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All or nothing: Lottery player rejects $1.7M lost-ticket offerNews Story
A gutsy Cape Cod retiree coolly bet a bundle on Lady Luck yesterday, rejecting a sure $1.7 million share of a discarded Lottery ticket in a high-stakes bid to win it all.Raymond MacDonald turned down an offer to split the remainder of a $4 million scratch ticket he claims he bought but mistakenly gave to the convenience store clerk to enter in another drawing.Instead, Julie Prive cashed in.In a last-ditch effort to avoid a second civil trial, the former Tedeschi's store clerk made an offer that
Aug 25, 2004, 9:02 am - Lottery News

Lottery Ticket Loser Says He Won't Give UpNews Story
A Cape Cod man who bought a winning $4 million scratch lottery ticket but discarded it, said he will go back to court to try reclaim the prize.A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday after jurors couldn't reach a decision.Julie Prive, the convenience store clerk who turned a discarded ticket into a fortune, walked out of court Wednesday a winner, but she may not have much time to enjoy it.Raymond MacDonald said he bought the ticket and gave it back thinking it was a loser. Out of principle, I just
Aug 20, 2004, 6:54 am - Lottery News

Mistrial declared in $4M lottery ticket disputeNews Story
A former convenience store clerk will keep collecting winnings from a $4 million Massachusetts Lottery scratch ticket after a Superior Court judge declared a mistrial yesterday in a dispute over ownership of the ticket.The civil jury in Barnstable Superior Court was deadlocked after nearly four days of deliberations, unable to decide if the winning ticket properly belonged to a Falmouth retiree who sued to claim the prize.Julie Prive has been collecting winnings on the ticket since 2002. Lottery
Aug 19, 2004, 8:07 am - Lottery News

Lottery ticket number crucial to trialNews Story
When did Julie Prive learn the number of a lottery ticket worth $4 million?The outcome of a civil case pitting Prive, 27, who worked at the Tedeschi's in East Falmouth when the $10 scratch ticket was sold, against two other Falmouth residents could hinge on the answer to that question.Prive is being sued by Raymond MacDonald, 65, and Monica Hertz, 62, who both claim ownership of the $600 Million Spectacular ticket.MacDonald and Hertz both say they bought the ticket May 17, 2002, but did not real
Aug 13, 2004, 8:56 am - Lottery News

Store clerk tells how she found winning ticketNews Story
Battling the sniffs and coughs of a summer cold, Julie Prive, 27-year-old mother of two, stood before a jury in Barnstable County, Massachusetts Superior Court yesterday and recalled the evening in May 2002 when she had believed her life had changed forever.Prive said she was at home, sorting through a pile of lottery tickets she had collected from the trash at the Tedeschi convenience store where she worked, checking them and repackaging them for a second-chance game run by the state lottery to
Aug 12, 2004, 8:25 am - Lottery News

Two couples in court over ownership of $4 million scratch ticketNews Story
Two couples are fighting in court over ownership of a Massachusetts Lottery scratch ticket worth $4 million.According to testimony in the civil jury trial in Barnstable Superior Court, which got under way Monday, Julie Prive was a clerk at a Tedeschi's market in Falmouth in 2002, and began regularly collecting discarded losing scratch tickets. She entered these tickets in the Clean Fun Sweepstakes, the lottery's second-chance game designed to keep used tickets from becoming litter.Prive said tha
Aug 10, 2004, 9:47 am - Lottery News

Connecticut recalls 300 scratch ticketsNews Story
A printing glitch on tickets for a scratch-off lottery game has prompted a recall of 300 tickets, Connecticut lottery officials said Friday.Printing omissions were discovered on a Tropical Fun $10 scratch-game ticket by a customer. The mistake could lead customers to believe tickets were winners when they actually were not, said James Vance, president and CEO of Connecticut Lottery Corp.About 300 tickets were deactivated because of the glitch, 102 of which were sold before the error was discov
Aug 2, 2004, 9:48 am - Lottery News

Winning Scratch-off, Twice Cashed and Once StolenNews Story
A Florida convenience store customer scratched off a winning ticket two weeks ago. But since he cashed in the winning lottery ticket, there's been trouble.After the winner cashed in his 5-hundred dollar prize, the ticket was stolen. A second man now admits he took the ticket and also cashed it in.Lottery tickets are big business at Pat's Kwik Stop. According to Ravi Patel, the store'sowner, lottery ticket sales amount to Something like 800, 900 dollars a day. Patel has owned the Nothwest Gain
Jul 30, 2004, 8:19 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner enjoying lifeNews Story
Donald Boo-boo Smith is, in his own words, a Greenwich original. At 60 years old, the Chickahominy native has never had a telephone -- let alone a cell phone -- or used a credit card. He has not owned a car since the late 1960s. Until recently, he had never opened a bank account. I'm living my life the way I want to, Smith said over coffee yesterday at the Plaza Restaurant on Railroad Avenue, where he can be found most mornings. I don't live for the Joneses. Instead, Smith said he has spent
Jul 29, 2004, 1:48 pm - Lottery News

Lucky Iraq vet scratches way to lottery richesNews Story
Just back from a tour of duty in Iraq, a Norwood, Massachusetts National Guardsman was welcomed home by Lady Luck - netting $140,000 a year for life from a state Lottery scratch ticket. John A. Morrissey, 42, says the Massachusetts Lottery Lifetime Spectacular windfall will blast him out of bankruptcy, and help put his daughter through college. I always had faith that I'd hit it big, Morrissey said in an exclusive Herald interview. And hit it big is just what he did after stopping by his neigh
Jul 21, 2004, 9:29 am - Lottery News