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New Year's Eve lottery raffles from around the USANews Story
In addition to celebrating the new year last night, lottery players from around the United States were checking their raffle tickets to see if they would start 2008 as a new millionaire. Raffle-style lottery drawings were held in several states, including Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Virginia. (Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania drew their raffles a couple days ago.) T
Jan 1, 2008, 10:25 am - Lottery News

Heartbreak: Lottery scam led to NJ grandmother's suicideNews Story
A Jamaica-based lottery scam promising a $2.5 million windfall cost Ann Mowle her entire life savings of $248,000 before the 72-year-old grandmother from Monroe decided she had enough. Mowle donated her clothes to charity, left her beloved toy poodle Molly at a dog groomers and drove to Spring Lake on Oct. 31. A pair of fishermen found her body on the edge of a jetty at the Worthington Avenue beach the next day. Investigators determined Mowle's death was a suicide. Mowle's family blames
Nov 12, 2007, 11:16 pm - Lottery News

Seven tickets to split record Jersey Cash 5 lottery jackpotNews Story
New Jersey Lottery officials say there are seven winning tickets sold for the record Jersey Cash 5 jackpot worth nearly $2 million. Two of the tickets were sold in Atlantic County. The others were purchased in Cumberland, Essex, Gloucester, Monmouth and Union counties. The numbers in Tuesday night's drawing were 4, 5, 17, 18 and 21. The total jackpot was $1,964,438. Each winning ticket is worth $280,634. Jersey Cash 5's average jackpot is $300,000. Lottery officials say sales fr
Oct 25, 2007, 7:39 am - Lottery News

N.J. Lottery's Cash 5 game grows to record $1.8 millionNews Story
Jackpot unusually large for a Pick 5 game The New Jersey Lottery's Jersey Cash 5 jackpot is so large that the lottery's web site jackpot listing is not designed to handle the large number. A section displaying the state's current jackpot amounts lists the Cash 5 jackpot as 18 thousand , but a red notice shown beside the jackpot section contains the message, The correct Jersey Cash 5 jackpot for Tuesday 10/23/2007 is $1,800,000 . New Jersey Lottery Acting Executive Director William T.
Oct 23, 2007, 10:22 am - Lottery News

N.J. couple claims $82M lottery prizeNews Story
Villas, New Jersey, residents Sandra and John Belawsky today claimed their portion of the near-record $330 million jackpot from the Mega Millions drawing held on Aug, 31. They chose the cash option, to receive $48,615,187 before the 25 percent federal withholding tax. The Belawskys went to Lottery Headquarters to stake their claim to one of the largest lottery jackpots in North American history. Congratulations to the Belawskys, the winners of this incredible jackpot, said William T. Jou
Sep 7, 2007, 7:38 pm - Lottery News

NJ store waiting for lottery winner to claim jackpotNews Story
A Cape May County grocery sold one of four winning tickets that will divide Friday's near-record $330 million jackpot in the multistate Mega Millions Lottery, New Jersey lottery officials said. The owner of the ticket, expected to be worth $82.5 million in 26 annual installments, had not stepped forward by last evening, lottery spokesman Dominick DeMarco said. Folks take their time sometimes, he said. For the store, the brush with fortune turned an ordinary Labor Day weekend into an even
Sep 6, 2007, 7:40 am - Lottery News

N.J. Lottery Independence Day Raffle resultsNews Story
The New Jersey Lottery's latest raffle-style game, Independence Day Raffle, was drawn today, and will make four instant millionaires. The winning numbers can be found here: https://www.lotterypost.com/nj-lottery-raffle-2007-07-04.asp Independence Day Raffle is a raffle game offered by the New Jersey Lottery, with a limited number of $20 tickets. With only 500,000 tickets sold for the raffle, Independence Day Raffle offers the best odds to win $1 million of any New Jersey Lottery game
Jul 4, 2007, 10:54 pm - Lottery News

NJ Lottery to enforce child support withholdings from winnersNews Story
Law already on the books, now legislature insists on its enforcement New Jersey moved closer Thursday to collecting its due from lottery winners who owe the state money. A measure approved unanimously by the Assembly would require lottery officials to deduct outstanding debt before awarding prize money. The proposal would affect anyone who wins more than $600 and owes the state money. State officials estimate that the new requirement would raise $800,000 to $1 million a year. The
Jun 22, 2007, 12:45 pm - Lottery News

Glitch Delays Jersey Cash 5 Lottery DrawingNews Story
A mechanical glitch forced New Jersey Lottery officials to manually draw the winning numbers for the Jersey Cash 5 game on Friday night. The machine containing those game balls jammed, so they followed the emergency procedures, which call for an off-air manual drawing that is observed by the independent auditor, New Jersey Lottery spokesman Dominick DeMarco said. It was not immediately clear what caused the problem, or whether a similar machine problem had ever previously affected a New
Jun 16, 2007, 12:33 pm - Lottery News

N.J. native wins $38M Calif. Lottery jackpotNews Story
Oceanside resident Eugene Salek told officials at the California Lottery that he followed his usual routine yesterday morning. He got up, made coffee and then checked his SuperLotto Plus tickets from the night before. He knew then that he had won $38 million. But, Salek said, he went ahead and made breakfast for himself and his wife, Lee, and intended to keep his big news a surprise, telling her only that they were heading out from their home. Salek couldn't hold back when she question
May 4, 2007, 2:44 pm - Lottery News