - Lottery News forum
Former Snow White wins lottery
Natalie Marston's trips to the wishing well paid off this weekend.
The Rancho Cucamonga resident was working as Snow White at Disneyland when she bought a lottery ticket on a whim in February. That ticket just made Marston a millionaire.
Marston, 22, won the $5.2 million jackpot on the Make Me a Millionaire show by the California Lottery on Saturday. The show airs 7:30 p.m. Saturdays on KCAL-9.
I know I played Snow White, but I feel more like Cinderella, Marston said in a prepared stat ...
Aug 27, 2009, 5:54 pm - - Lottery News forum
California Mega Millions lottery ticket worth $200K to expire Monday
A lottery ticket worth more than $200,000 that was bought in Coronado, California, remains unclaimed, and lottery officials yesterday warned that the prize will expire in three days.
The winning Mega Millions ticket was sold Feb. 4 at Avenue Liquor on Orange Avenue near Ninth Street, California Lottery officials said.
It hit five winning numbers 1, 27, 28, 35 and 40 but missed the Mega number, 6.
The ticket, which is worth $211,387, will expire at 5 p.m. Monday, officials said. If it is ...
Aug 21, 2009, 1:09 pm - - Lottery News forum
Sharon Sharp, 1939-2009: Former lottery director of Illinois, California
She was the GOP candidate for Illinois secretary of state in 1978
Sharon Sharp, whose accidental entry into politics started with a $10 loan from Donald Rumsfeld, ran for Illinois secretary of state in the late 1970s and was the state's lottery director under Gov. Jim Thompson.
Mrs. Sharp, 69, died of lung cancer Sunday, July 5, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, said her son, Christopher Kip Sharp. She lived on the city's Gold Coast.
Mrs. Sharp had held posts in the Elk Grove Township ...
Jul 7, 2009, 1:44 am - - Lottery News forum
Calif. man with 3 jobs wins $39M lottery jackpot
49-year-old plans to take wife to Hawaii and hire financial adviser
For 20 years, Clyde Persley of Santa Cruz worked more than 60 hours a week making candy, driving limousines and waiting by the phone to pick up extra hours at a restaurant. He bought lottery tickets and hoped for his big break.
And he got it.
Persley, 49, turned in his winning SuperLotto Plus ticket to the California Lottery office Tuesday night, said California Lottery spokeswoman Cathy Doyle Johnston, and will receive ...
Jun 29, 2009, 1:57 pm - - Lottery News forum
$39M lottery ticket sold at Santa Cruz store
One lucky Californian is holding a SuperLotto Plus lottery ticket worth $39 million.
It was bought from the Santa Cruz Market on California Avenue in the Circles. No one has stepped forward yet to claim the prize.
Store owner Bongkook Choi is beside himself with joy.
I can't believe it, said the man who has owned the market for six years. We are so lucky.
Lottery officials called him around 9 p.m. Saturday night to report that one person bought the winning ticket with all six Super ...
Jun 22, 2009, 9:29 am - - Lottery News forum
Prop 1C would change the California Lottery
Voting 'Yes' will allow lottery to create larger prize payouts
On May 19, California voters will have a chance to change the state lottery for the first time since it started in 1984.
Proposition 1C would allow the state to borrow $5 billion from future lottery profits to help balance the state's 2009-10 budget.
Lottery payment to educational institutions would end and the state general fund would increase its payments to schools to make up for the loss of lottery funds.
Currently, t ...
May 8, 2009, 8:35 am - - Lottery News forum
Lottery-winning deputies going to Disneyland
Two cohabiting Marin County sheriff's deputies are sporting ear-to-ear grins because they're California's newest multimillionaires.
Brian Cabaud, 31, and 24-year-old Anneliese Hansen, who goes by Liese, aren't chasing crooks these days. They're taking some time off, contemplating what life will be like now that they are $75 million richer, thanks to the Mega Millions lottery.
The California winning ticket is one of three tickets to split a $225 million Mega Millions jackpot drawn on May 1. ...
May 7, 2009, 9:00 am - - Lottery News forum
