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Lost and found? $1.4M lottery ticket winds up in courtNews Story
On Sept. 16, 2002, a New Jersey Pick 6 lottery ticket was sold from the Sunshine Grocery store in Hoboken. The numbers, randomly generated as a quick pick, proved to be the very lucky indeed. But a court will have to decide for whom.Several days after the ticket was sold, a brother and sister from Union City presented the lone winning ticket in the $4 million drawing to the New Jersey Lottery Commission in Trenton. Ecstatic at their good fortune but uncertain of their English (they are from Pu
Oct 30, 2003, 5:16 am - Lottery News

Paul's lottery past: rocky beginnings, happier endingsNews Story
It's only in hindsight that critics of Rebecca Paul's lottery startups give her creditRebecca Paul's admirers outnumber her critics by a long shot in Georgia's capital city.But the critics were hot when Paul was starting the state's lottery in 1993. Ten years later, Tennessee has hired her to do the same thing for up to $752,500 a year.Georgia's lottery drew close scrutiny from state lawmakers and federal prosecutors after awarding a key startup contract to a vendor whose bid was millions of dol
Oct 20, 2003, 8:04 am - Lottery News

Big lottery vendor dogged by controversyNews Story
GTECH expected to bid for online games in TennesseeScandal and suspicion have marked GTECH's 22 years in the lottery business. But so has spectacular success.The company, which is expected to bid on the Tennessee lottery's online games contract, helps run lotteries in 26 states and 42 other countries. Its revenues exceed $1 billion a year, spokesman Bob Vincent said.But GTECH, which is based in West Greenwich, R.I., also has run into trouble, especially in the 1990s. In Georgia, where Tennessee
Oct 20, 2003, 7:59 am - Lottery News

Lottery scammer jailedNews Story
The bagman in an Edmonton bogus lottery scam that bilked $368,000 from vulnerable U.S. seniors was handed a 26-month prison term yesterday.Stephen Sutherland, 43, swore under his breath as a court constable led him away after his plea for a conditional sentence to be served in the community was rejected.Provincial court Judge Allan Lefever ruled it was necessary to put Sutherland behind bars, saying predation on the elderly requires denunciation.Sutherland pleaded guilty yesterday to fraud o
Oct 16, 2003, 3:31 am - Lottery News

Free lotto ticket promotion taken lightlyNews Story
Some in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Lincoln communities are concerned that a lotto promotion at a UNL restaurant sent the wrong message to students about gambling.In a promotion that ended Sunday, the Subway restaurant at the Nebraska Union gave away about 9,000 coupons for free Nebraska scratch tickets during a four-week period, according to the restaurant's manager, Jennifer Acklin.Deb Hammond, director of Choices, a gambling treatment center in Lincoln, said the promotion was a con
Oct 2, 2003, 3:33 am - Lottery News

10,000 scratch tickets flawed?News Story
Ten thousand scratch tickets from Massachusetts' new $640 Million Jubilee game are potentially defective -- but state Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill is refusing to issue a recall, despite fears the flawed tickets could skew the odds or even deprive somebody of a big jackpot.The $10 tickets, which were just unveiled two weeks ago, contain an uneven coating of the chemical that makes the latex scratching surface stick to the ticket's paper -- making them unscratchable.Over the past 11 days, one Lotte
Sep 30, 2003, 4:10 am - Lottery News

Hectic job good way to forget lottery fightNews Story
It was a case of lotto fever gone out of control.And now, a once-congenial group of 20 office workers at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center are nursing their wounds after a bitter court battle over a $45 million jackpot.But it's the hectic pace of the high-pressure Cardiac-Catheterization Lab that keeps the co-workers from letting their anger from the court case infect the workplace. That's been our saving grace, my saving grace, said Jamal Townes, whose claims about the winning lottery tick
Sep 29, 2003, 3:34 am - Lottery News

$8 Million SuperLotto Fraud Trial -- Opening Statements Are TodayNews Story
Opening statements in a dispute over the ownership of a California Quick Pick Super Lotto ticket valued at $8 million will be made today, starting in the afternoon in Courtroom O, Pomona Superior Court, 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona, CA. before the Hon. Peter J. Meeka.Plaintiff Arwa Farraj filed suit in February 2000 against Circle K Stores and its employee, Gurinder Ruby, for fraud and conversion, alleging that she had been deceived by Mr. Ruby into giving her winning California Quick Pick S
Sep 18, 2003, 6:37 am - Lottery News

$8 Million Quick Pick Super Lotto Fraud Trial Will Start on WednesdayNews Story
A dispute over the ownership of a California Quick Pick Super Lotto ticket valued at $8 million will go to trial at 8:30 AM on Wednesday, September 17, 2003 in Pomona Superior Court before the Hon. Peter J. Meeka. Plaintiff Arwa Farraj filed suit in February 2000 against Circle K Stores and its employee, Gurinder Ruby, for fraud and conversion, alleging that she had been deceived by Mr. Ruby into giving her winning California Quick Pick Super Lotto ticket to him. Ms. Farraj is represented by Bro
Sep 17, 2003, 3:02 am - Lottery News

Winning lottery ticket wasn’t too lucky for alleged thievesNews Story
Two Ohio men appeared in County Municipal Court Eastern Area Division Thursday accused in the connection of theft of items from Akenheads Dairy, including 395 lottery tickets.Adam Lee Coburn, 19, 137 N. Market St., is charged with breaking and entering, a fourth-degree felony. According to police, early Tuesday Coburn allegedly broke out a window of the store and entered. Taken from the store were 24 cartons of cigarettes, 15 cigarette lighters, three boxes of cigarette rolling papers, two bottl
Sep 5, 2003, 9:55 am - Lottery News