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North Carolina family wins lottery 3 timesNews Story
Most people only dream of winning the lottery, but a North Carolina mother and daughter not only beat the odds they did it three times. Kimberly McCauley of Charlotte, N.C., won $100,000 in North Carolina's new scratcher game called 10X the Money, last week. McCauley said she never imagined she'd win anything. After all, her mother Amy McCauley is a two-time lottery winner. I figured my mom was hogging all the luck. This is so overwhelming, but it's a good kind of overwhelming, Kimberl
Jul 27, 2011, 8:07 am - Lottery News

Lotteries hit record profits last yearNews Story
Lottery sales are strong, but there are points of weakness By Todd Northrop Government-sponsored lotteries are continuing their broad expansion as income-producing entities, as many lotteries reported record profits in the last fiscal year. Reports of record profits from the lotteries come despite continuing high unemployment and an economy that has been flat or downward-trending for the past two years. Iowa Lottery CEO Terry Rich says he believes the lottery does well in a bad econo
Jul 25, 2011, 1:19 pm - Lottery News

20 N.Y. Costco workers share $202M Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
The 20 oversized checks, each made out for $201.9 million, seemed appropriate for these lottery winners. A group of 20 Long Island Costco employees calling themselves the 1937 Flatbush Avenue Dodgers stepped forward Thursday in the parking lot of the big box store where they work to claim first prize in a June 1 Powerball jackpot. The winners, who opted to take a lump sum payout, will share $70.2 million after taxes, New York state Lottery officials said. Kim Karkota, one of two winners
Jun 17, 2011, 9:12 am - Lottery News

$200M Powerball lottery jackpot won by N.Y. Costco workersNews Story
Group of 20 Costco workers will share massive prize By Todd Northrop A group of Costco employees were very happy Thursday morning and very rich. After 10 consecutive drawings passed with no top-prize winner, the multi-state Powerball jackpot stood at $200 million Wednesday evening. The winning numbers drawn were 8, 18, 38, 46 and 56, with Powerball number 31 and Power Play number 4. One ticket sold at Maulik Chandni stationery store at 496 W. Montauk Hwy. in Lindenhurst, Long Island,
Jun 2, 2011, 12:46 pm - Lottery News

Atheist converts after mock prayer to win $1M lottery is answeredNews Story
A self-confessed atheist has become a believer after mocking God by sarcastically praying for his mother to win the lottery. However, his joke prayer was amazingly answered as the next day his mother won $1 million on the New York Lottery Sweet Million game. Sal Bentivegna, 28, who did not previously believe in God, had sarcastically asked his mother to ask your God for a million dollars . However, his mother Gloria Bentivegna, follows the Catholic faith, and staying true to her belief
May 29, 2011, 12:14 am - Lottery News

Major N.Y. sports betting ring bustedNews Story
Operated out of strip malls; 14 classic cars worth $100K each seized in raids Authorities busted a multi-million dollar sports gambling ring Tuesday that started out in a Staten Island video store and grew into an online operation run out of Costa Rica, officials said. More than a dozen raids were executed in three states Tuesday, leading to 28 arrests and the seizure of $5.7 million in assets including a Staten Island strip mall, real estate and 14 classic cars worth $100,000 a pop. Th
May 25, 2011, 7:15 am - Lottery News

N.Y. Lottery to launch new ad sloganNews Story
The lottery that contributed Hey, you never know to the lengthy list of memorable advertising catch phrases vernacular is hoping to do it again, with a new slogan for its scratch-off games. The slogan is the centerpiece of a campaign that formally begins this week for the New York Lottery. The campaign, by DDB New York, carries the theme Be ready not to be confused, presumably, with hit songs like Get Ready or People Get Ready or the Boy Scout motto, Be prepared. The message of Be ready i
May 10, 2011, 8:04 am - Lottery News

True to promise, pals share $1 million lottery jackpotNews Story
Eula Webb, 75, wanted to get some milk from the store, so she asked her friend Sam Cricci, 80, if he wanted to come along and buy some milk, too. I wanted to keep him active, she said. They went to the Associated Supermarket on Fulton Street, got their milk, bought a couple of lottery tickets one for Webb, one for Cricci from a machine, and went home. Webb scratched her Empire State Millionaire ticket and got nothing. Cricci scratched his ticket and won the jackpot: $1 million. Thei
Apr 25, 2011, 8:51 am - Lottery News

Just-released Indians prospect cashes $1M lottery ticketNews Story
It could not have been easy for Joel Torres to learn that he was being released from the Cleveland Indians minor league system late last month. But he probably couldn't have been launched to the unemployment line with a better parachute. A month earlier, the 21-year-old outfielder had won $1 million in the New York State Lottery's Sweet Million game after buying a ticket in Queens while visiting his mother over the winter. Yes, that sound you heard was mothers everywhere asking if we see w
Apr 12, 2011, 2:46 pm - Lottery News

NY Lottery contributed $2.6 billion to educationNews Story
Includes video report By Todd Northrop With recent media attention focused on soaring Mega Millions sales, many people are curious how the lottery proceeds are divided and spent. WNYT in New York asked the New York Lottery, and contacted several local school districts, to follow the trail of money from players' pockets to textbooks and commissions. Last year lottery sales in New York State totaled more than $7.8 billion, of which $2.6 billion went to education funding. The $2.6 bi
Apr 4, 2011, 8:36 am - Lottery News