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29 co-workers share $1 million Powerball prizeNews Story
GOOD WILL: Group votes to include absent pool members For at least the past five years, a group of information technology employees at Louisville's Humana headquarters have pitched in a few bucks every week to buy Powerball tickets. A retailer is located in the office tower next door to their building. The most they'd ever won was $16 until Wednesday night of last week, when the group matched all five white balls but not the Powerball to win $1 million. The excitement started Thursday afte
Feb 12, 2013, 4:25 pm - Lottery News

Deal reached to privatize the Pa. LotteryNews Story
The Corbett administration announced late Friday that it would award to a British firm a contract to privatize the management of the Pennsylvania Lottery. The announcement came just days before a state Senate committee was scheduled to hold a hearing on what has become the administration's most aggressive foray into privatizing state services. While the contract with Camelot Global Services was not yet formally signed, the administration issued what it called a notice of award. Though not
Jan 12, 2013, 12:38 pm - Lottery News

Mechanic and his wife are Missouri winners of $588M Powerball jackpotNews Story
Cindy Hill, a laid-off office manager who lives in a small town in Missouri, called her husband Thursday with urgent news that would change everything: We won the lottery. What? he asked. We won the lottery, she repeated. But Mark Hill, a 52-year-old mechanic who works at a meat processing plant, is the kind of person who carefully checks the prices for everything he buys, and he needed proof. This is the Show-Me State after all. He drove to his mother's house, where his wife was wai
Nov 30, 2012, 5:04 pm - Lottery News

NY brothers claim $5M win from '06 lottery ticketNews Story
Two brothers kept quiet for six years about the $5 million winning lottery ticket they'd bought at their parents' store in Syracuse. Andy N. Ashkar, 34, of Camillus, and his brother, Nayel N. Ashkar, 36, of Cicero, came forward March 1 of this year to claim the $5 million top prize in the $500,000,000 Extravaganza scratch-off game, lottery officials said. That was 11 days before the prize would've expired. It's unusual, highly unusual, lottery spokeswoman Carolyn Hapeman said Tuesday o
Oct 17, 2012, 9:24 am - Lottery News

12 arrested in conspiracy to rig Mexico lottery drawingNews Story
Twelve people, including four public employees, are accused of attempting to embezzle 160 million pesos ($12.1 million) from Mexico's national lottery, authorities said. Around $8 million of the money has been recovered, the Attorney General's Office and several other federal agencies said in a joint statement. The announcement followed a front-page story in capital daily Reforma that revealed some details of the scheme to rig the Jan. 22 drawing. Four directors of state-owned lottery a
Jul 20, 2012, 9:12 am - Lottery News

Winners of big lottery jackpots often crave anonymity amid challenges to do soNews Story
The tiny Illinois farm town of Red Bud is the kind of place with few strangers and few secrets. Yet the community of 3,700 has a lingering mystery on its hands: Who bought the winning Mega Millions lottery ticket, and why hasn't the winner of the world-record $656 million jackpot come forward? Though secrecy surrounds the ticket sold at the MotoMart convenience store, lottery officials note it's not unusual for winners to lay low and those who advise them say it's just plain smart. It's ex
Apr 11, 2012, 10:20 am - Lottery News

Kansas Mega Millions winner claims jackpot anonymouslyNews Story
By Todd Northrop The holder of one of three winning tickets in last week's record $656 million Mega Millions drawing came forward Friday to claim a share, Kansas Lottery officials announced Friday afternoon. The winner a single ticket holder has chosen to remain anonymous, state lottery director Dennis Wilson said. The announcement was made at an afternoon press conference at state lottery headquarters in Topeka. Under Kansas law, lottery winners can choose not to publicly reveal the
Apr 6, 2012, 6:04 pm - Lottery News

2nd Powerball winner from Rhode Island announcedNews Story
A Rhode Island woman claimed the second Powerball jackpot in that state in recent months Tuesday but it fell to her attorney to pose alongside the oversized lottery check. Kathleen Last of Smithfield, R.I., had the winning ticket in the March 7 drawing for the $60 million Powerball prize, state lottery officials said. She elected to take her winnings in a $37 million lump sum. Last's attorney represented her at Tuesday's official announcement of her winnings. Attorney Edmund Alves said his
Apr 5, 2012, 8:10 am - Lottery News

Rhode Island woman, 81, claims $336 Million Powerball jackpotNews Story
Includes video report Louise White, a vivacious 81-year-old of Newport, R.I., stepped forward today as the winner of $336.4 million, the third largest Powerball lottery in the history of the game. I want to say that I'm very happy and I'm very proud. This will make my family very happy, she said. We are truly blessed. Thank you. White took her bonanza calmly, speaking briefly and then leaving the crowded news conference for her new team of attorneys to handle. One of her attorneys,
Mar 6, 2012, 12:51 pm - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery to give away millions from jackpot mysteryNews Story
Share of expired Powerball jackpot sold in Georgia also to be given away A secret winner's loss will be some lucky Iowans' gain. The Iowa Lottery announced plans Friday to give away $2 million in cash prizes, including a $1 million prize at the Iowa State Fair, with the state's share of a leftover jackpot that went unpaid after a New York lawyer refused to explain how he ended up with the winning ticket. We're going to see if we can have better luck the second time around, Iowa Lottery
Feb 26, 2012, 8:52 am - Lottery News