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Florida Lottery terminates contracts of three retailersNews Story
Each retailer violated Florida law, banned from ever selling lottery again Three Pompano Beach, Florida, stores that sold lottery tickets violated state law and won't ever be allowed to sell tickets again, Florida Lottery officials announced Monday. Officials said in a news release that the three stores, which were raided this month, also broke lottery rules and the terms of their contract. The news release did not specify which laws were broken or whether any legal action would be take
Apr 22, 2014, 8:43 pm - Lottery News

$20M Mega Millions winner didn't believe lottery scannerNews Story
A lottery player scanned his tickets at a Shirley, New York, convenience store called JackSpot! and when the screen flashed BIG WINNER, he told the cashier, The machine is broken. But it wasn't he was holding the $20-million Mega Millions ticket, the mystery jackpot winner sought by the New York State Lottery since the March 25 drawing, said convenience store co-owner Howie Frank and cashier Laura Marckesano. He's not catching what I'm saying, said Marckesano, who scanned the ticket twic
Apr 4, 2014, 4:25 pm - Lottery News

$96.5 million Powerball lottery ticket sold in MissouriNews Story
By Todd Northrop A $96.5 million jackpot-winning Powerball lottery ticket was sold in Missouri for the Saturday drawing of the multi-state game. The sweet jackpot win of $96.5 million is the sixth-largest prize ever won in Missouri. Saturday's winning numbers were 13, 28, 31, 55, and 58, with Powerball number 15. The Power Play number was 2. There also were five Powerball tickets sold matching five numbers, in Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, and Texas. Each ticket is worth
Mar 24, 2014, 7:26 am - Lottery News

$338M NJ Powerball winner reconciles with girlfriend who sued himNews Story
Instant wealth fractured their 10-year relationship, but love, it appears, conquers all. At least that's the latest story line in the rags-to-riches melodrama of the Passaic bodega owner and his on-and-off, live-in girlfriend who split up after he won a massive Powerball jackpot last spring, wrangled over the money in court, and now have reconciled. On Valentine's Day, no less, according to Paul Fernandez, an attorney for lottery winner Pedro Quezada. The revelation Friday followed a co
Mar 10, 2014, 6:38 pm - Lottery News

NY's Lotto no match for Powerball, Mega MillionsNews Story
Lotto is still losing its mojo. New York's venerable twice-weekly Lotto drawing continues its long-term decline in an age of multi-state mega jackpots. Even as overall lottery revenues grew, receipts from Lotto dropped from $137.5 million in 2005 to a projected $44 million for the state fiscal year ending March 31, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's recent budget proposal. Lotto is simply less alluring than the six-figure jackpots of Powerball and Mega Millions, which are sold around the nat
Feb 3, 2014, 3:16 pm - Lottery News

$25K Ga. lottery ticket disputed, money could go to child supportNews Story
Winnings from a Georgia Lottery ticket are under dispute as two people and state child support officials have laid claim to the $25,000 prize. Through the state Attorney General's Office, Georgia Lottery Corp. officials have asked a Fulton County Superior Court judge to make a decision. In October 2013, Angel R. Tamayo Jr. presented a winning Loteria ticket to lottery officials only to be informed that he owed more than $17,250 the after-tax amount of the cash prize in child support back p
Jan 24, 2014, 7:54 am - Lottery News

Pa. Gov. defends lottery privatization explorationNews Story
If privatizing the Pennsylvania Lottery's management isn't the answer to ensuring reliable and predictable funding for programs for older Pennsylvanians, what is? That's the question that a spokesman for Gov. Tom Corbett raised in responding to state Treasurer Rob McCord call on Monday to pull the plug on the administration's lottery private management agreement (PMA) pursuit. Our need is outpacing our ability to fund those programs, said Corbett press secretary Jay Pagni. The PMA is a ve
Oct 29, 2013, 8:10 am - Lottery News

Pa. Lottery privatization pursuit nears another deadlineNews Story
Treasurer Rob McCord urges Corbett to drop the idea The price tag for exploring Gov. Tom Corbett's idea for outsourcing management of the Pennsylvania Lottery has crossed the $4 million threshold and is marching toward the $5 million mark. Recent revisions to the contract with the administration's outside legal advisers, DLA Piper, alone now allow it to be paid as much as $3.4 million. That is up from the original $375,000 cap set when the firm was hired in March 2012 and has steadily r
Oct 28, 2013, 8:45 pm - Lottery News

Lottery winner is sued by his sisterNews Story
Claims she gave him $1 towards tickets A handyman who won a $32 million jackpot lottery with his barber is being sued by his sister who says she is entitled to a third of the winnings. Leila Nahas claims she paid her brother Samir Haddad $1 toward the $3 winning ticket and deserves $10.6 million, plus $500,000 in damages. But Haddad said he doesn't owe her a dime, because 'they never had an agreement'. Haddad and his longtime friend and barber Mike Dettorre hit the jackpot with a Lot
Oct 17, 2013, 5:46 am - Lottery News

German ordered to let ex-wife share in lottery winNews Story
A German federal court has ruled that a divorced man must pay his ex-wife 242,500 euros (US$328,000) out of his winnings from a lottery ticket because they weren't formally divorced at the time he won. The Federal Court of Justice on Wednesday ended a lengthy legal battle between the pair, who had been separated for eight years when the man and his new partner won nearly 1 million euros in 2008. The man only applied for and was granted a divorce in 2009. The couple then battled their wa
Oct 16, 2013, 5:54 pm - Lottery News