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Georgia couple wins $1 million lottery raffle prizeNews Story
Jim Fain couldn't believe his eyes. His wife, Tina Beckham-Fain, sat on the floor of their Milledgeville home reading the number on the first of five lottery tickets they bought for the Millionaire Raffle as he looked at the winning combination on the Georgia Lottery Web site. Beckham-Fain read 285704. Unsure of what he was seeing on his computer, Fain then asked her to read the screen. She did and the numbers matched. I started to hyperventilate, said Fain, a 42-year-old corpor
Jul 11, 2007, 1:53 pm - Lottery News

Kentucky Lottery Lucky 7's raffle draw delayedNews Story
The drawing date for the Kentucky Lottery's latest raffle-style game is being postponed due to slower than expected ticket sales. Dubbed the Lucky 7's Raffle, the winning numbers were set to be drawn and then announced on July 7th (7-7-07). As of July 1st, there were still 305,730 of the game's 500,000 tickets remaining. With only 39% of the overall tickets sold, Kentucky Lottery officials decided to push back the draw date to allow players more time to purchase tickets. There were seve
Jul 3, 2007, 6:01 pm - Lottery News

Lottery scams hard to resist for someNews Story
What if you got home today and found a letter in your mailbox telling you that you won thousands of dollars in a Canadian lottery? It sounds like great news, but it's actually a scam that's costing Americans millions of dollars every year. Too Good To Be True This is the scam we get the most calls and e-mails about. And it's very convincing because the letter comes with a check that looks real. So a Pennsylvania TV news crew went to Canada to find out how the scam works and where you
Jun 27, 2007, 10:46 pm - Lottery News

California Lottery official fired for taking 'bonus' from hotelNews Story
A California Lottery official has been fired for allegedly pocketing gratuities tied to the weekly Big Spin TV show, where scratch-off ticket winners vie for a chance to win millions. Richard Leeson was dismissed after an internal investigation found that he received redeemable honors points from a contract to house Big Spin contestants at the Glendale Hilton Hotel, officials said. This is not the kind of thing you can make excuses for, Lottery Director Joan Borucki said Tuesday at a
Jun 13, 2007, 9:03 am - Lottery News

PA Lottery's Millionaire Raffle returns on 7-7-07News Story
Millionaire Raffle, the raffle-style game developed in 2005 by the Pennsylvania Lottery, will offer 7,777 cash prizes worth more than $6.4 million when the game is drawn at 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 7 (7-7-07). Seven has always been a popular number for lottery players, so we decided to celebrate July 7, 2007, with a raffle drawing, said Lottery Executive Director Ed Trees. The previous three raffle drawings sold out and we expect this raffle to be just as successful. Tickets for the Ju
May 22, 2007, 9:29 pm - Lottery News

Lottery winner shortchanged by storeNews Story
Man paid $1,500 on $4,000 scratch ticket The lottery machines and scratch tickets were pulled from Kirsch Liquors in Worcester, Massachusetts, last month, after a man was scammed there when he received only $1,500 on a $4,000 winning scratch ticket, a state Lottery Commission official said. The Lottery Commission will file a decision by the end of the month on whether to suspend the store's lottery license for 30 days or indefinitely. Damaso Vasquez told Lottery Commission authorities
May 3, 2007, 7:43 am - Lottery News

Did thousands of B.C. Lottery players throw away winning tickets?News Story
Thousands of disappointed B.C. lottery players were confronted by full-page newspaper ads yesterday suggesting they may have been robbed of past winnings. While discovering they didn't win Wednesday's $38 million Lotto 6/49 jackpot, they also learned they could have held winning tickets for lotteries between Feb. 8 and March 30 and been told they were not winners. A consumer advisory said a software update to the Internet Number Checker inadvertently prevented draw results from being prese
Apr 6, 2007, 12:35 pm - Lottery News

Grandma's lottery ticket detour pays offNews Story
Seventy-three-year-old grandmother Margie Coy had plans to visit her grandson Terry Coy II in Greensburg, Ind., last weekend when her boyfriend decided to take a detour into Kentucky. I asked him where we were going and he said he wanted to buy some Win For Life tickets in Kentucky, said Coy, who lives in the little town of Windfall near Kokomo in northern Indiana. I pretty much go along with anything he wants to do. They motored over the I-275 bridge near Lawrenceburg and followed the
Mar 29, 2007, 12:21 am - Lottery News

Penn. woman sued by former friend over lottery winNews Story
Cathy Young said was stunned Tuesday to learn that a former friend claims that she refused to split a $100,000 Pennsylvania lottery jackpot with him. She said she was helping William A. Lucas Jr. get back on his feet after serving a prison sentence and he's already depleted his share for new tow trucks for his brother's business. All I did was feel sorry for him, said Young, who lives in North Union Township. Lucas, 36, also of North Union, sued Young in Fayette County yesterday, c
Mar 22, 2007, 4:51 pm - Lottery News

Newspaper photo reveals lottery winner's personal informationNews Story
Lottery Post Exclusive by Todd Northrop Maine's Morning Sentinel newspaper appears to have revealed a lottery winner's address and social security number in a published photo. In a story that ran in the February 27 edition of the Sentinel, Newport resident Venison Turner Jr. was pictured together with his son, holding a copy of a winning ticket worth $300,000 and the paperwork filed with the Maine Lottery. The man's personal information is clearly visible. In the Sunday, March 11 edit
Mar 14, 2007, 1:28 pm - Lottery News