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Missing 86-year-old Detroit lottery winner found deadNews Story
An 86-year-old Detroit man whose family said he disappeared a day after winning $20,000 in the lottery in December was found stabbed to death in a vacant house, authorities said on Wednesday. Arthur Neal Jr. was found dead on Sunday afternoon in the 15000 block of Mansfield Street, said Officer Nicole Kirkwood, a Detroit police spokeswoman. Neal was reported missing on Dec. 28 after disappearing Dec. 20 from his home in the 17200 block of Trinity Street. (See Elderly Detroit man who rec
Feb 4, 2015, 7:26 pm - Lottery News

N.Y. doorman who won lottery loses battle with cancerNews Story
A Park Avenue doorman who catapulted to fame after winning a $5 million jackpot has lost his battle with cancer. (See Doorman who won $5 million lottery pot is battling lung cancer, Lottery Post, Aug. 13, 2013.) Richie Randazzo died Friday, six years after a lucky scratch-off ticket transformed him from porter to folk hero. He was 50. But the Brooklyn native's family says the moolah never changed him. He loved being a neighborhood guy, and that's what he was, said brother Frank Rand
Nov 17, 2014, 12:21 pm - Lottery News

Widow and daughter will split estate of poisoned $1 million lotto winnerNews Story
The estate of a Chicago man who was poisoned to death right after he won $1 million on a scratch-off lottery ticket will be split between his widow and his daughter from a previous marriage, ending a fight in court. The settlement was confirmed Thursday by a lawyer for the widow. The widow and daughter agreed not to sue each other for wrongful death unless a criminal investigation yields new information. A medical examiner ruled in March that the lottery winner, Urooj Khan, was killed by c
Dec 13, 2013, 9:27 am - Lottery News

Powerball winner dies penniless, 12 years after winning $27 millionNews Story
David Edwards spent $12 million in his first year as a millionaire A Powerball winner has died broke and all alone in hospice care, just 12 years after raking in $27 million cash from a lottery jackpot. David Lee Edwards, a convicted felon from Ashland, Kentucky, bought a mansion in a gated community, dozens of expensive cars and even a LearJet with the share of a record $280 million jackpot he won in August 2001. But drug addiction and his free-spending ways left Edwards and his wife S
Dec 3, 2013, 5:40 pm - Lottery News

Home returned to estate of slain Florida Lotto winnerNews Story
A judge has ordered that an expensive home and other assets be returned to the estate of slain Lakeland, Florida, lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare and stripped from the woman convicted of killing him. In a six-page order, Circuit Judge J. Dale Durrance wrote that there was no evidence Dorice DeeDee Moore ever paid Shakespeare for his home on Red Hawk Bend Drive in Lakeland. Shakespeare paid about $1 million for the Lakeland house when he bought it in 2007. In addition, the judge order
Oct 4, 2013, 7:53 am - Lottery News

Man accused of murder over lost lottery ticketNews Story
Bruce Butler, a General Motors retiree who played the lottery for 40 years, didn't gun down a Southfield liquor store employee because he was angry he'd left a winning ticket on the counter months earlier, his attorney says. If Butler had won a $1 million prize, he would have known better than to try to cash it at a liquor store, attorney Joe Niskar said in his opening statement Friday. But while Niskar contends police got the wrong man, prosecutors say they have evidence to prove Butler,
Sep 24, 2013, 11:45 am - Lottery News

Convicted murderer Dee Dee Moore denies killing lotto winnerNews Story
Includes video report Dee Dee Moore, the woman who was convicted of murdering Florida lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare, said in an interview from prison that she was not guilty and blamed her legal team for her guilty verdict. I would never harm another human being, Moore said. I would never hurt nobody! I like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and Disney! Moore, 41, sat down for an interview in a cell block cafeteria at the Lowell Correctional Institute in Ocala, Fla., where she is se
Sep 10, 2013, 12:21 pm - Lottery News

Mother and son share bittersweet lottery winNews Story
At his mom's urging, a Manning, South Carolina, man bought a lottery ticket on the anniversary of his father's death. Winning $150,000 was bittersweet. The winner declined to publicize his name but shared he will honor his late father by using the winnings to look after his mother. The aptly named $150 Grand ticket was purchased at the Corner Food Stop on S. Boundary St. in Manning for $5. As of August 19, one top prize of $150,000 remains in the $150 Grand game. Odds of winning the top
Aug 19, 2013, 12:25 pm - Lottery News

Relatives fight over estate of poisoned lottery winnerNews Story
The family of a Chicago businessman who died of cyanide poisoning after winning a $1 million lottery jackpot is disputing a deal he purportedly signed leaving his share of several dry cleaning stores to his wife. In an emergency motion filed Monday in Cook County probate court, the sister of Urooj Khan argued the business assets should be part of his estate and divided equally among his only two heirs Khan's widow, Shabana Ansari, and 17-year-old daughter, Jasmeen, from a previous marriage.
Apr 30, 2013, 7:20 am - Lottery News

Autopsy reveals little about Illinois lottery winner deathNews Story
An autopsy on the exhumed body of an Indian-born lottery winner in the U.S. who was poisoned with cyanide yielded no significant new clues about his death, a medical examiner said Friday. No cyanide was found in Urooj Khan's body tissue but that was most likely because cyanide breaks down quickly, Cook County medical examiner Stephen Cina said. He said nothing significant was found in Khan's stomach. Cina says Khan's death is still considered a homicide because tests on fluids drawn from h
Mar 1, 2013, 2:06 pm - Lottery News