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NY lottery winner plans to sue Gaming Commission to keep his $5M winnings a secretNews Story
An unemployed father from Norwood, New York, won $5 million from a lottery scratch off ticket he bought April 24 and he wants to keep the details of his windfall quiet. But the New York State Lottery requires winners of $1 million and more to participate in a press conference where they receive a giant ceremonial check for their winnings. That obligation is written on the back of each ducat. Now, the Bronx man plans to sue the state's Gaming Commission, arguing he should be allowed to rema
May 17, 2018, 6:07 pm - Lottery News

U.S. Supreme Court overturns federal sports-wagering banNews Story
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the federal law that bars gambling on individual sporting events in most of the country, in a ruling likely to unleash a race among the states to attract billions of dollars in legal wagers. Ruling in a New Jersey case, the court said the 1992 law unconstitutionally forced states to maintain laws that ban gambling. Nevada is the only state where single-game wagering is now legal. Sports gambling could begin in a matter of weeks in casinos and racetracks i
May 14, 2018, 11:03 am - Lottery News

Massachusetts Lottery winners increasingly opting to stay anonymousNews Story
Some people can't believe David Spillane's luck when it comes to the state lottery. People come up to me and say congratulations. How come you win over and over? Spillane, a lawyer from Hanover, said in a recent interview. Five times since Jan. 1, Spillane has gone to Massachusetts State Lottery headquarters in Braintree to claim a winning ticket. The total windfall to date is $6 million. Each time, the state Lottery has distributed to the press and posted on its website the standard g
May 14, 2018, 8:20 am - Lottery News

Iowa man claims $4.38 million Lotto America prizeNews Story
A Davenport, Iowa, man on Thursday claimed a $4.38 million lottery jackpot, acknowledging he had beaten long odds to win a jackpot with a ticket he received as a free play in a lottery promotion. But Chuck Anderson emphasized he wasn't getting ahead of himself. I'm waiting until the money is deposited, he said. I won't believe it until it's there. Anderson, 52, won Iowa's first jackpot in Lotto America just six months after the game's start. In an interesting twist, his winning ticket
May 10, 2018, 3:50 pm - Lottery News

Lawyer for trust claims $456.7 million Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
A lawyer working for a trust claimed a $456.7 million Powerball ticket sold at a Pennsylvania convenience store, leaving state lottery officials with no details about the person or people who will get the money. A lottery spokesman said Monday the agency had no information on whether the ticket sold at a Speedway in Manheim on March 17 was won by one person or will be split among multiple people. The ticket was signed by the Emerald Legacy Trust and Blue Bell attorney Andrew Santana. Santa
Apr 30, 2018, 8:28 pm - Lottery News

Amid delay in new lottery policy, repeat winners keep on winningNews Story
It's been a charmed decade for Ali Jaafar. The Watertown man keeps hitting it big on the Massachusetts State Lottery, winning millions of dollars from thousands of scratch tickets. For the past two years, Jaafar has held the title of the state's winningest lottery player. But he is just one of hundreds of individuals who repeatedly cash in on the Massachusetts lottery. The lottery does not know how some of these so-called frequent winners manage to win so often. Many of these players hold
Apr 28, 2018, 10:00 am - Lottery News

One lottery ticket sold in Pennsylvania wins Saturday's $456.7 million Powerball jackpotNews Story
St. Patrick's Day brought the Luck of the Irish to the state of Pennsylvania Saturday night. A single Powerball lottery ticket sold in Pennsylvania matched all the numbers in the drawing Saturday the win the $456.7 million jackpot. The lucky winner can choose to accept the full jackpot in 30 annually-increasing payments over 29 years, or as a $273.9 million lump-sum cash value. The winning numbers were 22, 57, 59, 60, and 66, with Powerball number 7. The Power Play number was 2. There n
Mar 18, 2018, 10:54 am - Lottery News

Mystery NH Powerball lottery winner gets her prize, keeps her privacy — for nowNews Story
Payout is anonymous, but winner's identity may be revealed later, pending court case A woman who sued the New Hampshire state lottery commission asking it to allow her to collect the $559.7 million prize she had won without making her name public collected her winnings on Wednesday, lottery officials said, and kept her privacy for now. The woman won the fifth-largest jackpot in the history of the multi-state Powerball lottery drawing in early January but began her legal odyssey when she si
Mar 7, 2018, 8:41 pm - Lottery News

Ontario Lottery awards man half of $6.1M lottery prize with remainder in legal limboNews Story
An Ontario man who parted ways with his live-in girlfriend after winning the lottery has been awarded half of the disputed $6.1 million Lotto 6/49 prize. But the rest of the cash bonanza remains in legal limbo. Maurice Thibeault arrived at the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.'s Toronto prize centre holding one of the two winning tickets in the Sept. 20 jackpot, worth $12.2 million. But before the Chatham resident could collect the money, his former girlfriend Denise Robertson, 46, obtai
Dec 5, 2017, 7:47 am - Lottery News

Store clerks seen on camera stealing lottery ticketsNews Story
Includes video report Two former store clerks are in hot water after surveillance video captured them stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth of scratch-off lottery tickets for months. Former store clerk Reagan Santana Richardson is set to be sentenced Friday in Fayette County for her involvement in the theft of scratch-off lottery tickets at Miller's Discount Tobacco store in Connersville, Indiana, located at 704 Eastern Avenue. Richardson has been offered a plea deal that will not
Nov 14, 2017, 8:12 am - Lottery News