Lottery, casino shutdown cost N.J. millions
At Cafe Ole, a coffee house a block from the New Jersey capitol where business slowed to a trickle during a weeklong government shutdown, a new sign adorned the shop's door Monday.
All of you are essential to us, read the sign, referring to the 45,000 state workers who flooded back into the city on the first work day after New Jersey approved a new budget, ending a weeklong government shutdown that furloughed workers, halted most state services and closed casinos for three days.
The shut ...
Jul 13, 2006, 11:42 am - - Lottery News forum
N.J. Woman Wins $1M With Scratch-Off Lottery Ticket
Winner Plans To Continue Working
A Cape May County woman is a $1 million winner, but she said she plans to keep working.
Patricia Callinan is a secretary at a Wildwood Crest law firm. On Monday, she bought a scratch-off lottery ticket at Crest Tavern where she has lunch every day and always buys a scratch ticket.
At first, she thought she only won $40, but it turned out to be $1 million.
She took the $650,000 lump sum payout.
Callinan said she plans to use some of her winnings ...
Jul 13, 2006, 11:00 am - - Lottery News forum
N.J. budget deal, but lottery restart date unclear
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine and lawmakers reached a deal yesterday on a state budget, six days into a government shutdown that shuttered casinos and threw more than 80,000 people out of work.
Corzine said about 5 p.m. that the shutdown would end in 24 to 36 hours. The budget bills first must pass both the Senate and Assembly.
He cautioned that the budget accord was not cause for celebration, because too many residents' lives had been disrupted.
We have much more to do in the coming mon ...
Jul 7, 2006, 7:02 am - - Lottery News forum
N.J. Lottery players question logic of shutdown
Gov. Jon S. Corzine's decision to shut down state services created confusion for lottery players and those who sell New Jersey lottery tickets.
Sharon Rush, who owns Macaro's Deli in Pennsauken, said she learned about it online.
They haven't told us anything, Rush said. Our customers don't even know about it yet.
Rush said shutting down the lottery and casinos because of fiscal woes simply doesn't make sense.
Something that makes money for the government shouldn't shut down, sh ...
Jul 2, 2006, 4:33 pm - - Lottery News forum
N.J. Lottery shut down over Gov.'s tax raise plan
New Jersey may be penalized for failing to sell Mega Millions tickets
Without a state budget in place and the prospects for one unclear, Gov. Jon S. Corzine began an unprecedented shutdown of New Jersey government Saturday.
Given that the new fiscal year began on a weekend, the immediate impacts weren't significant though if you were hoping to test your luck Saturday, you may have been out of it.
The New Jersey Lottery stopped selling tickets at 8 p.m. Saturday.
Atlantic City casi ...
Jul 2, 2006, 4:08 pm - - Lottery News forum
'Lucky' NJ store sells winning Mega Millions lottery ticket
Atul Tijoriwala sells 43 different types of lottery tickets at his Krauszer's corner store in New Brunswick, and in the year he's owned the store, his customers have been lucky.
In April, someone bought a Cash 5 lottery ticket that won $225,778. The next month, a customer bought a Pick 6 ticket that won $5,419 and was one digit shy of netting $3 million.
But today, Tijoriwala knows one of his customers really hit the jackpot because he sold the sole win ning Mega Millions ticket, worth ...
Jun 5, 2006, 9:00 am - - Lottery News forum
Lottery fever is alive and well in New Jersey
They call themselves the Coolers, based on the 2003 Las Vegas thriller The Cooler, starring William Macy. He plays a character who is hired in old-school casinos to subdue high rollers' action, until he falls in love.
Unlike the movie, this group has not encountered Lady Luck and has yet to pinpoint its cooler. But that doesn't stop them from continuing their 15-year tradition of Thursday lottery lunches.
It's no coincidence that Thursday just happens to be when the Pick 6 is drawn.
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Apr 9, 2006, 10:39 am - - Lottery News forum
N.J. Cash 5 lottery player uses very lucky numbers
A Williamstown, New Jersey, woman who insists I'm not lucky won the New Jersey Cash 5 jackpot of $545,559 March 2 after hitting four of five numbers in the same lottery game a mind-altering 13 times in 16 months.
The woman, who requested her name not be used, purchased her winning ticket at Corner Food Market in Washington Township.
She watched her five numbers 5, 13, 25, 28 and 38 picked live on Channel 23.
According to a lottery spokesman, the $545,559 makes the top 10 in Ca ...
Apr 5, 2006, 8:42 am - - Lottery News forum
Having a lottery machine: Now that's the ticket
Critics raise questions as retailers play by the rules and win scores of jackpotsNew Jersey's 10 most frequent winners of lottery jackpots have one thing in common: Luck.But five of those top 10 winners have something else going for them: A store that sells lottery tickets. We play, we win, explained Mahendra Vora, standing behind the counter of Everything Nice, a stationery store on Bergenline Avenue in West New York that he owns with his wife, Sudha.Together, the lucky couple has claimed 175 ...
Dec 27, 2005, 6:49 am - - Lottery News forum
Lottery number strategies subject of newspaper investigation
The odds are long. The drawings are random. And the house keeps a much greater share of wagers than other forms of gambling.In sum: The lottery cannot be beaten. There is no system that can improve your chances of winning the lottery, period, says Mike Orkin, a California mathematician who has written extensively about gambling odds.Yet the quest for an ever-elusive winning lottery strategy is alive and well and for sale.On a quiet, dead-end street in Denville stands the headquarters of Doubl ...
Dec 6, 2005, 1:26 am - - Lottery News forum
