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Two couples in court over ownership of $4 million scratch ticketNews Story
Two couples are fighting in court over ownership of a Massachusetts Lottery scratch ticket worth $4 million.According to testimony in the civil jury trial in Barnstable Superior Court, which got under way Monday, Julie Prive was a clerk at a Tedeschi's market in Falmouth in 2002, and began regularly collecting discarded losing scratch tickets. She entered these tickets in the Clean Fun Sweepstakes, the lottery's second-chance game designed to keep used tickets from becoming litter.Prive said tha
Aug 10, 2004, 9:47 am - Lottery News

Single ticket wins $145M Texas lotteryNews Story
There was one winning ticket sold in Saturday night's record-setting $145 million Lotto Texas drawing, lottery officials said.The lucky ticket was purchased at a Chevron station in downtown El Paso. The winning numbers were 9-26-28-29-40 with a bonus ball of 16.Earlier Saturday, people lined up at grocery stores and gas stations across the state to buy tickers in hopes of winning the state lottery's largest jackpot ever.Texans seemed undeterred by their slim chances. The odds against winning Lot
Jun 21, 2004, 7:17 am - Lottery News

Florida store clerks charged with lottery ticket theftsNews Story
Two former Deltona, Florida convenience store clerks face charges they stole more than $134,000 in lottery tickets and winnings while working the register at a Hess station.Cynthia Galliher, 48, was charged with organized fraud and Amanda Peterson, 17, faces one count each of scheme to defraud and grand theft.Investigators say the two would steal scratch-off lottery tickets while working at the Doyle Road store.Galliher of Cocoa is serving 22 years probation for a fraud and embezzlement case in
Jun 15, 2004, 8:04 am - Lottery News

Playing Lottery 'not gambling'News Story
Pick 6 and Jersey Cash 5 were among the topics highlighted at the Millville, NJ's chamber of commerce luncheon meeting on Tuesday.The luncheon's featured speaker was Jaimee Gilmartin, public information officer for the New Jersey Lottery.She described how the contest enjoyed by millions benefits the state.The state Lottery, Gilmartin said, has since its 1970 inception provided more than $13.1 billion to programs and institutions that directly serve New Jerseyans.In 2003, 36 percent of Lottery re
Jun 10, 2004, 7:31 am - Lottery News

Tennessee clerk charged in lottery ticket theftNews Story
Former grocery store clerk accused of stealing tickets told police she has a gambling problemOak Ridge police arrested the former employee of an Oak Ridge grocery store on felony theft charges after she allegedly stole and cashed lottery tickets.General Sessions Court records indicate charges stem from incidents that occurred shortly after the lottery began in January. Charlotte A. Kuca, 33, 228 Haven Road, Oliver Springs, has been charged in connection with the theft.She was employed at Anderso
Jun 3, 2004, 10:04 am - Lottery News

NY resident wins Vermont scratch gameNews Story
A clerk at the back of a North Bennington, Vermont variety store might have thought he was being robbed, when really a customer was just shouting with excitement over winning the lottery. I guess I must have let out a yell after checking the numbers several times, said Scott Harrington, a resident of Eagle Bridge, N.Y., who hit it big over the weekend when he won $55,555 playing the Vermont Lottery's instant game Fortune 5's. Harrington purchased several instant game tickets at the North Benni
Jun 1, 2004, 12:44 pm - Lottery News

Store clerks share lottery bonusNews Story
Larry Martin quietly laid a memo on the counter at Sav on Cigs on Thursday and walked away.Moments later, 12 employees at the convenience store learned they would get a piece of the $25,000 the store won for selling a winning Lotto South ticket. We were shocked, said clerk Mary Dailey. He gave us a memo and brought the checks out with the memo. He didn't say anything, then he left. The store had a long-standing policy that if it ever sold a winning ticket, it would share the prize with employe
May 28, 2004, 9:23 am - Lottery News

Atlantic Canadian couple wins $10 millionNews Story
A Canadian woman who had just lost her job at a Cape Breton hardware store had a big change in her luck this weekend as she won a $10 million lottery jackpot. It's not hit yet, it really hasn't, Ferne Hawley told the ATV News on Sunday.Hawley was in the kitchen of her modest home in New Waterford when her longtime partner Tom Young returned from walking the dogs and started checking his lottery numbers. I said did you win? He said 'No, but somebody told me that the winner is in New Waterford. H
May 24, 2004, 8:36 am - Lottery News

Penn. Lottery unveils self-service ticket machinesNews Story
Lottery players throughout Pennsylvania will soon be able to play the Pennsylvania Lottery's online and instant games using state-of-the-art, touch screen terminals.Secretary of Revenue Gregory C. Fajt and Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Lottery Ed Mahlman today unveiled the first of the new self-service Player Activated Terminals (PATs) at a retailer in Harrisburg. Pennsylvania is the first state to offer self-service units that sell both instant and online games. The Lottery will instal
May 20, 2004, 7:14 am - Lottery News

Pennsylvania store sells $213M winning Powerball ticketNews Story
Working at the convenience store where a $213.2 million Powerball ticket was sold -- the largest jackpot prize in Pennsylvania lottery history -- had Bo Ridgeway waxing philosophical yesterday. It's really something if you think about it. Fantasy and myth far outweigh rational thinking, the Cumberland Farms clerk said. People come into the store thinking they're going to win. Just like that person. It came to fruition for one person. That person, who has not come forward yet, purchased the tic
May 10, 2004, 6:41 am - Lottery News