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Texas Lottery worker is fired after e-mailNews Story
The Texas lottery fired a senior systems analyst on Friday, hours after a newspaper reported that he had sent a scathing e-mail to two state lawmakers claiming that the agency misled the Legislature about an emergency control center that he says doesn't work.Shelton Charles told The Associated Press that he was fired Friday afternoon for insubordination after he refused to answer lottery officials' questions about the emergency operations center unless they put them in writing.Lottery spokesman
Nov 8, 2005, 8:00 am - Lottery News

Millionaire senator wins $853K in lotteryNews Story
You might not expect the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to go around buying lottery tickets, but Sen. Judd Gregg is glad he did.On a whim prompted by the frenzy over Wednesday's $340 million Powerball jackpot, the New Hampshire Republican bought a ticket that matched five of the six numbers in the Powerball game.He collected a $853,492 check Thursday.Gregg spent $20 on tickets this week at a Washington gas station, allowing the ticket machine to generate his numbers at random. As he was
Oct 20, 2005, 9:40 pm - Lottery News

One ticket wins $4 million Illinois lottery jackpotNews Story
Six numbers on a ticket sold from Casey's General Store in Mackinaw, Illinois, will bring a tremendous change to the life of one individual.As of Sunday afternoon, the person who purchased the winning ticket to the $4 million Illinois Lottery jackpot had not come forward. We don't know who it is of or if they even know, but we're excited. Casey's clerk Patty Wilson said.The only ticket from Saturday's drawing that matched all six numbers - 10,19, 38, 39, 42 and 49 - was purchased, possibly Frid
Oct 17, 2005, 8:03 am - Lottery News

Oklahoma lottery lines lingerNews Story
Oklahoma University students and Norman residents continued to raid local convenience stores for lottery tickets Thursday; some even came home with extra cash.Aaron Rooney, zoology-biomedical sciences senior, said he won $50 after purchasing a lottery ticket. It was such a good feeling when the machine told me I had won, Rooney said. I plan on only buying one ticket per week, but we will see how that goes. Campus Market, 1313 Jenkins Ave., had lines throughout the store as people waited to pur
Oct 14, 2005, 9:03 am - Lottery News

Oklahoma border residents unable to buy lottery ticketsNews Story
First day lottery sales exceeded $1.2 millionFive a.m. came and went without the fuss other parts of Oklahoma experienced Wednesday, the first day of the state's new lottery.West Siloam Conoco's sign welcomed crafters, not lottery fans. The store opened without any lines of customers or instant scratch-off tickets. Our understanding is that no one has everything in this part of the state, said store owner Rhonda Favano. The equipment is ready, but Favano and her husband, Frank, are waiting on
Oct 13, 2005, 8:52 am - Lottery News

$250,000 lottery prize to be split 11 waysNews Story
A group of 11 employees and customers of a country store on the shores of Lake Erie, Ohio, have won a pretax total of $250,000 playing Mega Millions.Six customers and five employees of Mutach's Food Market at 505 West Main St. at the tip of the Marblehead peninsula together chipped in to purchase 55 plays in the Mega Millions drawing Tuesday.John Klaehn, owner of the small grocery and butcher shop, didn't join in on the winning purchase made that morning at his store. I should have, I wish I w
Sep 15, 2005, 11:39 am - Lottery News

That's a whole Lotto bread!News Story
They're rolling in dough.Ten bakery workers at a Staten Island Shop Rite are splitting some major bread - a $19 million New York Lottery jackpot. You can't explain the feeling, said winner Linda Revella, 55, who is already planning to buy a 2006 Land Rover SUV or a Mercedes-Benz SL 500. I've never had this much money. About three months ago, the 10 bakers from the supermarket on Hylan Blvd. in New Dorp decided to pool their money for good luck. We kept on losing [at Mega Millions], then we dec
Sep 7, 2005, 7:47 am - Lottery News

Clerk admits stealing Indiana lottery ticketsNews Story
A former convenience store clerk has pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of dollars' worth of scratch off Hoosier Lottery tickets from two stores she managed.Karen Valentine was sentenced Tuesday to two years in a work release program and ordered by a Vanderburgh County Circuit Court judge to pay $2,500 in restitution.Valentine said she took only $2,000 to $3,000 worth of tickets from the two Busler stores in Evansville where she had worked. However, an outside audit found the combined ticket s
Sep 1, 2005, 6:48 pm - Lottery News

Store clerk accused of stealing $1M lottery ticketNews Story
A Circle K clerk in Nogales, Arizona is accused of stealing a lottery ticket and then collecting the $1 million winnings.The Attorney General's Office says the ticket was one of several that a man had brought in to the clerk's store to check to see if he had won anything.Authorities allege that clerk Delia Kerr returned the other tickets to the man, but kept the jackpot-winning The Pick ticket.The man didn't know he had won the jackpot, but complained to the store manager that one of his ticke
Aug 18, 2005, 5:03 pm - Lottery News

Judge Rejects Men's Claim To $100K Lottery PrizeNews Story
Two Indiana men who claim they are the true winners of a $100,000 lottery ticket someone else found in the trash couldn't persuade a judge that they deserved the cash.Administrative Law Judge Gregg Henry agreed Friday with the Hoosier Lottery's decision to deny the claim of Ronald Vinson and Ronald Douglas, who bought Hold 'Em Poker scratch-off tickets at a Shelbyville caf .The decision was not much of a surprise, considering the pair's less-than-persuasive testimony at a May hearing.When Vinson
Jul 11, 2005, 10:18 am - Lottery News