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Mass. lottery store is success storyNews Story
From the outside, it's just another Mobil station on Route 28: a brick building squatting on asphalt with a quartet of gasoline islands out front. Inside is another story. Where shelves of chips and candy bars might have been, customers lean against narrow granite counters, holding scratch tickets by the handful, or lounge at one of the high-topped round tables, filling out blank Keno slips. There is no music, just the unceasing patter of five Lottery machines printing Mass Cash and MegaBucks
Apr 23, 2008, 1:50 pm - Todd - Lottery News

$26 million in winning Michigan lottery tickets unclaimedNews Story
Keep an eye out for old state lottery tickets while rummaging through drawers and closets for holiday decorations. Millions of dollars are going unclaimed, and you don't want to lose out. More than $26 million worth of winning tickets were never redeemed in the fiscal year that ended in September. Another $2 million was lost in October. And since the lottery began 35 years ago, an eye-popping $512 million has gone unclaimed. Today, the one-year clock is ticking on a number of sizable win
Nov 27, 2007, 10:48 am - Todd - Lottery News

Mega lottery winner to open school for witches (well, not quite)News Story
Believes 'gods' want him to 'take the bull by the horns' Ellwood Bunky Bartlett Mega Millions lottery winner, Wiccafn high priest, recently retired accountant would like to clear up a few misconceptions about his plans for a witch school. Yes, he'd like to start a pagan seminary. But no, it's not going to be some sort of Hogwarts-on-the-Patapsco, with precocious adolescents running around in wizard hats and casting spells. Bartlett instead envisions the place as sort of a yeshiv
Nov 5, 2007, 3:16 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Tennessee House Speaker backs lottery oversight meetingNews Story
By Todd Northrop Lottery Post feature: See the actual letter from Senator Kyle A meeting of the Tennessee Lottery Oversight Committee inched one step closer today, as Speaker of the House James Naifeh, D-Covington, indicated his support for the meeting, according to an advisor for Senator James Kyle, D-Memphis. Sen. Kyle sent letters Last Friday to the Speakers of the House and Senate, requesting a meeting of the oversight committee as soon as possible, after the Tennessee Lotteries
Sep 18, 2007, 10:36 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Maryland Mega winner believes in magicReply
I did call Bunky an idiot. And I meant it. Was it harsh? Well let's look at Bunky's accomplishments so far: NOTE: All of this stuff comes from press accounts 1. He bought a winning lottery ticket in a state that allows you to remain anonymous. 2. So he called the press and announced himself as one of the winners. 3. He then photocopyed his winning Lottery Ticket and carried it around with him showing it off to people. 4. Next he held a press conference at the Enchanted Tiki R
Sep 5, 2007, 8:58 am - Uncle Jim - Lottery News

Will millions spoil Bunky Bartlett?News Story
By Kevin Cowherd Baltimore Sun Ladies and gentlemen, a big round of applause for our new Wicca-practicing Mega Millions lottery winner, Mr. Bunky Bartlett of Dundalk! Is this guy beautiful, or what? Most people who hit for a huge share of a $330 million lottery drop out of sight faster than a snitch on The Sopranos. They huddle with lawyers and accountants for days and hole up in some fancy hotel suite, all the while issuing the usual statements along the lines of: We ask that you
Sep 5, 2007, 7:39 am - Todd - Lottery News

Couple nearly victims of lottery scamNews Story
A Francestown, New Hampshire, couple already living on the edge came close to financial ruin after almost getting sucked into what authorities suspect was a foreign lottery scam. We thought the check was our answer to a lot of prayers, said Susan Gadwah, who received notice through the mail last week she was a $450,000 winner in a Canadian lottery, along with a check for $4,700 to cover non-Canadian residency tax deducted from her winnings. When she went to a Goffstown branch of Bank o
Jul 30, 2007, 10:53 am - Todd - Lottery News

Georgia Trucker Claims Half of Record $390 Million Lottery JackpotNews Story
A truck driver from northwest Georgia came forward Wednesday afternoon to claim half of the record $390 million Mega Millions jackpot, the richest lottery prize in U.S. history. Ed Nabors of Rocky Face, about 90 miles north of Atlanta, was the first person to step forward and claim part of the jackpot from Tuesday night's drawing. Nabors told reporters gathered at Atlanta lottery headquarters that he is still numb. He bought the ticket at Favorite Market in Dalton. Because he took
Mar 7, 2007, 10:05 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery players learn tough lessonsNews Story
When Chris Ramesar plays the Florida lottery, sometimes he gets a warning from his 8-year-old daughter, Gabriela. Daddy, she says, remember what happened in New York? Ramesar is a 57-year-old co-owner of an auto body shop in Miami. He is thousands of miles and more than a decade removed from the day he found out his lucky numbers had come up in the New York Lottery. But he hasn't forgotten what happened, or the lesson he eventually learned that it is very hard to sue the Lottery s
Jan 30, 2007, 11:47 am - Todd - Lottery News

U.S. legislation likely just a speed bump for online gamblingNews Story
A U.S. law aimed at cracking down on Internet gambling may drive the practice more into the shadows and do little to deter bettors It was getting late on Oct. 12, the night before a sweeping anti-Internet gambling bill would be signed into law. Paul McGuire was at his computer, enjoying one last hurrah on PartyPoker, a site that had pledged to kick off all U.S. users as soon as the law left President Bush's desk. It was kind of like that last party before summer ends when you've got to go ba
Oct 19, 2006, 3:59 pm - Todd - Lottery News