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NY takes $5 million from lottery winners for child support, welfareNews Story
New York lottery officials announced Tuesday that the state has taken nearly $5 million from thousands of lottery jackpots before they were released to winners and applied the money to owed child-support payments or to recover a portion of welfare given to winners over the last decade. The move is part of the state's Lottery Intercept Program that has diverted nearly $10 million in winnings to child support, and more than $25 million in winnings toward public assistance since it was adopted in 1
May 24, 2005, 6:38 pm - Lottery News

Fortune cookie bet made Powerball lottery players richNews Story
Powerball lottery officials suspected fraud: how could 110 players in the March 30 drawing get five of the six numbers right? That made them all second-prize winners, and considering the number of tickets sold in the 29 states where the game is played, there should have been only four or five.Many different brands of fortune cookies come from Wonton Food's Long Island City factory.But from state after state they kept coming in, the one-in-three-million combination of 22, 28, 32, 33, 39.It took s
May 11, 2005, 11:23 am - Lottery News

$4 million lottery scratch ticket stolen from storeNews Story
Selling a $4 million scratch ticket at the Hilltop Package Store in Wareham could have brought instant fortune to a lucky customer and a cool $40,000 commission to the store's owner, Paul Hurley.But the Hold'Em Poker lottery ticket was among hundreds stolen two weeks ago from the Hilltop and other stores in town.Wareham police have arrested a teenager who allegedly gave the unscratched winning ticket to a friend, who tried to cash it at another store, Hurley said.''It's like getting robbed twice
May 2, 2005, 9:12 am - Lottery News

Indiana lottery winners get help from fortune cookieNews Story
Who would think that a fortune cookie could bring you so much good fortune, asks Hoosier Lottery Director Esther Schneider.Call it bizarre or downright unbelievable.Alvin Barnes from Pittsboro says, They don't taste good and the advice I get I can get from an old lady. Maybe they are lucky, I don't know, adds Deb Herndon of Indianapolis.Somewhere between the realm of good fortune and plain dumb luck something strange happened. Lottery officials say 110 people hit the jackpot in the March 3
Apr 6, 2005, 12:57 pm - Lottery News

Fortune cookie lottery numbers wins bank teller $500,000 in PowerballNews Story
Fortune was smiling on a first-time South Carolina Lottery player this past week.Sherril Shingler, who has a Smoaks address but actually lives in Bamberg County, has given a whole new meaning to the old saying, That's the way the cookie crumbles. After having Chinese food for lunch last Wednesday, Shingler, who has been employed for the past two years as a bank teller at Enterprise Bank in Ehrhardt, asked a co-worker to purchase a Powerball ticket for her, using the lucky numbers that were prin
Apr 6, 2005, 12:06 pm - Lottery News

Fortune cookie fuels record Powerball winsNews Story
Dozens of people recently got an extra-special dessert with their Chinese food: a winning lottery number.A record 110 players won $500,000 and $100,000 prizes in Wednesday's Powerball drawing, most of whom apparently used the numbers included in a fortune-cookie message. Ordinarily the multistate lottery expects only four tickets to win at the Match 5 prize level.Several winners in a half-dozen states revealed that they got the winning number from a fortune cookie, said Doug Orr, marketing direc
Apr 1, 2005, 7:32 am - Lottery News

Thousands fume over lottery game typoNews Story
Hundreds Think They Won Grand PrizeIt's become a scratch with a catch after thousands of people thought they had won a $100,000 jackpot in a newspaper lottery game.The New York Daily News said a printing error led to a Scratch 'n Match debacle.They lined up by the hundreds Monday outside the New York Daily News ready to claim their instant fortunes.But the paper says not so fast -- there's been a mistake and those who think they won didn't. Many in the crowd weren't buying it.According to the ru
Mar 22, 2005, 9:36 am - Lottery News

Court: Ex-Husband Can Share Lottery JackpotNews Story
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Monday that the ex-husband of a $7 million lottery winner deserves to share her fortune.The high court's 5-0 ruling upheld a lower court order that Pamela Noyes-Dombrowski pay Eugene M. Dombrowski alimony after the dissolution of their nearly 14-year marriage.In 1992, after years of spending a few dollars each week playing the lottery, despite opposition from her husband, Noyes-Dombrowski hit the jackpot for $7 million. She opted to receive the winnings in ann
Mar 22, 2005, 8:09 am - Lottery News

Winning $4.86 million lottery ticket recovered from store garbageNews Story
Being a good Samaritan may not pay off in money, but doing a good deed is reward enough for one store clerk who rescued a nearly $5 million lottery ticket from the trash and returned it to its rightful owner. It didn't even cross my mind to keep it. I just knew it was hers, said Sherry Brust, a customer service cashier at a Fred Meyer store in Port Orchard. I'm just that type of a person. ... I like to help people. Brust and another co-worker at the store sifted through a trash can last week a
Mar 18, 2005, 10:15 am - Lottery News

Wisconsin Powerball winner mystery solvedNews Story
The winner of a $36.8 million Powerball jackpot, who kept his good fortune to himself since Jan. 8, ended the mystery Monday and came forward to claim his prize.The winner is Peter Bapes of Thiensville, Wisconsin, lottery officials said.Bapes chose a one-time cash payout of $20.2 million, rather than annual installments amounting to the full prize, said Andrew Bohage, a spokesman for the Wisconsin Lottery office in Madison.In a brief telephone interview Monday, Bapes said only that he had not ye
Mar 8, 2005, 8:27 am - Lottery News