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Chicago Cubs and the number 108
From WGN CHICAGO It has been 108 years since the Cubs won the World Series and now it seems the number is following the team every where. Grant DePorter, CEO, Harry Caray s Restaurant Group and co-author of the 2008 book Hoodoo: Unraveling the 100 Year Mystery of the Chicago Cubs, has discovered a shocking list of 108 appearances, which could mean the 108-year-long World Series drought could be coming to an end. Everywhere you look, it s 108. You just can t get away from it, DePorter
Oct 25, 2016, 12:36 am - Coin Toss - Gaming Forum

British Columbia Lottery taking bets on US electionReply
Starr was initially appointed to investigate the suicide death of deputy White House counsel Vince Foster and the Whitewater real estate investments of Bill Clinton. The three-judge panel charged with administering the Independent Counsel Act later expanded the inquiry into numerous areas including an extramarital affair that Bill Clinton had with Monica Lewinsky.Originally dealing with the failed land deal years earlier known as Whitewater, Starr, with the approval of Attorney General of the Un
Oct 16, 2016, 6:53 pm - grwurston - Lottery News

Daughter accused of stealing mom's lottery jackpot starts collecting winningsNews Story
The woman?? who's being sued by her? ?Brooklyn ???mother?, who says she stole her $1 million lottery jackpot?,? got a lucky break Thursday as? ?a judge? ?gave her back? ?access to some of the? ?loot. Mom Barbara Quiles, of Bath Beach, initially won a temporary restraining orderblocking her daughter Linza Ford, 22, from accessing the funds as well as a safety deposit box containing $50,000 in valuables. But Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Martin Solomon lifted that order, allowing Ford to co
Oct 23, 2015, 9:54 am - Todd - Lottery News

$136M Powerball winner sued for 'dooring' cyclistNews Story
Anthony Perosi Jr. wasn't the only one who got lucky when he scored a $136 million Powerball win so did a bicyclist who got doored by his pickup. The Staten Island plumber is being sued by Kieran Del Pasqua, who says he was sent flying when Perosi opened the door of his Ford F150 in a bike lane in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The 40-year-old Internet exec had no chance to stop in the May 27 accident and slammed into the door, his Brooklyn Supreme Court lawsuit says. He required surgery and now
Jun 22, 2015, 11:27 am - Todd - Lottery News

Quest for lottery jackpot denied againNews Story
The long-running case of Clarence Jackson, who has been fighting for 19 years to claim $5.8 million in lottery winnings, encountered another setback Tuesday when a legislative committee voted 13-12 to reject his case. Jackson held a winning lottery ticket, but tried to redeem it three days past the deadline. Since then, Jackson has been on a roller coaster with the once-in-a-lifetime ticket that would have made him a millionaire. (See CT lawmakers again seek lottery winnings from 1995 tick
Mar 18, 2015, 11:19 am - Todd - Lottery News

Pennsylvania brothers still battling over $1M lottery ticketNews Story
A $1 million winning lottery ticket still has two Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, brothers fighting each other in court. Ira Sharp is suing his half-brother, Charles Thomas Meehan, over what he claims is his half of the Hot Million scratch-off ticket purchased at Johnny Joe's bar and restaurant in Hampden Township in May. (See Winning lottery ticket pits Pa. brothers against each other, Lottery Post, June 26, 2013.) Sharp claims his brother not only owes him half of the $1 million from the
Oct 14, 2013, 11:51 am - Todd - Lottery News

Man changes his mind about suing Washington LotteryNews Story
The Kennewick, Washington, man says he has decided to back off plans to sue the Washington State Lottery Commission over a misleading scratch card game. Ken Goldsmith raised objections with state lottery officials in June claiming the Red Hot 5s scratch card was misleading, giving many ticket holders, including himself, the impression they had won the $55,555 grand prize. (See Washington man to fight state lottery; says new scratch card 'misleading', Lottery Post, June 17, 2013.) After
Sep 2, 2013, 7:41 am - Todd - Lottery News

Judge won't give bakery workers partial lottery prizeNews Story
A Cook County, Illinois, judge on Thursday refused to award a partial payout of a $118 million Mega Millions prize won by employees of a Chicago Heights-based bakery. Twelve employees of the Pita Pan Bakery, 401 E. Joe Orr Road in Chicago Heights, who have taken to calling themselves the Dirty Dozen, have possession of the winning ticket from a May 4 drawing that won them the record-high prize. But another seven employees of the bakery have filed assorted lawsuits in Cook County Circuit Co
Mar 1, 2013, 6:08 pm - Todd - Lottery News

New Jersey casino suing gamblers who won $1.5 millionNews Story
Blames unshuffled decks of cards A New Jersey casino has sued a group of gamblers who won $1.5 million after they allegedly realized the eight decks of cards used in a game of mini baccarat were not preshuffled. The Golden Nugget in Atlantic City, N.J., filed suit against the gamblers and playing card company Gemaco after 14 players collectively won $1,536,700 in 41 winning hands. As the same sequence of cards kept appearing April 30, the players increased their bets from $10 to $5,000,
Aug 22, 2012, 2:49 pm - Todd - Lottery News

The lottery fantasy: How much money do you need to say 'buzz off, world'?News Story
By Peter McKay We don't play the lottery very often. So I always get a little aggravated when I'm standing in line to buy Junior Mints and some clown in front of me has an inch-thick stack of lucky numbers he's going to play. But every once in a while, when the jackpot gets into ludicrously high levels, so high that it makes the 6 o'clock news, we break down and get a ticket. And even though we don't actually play the lottery very often, my wife and I spend an inordinate amount of time pla
Jun 24, 2012, 8:52 am - Todd - Lottery News