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Group fearful of lottery in AlabamaNews Story
A Washington, D.C.-based public policy group called The Tax Foundation issued warnings about a new lottery campaign aimed at Alabamians.It's an advertising drive in east Alabama thanking residents for driving to Georgia to buy lottery tickets, said Bill Ahern, spokesman for the group, which recently studied state lotteries and their impact.The campaign will feature a clerk in a Georgia store who points out that Alabama money has helped fund his children's college education. It's all going to be
Feb 21, 2005, 9:13 am - Lottery News

Pennsylvania Lottery Scratch Games InvestigatedNews Story
Lottery tickets -- even the instant kind -- don't last forever.Not knowing about that expiration date could ruin your lucky day.If you've ever played a scratch-off lottery game, you have plenty of company in western Pennsylvania.Instant lottery ticket sales last year were $12 million in Beaver County, $14 million in Butler County, $36 million in Westmoreland County, $15 million in Washington County and $97 million -- the highest in Pennsylvania -- in Allegheny County.Ed Mahlman, Pennsylvania Lot
Feb 15, 2005, 10:06 am - Lottery News

Dispute erupts over use of Tennessee lottery fundsNews Story
Tennessee State Sen. Steve Cohen Thursday attacked Gov. Phil Bredesens pre-kindergarten initiative, saying the use of lottery money to fund the program is illegal and unconstitutional.Cohen (D-Memphis), the chief legislative architect of the state lottery, accused the administration of bringing intentionally low lottery projections to the legislature in 2003 numbers that ultimately led to the substantial surplus now available, he said.Bredesen called Cohens remarks astonishing.The lottery was de
Feb 4, 2005, 11:27 am - Lottery News

$14 million Illinois lottery jackpot expiresNews Story
A $14 million Illinois Lottery jackpot went unclaimed Monday, making it the largest pot in the state's history where no one came forward to say, I won the lotto! The money will be given to the State Common School Fund, which supports public education programs. A midnight deadline to claim the jackpot expired, despite an aggressive local and national television campaign to find the winner, Illinois Lottery Supt. Carolyn Adams said. Lottery winners have one year to claim their prize. Pr
Feb 2, 2005, 1:06 pm - Lottery News

Jury rules lottery pool members entitled to share Mega Millions prizeNews Story
Only six Ohio postal workers sued Stephen Kyle for a piece of a $175,000 winning lottery ticket.But all 20 lottery-pool members -- including Kyle -- will share the jackpot evenly after a jury ruled Tuesday that Kyle was wrong to keep the money for himself, cutting his colleagues out of their fair shares.If all 20 stake a claim, each will be eligible to receive $8,750, before taxes. Three of the pool members who testified on Kyle's behalf during the two-day trial in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas C
Jan 20, 2005, 4:21 pm - Lottery News

California lottery winner shot to death in SeattleNews Story
A man shot to death by police outside Qwest Field in the wee hours before the St. Louis Rams-Seattle Seahawks game has been identified by his family as a California lottery winner.Relatives also disputed police accounts of the death of Rick Camat, 32, who was shot by an officer as dozens of people fled to avoid gunfire and fighting outside a Pioneer Square bar early Sunday.Camat, one of 13 Starbucks employees in Los Angeles who split an $87 million jackpot in 2000, fired into the air to try to b
Oct 13, 2004, 8:40 am - Lottery News

Settlement reached in Mass. scratch ticket disputeNews Story
After two years of squabbling over the ownership of a $4 million winning scratch ticket, the litigants embroiled in a lawsuit agreed to a settlement in an effort to avoid another civil trial.Julie Prive, a former clerk at an East Falmouth Tedeschi's convenience store, was sued by two customers, Raymond MacDonald and Monica Hertz, after she cashed in the scratch ticket in 2002.MacDonald, 65, and Hertz each claim they bought and scratched the winning ticket at the store, then gave it to Prive beli
Oct 8, 2004, 10:22 am - Lottery News

Mistrial declared in $4M lottery ticket disputeNews Story
A former convenience store clerk will keep collecting winnings from a $4 million Massachusetts Lottery scratch ticket after a Superior Court judge declared a mistrial yesterday in a dispute over ownership of the ticket.The civil jury in Barnstable Superior Court was deadlocked after nearly four days of deliberations, unable to decide if the winning ticket properly belonged to a Falmouth retiree who sued to claim the prize.Julie Prive has been collecting winnings on the ticket since 2002. Lottery
Aug 19, 2004, 8:07 am - Lottery News

Woman must split lottery windfall with ex-fiancéNews Story
A provincial Supreme Court judge has ruled that a Newfoundland woman must share her lottery winnings with her former fianc .In 1999, Susan Devereaux of Petty Harbour, Nfld., won $750,000 in an Atlantic Lotto draw. She and her fianc , Jim Everard, paid off the mortgage of the home they were sharing and each bought a vehicle.But shortly after the win, they split up.That's when the court battle began over the remaining $250,000, as well as the division of property bought with the original winnings.
Aug 18, 2004, 8:03 am - Lottery News

Lottery ticket number crucial to trialNews Story
When did Julie Prive learn the number of a lottery ticket worth $4 million?The outcome of a civil case pitting Prive, 27, who worked at the Tedeschi's in East Falmouth when the $10 scratch ticket was sold, against two other Falmouth residents could hinge on the answer to that question.Prive is being sued by Raymond MacDonald, 65, and Monica Hertz, 62, who both claim ownership of the $600 Million Spectacular ticket.MacDonald and Hertz both say they bought the ticket May 17, 2002, but did not real
Aug 13, 2004, 8:56 am - Lottery News