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Pennsylvania lottery winners to be taxed for the first timeNews Story
New Penn. Gov. Tom Wolf proposes historic tax increases By Todd Northrop Tucked into the depths of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf's first budget plan is a proposal to tax lottery winnings over $600. The newly-elected Democrat Governor's spokesman says that California and Pennsylvania are the only states with income taxes that exempt lottery proceeds. Some states have no income taxes, and those states also do not tax lottery winners. We have a massive budget deficit that we need to c
May 12, 2015, 10:55 am - Lottery News

Pennsylvania Lottery adds multi-state Cash4Life gameNews Story
Third state to offer game; Virginia starting in May By Todd Northrop Ticket sales are underway for the new Pennsylvania Lottery Cash4Life game, a multi-state game offering a top prize of $1,000 a day for life and a second prize of $1,000 a week for life. In Pennsylvania, the first ticket was sold over the counter at 5:23 a.m. at Fast Fill, 24 Blakeslee Blvd., Lehighton, Carbon County. A few seconds later, the first ticket generated by a self-service terminal was sold at Wawa, 8220 W. Ba
Apr 9, 2015, 7:47 am - Lottery News

Lottery ticket in get-well card wins man $7 millionNews Story
A Pennsylvania man is feeling very well, thank you, after he won a $7 million lottery prize from a ticket that was enclosed in a get-well card from his father. I don't play the lottery at all, but my father is a retired hospital administrator-turned-avid Lottery player, Joseph Amorese of Easton, Pennsylvania, said, according to the New York Lottery. Amorese's father sent the $7 Million Golden Ticket scratch card inside a greeting card, while Amorese recovered at home from surgery. I s
Mar 27, 2015, 8:14 am - Lottery News

Dozens of 'dead people' collected NJ lottery prizes last yearNews Story
Nearly four dozen New Jersey lottery winners collected their prizes with false Social Security numbers belonging to dead people, according to an audit of the state lottery system. The audit also found that the lottery missed out on recovering $890,000 that winners owed in taxes and other obligations for the fiscal year that ended last June. The report, released Wednesday, said 680 people who won at least $600 presented potentially invalid IDs from July 2013 to July 2014. People are requ
Feb 19, 2015, 4:32 pm - Lottery News

Three tickets to split massive $564 million Powerball jackpotNews Story
Final jackpot total of $564.1 million is fifth-largest ever in USA By Todd Northrop Three Powerball lottery tickets sold in North Carolina, Puerto Rico, and Texas matched all the winning numbers Wednesday night to share a $564.1 million jackpot. The winning numbers in the Wed., Feb. 11, 2015, drawing were 11, 13, 25, 39, and 54, with Powerball number 19. The Power Play number was 3. The $564.1 million Powerball jackpot, which is the fifth-largest of any lottery game in history, start
Feb 12, 2015, 1:11 am - Lottery News

$360 MILLION: Powerball jackpot surges on rolloverNews Story
6th-largest cash value in US history By Todd Northrop This weekend Powerball will be the hot ticket, featuring a jackpot larger than any other United States lottery drawing in almost a year. The new high-water mark of $360 million for the current Powerball jackpot was achieved after no winning tickets were sold for Wednesday night's $324.7 million grand prize. The lump-sum cash payout value of Saturday's Powerball jackpot is $250.5 million the 6th-largest ever recorded in United Stat
Feb 6, 2015, 9:35 am - Lottery News

Pa. Lottery drawings go on Thursday despite machine malfunctionsNews Story
Includes video report Technical difficulties wreaked havoc with Thursday evening's Pennsylvania Lottery drawings, forcing the Pick 4 and Pick 5 drawings to occur after the telecast ended. No one knows exactly what went wrong. We don't have the information right now. The folks who design the machines are coming down to make sure everything runs smoothly tonight, said lottery spokeswoman Lauren Bottaro. What viewers saw signifying a problem, which Bottaro said is in accordance with lotte
Jan 31, 2015, 3:52 pm - Lottery News

New Jersey Lottery sells the first Monopoly Millionaires' Club jackpot winnerNews Story
Triggers 14 additional $1 million prizes By Todd Northrop The Monopoly Millionaires' Club jackpot of $21 million was won in Friday night's drawing of the multi-state game by one ticket sold in New Jersey. The fact that the jackpot was won triggered the award of an additional 14 $1 million winners. One lucky player in New Jersey matched all five numbers plus one Property number in the Nov. 7 drawing, earning the ticketholder a Top Prize of $21 million. The lucky New Jersey ticket was
Nov 11, 2014, 11:58 am - Lottery News

10 Pennsylvania co-workers share $2 million Powerball prizeNews Story
Maybe there was a glare on the machine, and maybe Stacia Thomas just didn't think it possible. The Red Lion woman scanned her ticket and stared at the prize line on the Pennsylvania Lottery machine. She thought it listed $2,000, so she asked a clerk at the Sunoco A-Plus Market to read the amount for her. $2 million. Yes, that really happens. 'Oh, my God, I gotta go tell the girls!' Thomas recalled yelling before rushing back across the street to the office at Industrial Distribution Gr
Oct 29, 2014, 12:36 pm - Lottery News

Pennsylvania House passes bill giving Lottery odds and prize flexibilityNews Story
The Pennsylvania House has voted 195-1 to send to Gov. Tom Corbett a bill that Pennsylvania Lottery officials say will give them more flexibility in setting player odds and prizes, increasing sales in the long run. But that flexibility is paired in the bill with a new requirement that the General Assembly have final approval over any Lottery plans to add new game categories like Keno or Internet-based games. The latter clause, added by the state Senate earlier this fall, was a response to
Oct 22, 2014, 8:09 am - Lottery News