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Winner of New York's biggest lottery jackpot sold himself the ticketNews Story
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 - Todd - Lottery News

Auditors find 21 unreported wins by BC lottery retailers but no fraudNews Story
Auditors studying the integrity of B.C.'s public lottery system found 21 previously unreported lottery wins of $10,000 or more by retailers who sell tickets to the public, says an independent report released Thursday. B.C. Solicitor General John Les, who ordered an independent probe of the lottery system last May, said the discovery did not point to fraud within the Crown-owned lottery corporation that raked in $2.4 billion in revenues in the 2007 fiscal year. 'There's not evidence per se
Nov 12, 2007, 10:17 am - Todd - Lottery News

Ontario Lottery may ban retailers from buying tickets from own storesNews Story
Ontario lottery retailers are railing against a proposal to ban them from buying and cashing in tickets in their own stores, saying it unfairly portrays them as the villains in the province's lottery scandal. Retailers will be upset that we're the ones being painted as the bad guys in all this, says Chris Wilcox of the Ontario Convenience Stores Association. The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. tried to impose the rule on retailers in August before backing off in the face of the associat
Oct 31, 2007, 9:27 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lure of riches fuels lottery craze in ChinaNews Story
Jackpot chasers steal millions in cash, only to spend them on tickets Two employees at a Chinese bank dream of getting rich quick. The only two with the keys to the vault, they steal a few thousand dollars to see whether anyone notices. No one does. So they take more. In the course of a month, they walk away with $6.6 million. Instead of running away with their mountains of cash, the two do something seemingly illogical. They buy lottery tickets. Since police arrested the pair this s
Aug 20, 2007, 6:22 am - Todd - Lottery News

Penn. woman wins $1M lottery raffle prizeNews Story
Deb Redding joked with a man buying lottery tickets at the customer service counter at New Oxford Shurfine Market on Monday afternoon. I think you might win, she said. It wouldn't be a stretch. Since 2002, two people have now become big winners after buying lottery tickets at the store along Route 30. Most recently, luck was with Hanover resident Brenda Gaydos. She won one of five $1 million top prizes from the Pennsylvania Lottery's July 7 Millionaire Raffle drawing, lottery official
Jul 24, 2007, 11:49 pm - Todd - Lottery News

N.C. Woman, 82, wins $400,000 in Powerball lotteryNews Story
According to North Carolina Lottery officials, a woman's decision to make fruit salad with marshmellows last week may have helped her win a $400,000 Powerball prize. Big Powerball Jackpot North Carolina lottery players spent more than $3.7 million dollars last Saturday for a chance to win this past weekend's $204 million Powerball jackpot. The Powernall jackpot numbers were matched with a single winning ticket in Wisconsin that was bought at a store along the so called Miracle Mile s
Aug 11, 2006, 10:21 pm - Todd - Lottery News

dog racingReply
My feathers aren't ruffled, but I am tired. So maybe we should put this issue to rest. I don't mind discussing an issue like this, but when people disagree so strongly, it doesn't accomplish too much. Also, many of the greyhounds are later sold to become family pets. It is not as gruesome as you make it out to be. There are veterinarians that check the dogs and there are State laws to protect them as well. Greyhound racing doesn't have the purses that Thoroughbred Racing does and doesn't
Aug 8, 2006, 4:00 am - justxploring - Gaming Forum

if you won, how would you invest it?Reply
Mutual funds are perhaps the safest investment vehicle for an average person who doesn't want to spend the required time to investigate the individual stocks. The primary advice I would offer regarding mutual funds is the following; 1) Stay with NO-LOAD funds. Why pay when there are lots of funds to chose from that perform well without robbing you when you put your money in or take it out. 2) Buy the funds direct. Again, why pay commission fees to buy something a quick phone call can get y
Jun 21, 2006, 10:26 am - SirMetro - Jackpot Games Forum

Hoosier Leadership and Basic Math...
Below is an article I found yesterday on IndyStar.com. In order to appreciate the gravity of the situation, I'll have to give you some background information on how this came about. Governor Mitch Daniels and our state legislature decided to lease our toll road to a foreign company for seventy-five years in return for a one-time payment of $3.85 billion dollars. Over 60% of the citizens of Indiana were opposed to this deal, but they went ahead and pushed it through anyway, in a late-night
Mar 18, 2006, 10:36 pm - jim695 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lessons Learned: Lottery winners should never eat their seed cornNews Story
You surely have fantasized about what you'd do after winning one of the big lotteries. First, of course, on your buy list would be a hot, red convertible. Then, when spring arrives, you and a significant other could drive the convertible to Winter Park in the Denver area, to shop for a log second home in the $400,000 price range. With that mission accomplished, you might return to Nebraska and pay off the mortgage of every family member. Finally, you'd schedule a friends-and-family Cari
Mar 13, 2006, 7:57 am - Todd - Lottery News