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Newspaper takes a hard look at the N.J. LotteryNews Story
They call her the Queen of the Lottery.Her realm: the North Broad Foodmart, a convenience store behind a gas station off Route 22 in Hillside.One evening, as the queen, aka Pat Howard, an insurance agent who lives in Newark, waits in line for the green machine, someone asks how much she spends. Maybe $20, $30 a day, she says.At this, the crowded store falls silent. Then, all at once, everyone laughs.After the queen is finished with her order, store manager Rashmi Patel spins a swivel scre
Dec 4, 2005, 7:24 am - Lottery News

New Zealand lottery shop shortchanges winnerNews Story
A New Zealand lottery winner who double-checked his jackpot found he had been shortchanged thousands of dollars by a storeowner.TVNZ reports the owner of a Lotto shop in Kapiti Coast told the man he had won $642 New Zealand ($440 U.S.). It turns out when the lucky winner checked with the Lottery Commission the actual payoff on his $6 ticket was 50 times that amount, or about $20,000 U.S. dollars.The commission said Lotto shops are required to have computer screens visible to customers and to ret
Nov 11, 2005, 9:54 am - Lottery News

Winners of $340 million Powerball lottery step forwardNews Story
The answer to a multi-million dollar mystery has been revealed.For nearly three weeks Americans have been wondering who in Oregon won the $340 million dollar Powerball jackpot drawn on October 19.Well, now we know it was Steve and Carolyn West and Frances and Bob Cheney of Jacksonville, Ore. The two couples are splitting the largest Powerball jackpot in history.And it's staying all in the family, Frances and Bob are Carolyn's parents and the first to realize they'd won. That night, I got on the
Nov 8, 2005, 2:05 pm - Lottery News

Maine woman seeking second lottery jackpotNews Story
Janet and Ernie DeCosta can finally get some sleep tonight. I plan on being up all night, Janet said Tuesday as she headed out to her traditional weekly bingo game on the eve of a live drawing that could net her $1 million this evening. I'm a basket case. More than a year ago, the 50-year-old Weeks Mills resident was on her way to a temporary job at MaineGeneral Medical Center when she scratched off a $10 state instant lottery ticket that handed her a $250,000 prize and a chance to win another
Oct 12, 2005, 9:42 am - Lottery News

N.Y. Lottery goes HollywoodNews Story
The New York Lottery is teaming up with Hollywood for an unprecedented cross-promotion wedding the multimillion dollar King Kong remake to two new lottery games.One of the King Kong Millions games will feature scratchoff tickets offering a top prize of $8 million the most money ever in a New York scratchoff game.But the unquestioned big prize is a minimum $50 million jackpot in a separate drawing to be awarded Dec. 5 from the top of the Empire State Building, where King Kong famously per
Oct 11, 2005, 8:45 am - Lottery News

"Mr. Lucky" Wins Quarter-Million DollarsNews Story
Grady Weaver is so lucky that friends refer to him as Mr. Lucky. True to his name, Mr. Weaver recently won $250,000 playing Mega Millions.Mr. Weaver matched the first five winning numbers in the September 16 Mega Millions drawing and won a quarter-million dollars.The winning numbers for the Sept. 16 Mega Millions drawing were: 5-16-41-46-50 and the Gold Mega Ball was 1.Mr. Weaver and his wife will use a portion of the winnings to pay bills. They are still deciding what they will do with the r
Oct 6, 2005, 12:12 pm - Lottery News

Painter Hits it Big with $1 Million Scratch-Off Lottery TicketNews Story
An Auburn, Ga., painter has won $1 million from a scratch-off ticket, Georgia Lottery officials said.Jefferson Shaw formally was presented an oversized check with his winnings by lottery officials on Wednesday.Shaw purchased the instant game $200 Million Cash Spectacular ticket last month at Big H Quick Mart in Lawrenceville. He won the game's top prize.Shaw said he scratched the ticket in the store and yelled, I just won a million dollars! The painter said he's still thinking about how to spen
Sep 29, 2005, 8:42 am - Lottery News

Michigan lottery profits at record levels, thanks to Club KenoNews Story
Club Keno is a winner, at least for the Michigan state treasury.The 2-year-old lottery game has bumped Michigan Lottery revenues over $2 billion mark for the first time in its 33 years. Last year, the lottery took in $1.97 billion.Club Keno will gross about $330 million in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, says Lottery commissioner Gary Peters. That is 16 percent of total lottery sales.Net lottery profits for the fiscal year will top last year's record $645 million dollars, Peters told the Detroi
Sep 22, 2005, 9:01 am - Lottery News

$250M lotto mystery is talk of RutherfordNews Story
The Mega Millions winner watch in Rutherford, New Jersey, entered day two yesterday with much anticipation but without anyone stepping forward to claim the $250 million jackpot.Yogi Patel, owner of the Leprechaun News II store where the winning ticket was sold at about noon on Friday, bundled newspapers in twine and spoke of the newfound fame for his business. People are happy when they find out somebody won from my store, Patel said. Business is increasing. People are now thinking this store
Sep 19, 2005, 11:05 am - Lottery News

Missouri Lottery appoints new directorNews Story
The Missouri Lottery Commission on Monday named its longtime chief financial officer, Larry Jansen, as the agency's new executive director.Jansen, 49, of Jefferson City, is a certified public accountant and has worked as the lottery's controller and chief financial officer since the lottery's inception in 1986.Under his direction, the Lottery has received the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada's Certificate of Excellence in Financial Reporting the past five y
Sep 14, 2005, 8:15 am - Lottery News