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Clerk charged in Tennessee lottery scamNews Story
A Madisonville, Tennessee lottery scam could be the biggest since the state started selling tickets in January.A Madisonville clerk who worked at the Checkered Flag Market on Highway 411 could serve prison time for ripping off a store and the state lottery.A detective in Madisonville arrested Lisa Moses at work Wednesday. She's charged with stealing more than $18,000. It breaks down as $10,000 from the store and $8,000 from the lottery.Investigators think Moses would steal tickets and cash the w
Oct 29, 2004, 8:41 am - Lottery News

Gas station clerk says he is being framed for lottery theftNews Story
A Milford, Massachusetts man accused of stealing $86,000 in scratch tickets from the Cochituate Road service station he worked at claimed yesterday he was being framed. Mohammad Tahir said a handwritten confession attributed to him was forged, and he was never shown a videotape that Exxon-Mobil security said they had of him stealing the books of lottery tickets over a several-month period. I think someone is trying to cover up something, said Tahir, 39, of 11 Luby Ave. I will get to the bot
Oct 28, 2004, 9:16 am - Lottery News

Checkout clerk: 'You've had a big win, sir'News Story
A young agricultural engineer saw a five-week lucky streak on the National Lottery spiral to new heights when his six numbers scooped him the 2m (US$3.65 million) jackpot.Meredith Davies, 32, had won a tenner every week for a month before all his numbers came good on the Saturday October 16 draw.He bought the winning ticket at Lomax's in Bridge Street, Lampeter.But despite normally checking his tickets the next day, it has taken Mr Davies more than a week to realise that Lady Luck had passed hi
Oct 28, 2004, 8:04 am - Lottery News

Lottery gift wins mechanic thousandsNews Story
A Portuguese car mechanic who was given a lottery ticket as a tip after earlier refusing to buy it, has scooped a 50,000 (US$63,045) jackpot, a local newspaper reported on Wednesday.Lottery salesman Jose Macedo tried to sell the 5 (US$6.30) winning ticket to Artur Luis but ended up giving it to the mechanic to show his appreciation for the small amount charged to fix his car.When the numbers on the national lottery ticket were drawn Monday, the mechanic won the 50,000 first prize. It was an e
Oct 21, 2004, 9:34 am - Lottery News

Kentucky man wins $300,000 lottery prizeNews Story
A Hopkinsville, Kentucky man was celebrating his good luck after he purchased a $300,000 Kentucky lottery scratch-off ticket.Mark Baker, 31, of Hopkinsville, purchased the winning ticket on Oct. 8 at the Raceway convenience store on Fort Campbell Boulevard, according to a news release from the Kentucky Lottery.Baker was sitting in a car outside the store with his mother, Vickie, when he scratched the Silver Spectacular ticket and saw that he was a winner. I turned white as a ghost and started sh
Oct 18, 2004, 8:02 am - Lottery News

Powerball ticket sold in Iowa worth $14.4 millionNews Story
Employees of a western Iowa convenience store were waiting excitedly Sunday to find out which of their customers won the $14.4 million Powerball jackpot. I think it's wonderful, said Charlotte Hostetter, a clerk at The Jump Start convenience store in Carter Lake, a town of 3,248 people on the eastern edge of Omaha, Neb.It's the first time the store has sold a winning Powerball ticket, Hostetter said.The winning numbers drawn Saturday night were 5, 20, 22, 36 and 42. The Powerball was 11.It was
Oct 18, 2004, 7:32 am - Lottery News

Texas store sells first winning Mega Millions ticketNews Story
Winning Mega Millions ticket sold at new self-service machineSomeone who purchased a Mega Millions lotto ticket at a North Texas store is $101 million richer as the state claimed its first jackpot winner in the multistate game.One ticket sold in Carrollton matched all the winning numbers from Friday night's drawing: 8, 10, 17, 24 and 39. The Mega Ball number was 52. We've been eagerly waiting for this day, said Reagan Greer, Texas Lottery Commission executive director. I hope the person or per
Oct 4, 2004, 3:44 pm - Lottery News

All or nothing: Lottery player rejects $1.7M lost-ticket offerNews Story
A gutsy Cape Cod retiree coolly bet a bundle on Lady Luck yesterday, rejecting a sure $1.7 million share of a discarded Lottery ticket in a high-stakes bid to win it all.Raymond MacDonald turned down an offer to split the remainder of a $4 million scratch ticket he claims he bought but mistakenly gave to the convenience store clerk to enter in another drawing.Instead, Julie Prive cashed in.In a last-ditch effort to avoid a second civil trial, the former Tedeschi's store clerk made an offer that
Aug 25, 2004, 9:02 am - Lottery News

Lottery Ticket Loser Says He Won't Give UpNews Story
A Cape Cod man who bought a winning $4 million scratch lottery ticket but discarded it, said he will go back to court to try reclaim the prize.A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday after jurors couldn't reach a decision.Julie Prive, the convenience store clerk who turned a discarded ticket into a fortune, walked out of court Wednesday a winner, but she may not have much time to enjoy it.Raymond MacDonald said he bought the ticket and gave it back thinking it was a loser. Out of principle, I just
Aug 20, 2004, 6:54 am - Lottery News

Store clerk tells how she found winning ticketNews Story
Battling the sniffs and coughs of a summer cold, Julie Prive, 27-year-old mother of two, stood before a jury in Barnstable County, Massachusetts Superior Court yesterday and recalled the evening in May 2002 when she had believed her life had changed forever.Prive said she was at home, sorting through a pile of lottery tickets she had collected from the trash at the Tedeschi convenience store where she worked, checking them and repackaging them for a second-chance game run by the state lottery to
Aug 12, 2004, 8:25 am - Lottery News