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Misssissippi lottery proposals filedNews Story
Paperwork laid the foundation for change Monday as Mississippi lawmakers attempted to beat the midnight filing deadline for general bills and constitutional amendments.Among hundreds of proposals filed at the Capitol were bills to create a state lottery, allow early voting and abolish the process used to establish or expand hospitals.Clerks shuffled stacks of bills Monday afternoon, preparing documents to be assigned to committees. Legislation that requires tax or fee increases or issuing bonds
Jan 18, 2005, 1:15 pm - Lottery News

Penn. woman wins $1 million with scratch-off lottery ticketNews Story
Donna Goeppert kissed a copy of her winning lottery ticket Wednesday, a day after the game had given her a big, fat, million-dollar smooch.Goeppert, a lifelong Bethlehem, Pennsylvania resident who plays the lottery religiously, scratched off a $1 million winner at Linden Food Market in the city. After taxes, she'll take home $750,000.''I'm still numb,'' Goeppert said Wednesday, standing next to her husband and mother at the Bethlehem Volunteer Fireman's Home Association, where she runs bingo twi
Jan 13, 2005, 9:06 am - Lottery News

Unclaimed $14 M In Jeopardy Of DisappearingNews Story
There is a multimillion-dollar mystery in Illinois.Someone out there has won $14 million in the state lottery and has yet to claim the money. If the winner does not come forward in the next three weeks, that fortune is gone forever.There have been a lot of other lotto prizes unclaimed over the years, apparently, but none this big.The drawing was held Jan 31, 2004, meaning the chance to step forward and claim the winnings runs out on Jan. 31, 2005. If the the winning ticket doesn't show up, the m
Jan 12, 2005, 10:18 am - Lottery News

Illinois man charged with stealing lottery ticketsNews Story
A Schaumburg, Illinois man is accused of stealing hundreds of lottery tickets around Chicago's northwest suburbs over the past two weeks.Police say 35-year-old Anthony Lazzaro told them he took the tickets because he was trying to get Christmas money for his daughter. He has been charged with three counts of retail theft and his bond was set yesterday at 40-thousand dollars.Buffalo Grove Police Detective Anthony Gallagher says Lazzaro would buy a couple of one-dollar tickets at one store, take t
Dec 20, 2004, 8:22 am - Lottery News

Lottery Scheme Now Targeting TennesseeNews Story
Letters purporting to be from the El Gordo Sweepstakes Lottery Company, S.L. in Madrid, Sprain have appeared in some Tennessee mailboxes, informing consumers that they have won hundreds of thousands of dollars.Consumers are told in the letter that Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award from public notice and are instructed to contact a claims agent at an overseas telephone number. As with many schemes of this nature, consumers are asked to provide their
Dec 8, 2004, 1:00 pm - Lottery News

One Florida Lotto ticket wins $60 millionNews Story
One ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers to win a jackpot of $60 million, lottery officials said Thursday.The winning ticket was bought in the city of Altamonte Springs, officials said.Convenience store clerk Jose Sotomayor said the person who bought the winning ticket at a Cumberland Farms had not come back Thursday. But many other customers had him look at their tickets. I tell them and they rush to their cars, grab their ticket and come back for me to check their ticket. But no luck,
Nov 26, 2004, 12:16 pm - Lottery News

New York man wins $149M Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
Like most parking lot attendants, Juan Rodriguez knows how tantalizing and frustrating it can be to drive a luxury car, only to have to surrender it all too quickly for a pair of crumpled dollars.But now, after 20 years of anonymous toil for a legion of well-heeled motorists near the United Nations, the Colombian-born Ozone Park resident can sit in his own heated leather seat.Sunday, New York Lottery authorities declared him the winner of the largest jackpot ever won in the state, $149 million.
Nov 23, 2004, 7:34 am - Lottery News

One ticket scoops $30 million Oregon MegabucksNews Story
The jackpot is a record in Oregon's Megabucks gameOne lucky person won the $30 million jackpot Monday in the Oregon Lottery's Megabucks game, the largest single Lottery award in state history.The winning ticket had not been claimed at press time, nor was it known where the ticket was purchased.The jackpot eclipsed the previous high of $23 million won in July 1991. The last Megabucks jackpot was won April 12, when a $15.6 million prize was awarded. The Oregon Lottery has featured the Megabucks ga
Nov 16, 2004, 8:46 am - Lottery News

Idaho gambling sting nets 50 machinesNews Story
Idaho State Police investigators said they seized about 50 illegal gambling machines in a raid of 13 bars across the state, most of them in the Boise region.The search warrants and seizures came after a yearlong investigation. Officials said they were tipped off by family members of gamblers who allegedly frequented the bars.The machines were not casino-style slot machines, officials said. Instead, players could rack up credits or points, and bar employees allegedly would pay them money based on
Nov 11, 2004, 11:41 am - Lottery News

New York man claims $3 million lottery prizeNews Story
Wouldn't it be great if one day you found out you were a millionaire and you had no clue? That's what happened to one Rochester man after he won more than a million bucks.The next day I went to the store and the girl was like you win the lotto last night how you know. Let me see your ticket, so I showed her the ticket to find out if I had the winning number. Yup didn't know I won, said Willie Alston.Alston got the luck of the draw. He paid for one lottery ticket, but the machine ended up giving
Nov 4, 2004, 12:48 pm - Lottery News