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Mistake lottery ticket wins California man $380KNews Story
He was already known as a regular customer at the 7-Eleven on West Olive Avenue in Burbank, but now Pat Tucker is one happy customer after clerk Manjit Singh accidentally sold him a winning Powerball ticket last week worth $380,774. Singh routinely sees Tucker while working at the 7-Eleven, where Tucker will typically purchase two Mega Millions tickets, twice per week. But last week, Singh accidentally sold him a $2 Powerball ticket, and when he realized he hit the wrong button, Singh offe
Oct 30, 2015, 8:42 am - Lottery News

Psychic key to Calif. man's $1 million Powerball winNews Story
A West Hollywood, California, man who won $1 million playing Powerball recently told California lottery officials that he might not have bought the ticket had it not been for an encounter with an online psychic. Kevin Millard matched five out of six numbers in the Powerball draw on Sept. 19, winning a total prize of $1,009,368, the state lottery said in a news release on Friday. Although he regularly played the lottery at one time, Millard had recently scaled back, except when it came to l
Sep 28, 2015, 7:42 pm - Lottery News

Calif. man buys scratch game with $20 bill he found, wins $1 millionNews Story
A man who won $1 million from the California Lottery on Wednesday in Millbrae paid for the winning Scratcher ticket using a $20 bill he found on the ground. The lucky Bay Area man, Hubert Tang, found the $20 bill on a street outside of San Francisco International Airport on Wednesday. He then used it to purchase two $1,000,000 Jackpot! Scratchers tickets from Andrea's Market, located at 1601 El Camino Real in Millbrae. Tang, who works as a bartender, said that he had not purchased a lotter
Aug 31, 2015, 9:15 am - Lottery News

California Lottery begins offering tickets at gas pumpsNews Story
Play at the Pump, the California Lottery's latest expansion of the lotto market, is both convenient and controversial. Convenient because it allows credit card users to both fill up and buy up to $20 worth of Quick Picks without ever having to go inside. At the same time, it's controversial because the offerings are a sharp change from the lottery's long standing cash-only rules aimed at cutting down on overspending by poor people and chronic gamblers. The concerns are valid, said Alex
Aug 4, 2015, 10:40 am - Lottery News

California man wins $1 million an hour after depositing $25,000 lottery winningsNews Story
A streak of good luck made a Huntington Beach, California, man an instant millionaire immediately after he deposited a separate $25,000 payment from the California Lottery on Friday. In April, retired postal worker Oscar Sosa purchased a $20 Ultimate Riches scratch-off ticket, where he won $25,000. He received a check on Friday from the lottery office, which he quickly deposited in a bank account. An hour later, Sosa took $200 of that money and bought several 50X The Cash scratch tickets f
May 20, 2015, 8:39 am - Lottery News

Calif. gas station off the hook in lottery ticket probeNews Story
A Palmdale, California, gas station employee who mistakenly gave $75 to an undercover state compliance officer instead of advising him that he was the holder of a lottery ticket worth $75,000 did not commit fraud, lottery officials said Thursday. California Lottery officials said they were satisfied that the incident was a result of the clerk's misunderstanding of those procedures and that their investigation of the gas station was over. Now we are going to move on, lottery spokesman Russ
May 8, 2015, 8:59 am - Lottery News

$75,000 California Lottery winner leaves with only $75News Story
UPDATE: Winner was actually undercover inspector By Todd Northrop The search is on for a lottery winner in California who walked away with a much smaller prize than he actually won. A man who went to cash out his Wild West Poker scratch-off lottery ticket at a Palmdale, California, gas station was given $75, but his ticket was actually worth $75,000. Officials are trying to track down the man who went into a Palmdale store and was thousands of dollars short of his winnings. Shamsu
May 4, 2015, 6:07 pm - Lottery News

Calif. man knew he won $1M but lost the lottery ticketNews Story
By Todd Northrop A California Lottery winner lost out on the opportunity to claim his $1 million Powerball prize after he misplaced his ticket. The man saw news reports about himself buying the ticket in Rosemead and came forward, saying he was the winner, KABC-TV reported. But, he said, he lost his ticket. Because Powerball rules require the winner to produce the actual winning ticket, he was ineligible to collect his winnings, California Lottery spokesman Alex Traverso said. We be
Mar 13, 2015, 2:32 pm - Lottery News

California store owner sues customer for half of $1M lottery prizeNews Story
Assembly line worker Evangelina Reyes had big plans for the $1 million she won earlier this year in the California Lottery's Emerald 10 scratch-off game. But then the owner of the Milpitas liquor store where she bought the winning ticket slapped her with a lawsuit, claiming she'd signed a handwritten contract guaranteeing him half the prize. Now, instead of dipping into the money for a family vacation in Hawaii and serenely banking the rest for early retirement, the 53-year-old mother of five
Mar 5, 2015, 8:30 am - Lottery News

Woman almost gave away her $1.3M lottery ticketNews Story
Ligia Dennis got the type of surprise most of us can only dream about: she won the lottery. Dennis purchased the ticket from a coffee shop while doing her laundry. She bought three $6 California Lucky Life Scratchers. However, this lucky moment might not have ever come for her. She decided to give two of the lottery tickets to her mother and brother, and she nearly gave her winning ticket away to a homeless man looking for change. Dennis was overjoyed we she found out that she had won the
Jan 3, 2015, 1:11 pm - Lottery News