$8 Million Quick Pick Super Lotto Fraud Trial Will Start on Wednesday
A dispute over the ownership of a California Quick Pick Super Lotto ticket valued at $8 million will go to trial at 8:30 AM on Wednesday, September 17, 2003 in Pomona Superior Court before the Hon. Peter J. Meeka. Plaintiff Arwa Farraj filed suit in February 2000 against Circle K Stores and its employee, Gurinder Ruby, for fraud and conversion, alleging that she had been deceived by Mr. Ruby into giving her winning California Quick Pick Super Lotto ticket to him. Ms. Farraj is represented by Bro ...
Sep 17, 2003, 3:02 am - - Lottery News forum
Two Tickets Split $57 Million Calif. SuperLotto Plus Jackpot
The California Lotterys $57 million jackpot was split by two winning tickets drawn Wednesday, September 10, 2003 with the winning numbers 34, 43, 27, 20, 7 and MEGA 6. The winning tickets were sold at Seacliff Plaza Store, 219 State Park Drive, in Aptos and at Kavanagh Liquors, 500 Via Mercado, in San Lorenzo. Each ticket is valued at $28.5 million and the winners have not yet claimed their prizes.Kavanagh Liquors lucky streak continues with the fourth winning jackpot ticket sold at this locatio ...
Sep 11, 2003, 7:36 pm - - Lottery News forum
Computer problem shut down lottery machines across California
Roughly 19,000 lottery machines shut down across the state Wednesday, with more than 2,300 in Southern California -- including the Coachella Valley, according to the California Lottery.Norma Minas, a spokeswoman with the California Lottery, said that the problem was thought to be caused by a software flaw.Minas said she had not heard anything about the problem being caused by recent e-mail virus attacks striking computers around the world, and that stores would not likely be facing legions of up ...
Aug 22, 2003, 4:13 am - - Lottery News forum
Calif. Lottery Commission to Hold Meeting in Sacramento
The California State Lottery Commission will hold a public meeting at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 21, 2003, at the California Lottery Headquarters Building located at 600 North 10th Street in Sacramento, California. Members of the public are invited. Persons wishing to address the Commission at the meeting may sign up in advance by calling the Commission Assistant, Barbara Tynes, at the California Lottery, (916) 323-0403 by 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 20, 2003.
Aug 18, 2003, 2:22 pm - - Lottery News forum
Carson widow wins $91 million SuperLotto Plus jackpot
Patricia Frierson went to her factory job after winning the $91 million California Lottery jackpot but she went home in a limousine.Frierson had the sole winning ticket for Saturday night's SuperLotto Plus game. She bought it on Saturday afternoon at a liquor store down the block from an Econolodge motel, where she has lived for three years because she no longer could afford her town home.She returned to Village Liquors on Sunday, clutching her winning ticket and hugging customers and employees. ...
Aug 11, 2003, 3:20 am - - Lottery News forum
Davis names Washington lottery director to head Calif. lottery
Gov. Gray Davis on Wednesday appointed the executive director of the Washington state lottery to head California's lottery.Anthony Molica, 54, succeeds Joan Wilson as director of the California lottery. Wilson left the lottery to become deputy secretary of Southern California operations for the state Business, Transportation and Housing Agency.Molica held a variety of jobs for the California lottery, including director of sales, from 1985 until he was appointed head of the Washington lottery in ...
Aug 7, 2003, 4:07 am - - Lottery News forum
California Lottery CEO Leaves
California Lottery CEO Joan Wilson, who headed up the lottery through a number of tumultuous episodes including two failed advertising agency reivews, has left her post after some three years on the job, a lottery spokeswoman said. No commentThe spokeswoman said Ms. Wilson was an appointee of California Gov. Gary Davis. She referred calls for comment to the governor's office, which did not return phone calls. Other attempts to reach Ms. Wilson by phone and e-mail were unsuccessful.Ms. Wilson, wh ...
Aug 6, 2003, 5:48 am - - Lottery News forum
