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Professional lottery player wins tax disputeNews Story
Big winnings, tiny taxes Several times a week, Clarance W. Jones does something most people can only dream of: He cashes in bunches of winning lottery tickets. And even better, he has found a way to pay barely any taxes on the massive take. Over the past decade, the 73-year-old from Lynn has redeemed more than 10,000 tickets from the state lottery more than any other person worth a total of more than $18 million. He has also long fought efforts by the state to collect considerable ta
Nov 5, 2011, 9:45 am - Lottery News

Mass. Lottery game was sure-thing for a few groupsNews Story
Massachusetts Lottery officials this summer said they were surprised to learn that a handful of high-stakes gamblers had taken over one of their $2 games, with just three groups of bettors accounting for most of the winning tickets statewide at certain times. The lottery disciplined two sales agents who allowed the high-rollers to run the ticket machines themselves and announced new rules to limit the dominance of sophisticated bettors. But the Globe has found that lottery managers for years
Oct 16, 2011, 3:10 pm - Lottery News

San Diego ranked luckiest town in U.S.News Story
San Diego, which has been touted as having one of the best climates in the United States, is also the luckiest, according to a new ranking. The sunny southern California city won the top spot in the Men's Health magazine list of America's 100 luckiest towns, with Baltimore, Phoenix, Wilmington in Delaware and Richmond, Virginia not far behind. Luck is basically our modern world's magic, said David Zinczenko, editor in chief of the magazine. People need to believe in luck because it allows
Oct 14, 2011, 8:54 am - Lottery News

Would-be lottery winner to get new roofNews Story
Includes video report Parlier, California, resident Elida Betancourt isn't going to get the $54 million she thought she won in this week's lottery when her newspaper printed the wrong winning numbers. But she will get something. After hearing about Betancourt's illusive brush with fortune, two local businessmen have stepped up to give the 69-year-old Betancourt the first thing she had planned to spend her apparent Mega Millions jackpot on: a new roof. Because I own a roofing company an
Sep 21, 2011, 10:56 am - Lottery News

Maryland woman's winning lottery ticket mistakeNews Story
Includes video report Many of us have had the dream. We've imagined what it would be like to have a winning lottery ticket in hand. A Maryland woman thought she was getting just a little taste of that dream. But it turned out it was all a mistake. You see, Donna Allen loves to play the lottery. She checks the numbers right after the drawing. Saturday night, just like any other night, I checked at ten after 8pm and it said 4157, says Allen. It appeared she had a winning ticket for
Sep 21, 2011, 10:34 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner hits back at school bulliesNews Story
Charmaine Watson makes an unlikely theatrical impresario. At the age of 31, she lives in a modest home in Eynsham, a backwater of Oxfordshire. Yet this year the quietly spoken woman, who has never been abroad, has decided to step into the backstage world of the musicals she has always loved. Watson's daring move has been made possible by a large lottery win that has given her a new purpose in life. A victim of sustained bullying during her school days, Watson is now using a large chunk of the
Sep 19, 2011, 10:46 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner says job, not money, helped cancer fightNews Story
Despite winning the lottery two years ago, Nicky Cusack can still be found down the aisles of the store where she works and still buys a ticket every week. Hard-working Nicky Cusack, 46, was battling breast cancer when she won a 2.49 million (US$3.9 million) UK Lotto jackpot in 2009 and says the thought of returning to work kept her going through her darkest days. After finishing chemotherapy and radiotherapy she returned to her job at Asda in Swindon., Wilts., where she earns just above m
Sep 15, 2011, 8:30 am - Lottery News

Opinion: Powerball winners will lose big if they go publicNews Story
There must be 109 million ways to ruin your life after finding out you won Powerball. But the most critical decision comes quickly, after about the fourth or fifth time you check the numbers. To go public or not? To grip a check the size of a Charlie Sheen poster for the cameras? Or to hide your good fortune from an admiring and envious world? We've heard from a couple who say they own the $109 million Powerball ticket sold in Abingdon last week, says Carole Everett, spokeswoman for the M
Sep 13, 2011, 11:49 am - Lottery News

UK Lottery 'Millionaire Map' obtainedNews Story
By Todd Northrop In the category of 'better late than never', UK National Lottery operator Camelot has forwarded a copy of the Millionaire Map to Lottery Post for review. Happily, this reporter can verify that the numbers of millionaires reported by the lottery in their previous statements accurately mirrors the information displayed on the Millionaire Map, although the public may be skeptical of the ability to locate 'lucky stores' based on the rough geography depicted in the map. A UK
Sep 13, 2011, 7:53 am - Lottery News

UK Lottery announces 'Millionaire Map'... but doesn't reveal the mapNews Story
Where's the map? By Todd Northrop In a confounding twist of logic and reason, the UK National Lottery announced the creation of a 'Millionaire Map' that plots the number of winners in each region, but did not publish the map. According to the UK Press Association (UKPA), the so-called 'Millionaire Map' plots the locations for all 2,715 millionaires created by the lottery since 1994. The North East of England and Wales are the two top locations. The UK National Lottery or its operator
Sep 12, 2011, 11:51 am - Lottery News