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$250,000 winning lottery ticket sold in Massachusetts expiresNews Story
Massachusetts Lottery officials announced yesterday a $250,000 Mega Millions ticket sold at a market in Revere won't be honored because the winner waited too long to claim the prize if he ever even realizes he won. Meanwhile, callers to the Herald yesterday claimed that a Lowell adult bookstore owner was the mystery millionaire from a winning Jubilee 25 scratch ticket that has gone unredeemed. The Herald reported yesterday that Lottery officials had launched an all-out search to discover
Dec 13, 2007, 8:54 am - Lottery News

Review: Vultures feast on desperate lottery winnersNews Story
Money for Nothing is a glimpse into a seedy business few will ever encounter. Edward Ugel writes about the trade of preying on bottomed-out lottery winners, crazy for cash to meet their growing debts, waiting for their next annual annuity check to arrive from the state coffers. His tale is a colorfully written account by a self-proclaimed overweight, chain-smoking, Krispy Kreme doughnut-eating, fanatical gambler. For just shy of a decade starting in the late 1990s, Ugel says he worked i
Sep 24, 2007, 11:05 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner: 'Kind of exciting, I guess'News Story
Dorothy Elliott stays low-key. She just won the lottery $1,000 a week for the rest of her life. But when the 68-year-old Norfolk resident met with the media this morning at the 7-Eleven store where she bought the fateful Win For Life ticket, she seemed completely unfazed by her good fortune. When I looked at the numbers in the paper, I had to read them a couple of times to make sure they matched, she said. It was kind of exciting, I guess. In the Win for Life drawing on June 13, t
Jun 20, 2007, 11:20 am - Lottery News