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Check your tickets: $30M still unclaimedNews Story
Take this $30 million, please.The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. has $30.5 million to give away, but nobody is coming forward to take the prize. The jackpot from the April 11 Super 7 draw is still unclaimed after almost six months.It's the largest jackpot on the corporation's books ever to go without being claimed.The winner has up to a year to claim the $30-million prize.If it is not claimed, the money goes back into the general lottery pot for future draws, she said.Lottery officials said th
Sep 29, 2003, 3:29 am - Lottery News

Mega Millions ManiaNews Story
Tuesday afternoon, for people coming through the doors of Durston's, on West Genesee Street in Syracuse, buying a ticket for a $102 million lottery drawing was hard to resist.Another week went by without a winner for the Mega Millions lottery. People were using their lunch break as an opportunity to get in on the game.Tom McBride was one of them. He says he doesn't usually buy a ticket every week. From time to time. Not too often but when the money's up there high enough, you've got to take a
Sep 24, 2003, 4:10 am - Lottery News

NJ Changes Cash 5 GameNews Story
The New Jersey State Lottery announced improvements to its Jersey Cash 5 game, starting with the September 15 drawing, that are designed to produce higher jackpots and more player excitement. Since its inception in 1992, Jersey Cash 5 has served as a roll-down game, whereby if there was no top winner (five out of five numbers), the jackpot was divided into the remaining prize pools (four out of five numbers). Jersey Cash 5 now will change to a roll over structure, where the jackpot grows an
Sep 22, 2003, 4:14 am - Lottery News

$8 Million SuperLotto Fraud Trial -- Opening Statements Are TodayNews Story
Opening statements in a dispute over the ownership of a California Quick Pick Super Lotto ticket valued at $8 million will be made today, starting in the afternoon in Courtroom O, Pomona Superior Court, 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona, CA. before the Hon. Peter J. Meeka.Plaintiff Arwa Farraj filed suit in February 2000 against Circle K Stores and its employee, Gurinder Ruby, for fraud and conversion, alleging that she had been deceived by Mr. Ruby into giving her winning California Quick Pick S
Sep 18, 2003, 6:37 am - Lottery News

Online Lottery Glitch Leads to Cancelled PrizesNews Story
Online scratch-card outfit - tombola.com - has apologised after a software glitch at the weekend led to a large number of gamblers winning the jackpot.Those who took part in the online game couldn't believe their luck when they won up to 5,000 (US$8,050) just for taking part in the i:scratch game.But their euphoria was short-lived when they received an email telling them that the game was null and void.Said the email: I am writing to you in relation to your win on tombola.com over the week
Sep 17, 2003, 11:25 am - Lottery News

$8 Million Quick Pick Super Lotto Fraud Trial Will Start on WednesdayNews Story
A dispute over the ownership of a California Quick Pick Super Lotto ticket valued at $8 million will go to trial at 8:30 AM on Wednesday, September 17, 2003 in Pomona Superior Court before the Hon. Peter J. Meeka. Plaintiff Arwa Farraj filed suit in February 2000 against Circle K Stores and its employee, Gurinder Ruby, for fraud and conversion, alleging that she had been deceived by Mr. Ruby into giving her winning California Quick Pick Super Lotto ticket to him. Ms. Farraj is represented by Bro
Sep 17, 2003, 3:02 am - Lottery News

Texas lottery considers eliminating lotto ballsNews Story
The familiar white, numbered balls that have determined the winners of hundreds of millions of dollars in Texas lottery prizes may get bounced. The Texas Lottery Commission is taking a first, cautious step toward using a computer to replace the rubber balls used since the games began in 1992.It's early in the conceptual stage, but lottery officials have looked at computerized random number generator systems that, linked with animations, are used by a handful of lotteries to pick the winning nu
Sep 15, 2003, 4:16 am - Lottery News

Florida couple wins $21 million LottoNews Story
A couple who went shopping after lightning damaged a television left the store with a winning Lotto ticket worth $21 million.Rosemarie and Richard Cheverie, both 64, claimed the prize in Tallahassee on Friday. They opted for the one-time payment of $11,283,087.31, instead of 30 yearly installments of about $700,000.The Cheveries, who have been married for 46 years, said they plan to help their children with the winnings, paying off their mortgages and buying one son a car, lottery officials said
Sep 12, 2003, 10:00 pm - Lottery News

Lotto dream turns to dustNews Story
Some unlucky winner bought a Florida Lotto ticket worth $50 million in March, but lost his or her chance to cash it when the clock struck 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday.The chance to claim the $50 million prize expired six months after the drawing March 12. Although previous Lotto prizes have gone unclaimed, this is the largest ever in the 15-year history of the Florida Lottery.The last big one was $15 million in 1991.Theories abound about why someone would let that kind of money go, but the prevalent on
Sep 10, 2003, 4:11 am - Lottery News

GTech has winning lottery ticket, checkered pastNews Story
A Rhode Island company that practically built the nation's state lottery business just added the Florida Lottery as the missing gem to its crown jewels.GTech Corp. last week became the successful bidder to run the Florida Lottery system. With Florida in hand, the company will run all five of the country's biggest state lottery systems - New York, Texas, Georgia, California and Florida. Altogether, GTech will operate 26 of the 36 state lottery systems, plus the Washington, D.C., system. We genera
Sep 8, 2003, 3:44 am - Lottery News