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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

7-Eleven store owner sells winning lotto ticket to himselfNews Story
Narinder Badwal threw a party at his friend's Milpitas restaurant after learning that the 7-Eleven store he owns in Santa Clara had sold one of two tickets for last week's $99 million Super Lotto jackpot. He was due a share of the $247,500 commission.What Badwal didn't know until the next morning was that he had sold one of the winning tickets to himself -- and that he had won $49.5 million, representing his half of a jackpot that he shared with an aspiring actress from Southern California.Today
Oct 28, 2003, 4:02 am - Lottery News

Store's trash proves to be lotto treasureNews Story
The manager of a Hackensack, New Jersey video store thought he had found a modern-day pot of gold this week when hundreds of unused, scratch-off instant Lottery tickets were discovered in the store basement. We thought we hit it rich, Nilesh Maheshwary, manager of the West Coast Video store on Passaic Street, said yesterday. I didn't know what to do. Making a similar find, others may have grabbed a penny and started scratching -- some lotto games offer players a chance to win thousands of doll
Oct 15, 2003, 3:28 am - Lottery News

North Carolina Authorities Looking for Florida Lotto WinnerNews Story
Everyone dreams of winning the lottery and it became a reality for a First Coast man. The only problem is that winning means his past is catching up with him.He's the man who won $11 million from the Florida Lotto after buying the winning ticket from a San Marco grocery store. Now, the North Carolina Division of Social Services is looking for lotto winner, Jessie Riggs.Child Support Enforcement Agent, Wanda Scott says her agency has been looking to find Riggs for 15 years. He may owe in the nei
Oct 10, 2003, 5:32 am - Lottery News

Washington Man Claims $47 Million Lotto Plus PrizeNews Story
David D. Gibson's positive attitude about life has paid off in a big way with a $47 million Jackpot prize. Life is all about taking chances, said Gibson. I have a positive attitude about life, so I'm not afraid to take chances. The glass is always half-full. Gibson, a Kirkland resident, purchased his Lotto Plus tickets on Saturday, October 4 the last day to play the game with a record $47 Million Lotto Plus Jackpot prize on the line. When I bought my Lotto Plus tickets, I knew it was the las
Oct 9, 2003, 3:38 am - Lottery News

Lynchburg couple ’in a daze’ at lottery winNews Story
Even on one of the best days of his life, Virginia lottery winner James Featherston remains haunted by one of the worst days of his life - the day, three months ago, when his wife and son were involved in a serious wreck on U.S. 29.Featherston, 69, and his wife, Martha, both of Lynchburg, won the $17.6 million Lotto South drawing held Sept. 17. They and their son, James Jr., were at Hotel Roanoke on Monday afternoon for a check presentation ceremony led by Virginia Lottery Executive Director Pen
Oct 7, 2003, 5:12 am - Lottery News

Florida couple wins bigNews Story
Rory Morris and Gabriella Smarandache's lives changed with a simple scratch of the penny Thursday.Each rake of the coin turned a single lottery ticket into a million-dollar prize and the young area couple into disbelieving winners.Sitting in Smarandache's 2003 Grand Am, Morris, an Englewood resident, wiped away the silver coding to the Florida Lottery's $1,000,000 Cash Spectacular scratch-off ticket he had just purchased at the North Port Shell station.Scratching off a picture of a money bag i
Oct 1, 2003, 3:44 am - Lottery News

Luck runs out for N.Y. lottery winnersNews Story
When members of the Lucky Lotto Lady Partnership won $23 million in 1994, they thought their money woes were over for good. But nearly a decade later, the group is battling a formidable foe over its winnings: the Internal Revenue Service. This time, the Lucky Lotto Lady Partnership is going to need more than luck -- it'll need a change in federal law in order to win.The dispute is over taxes. Not whether the group should pay them, but how much of its lottery winnings should go to the IRS. And Un
Sep 29, 2003, 3:37 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

Lottery winners sue financial adviserNews Story
A Vaughan, Ontario, couple who won over $19 million in a lottery are suing a lawyer-businessman for $7.75 million, alleging his investments squandered almost $5 million of their money.Vito and Sabrina Palmieri won the Lotto Super 7 in February 2001, and retained Toronto lawyer Dev Misir to look after their legal rights and financial interests, according to their statement of claim.The Palmieris claim that Misir invested their money in financially troubled companies in which he had financial int
Sep 24, 2003, 3:57 am - Lottery News