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Florida grandmother says state agency's mistake cost her lottery winningsNews Story
Includes video report Bobbi Segel said she can still remember the feeling she had scratching off the winning lottery ticket. According to my children, I sounded like a teenager in high school squealing at her prom date, Segel said. Segel said she was hoping to use $1,000 she won on an upcoming family trip she had already planned. I thought, 'Woo hoo! Vacation! Party! Key West, Segel said. That was all that was going through my mind at the time of winning that lottery. She also
Jul 9, 2019, 11:49 am - Lottery News

California man charged with stealing roommate's $10 million lottery ticket released from custodyNews Story
A 35-year-old Vacaville, California, man who police say stole his roommate's lottery ticket worth $10 million late last year has been released from custody. Court and Solano County Jail records on Friday indicated only that Adul Saosongyang had been relegated to a local commitment under the state Penal Code, but the status of his case remains unclear. Judge Carlos R. Gutierrez had scheduled a jury trial for 9 a.m. June 26 but clerks with the Solano County Sheriff's Office told The Reporter
Jul 8, 2019, 6:02 pm - Lottery News

Fishing boat captain stops at store for a drink and wins $1 million in NC lotteryNews Story
The sun-burned captain of a fishing boat stopped to buy a drink Tuesday at a convenience store in Wilmington and ended up winning $1 million, according to the N.C. Education Lottery. Austin Eubank, a husband and father, said in a release that the win is all the more surprising given he doesn't normally play the lottery. Eubank says he was just feeling lucky Tuesday and decided to gamble on a $20 Mega Cash ticket at the Speedway on Carolina Beach Road in Wilmington. He scratched off the ca
Jul 5, 2019, 3:01 pm - Lottery News

Longtime friends split $20 lottery ticket, win $1 million prizeNews Story
Two longtime friends decided that sharing a lottery ticket would improve their luck and they were right. Robert Sopsich, 30, of Hartland, and Dillan Dybilas, 20, of Ubly, were having no luck playing Michigan Lottery instant games on their own so they decided to split a $20 Millionaire Maker ticket and agreed to split the winnings. The lucky duo ended up splitting way more than they could have imagined as they won a $1 million prize. We'd each been buying tickets but hadn't won much, so
Jul 3, 2019, 2:33 pm - Lottery News

Lottery player 'spent a sleepless night' clutching winning ticketNews Story
The odds were 1 in 660,000, but a woman in Greenwood, South Carolina, had the winning ticket. South Carolina Education Lottery officials say the woman spent a sleepless night with the ticket worth $125,000 before she could go claim her prize. I held it tight to my chest, she said, according to lottery officials. She spent the night thinking about how to spend the prize money. She settled on paying off her husband's truck, writing checks to the kids and booking a vacation for herself, o
Jul 3, 2019, 8:41 am - Lottery News

Mississippi Lottery targets Dec. 1 startup dateNews Story
The Mississippi Lottery Corporation says it plans for stores to be selling scratch-off lottery tickets by Dec. 1. That's the target date, said Gerard Gibert, vice chairman of the lottery board. It could be a little before, or a little after we haven't selected the vendors yet... But the plan is to have scratch-offs in as many retailers as possible by Dec. 1. Gibert said the plan is to come out with regular state drawing tickets sometime in the first quarter of 2020, and multi-state ticke
Jun 30, 2019, 8:50 am - Lottery News

Pennsylvania woman wins second lottery jackpot from same storeNews Story
A Pennsylvania woman scored a $1 million jackpot from a scratch-off lottery ticket just two years after collecting a $100,000 prize. Peggy Dodson of Lancaster County told Pennsylvania Lottery officials she bought a Max-A-Million scratch-off ticket Thursday from Peterson's Grocery Outlet in Peach Bottom and scored a $1 million top prize. Dodson previously visited lottery headquarters two years ago to collect a $100,000 jackpot from a Family Feud scratch-off ticket she bought from the same s
May 29, 2019, 7:50 am - Lottery News

South Carolina man wins $10 million lottery prize during lunch breakNews Story
A South Carolina man became a multi-millionaire during his lunch break, thanks to a lucky North Carolina Lottery scratch-off game ticket. James Belich, of Lancaster, S.C., recently won the $10 million top prize in the North Carolina Education Lottery's $300,000,000 Supreme Riches scratch-off after buying a ticket in Charlotte. You never expect it, said Belich. You think maybe you'll win something, but not $10 million. It's unbelievable. When he got home, he was so shocked all he coul
May 28, 2019, 5:15 pm - Lottery News

Florida Lottery winner of $1M among suspects rounded up in major drug bustNews Story
Just days before Mother's Day in 2018, a pregnant woman in Volusia County went to Tallahassee to smile for the Florida Lottery cameras. That woman, Karlee Harbst, had won $1 million in the $5,000,000 Gold Rush Doubler game. She was on what gamblers call a roll she had won $100 in the same scratch-off game just a week before. The wins capped a troubled past for the Florida woman who had already racked up a number of drug possession arrests, petit theft, contempt of court and driving with
May 20, 2019, 10:54 am - Lottery News

Massachusetts husband, wife are both $1 million lottery winnersNews Story
A husband and wife from Southeastern Massachusetts have now each cashed winning $1 million Massachusetts State Lottery instant tickets. The husband, in fact, has won twice. Janet Pflaumer-Phillips of Lakeville claimed her $1 million prize on Monday. She won on a $30 Diamond Millions instant ticket, according to the Massachusetts State Lottery. She bought the ticket at A A Petro, 381 West Grove St. in Middleborough, which will receive a $10,000 bonus for selling it. Her husband, Kevin, w
May 16, 2019, 7:40 am - Lottery News