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Lottery winner doesn't have to shareNews Story
Judge: Woman, 87, doesn't have to split windfall with sister An elderly Connecticut woman does not have to share her half of a $500,000 lottery windfall with her sister who sued her over it, a judge ruled Wednesday. Eighty-seven-year-old Rose Bakaysa and her 84-year-old sister, Theresa Sokaitis, have been fighting over the money in court since 2005. That was shortly after Bakaysa and their brother won the Powerball jackpot. Sokaitis argued they had signed a notarized contract a decade e
May 12, 2010, 7:40 pm - Lottery News

Accused lottery killer expected to make plea in courtNews Story
A woman accused of killing a Lakeland, Florida, lottery winner is expected to make a plea in court Monday morning. DeeDee Moore will appear before a judge in downtown Tampa with new representation, as her previous lawyer was removed from the case due to a conflict of interest. In March, Moore was given a new attorney from the Public Defender's office. All along, Moore has claimed innocence in the murder of Abraham Shakespeare. She said she befriended Shakespeare after he won the lottery in
May 10, 2010, 7:49 am - Lottery News

Supreme Court rejects Delaware appeal to expand sports betting lotteryNews Story
The Supreme Court has turned away an appeal from Delaware to expand its sports betting lottery beyond professional football. The justices did not comment Monday in leaving in place a federal appeals court ruling that limits sports betting in Delaware to multi-game, or parlay, bets on National Football League games. The professional sports leagues and the National Collegiate Athletic Association sued the state over its plan to boost revenues by offering single-game bets on a variety of prof
May 3, 2010, 10:43 am - Lottery News

Indiana man says store cost him $11.5M lottery jackpotNews Story
A 70-year-old retired chemist is suing a convenience store chain for more than $11.5 million, claiming its employees cheated him out of a large jackpot by refusing to sell him a lottery ticket. Charles Andrews says in his lawsuit that he picked the winning numbers for the February 2008 Hoosier Lotto drawing, but that a clerk at a Speedway store in Indianapolis refused to sell him a ticket with a few minutes left before the 10:40 p.m. official sales cutoff. Andrews, of Indianapolis, says th
Apr 27, 2010, 7:36 am - Lottery News

Lottery scam victim dies scarredNews Story
Even in the last months of her life, Lorraine Teicht could not fully trust people. She could never get over how three of her workmates had once turned on her. Suspicious that she had filched a $5.7 million 6/49 lottery ticket that rightfully belonged to all four, they had hired a private eye to see if her lifestyle had dramatically changed. I could not trust them after they came to my house and accused me of stealing the winnings, Teicht wrote on March 11. I still do not feel relax
Apr 16, 2010, 6:45 am - Lottery News

Pennsylvania store manager accused in lottery theftsNews Story
The ex-store manager of a Bangor, Pennsylvania, area gas station pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that she stole instant lottery tickets that cost the station a little more than $74,000 over three years. While Tolino Fuel Service officials said Michelle Ann Zucal, 39, of Bangor had admitted to stealing lottery tickets, defense attorney Gregory Paglianite tried to raise questions as to how they know Zucal was responsible for the store's entire loss. During sometimes heated exchanges wit
Apr 6, 2010, 7:56 am - Lottery News

Prison terms for lottery ticket attackersNews Story
A $5 Bankroll lottery ticket won eastern Henrico County, Virginia, resident Jeff Brownell $1,000 last year but cost him his left eye in a brutal robbery attempt. Yesterday, a plea agreement, a promise of immunity and a jury trial resulted in vastly different outcomes for Brownell's attackers. Last night, after deliberating less than an hour, a Henrico jury found a neighbor of Brownell's guilty of multiple charges in the attack May 14 last year. Richard Greene, 33, the neighbor who did not
Mar 25, 2010, 7:30 am - Lottery News

Sisters' lottery jackpot trial begins todayNews Story
The lottery numbers that sisters Theresa Sokaitis and Rose Bakaysa had played together for years finally paid off in 2005, yielding a $500,000 Powerball jackpot. But for whom? Sokaitis, 84, of Middletown, Connecticut, claims she never saw a dime of that money and sued her older sister. This morning, their dispute over the jackpot will go to trial before a judge at Superior Court in New Britain. I love my sister and I feel bad this is all getting dragged into court, but I have children
Mar 23, 2010, 9:36 am - Lottery News

Arkansas Lottery sued for trademark infringementNews Story
The Arkansas Scholarship Lottery is the target of a lawsuit by a man who claims he owns the trademark to names the state lottery is using. Ed Dozier of Little Rock filed suit Thursday in Pulaski County Circuit Court, claiming that as far back as 1994 he secured the trademark to Arkansas Lottery and several other similar terms. Dozier is asking a judge to order the state lottery to stop using the names. The suit, filed by the Davidson Law Firm in Pulaski County Circuit Court, seeks a dec
Mar 18, 2010, 9:23 pm - Lottery News

Lottery slaying now a 1st-degree caseNews Story
A grand jury indicted Dorice Donegan Dee Dee Moore on Thursday on a charge of first-degree murder in the death and disappearance of Florida Lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare. Grand jurors returned a one-count indictment against Moore for premeditated murder. It accuses Moore of shooting Shakespeare between April 1 and April 13. The next step is for Moore to enter a plea to the charge during an arraignment before Circuit Judge Daniel Sleet. That has yet to be scheduled. Shakespeare was
Mar 12, 2010, 8:42 am - Lottery News