Connecticut Lottery draws $1M Super Draw raffle
By Todd Northrop
The Connecticut Lottery today held the state's fourth Super Draw raffle drawing, creating one new millionaire and several winners of other cash prizes.
A complete list of winning numbers for the drawing can be found at Lottery Post's Connecticut Lottery Results page.
The game has a total of 1,311 cash prizes, ranging from $100 to a top prize of $1 million cash.
Raffle tickets went on sale April 1, 2012, and cost $10 each. Each ticket sold contains a unique six-digit ...
Jul 4, 2012, 10:41 pm - Lottery News forum
$60 million winning lottery ticket sold in CT
Somebody in Connecticut is $60 million richer and they might not even know it yet.
CT Lottery officials announced Monday that a Powerball jackpot winning ticket from the June 23 drawing remains unclaimed. The ticket was sold in New Haven County.
The winning numbers on June 23 were 1-3-41-44-53 and a Powerball of 30.
Nationwide there were 421,685 winning tickets for the June 23 drawing. Of those, 7,953 were sold in Connecticut. One of those matched all six numbers correctly.
This late ...
Jun 26, 2012, 8:00 am - Lottery News forum
Almost-millionaire on a 15-year political pilgrimage
Still hasn't given up fight for $5.8 million
It all started with a lottery ticket.
For Clarence Jackson, life over the past 15 years has been a roller-coaster ride of highs and lows that began with a once-in-a-lifetime ticket that would have made him a multimillionaire.
Jackson was the guy who held the winning ticket for $5.8 million and tried unsuccessfully to cash it after he missed the one-year deadline by three days.
This year marks the 15th anniversary of a memorable debate in t ...
Mar 19, 2012, 7:47 am - Lottery News forum
New England states start new lottery game Thursday
Updated Mar. 13, 2012, 11:12 am: New game replaces Weekly Grand Extra.
By Todd Northrop
For the first time ever, the six New England states will jointly run a multi-state lottery game, starting this week.
The new Lucky for Life regional draw game begins this Thursday, March 15 for the six following states: Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massechusetts, and Rhode Island. Ticket sales for the new game started Sunday.
For Connecticut, the new Lucky for Life replaces a simila ...
Mar 13, 2012, 9:00 am - Lottery News forum
Connecticut lottery winners settle $1 million battle
Money doesn't always buy happiness especially when it involves two friends fighting over a winning Powerball ticket.
Last week, Armando Martins, a drywall installer from Trumbull and Nino Nascimento, a local mason, agreed to settle their three-year legal battle in state Superior Court over a $1 million winning ticket.
Under the terms of the settlement, reached before Judge Barbara Bellis, Martins will get $630,000 while Nascimento gets $370,000.
Both Martins and Nascimento declined comm ...
Jan 30, 2012, 7:41 am - Lottery News forum
Connecticut Lottery draws $1M Super Draw raffle
By Todd Northrop
The Connecticut Lottery today held the state's third Super Draw raffle drawing, creating one new millionaire and several winners of other cash prizes.
A complete list of winning numbers for the drawing can be found at Lottery Post's Connecticut Lottery Results page.
The game has a total of 1,311 cash prizes, ranging from $100 to a top prize of $1 million cash.
Raffle tickets went on sale October 1, 2011, and cost $10 each. Each ticket sold contains a unique six-digit ...
Jan 1, 2012, 11:44 pm - Lottery News forum
Connecticut to audit lottery winners for back taxes
After successfully targeting deadbeat parents, the state of Connecticut is going after tax evaders' lottery winnings.
Beginning Dec. 31, a new law will take effect requiring the Connecticut Lottery Corporation to deduct delinquent taxes, crosschecked with the Department of Revenue Services, from any claim of $5,000 or more.
If someone is lucky enough to win a lottery prize and they also owe back taxes, it is reasonable to collect those taxes at that time, co-sponsor Rep. Gerald Fox, D-Sta ...
Dec 20, 2011, 7:42 am - Lottery News forum
Retailer perspective: Selling a $254M lottery ticket
At first, Ranjit Singh didn't recognize the name of the customer who bought the quarter-of-a-billion-dollar-winning Powerball ticket across the counter of his gas station on Nov. 1. But then when he saw the man on television, he remembered. All of the employees of the BP on McGee Avenue in Stamford recognized him. He lived in the condos you could see from the station. He came in almost every workday and bought a cup of coffee on his way to work. Mr. Singh is pretty sure he remembers now, he told ...
Dec 12, 2011, 3:03 pm - Lottery News forum
Ct. Powerball lottery winners signed affidavit swearing they are only members of trust
The trust fund established by three Greenwich men who claimed the $254 million Powerball prize last month will expire in one year and the money will then go into a second trust, according to a copy of the trust agreement obtained by local media.
The three men signed an affidavit the day after a press conference announcing the Putnam Avenue Family Trust as the winner, swearing that the second trust named the West Putnam Avenue Trust has no silent partners and that no person ineligible to win t ...
Dec 7, 2011, 9:11 am - Lottery News forum
Powerball lottery winners award $1 million in grants
Three Connecticut men who claimed a $254 million Powerball jackpot last week made good on their statement that they would be immediately donating a sizable amount to charity.
The trustees of the Putnam Avenue Family Trust has awarded their first $1 million in charitable grants to five veteran support organizations.
The Putnam Avenue Family Trust was set up after the winning Connecticut lottery ticket, worth $254 million, was bought.
The organizations were selected on their proven abilit ...
Dec 5, 2011, 12:24 pm - Lottery News forum
