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Deputy Retires After Claiming Lottery JackpotNews Story
A veteran Ventura County sheriff's deputy retired a little earlier than planned Thursday after discovering he had purchased one of two winning tickets in this week's $42 million California Super Lotto Plus drawing, winning half the jackpot.Deputy Robert M. Arnold, 52, a fixture in Santa Clara Valley law enforcement for more than two decades, called in his immediate resignation Thursday afternoon, shortly after confirming that he was a lottery winner. His machine-generated numbers were 2-17-29-44
Mar 5, 2004, 4:32 am - Lottery News

Scam sites offer bogus Hong Kong lottery tipsNews Story
Websites in mainland China and Taiwan are offering to sell inside information on winning Hong Kong lottery numbers -- then vanishing before authorities can catch those behind them.The sites -- which require payments for the bogus tips -- turn up then disappear almost as soon as they're spotted, Hong Kong Jockey Club spokesman Wilson Cheng said Monday.The club is a nonprofit charity that runs Hong Kong's lottery, horse races and football betting.Hong Kong lottery officials claim there's no way
Feb 24, 2004, 5:53 am - Lottery News

Five charged in Pennsylvania lottery ticket theftsNews Story
A mother and daughter and three other employees of a Scranton, Pennsylvania convenience market stole more than $62,000 last year by taking thousands of instant lottery tickets and cashing in winners, a Lackawanna County detective charged Thursday.The five were tripped up when the owner of Sdventh Avenue Kwik N Ezy Kwik Mart noticed a large discrepancy in lottery ticket sales during a year-end review of accounts, according to an arrest affidavit.They are charged with single counts of theft by unl
Feb 20, 2004, 6:44 am - Lottery News

Rightful owner of Powerball ticket finally gets $100,000 prizeNews Story
A Morgan City, Louisiana man whose $100,000 Powerball ticket was allegedly stolen finally got his money on Tuesday.Charles Stone, 33, received the check at the Louisiana Lottery's Metairie office, eight days after state troopers arrested three people for allegedly altering the ticket and trying to claim the cash for themselves. A fourth suspect was arrested Jan. 29. I feel very lucky, said Stone, adding that he plans to invest some, spend some of his winnings.Stone bought the ticket at a Hou
Feb 4, 2004, 5:20 am - Lottery News

Store Clerk Pleads 'Not Guilty' In Lottery Ticket Theft CaseNews Story
A convenience store clerk who allegedly stole a woman's $20,000 lottery ticket is denying the charge.Antoine Reiche pleaded not guilty Monday at his arraignment on a charge of larceny over $250.On Jan. 19, Erika Schmitt, 18, told police that she bought a $2 lottery ticket from the Westboro convenience store where Reiche worked, scratched off 10 stars and discovered she was the jackpot winner.When she tried to redeem it, Reiche allegedly grabbed the ticket and told her she had scratched off only
Feb 3, 2004, 5:42 am - Lottery News

You want the other Jack; he's got the millionsNews Story
The other Jack Whittaker of West Virginia -- the one who wasn't arrested on drunken driving charges last weekend, whose money wasn't stolen outside a strip club and who definitely didn't win $113 million -- wishes the Jack Whittaker of lottery fame would behave.Not that Jack Whittaker of Princeton, W.Va., is one to pass judgment on anyone's personal life.It's just that every time the other Jack Whittaker gets into one of those embarrassing legal scrapes, the non-famous Jack Whittaker gets hit wi
Jan 30, 2004, 6:54 am - Lottery News

Three arrested, charged with altering Louisiana Lottery ticketsNews Story
Three people were arrested Monday and a fourth is wanted for allegedly stealing and altering a Louisiana Lottery ticket worth $100,000, state police said.The arrests were made after the suspects arrived at the state lottery offices in Metairie to try to collect the money. Officials detected that the original signature on the ticket had been scratched out and replaced with another.Arrested were Hang Nguyen, 43, of Amelia, Nhat Nguyen, 25, of New Orleans, and Ngoc Tran, 46, of Amelia. Police are s
Jan 27, 2004, 5:57 am - Lottery News

Powerball Record-Holder Arrested for Drunk DrivingNews Story
The man who won the largest single lottery jackpot in U.S. history is in trouble again.Jack Whittaker, who hit the $314.9 million Powerball jackpot on Christmas 2002, was charged Sunday with drunk driving - just weeks after being charged with trying to assault a bar manager.Whittaker said he was on his way Sunday afternoon to Tri-State Racetrack and Gaming when he pulled off of Interstate 64 because of the treacherous weather. I'm nowhere near intoxicated, Whittaker told a local television stat
Jan 26, 2004, 12:18 am - Lottery News

Lotto tickets only good one time aroundNews Story
An apparent gold mine found in the convenience store trash was too good to be true.Police said Michael John Dornbrock, 45, of 2306 W. Fourth St., Cedar Falls, found a batch of winning scratch-off lottery tickets in the garbage of a Jefferson Street store.The tickets -- 16 in all -- had already been redeemed for cash and then thrown out, according to the police report.But Dornbrock dug them out and took them to the Hy-Vee grocery store on University Avenue where he tried to turn them in for cash
Jan 15, 2004, 12:28 pm - Lottery News

Tenn. lottery officials show off security measures for ticketsNews Story
The lottery signs are going up, and anxious players like Agnes Smith are talking about the launching of the Tennessee Lottery on Tuesday.Smith said, Somebody's going to win so, why not be me? But before you start scratching, know there are security measures ensuring your ticket is valid. So the minute you buy a ticket, here's what'll happen behind the store counter. You're gonna run it through the machine...you have to enter in your correct code, whether its a 5050 or your store code number, an
Jan 15, 2004, 5:30 am - Lottery News