Small N.Y. store sells lots of winning lottery tickets
It's called Broadway News, but the Money Store might be a better name. New York State Lottery money falls like thousand-dollar bills from heaven at the newsstand at 352 Broadway in Newburgh.
Since 2002, 154 people have won $1,000 or more at the store. That's nearly twice as many as the next store with the most winners in Ulster, Sullivan and Orange counties, a Sunday Record analysis found.
The Quick Mart at 515 Broadway sells nearly as many tickets but had just 81 winners in the same time. ...
Mar 3, 2008, 9:32 am - - Lottery News forum
Ontario store employee charged with stealing lottery prizes
New prize redemption rules aimed at reducing theft
A former convenience store employee in North Bay, Ontario, is facing theft and fraud charges for allegedly redeeming two customers' scratch-and-win lottery tickets.
Sgt. Chris Williams of the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario's Investigation and Support Bureau says these are the first such charges the unit has laid since its inception Jan. 1.
The unit, comprised of provincial police officers, investigates claims of insider lotter ...
Feb 27, 2008, 10:24 am - - Lottery News forum
Pair arrested for stealing lottery tickets for 3 years
Claimed $187,000 in winnings from stolen scratch-offs
A clerk at Local Yokel food mart has been arrested for stealing Florida Lottery scratch-off tickets and raking in $187,000 in winnings.
Michelle Joan Despain, 35, of Daphne, Ala., is accused of stealing books of tickets and claiming them in Escambia County and in Orlando during a family vacation, according to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office.
The tickets she stole would have sold for more than $243,000.
Despain's husband, ...
Feb 8, 2008, 8:56 am - - Lottery News forum
Ontario Lottery adds signature requirement for claiming prizes
Starting this week, retailers are not allowed to validate Ontario lottery tickets unless customers sign them on the front.
Players are also asked to sign the back of Instant Win tickets until a new signature box is added to the front in the coming months.
The signature requirement is the second new measure added by the Ontario Lottery Corp. in as many weeks to improve security.
New musical chimes and voice alerts took effect Jan. 22 at all lottery terminals to help inform players of the ...
Jan 30, 2008, 8:42 am - - Lottery News forum
Winner of New York's biggest lottery jackpot sold himself the ticket
A Manhattan deli clerk may have sliced his last salami after selling himself the winning ticket to the biggest scratch-off lottery jackpot in state history.
Waleed Alsaidi, 22, will take home $10,000 per week for the rest of his life about $6,450 after taxes are withheld after getting lucky in the New York Lottery's Win for Life Spectacular game.
The Yemen native said that he bought the ticket as a present to himself while working the lonely late shift on New Year's Eve at his fa ...
Jan 18, 2008, 7:54 pm - - Lottery News forum
Couple hits lottery bigger than thought
A lucky couple expecting to cash in their winning Michigan Lottery ticket became a bit peeved when a store clerk turned down their request.
Bad Axe gas station and convenience store owner Eli Kabban said the man and woman showed up Wednesday morning with what they thought was a $150 winning ticket they'd bought Friday.
They complained when the clerk told them they would have to collect their winnings in Lansing, the state capital, 150 miles away.
Kabban said he took the couple into his ...
Jan 11, 2008, 10:03 am - - Lottery News forum
Lottery ticket thief sentenced
East Greenbush woman to serve six months of weekends in jail despite pleas for leniency
An East Greenbush woman who admitted stealing a $25,000 winning lottery ticket was sentenced Thursday to six months of weekends in jail, despite pleas from her attorney that the court show some mercy and drop the jail time.
Kelly Clifford, 21, appeared before Judge Robert Jacon for sentencing last week, when her lawyer, John Kelleher, asked for compassion for his client.
During that appearance, Kel ...
Jan 11, 2008, 8:38 am - - Lottery News forum
Contractors steal $70,000 in lottery prize money
Computer system breached; technicians printed bogus tickets, investigators allege
D.C. officials were told last year that lax enforcement of security procedures made it possible for a handful of contract employees to steal tens of thousands of dollars in lottery tickets and prize money, according to records released this week in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed with the D.C. Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board.
An investigation conducted by Battelle Memorial I ...
Jan 9, 2008, 3:53 pm - - Lottery News forum
$1M Wisconsin lottery ticket sold on 'Miracle Mile'
On New Year's Day, Phil Moses was atop a ladder, putting some big news up on the marquis outside Ma Pa's Grocery Express in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
Another winning $1 million lottery ticket was sold at the legendary little store located at 506 S. Main St., along a strip dubbed The Miracle Mile.
I don't want to sound arrogant, Phil quipped, but I seriously don't understand why people buy lottery tickets at any other location.
A $100,000 winning ticket was also sold at Pick 'n Sa ...
Jan 2, 2008, 2:15 pm - - Lottery News forum
Stolen lottery money returned to real winners
Four school board employees, allegedly cheated out of their winning lottery ticket by a retailer who claimed the prize money as his own, received a check for $5.7 million plus interest Wednesday from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation.
The check came as Ontario Provincial Police announced they had charged Hafiz Malik, a 60-year-old former convenience store owner with theft and fraud following an investigation into insider wins at the OLG.
Police allege Malik, who was release ...
Dec 21, 2007, 12:06 pm - - Lottery News forum
