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Mega Millions jackpot raised to $24 millionNews Story
The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery grew to $24 million Wednesday.None of the tickets sold for Tuesday's $18 million drawing matched all five lotto numbers and the Mega Ball. The next drawing will be Friday.There were five second-prize winners from Tuesday night's drawing: 1 from Massachusetts, 1 from New Jersey, 1 from Virginia and 2 from Washington. Each ticket matched all five lotto numbers but not the Mega Ball number to win $175,000.Also, 15 players matched four of the fi
Sep 1, 2004, 7:56 am - Lottery News

Massachusetts woman scratches a $4 million lottery winNews Story
A Warrendale, Massachusetts woman who bought a winning scratch ticket at a Main Street convenience store this week says the $4 million prize will not completely transform her life. It's just like having a good paying job, said Deborah A. Basile, 50, who works as an administrative assistant at Andrews Pharmacy in Wellesley and runs her own transcription business. If we won this 10 years ago, it would be different. After turning in the $4 million ticket to Mass State Lottery headquarters in Brain
Aug 27, 2004, 7:36 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

Store clerk tells how she found winning ticketNews Story
Battling the sniffs and coughs of a summer cold, Julie Prive, 27-year-old mother of two, stood before a jury in Barnstable County, Massachusetts Superior Court yesterday and recalled the evening in May 2002 when she had believed her life had changed forever.Prive said she was at home, sorting through a pile of lottery tickets she had collected from the trash at the Tedeschi convenience store where she worked, checking them and repackaging them for a second-chance game run by the state lottery to
Aug 12, 2004, 8:25 am - Lottery News

Michigan man claims $47 million Mega Millions prizeNews Story
Larry Campbell, 63, of Pullman, Michigan, picked up his check for $19,128,233 as the sole winner of the July 23 Mega Millions $47 million jackpot.Campbell elected to take his winnings in a lump sum payment.Congratulations to Mr. Campbell and his family! We wish him much success in his new-found wealth, said Michigan Lottery Commissioner Gary Peters.The winning ticket was sold at Als Total, 5624 109th Ave., Pullman, on the evening of the drawing.The winning numbers were 5, 12, 25, 35, 37 and 12.
Aug 10, 2004, 9:51 am - Lottery News

Two couples in court over ownership of $4 million scratch ticketNews Story
Two couples are fighting in court over ownership of a Massachusetts Lottery scratch ticket worth $4 million.According to testimony in the civil jury trial in Barnstable Superior Court, which got under way Monday, Julie Prive was a clerk at a Tedeschi's market in Falmouth in 2002, and began regularly collecting discarded losing scratch tickets. She entered these tickets in the Clean Fun Sweepstakes, the lottery's second-chance game designed to keep used tickets from becoming litter.Prive said tha
Aug 10, 2004, 9:47 am - Lottery News

Mega Millions jackpot increases to $20 millionNews Story
The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery grew to $20 million Wednesday.None of the tickets sold for Tuesday's $13 million drawing matched all five lotto numbers and the Mega Ball. The next drawing will be Friday.There were ten second-prize winners from Tuesday night's drawing: 1 from Massachusetts, 1 from Michigan, 3 from New Jersey, 2 from New York, 1 from Ohio and 2 from Virginia. Each ticket matched all five lotto numbers but not the Mega Ball number to win $175,000.Also, 41 pla
Aug 4, 2004, 7:10 am - Lottery News

Lucky Iraq vet scratches way to lottery richesNews Story
Just back from a tour of duty in Iraq, a Norwood, Massachusetts National Guardsman was welcomed home by Lady Luck - netting $140,000 a year for life from a state Lottery scratch ticket. John A. Morrissey, 42, says the Massachusetts Lottery Lifetime Spectacular windfall will blast him out of bankruptcy, and help put his daughter through college. I always had faith that I'd hit it big, Morrissey said in an exclusive Herald interview. And hit it big is just what he did after stopping by his neigh
Jul 21, 2004, 9:29 am - Lottery News

California lottery struggles with tepid salesNews Story
Though California and its schools are begging for cash, one of the state's supposed gold mines produces roughly half of what it should for education, analysts say.But officials at the languishing state-run lottery say there's hope the operation will be shipping nearly another $1 billion annually to schools.It first, however, must succeed in throwing off woes such as legal restrictions on games, which some say are outdated in this age of widespread Indian gambling, and then generate an excitement
Jul 15, 2004, 9:30 am - Lottery News

Lottery win caps a life of serviceNews Story
Much of her life, Geraldine Williams was an invisible servant to others, wiping clean their dirt, scrubbing their floors, emptying their trash.She cleaned the houses of those who can afford to have others take care of their domestic chores. For 15 years, she cleaned three office and academic buildings on the campus of University of Massachusetts at Lowell.Co-workers said Williams left surfaces spotless. Friends and neighbors say she brought the same energy to helping others, from senior citizens
Jul 12, 2004, 9:38 am - Lottery News