News agency owner wins $259,000 in Penn. lottery
Wayde Christophel will soon be smiling all the way to the bank.Christophel, a Waynesboro resident who owns The Waynesboro News Agency on West Main Street with his wife Kim, won the $259,000 jackpot in Friday night's Cash 5 drawing of the Pennsylvania Lottery.He's not a complete stranger to lottery luck, though. Six years ago, he won $5,000 in the former Saturday Night Spin game.Christophel said he plans to file a claim at lottery headquarters today in Harrisburg, so he was unable to provide deta ...
Mar 23, 2004, 4:39 am - Lottery News forum
Dreams of lottery cash turn to dust
When a friendly telemarketer called a 74-year-old Bethlehem, Pennsylvania woman two weeks ago to tell her she'd won $5 million in a Canadian sweepstakes, it sounded too good to be true.But the young man on the other end of the line convinced the woman she was a winner and to claim her prize she had to send him $1,900 cash to cover taxes and fees on the winnings.Bethlehem police later learned the man was a con artist, but only after the victim took out a home loan to wire him the original amount ...
Mar 22, 2004, 4:11 am - Lottery News forum
In Pennsyvania, lottery tickets a big seller
York County sold $52.3M tickets last yearWith more than $1.1 million in sales, the Manchester Shell in Manchester Township near York sold more lottery tickets than any other outlet in York County last year.With nearly $750,000 in sales, Lynn's Shur Fine at 5660 York Road in New Oxford, sold more than any other retailer in Adams County.In all, York County's 230 lottery outlets sold a total of $52.3 million in tickets in 2003, according to data provided by the state lottery.Adams County's 51 lotte ...
Mar 15, 2004, 7:11 am - Lottery News forum
Five charged in Pennsylvania lottery ticket thefts
A mother and daughter and three other employees of a Scranton, Pennsylvania convenience market stole more than $62,000 last year by taking thousands of instant lottery tickets and cashing in winners, a Lackawanna County detective charged Thursday.The five were tripped up when the owner of Sdventh Avenue Kwik N Ezy Kwik Mart noticed a large discrepancy in lottery ticket sales during a year-end review of accounts, according to an arrest affidavit.They are charged with single counts of theft by unl ...
Feb 20, 2004, 6:44 am - Lottery News forum
Hundreds split lottery winnings on popular number combo
The Pennsylvania Lottery either made a lot of people happy Friday night or reminded them that learning to share is still one of life's toughest lessons.For the first time since its inception in 1992, the CASH 5 game was won by a set of numbers that an elementary school kid would love -- 5, 10, 15, 20, 25.Exactly 242 tickets were sold for that combination, meaning each one is worth $439 each. While that's a nice return on a $1 investment, it looks pretty paltry compared to the $446,373.50 jackpot ...
Feb 9, 2004, 6:03 am - Lottery News forum
Final Penn. Super 6 Lotto Drawing Increases Prizes for 70,518 Players
No one matched all six numbers drawn in the final Super 6 Lotto drawing Tuesday night, 8-9-11-23-44-45.The $8,115,513 million cash jackpot prize - more than one million dollars greater than the estimated cash jackpot of $7 million -- rolled down into the lower prize tiers for the game, awarding 70,518 players enhanced prizes.The jackpot money was shared proportionately by second-, third- and fourth-tier winners:$2,839,054 - 33.33 percent of the prize pool - was allocated to match-five prizes,$2, ...
Jan 28, 2004, 9:10 am - Lottery News forum
Final Penn. Super 6 Lotto Drawing Tomorrow
$7 million jackpot could roll down to lower prize tiersThe estimated cash value of the jackpot for the final Super 6 Lotto drawing on Tuesday, January 27, 2004, is $7 million. All Super 6 prize money will be distributed in this final drawing.If no one wins the jackpot prize on January 27, the cash value of the jackpot will be shared proportionately by second-, third- and fourth-tier winners as estimated in the table below. Money allocated to each prize category will be divided equally among th ...
Jan 26, 2004, 9:27 am - Lottery News forum
$60 million? It's 'like an out-of-body experience'
$60 million winner is just trying to 'comprehend'Becoming Pennsylvania's newest multimillionaire means Lisa Ensor will have a bigger wedding reception than she was planning and a larger investment portfolio.It also might mean a new car, a trip and a house.Ensor, 42, of York, yesterday had few definitive plans for the newfound fortune that comes with being one of two winning ticketholders in the New Year's Eve Powerball drawing.Ensor said she held off claiming her $60,149,751.49 lump-sum payment ...
Jan 16, 2004, 9:02 am - Lottery News forum
Pennsylvania Lottery Announces Retirement of Super 6 Lotto
Pennsylvania Lottery officials today announced the last Super 6 Lotto drawing will take place on Tuesday, January 27, 2004. Super 6 has been a great game for the Pennsylvania Lottery, generating more than one billion dollars in sales over the past five years, said Lottery Executive Director Ed Mahlman. Recently, however, interest in Super 6 has decreased, as Powerball has established itself as Pennsylvania's premier jackpot game. Mahlman said the Lottery plans to distribute of the remaining Su ...
Jan 12, 2004, 6:27 am - Lottery News forum
Penn. Match 6 Lotto Rules Finalized
Lottery Post presents a summary of the rules for the new Pennsylvania Match 6 Lotto game.The Pennsylvania Secretary of Revenue, under the authority contained in section 303 of the State Lottery Law (72 P. S. 3761-303), added Chapter 872, relating to the new Match 6 Lotto game.PurposeMatch 6 Lotto is designed to give players the opportunity to win up to four prizes in each game.For a $2 purchase, the player gets a ticket containing three sets of six numbers, the numbers in each of these sets ra ...
Jan 2, 2004, 8:17 pm - Lottery News forum
