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After alleged lottery ticket theft, store banned from ticket salesNews Story
An Ohio convenience store is banned from selling lottery tickets for a month, after the owner and an employee stole part of a Warren woman's jackpot, according to police reports. Rita Astolfi's claim that she won big on the Cash Spectacular scratch-off, but walked away with only a portion of her prize, landed the owner of the West Market Street store and one of his employees in court. They are accused of stealing $400 of a $1,000 payoff from the 30-year-old Ward Street N.W. woman before event
Feb 28, 2007, 12:03 pm - Lottery News

Lottery results cell phone service is first of its kindNews Story
txtGroups and Lottery Post Team Up to Provide Text Message Lottery Results txtGroups, Inc. and Lottery Post announced today that they are joining forces to provide instant lottery results to North American SMS subscribers. The new cell phone text messaging service, called Lottery Results Mobile Alerts, covers every lottery game played in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and United Kingdom. Other worldwide lottery games will be added soon. Anyone with a cell phone can sign up f
Feb 26, 2007, 11:41 am - Lottery News

Couple wins $15 million lottery jackpot after redeeming $10,000 ticketNews Story
For a Nevada couple, good things come in twos. And that includes winning big Powerball jackpots in Arizona twice. Just days after winning $10,000 with a ticket bought at a northern Arizona caf , Barry and Barbara Salzman traveled to Phoenix to collect their winnings and ended up buying another ticket from the Arizona Lottery office. It just happened to be the $15 million jackpot winner. Of course I don't believe it, I just don't believe it happened, Barry Salzman said at a press confer
Feb 1, 2007, 12:39 am - Lottery News

Charlotte couple wins $200,000 Powerball lottery prizeNews Story
Tonight's Powerball jackpot is worth $131 million John Mark Isaacs and his girlfriend had been eyeing new cars for some time. She would like a yellow, two-door Pontiac Solaris. Isaacs wants a Mini Cooper in black or blue. It was like a dream, 'I sure would like to have that,' he said of the cars. Now, I can. On Saturday, Isaacs, 41, and his girlfriend won $200,000 when one of the dozen Powerball tickets the couple bought had five winning numbers. Isaacs, a warehouse manager f
Jan 10, 2007, 3:00 pm - Lottery News

Winning $122 million lottery ticket sold in TexasNews Story
Someone who bought a ticket in Amarillo for Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing is about $72 million richer. The ticket bought at a western Amarillo convenience store matched all five numbers and Mega Ball number drawn last night for the $122 million jackpot. That dollar figure applies only if the winnings are paid out over 26 annual payments and Texas Lottery Commission spokesman Bobby Heith says the ticket buyer opted for a cash-value option. That means a cash payout of just more th
Jan 10, 2007, 2:18 pm - Lottery News

First Penn. Lottery Raffle $1 million prize claimedNews Story
A Bucks County, Pennsylvania, man has become the first to claim a $1 million top prize from the Pennsylvania Lottery's Dec. 30, 2006, Millionaire Raffle drawing. John Maier of Churchville presented his winning raffle ticket at Lottery headquarters in Middletown, Dauphin County. After examining the ticket and executing other propriety security measures, Lottery officials today confirmed that it was one of the five top-prize winning tickets from the Dec. 30 Millionaire Raffle drawing. The fi
Jan 10, 2007, 12:27 pm - Lottery News

New lawsuit claims Indiana Lottery did not award all prizesNews Story
Man who spent $40,000 on lottery sues to get money back; lawsuit claims Hoosier Lottery overstated number, amount of prizes in 'Cash Blast' game Two men filed a lawsuit Friday against the Hoosier Lottery, seeking class-action status as a result of the lottery's admitted misrepresentation of the number and amount of prizes available in a scratch-off game. Jeff Frazer, Carmel, and Jeff Koehlinger, Auburn, seek reimbursement in the lawsuit filed in Marion County for the losses they incurred w
Jan 6, 2007, 9:07 pm - Lottery News

Despite dire predictions, Net gambling not changed by new U.S. lawNews Story
John Brokopp Courier-News When President George W. Bush signed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act in October, many reports gave the impression it sounded like the death knell for the multibillion-dollar Web-based gambling industry. On the contrary, all it did was strictly regulate the process by which funds are transferred from users of the sites to the offshore companies which own and operate them. The practice itself wasn't declared illegal. Reputable foreign companies wh
Dec 8, 2006, 10:56 am - Lottery News

Georgia Lottery's Millionaire Raffle tickets going fastNews Story
More than 40% of available $20 tickets have been sold Raffle games have become the hottest lottery item of the holiday season, and the Georgia Lottery's Millionaire Raffle game is no exception. After just two weeks of sales, more than 40 percent of the game's tickets have been purchased. Georgia Lottery players have their best chance ever to win $1 million, but time is running out. Millionaire Raffle is a limited-time game from the Georgia Lottery with four $1 million prizes. A total o
Dec 6, 2006, 1:01 pm - Lottery News

Florida Lottery holiday raffle game sold outNews Story
10 players will win $1 million each on New Year's Day At 10:33 pm Thursday night the last of the 1.25 million Holiday Millionaire Raffle tickets was sold. Players who purchased tickets will need to hold on to them for the New Year's Day drawing to see who will become the Florida Lottery's first 10 millionaires in 2007. The winning numbers will be posted to the Florida Lottery Web site by 3:00 pm, January 1, 2007. The numbers will also be posted at Lottery Post. Holiday Millionaire Raf
Dec 3, 2006, 3:59 pm - Lottery News