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NY couple buys $7M lottery ticket with leftover money after losing at casinoNews Story
Meat wholesaler Leon Greenberg and his wife are $7 million richer thanks to a winning New York State Lottery scratch-off ticket. Karin Greenberg purchased a $7,000,000 Cash Blowout ticket with money the couple had left over from a recent trip to a casino and hit the jackpot. Karin and I came back from a trip to Foxwoods and had some money left over, said Leon. She went down to the store to play our daily numbers and splurged on a $25 ticket. When she came home with the $7,000,000 winner,
Dec 8, 2017, 10:16 pm - Lottery News

Mass. Lottery ends some scratch ticket games before grand prizes paid outNews Story
Includes video report It's an enticing gamble: a few bucks for a chance to win $1 million, $4 million, or more. But all of those big, bright prize amounts we see stamped on scratch tickets won't necessarily be given away. Lottery players at Kiki's Kwik Mart in Brighton, Massachusetts, did not receive this news well. It's not really fair is it, replied one frequent player. And another told us it's a little unfair they can pull the million and not put it back into the game that people have s
Nov 29, 2017, 9:36 pm - Lottery News

Georgia Lottery gets new director Jan. 1News Story
Georgia Lottery President Debbie Alford, who has headed the agency that raises money for the HOPE scholarship and prekindergarten classes since 2012, is retiring from her post. Gov. Nathan Deal announced Tuesday that he is nominating Gretchen Corbin, the commissioner of the state's technical college system, to replace Alford. Corbin was previously commissioner of the state's Department of Community Affairs. The lottery board will vote on the recommendation, but the vote is typically a formali
Nov 28, 2017, 9:23 pm - Lottery News

77-year-old crossing guard with winning $1M lottery ticket will keep workingNews Story
For Richard Heath, there is only one way to start the workday: with lottery tickets. Heath, a 77-year-old Syracuse native, said he became a school crossing guard after he retired from his job as a Pennzoil truck driver in 2001. He buys a handful of $2 scratch-off tickets every morning from a gas station in the Valley before helping children safely get to school. Over the last 16 years, Heath said he has gotten lucky occasionally scratching off $40 or $100 winning tickets. But he never e
Oct 20, 2017, 8:15 am - Lottery News

Lottery rigger warned officials about computerized drawing machines years agoNews Story
By Jason Clayworth The mastermind behind a national lottery scam says he warned officials about a glitch in computer-generated drawings 11 years ago, but nobody seemed too worried, his lawyer revealed in an exclusive interview. The same glitch involving identical numbers drawn consecutively or nearly consecutively occurred again in the past two weeks in Arizona, prompting state officials to offer players a refund. Eddie Tipton's new behind-bars revelation, paired with the duplicate numb
Oct 15, 2017, 8:54 am - Lottery News

N.J. man claims $24.1M lottery jackpot just 2 days before expirationNews Story
A 68-year-old New Jersey man claimed a $24.1 million New York lottery jackpot two days before the ticket was due to expire after seeing a story on the evening news about how time was running out for the winner to step forward. Jimmie Smith, of East Orange, went to his closet where an old, favorite shirt with a pocket full of unchecked tickets was hung. Remarkably, the retired security guard found the lucky ticket he had just seen discussed on television. I ended up with a stack a pile
Oct 12, 2017, 3:21 pm - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery director retiringNews Story
The North Carolina Education Lottery's top leader is retiring next spring, ending a stint with the agency that began before it started selling tickets more than a decade ago. The lottery announced Wednesday that Alice Garland will step down as executive director at the end of March. She became the lottery's second executive director in late 2010, succeeding Tom Shaheen. During her tenure, annual ticket sales increased by $1 billion to $2.4 billion in the past fiscal year, while the share earm
Oct 12, 2017, 10:45 am - Lottery News

$133.2 million Powerball lottery winner played same numbers for 30 yearsNews Story
By Todd Northrop Sometimes persistence does pay off. Colorado's biggest lottery jackpot winner in state history says she has played the same five numbers in the lottery every week, without fail, for the past 30 years. On Wednesday, Grand Junction area resident Judy Finchum claimed a $133.2 million Powerball jackpot, won in the Saturday, Sept. 16 drawing, making her the biggest jackpot winner ever in the state, and only the third Colorado player to win a Powerball jackpot. Judy has pl
Sep 21, 2017, 10:21 am - Lottery News

South Dakota woman claims record Dakota Cash lottery jackpotNews Story
Lynda Blesi's patience was a virtue as her years of buying Dakota Cash lottery tickets paid off in a big way. Blesi is now the Dakota Cash game's top winner after claiming her $614,181 jackpot Tuesday. The $614,181 prize is the largest in the game's history since its launch in 1994. Blesi, who is retired and lives in Sioux Falls with her husband, Pete, followed her usual routine to win the record-breaking jackpot. She purchased the ticket at the Hy-Vee Gas on Louise Avenue in Sioux Falls w
Sep 20, 2017, 8:23 am - Lottery News

Retired N.J. police chief scammed 95-year-old victim out of $29KNews Story
Former cop was himself scammed and trying to get his money back by joining scammers A retired New Jersey police chief pleaded no contest this morning to charges that he participated in a scam that cost a 95-year-old Northampton Township, Pennsylvania, man almost $29,000. Robert Ryan, 71, of Factoryville, PA, told Bucks County President Judge Jeffrey L. Finley that he, too, had lost $30,000 to a Jamaica-based lottery hoax and that his crimes were an attempt to recover his losses. He see
Sep 12, 2017, 9:51 am - Lottery News