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Store owner's lottery bonus put on holdNews Story
The store owner who sold the unclaimed $3.5 million Connecticut Classic Lotto ticket in February will not be receiving his $10,000 sales commission unless he settles outstanding accounts with the state lottery, according to a spokeswoman for the lottery. Zee Zahid, proprietor of Coventry Getty Mart, was to receive a $10,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket on Feb. 14, 2006. But the expected windfall became more hassle than help for Zahid. No, I didn't get the $10,000, and they gave
Mar 22, 2007, 3:12 pm - Lottery News

Little store is a Lotto hot spotNews Story
Third jackpot winner since 2000 purchased lucky ticket good for $72 million The mysterious good luck of Lichine's Liquor and Deli continues to grow. Since 2000, the California State Lottery machines at Lichine's have spit out SuperLotto Plus jackpots three times most recently on Saturday. The lucky ticket over the weekend is good for $72 million. The holder of the ticket had not yet come forward on Monday. But the jackpot is enough to get some people thinking there's something spec
Mar 22, 2007, 12:39 pm - Lottery News

Retailers luckier than expected, Atlantic Lotto saysNews Story
Could massive theft and/or deception by retailers be the reason? Lottery ticket sellers won 10 times more often than statistically they should have over the last six years, the Atlantic Lottery Corp. said Wednesday. So far, the review hasn't shown any wrongdoing by retailers in the four Atlantic provinces, an official said. Can I statistically explain why retailers are winning 10 times more? No, I can't, and I'm not going to sit here and speculate as to why, said Mike Randall, a corp
Mar 16, 2007, 11:54 pm - Lottery News

Atlantic Lottery retailers win 10 times more often than customersNews Story
Canadian store owners are collecting major lottery wins ten times as often as they should, according to the Atlantic Lottery Corporation. Information sent out to media Wednesday showed retailers in the Atlantic Provinces had collected 37 wins worth $25,000 or more in the period from Jan. 1, 2001 to Dec. 31, 2006. Analysis from Universite de Moncton statistician Jacques Allard said the 2688 retail owners, who do play lottery at 1.76 times the rate of the average person, should have been expect
Mar 15, 2007, 8:56 am - Lottery News

Change in Penn. Lottery scratch tickets removes shortcutNews Story
A change in the format of Pennsylvania Lottery scratch-off tickets to prevent fraud means that some lottery players could be mistakenly tossing away winning tickets, retailers said. Since January, instant tickets have been printed with a new kind of security coding for retailers to verify that a winning ticket is valid. Previously, a row of letters and numbers at the top or bottom of a ticket indicated the prize won. For example, a row interspersed with (5) and (0) meant the ticket was a $
Mar 12, 2007, 10:26 am - Lottery News

S.C woman facing 3 charges of lottery fraudNews Story
A South Carolina convenience store employee turned herself in to police Monday on allegations she stole dozens of scratch-off lottery tickets from work last month and then cashed in the winners, officials said. Tashawn I. Ealey, 23, of the 300 block of Jehossee Drive in Aiken, is charged with three counts of lottery fraud. Detective Billy Royster, Aiken Public Safety, said the subject stole the tickets, each valued at $10, and then collected the money for the winners. The store, howe
Mar 6, 2007, 7:19 am - Lottery News

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

Ct. lottery ticket worth $3.5 million expiresNews Story
Officials Reject 200 Lost Ticket Claims The dream of becoming a millionaire could be turning into someone's nightmare. Connecticut lottery officials said no one has produced the winning ticket for a $3.5 million jackpot in the Feb. 14, 2006, drawing. The winning ticket expired and is worthless, lottery officials said. However, officials said if someone mailed it in and it was postmarked before the deadline, it would be honored. Lottery officials and the Division of Special Reve
Feb 22, 2007, 5:46 pm - Lottery News

Police Looking for Cross-Dressing Lottery Ticket ThiefNews Story
Police are following the trail of a cross-dressing thief who stole a display case full of lottery tickets from a convenience store in Depew, New York, and was caught in the act on camera. The unusual robbery happened at a Noco station on George Urban Boulevard in Depew. Detectives say a man dressed as a woman walked right up to the counter and walked away with a case full of lottery tickets, $2,000 worth, but what's even more shocking is what happened next. The video shows it clearly.
Feb 13, 2007, 10:00 am - Lottery News

Woman stole lottery tickets to get better working hoursNews Story
A convenience store worker allegedly stole at least $800 worth of Pennsylvania Lottery tickets and gave the winning ones to her boss in exchange for better working hours, police said. Marcella Fletcher, 53, of Garfield Street, Nanticoke, faces charges of theft, tampering with records, and making false reports to law enforcement, police said. According to police, Fahim Mirza, owner of the Uni-Mart on Market Street, told police on Jan. 15 that one of his former employees had been stealing fr
Feb 9, 2007, 9:15 pm - Lottery News