Wisconsin Megabucks lottery winners come forward
And the winners are ... Brian Schultz of Oak Creek and his two sons, Todd and Matthew.They've finally come forward and are splitting an $11.1 million Megabucks lottery jackpot from the Christmas Eve drawing, lottery officials announced Tuesday.The winning ticket was purchased at Gary's Beer and Liquor in Oak Creek.A news conference was scheduled at the store Wednesday for the winners to tell their story and answer questions.The liquor store earns a commission of $100,000 for selling the ticket. ...
Jan 26, 2006, 7:24 am - - Lottery News forum
WI Lottery Player Strikes It Rich on Christmas
A Wisconsin Megabucks player is more than $11 million dollars richer this Christmas.The Wisconsin Lottery says the winning ticket worth $11.1 million dollars was sold at Gary's Beer and Liquor in Oak Creek.The winning numbers for last night's drawing were 8-11-19-27-39-40.The ticket holder has 180 days from Christmas Eve to claim the prize.It's the largest Megabucks jackpot won since April of 2002 when a $13.5 million winning ticket was sold in Reedsburg.
Dec 26, 2005, 10:12 am - - Lottery News forum
Powerball lottery winnings to educate kids, fund parents' honeymoon
Jay and Lory Schabo of Center, Wisconsin, said their life will not change that much after winning a $853,492 Match 5 Bonus Prize in the October 19th Powerball drawing.It means college money for their three children and a honeymoon they never had a chance to celebrate when they were married 15 years ago. We're going to take care of our kids, Lory Schabo told reporters Tuesday, clearly nervous under the glare of television lights. We're going back to our normal lives. We're quiet people. There w ...
Oct 26, 2005, 10:09 am - - Lottery News forum
Follow-Up: Couple’s lottery 5-week winning streak was simple luck
When Jeffrey Hintz won the Wisconsin Lottery s second-chance drawing five weeks in a row, some in state government got a little suspicious.Turns out, Hintz just got lucky, an investigation concluded.Investigators with the state s Department of Revenue found no signs of fraud in his five-week winning streak in March and April.Hintz and his wife, Lisa, have won almost $73,000 in cash prizes from the state lottery since 1999. More than $65,000 came from drawings.But the couple s five-week winning s ...
Jul 24, 2005, 2:13 pm - - Lottery News forum
Power failure shuts down Wisconsin lottery sales
A computer system outage prevented Wisconsin lottery players from purchasing tickets or validating winning tickets for such games as Powerball or Pick 3 for about three hours, a state Department of Revenue spokeswoman says.Ticket sales and prize validations for computerized games were affected when the outage occurred Monday about 11:30 a.m. at GTECH, which provides the Wisconsin Lottery with hardware and software for lottery sales, Meredith Helgerson said.A battery backup system failed to kick ...
Jul 12, 2005, 10:00 pm - - Lottery News forum
Wisconsin Lottery lost $212,000 in Super Bowl drawing
The Wisconsin Lottery lost $212,000 after it pulled out of a special drawing offering tickets and travel to the 2004 Super Bowl.The drawing was organized by a group that included NFL Hall of Famer Lynn Swann, according to an audit released Wednesday.Wisconsin Lottery spokesman Andrew Bohage said the state has considered legal action to recoup the money it lost after the NFL objected to the drawing. But he said lottery officials have held back because they are unsure if a suit would succeed. We r ...
May 12, 2005, 11:09 am - - Lottery News forum
Wisconsin couple to be investigated for excessive lottery wins
A state lawmaker has asked for an audit to determine how a Bonduel, Wisconsin couple won three dozen second-chance state lottery drawings since 2000.In 5½ years, Jeffrey B. and Lisa M. Hintz have won more than $40,000 in second-chance drawings, including $5,000 from five consecutive weekly drawings this March and April.Since 2000, they've won another $26,000 from scratch-off tickets, other lottery games and the lottery's since-canceled television game show. In all, they have collected mor ...
May 12, 2005, 10:10 am - - Lottery News forum
Wisconsin lawmakers vote down plan to privatize state Lottery
Wisconsin lawmakers on Wednesday voted down a proposal in Gov. Jim Doyle's budget bill to privatize half of the work at the Wisconsin lottery.The Legislature's Joint Finance Committee voted 10-6 to delete a provision that would have eliminated 55 of 109 positions at the lottery.Doyle's plan called for the private sector to take over the lottery's sales and marketing, ticket warehousing and distribution, product development, special events, and Web site operations, while state employees would sti ...
Apr 21, 2005, 1:18 pm - - Lottery News forum
Wisconsin Powerball winner mystery solved
The winner of a $36.8 million Powerball jackpot, who kept his good fortune to himself since Jan. 8, ended the mystery Monday and came forward to claim his prize.The winner is Peter Bapes of Thiensville, Wisconsin, lottery officials said.Bapes chose a one-time cash payout of $20.2 million, rather than annual installments amounting to the full prize, said Andrew Bohage, a spokesman for the Wisconsin Lottery office in Madison.In a brief telephone interview Monday, Bapes said only that he had not ye ...
Mar 8, 2005, 8:27 am - - Lottery News forum
Wisconsin has double lottery jackpots for the first time ever
Two big lottery jackpots were won in Wisconsin Saturday, the first time that winning tickets for the top prizes in Powerball and Megabucks were sold in the state on the same day, lottery officials said. That's never happened in 13 years since the games began, Andrew Bohage, a spokesman for the Wisconsin State Lottery, said Sunday. We haven't even figured out the odds of that happening. A customer at the Thiensville Mobil Mart in Ozaukee County beat odds of 1 in 120 million to win Saturday's $3 ...
Jan 10, 2005, 10:43 am - - Lottery News forum
