Virginia lottery winner claims first Set for Life check

Comment #6

LOTTOMIKE — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 07:40:10 GMT

i agree with ya on that....

Comment #5

Tnplayer805 — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:31:49 GMT

Yeah. We need one more game here in TN and it needs to be a multi Million lotto game. So lotto south would be a good game to have. I keep emailing the TN lottery about lotto south and they quit responding. VA said any southern state that would like to join lotto south could.

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LOTTOMIKE — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:45:52 GMT

virginia has a lot of tennessee people winning.especially on lotto south.which we need here.....

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MillionsWanted — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:58:24 GMT

Lucky man. The only thing he need to do now is to stay alive for as long as possible.

Comment #2

Tnplayer805 — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:15:42 GMT

I'm surprised people in TN still play instant tickets in other states nearby. I understand playing MM and Lotto south but scratchers?? Oh well. Glad to see TN is still cashing in on VA lol.

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lchoro — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:46:22 GMT

I wonder how it works. He might have been better off to sell the ticket to a younger man. I did a check on Intelius.com for this gentlement from Tennessee, and the only match showed a Gordon McKinney to be 80 years old. From the photograph above, I would estimate he's in his mid-to-late 50s though. Maybe it's Jr.

Virginia lottery winner claims first Set for Life check

Lottery Post — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:00:00 GMT

Last week, Gordon McKinney suddenly fell back in a chair at the Scott County Tobacco Co.Those at the store thought he was having a heart attack.But Gordon, of Chuckey, Tenn., realized that he won the top prize in the Virginia Lottery s new scratch-off game, Set for Life. He will receive $2,000 a week, or $104,000 a year before taxes, for the rest of his life. It really hasn t sunk in yet, said Gordon, who was holding his first $2,000 check.Phil Hankey, the Virginia Lottery southwest regional ma... [ More ]