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Georgia court awards Alabama man $1 million lottery winNews Story
This is the tale of a ticket a lottery ticket, that is. It began on a February day in 2013 and it ended last week in an Atlanta courtroom, leaving an Alabama man $1 million richer. Gadsden attorneys Jack Floyd and John Floyd represented Attalla retiree Larry Payne when a Gadsden woman claimed a winning lottery ticket belonged to her. Jack Floyd recounted details of the case. Larry's hobby is restoring old vehicles. On Feb. 13, 2015, he and his cousin, Jimmy Payne, went to Jasper, Tennessee
Jul 31, 2017, 9:33 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner gets 21 years for financing drug trafficking operationNews Story
Ronnie Music Jr., a Waycross, Georgia man who sank part of $3 million in lottery winnings into methamphetamine trafficking, will spend the next 21 years in prison on drug conspiracy and firearms charges. Last July, the 46-year-old Music admitted his involvement in multi-state drug trafficking, including a ring being run from a Georgia prison that he fronted with lottery winnings. He also pleaded guilty to being a convicted felon in possession of firearms. (See Lottery winner invested $3M i
Apr 4, 2017, 5:28 pm - Lottery News

Judge rules whistleblower suit against Georgia Lottery can go forwardNews Story
A whistleblower lawsuit claiming a Georgia Lottery executive was fired after refusing to support inflated sales projections should go to trial, a Fulton County Superior Court judge decided this week. Kenneth Knight, former vice president for financial management at the Georgia Lottery, argued that he was pressured by Lottery President Debbie Alford and his boss to present the lottery board with flawed sales projections in April 2014. Knight says in the lawsuit that he told his boss about prob
Mar 22, 2017, 9:13 am - Lottery News

Georgia Lottery to add extra Cash 3, Cash 4 drawingsNews Story
By Todd Northrop Georgia Lottery daily numbers games players will get extra opportunities to play every day starting Sunday. Beginning on Feb. 12, the Georgia Lottery is adding an additional Cash 3 drawing late at night, and an extra Cash 4 drawing in the early evening. The new drawings mean that a total of three Cash 3 and Cash 4 drawings will be held every day, at the same times. The current drawing schedule is a bit odd, with Cash 3 and Cash 4 both holding a midday drawing at 12:29 p
Feb 10, 2017, 11:49 am - Lottery News

Woman finds $100,000 lottery ticket while cleaningNews Story
South Carolina Lottery officials say a Georgia woman found a winning Powerball ticket in a stack of old tickets. The discovery was made while cleaning. The winning ticket was purchased last September in Simpsonville, South Carolina. Officials said in a news release that the woman was visiting family in the Upstate when she bought the winning ticket at Mit Food Mart on West Georgia Road. My New Year's resolution was to not let stuff pile up, she said. The ticket is worth $100,000. Along
Feb 1, 2017, 2:55 pm - Lottery News

$83M Mega Millions jackpot claimed in GeorgiaNews Story
Winners' identities cloaked by legal entity By Todd Northrop It took some time, but the winners of an $83 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot have stepped up and claimed their prize using a legal framework to avoid revealing their identities. In November, the Mega Millions lottery announced that a winning ticket had been bought from Georgia. To be exact, the ticket was purchased from the White Water Chevron at 334 Cobb Parkway in Marietta. Two months later, the winners have come fo
Jan 24, 2017, 7:22 pm - Lottery News

Georgia Gov. to support casino bill if lottery not impactedNews Story
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal said Tuesday he won't oppose legislation that would legalize casino gambling as long as it doesn't devastate the state's popular lottery-funded HOPE scholarship program. We need to be absolutely certain that if a casino bill passes, it doesn't adversely impact a lottery program for the state, he said. That is the first big marker to make sure that we don't devastate what is probably perceived as the most successful lottery program in the country. The governor
Jan 24, 2017, 12:59 pm - Lottery News

State audit questions Georgia Lottery business practices despite record profits to educationNews Story
Georgia sells more lottery tickets per capita than all but one other state lottery, according to a state audit of the Georgia Lottery Corporation, the quasi-governmental agency that runs it. But a steadily declining portion of lottery revenues flow back to the education programs the lottery is required by law to fund, and the corporation that runs the lottery needs to reform its business practices, according to auditors in the Performance Audit Division of the Georgia Department of Audits and
Jan 2, 2017, 5:31 pm - Lottery News

Retiree claims $7.5M Georgia Mega Millions prizeNews Story
Christina Ford of Dallas, Georgia, came forward Tuesday as the winner of Georgia's unclaimed $7,500,000 Mega Millions prize. She was one of two winners to split a $15 million jackpot July 22. Winning numbers for the July 22 Mega Millions drawing were 8, 24, 25, 26, and 30, with Mega Ball number 7. Ford played using the Quik Pik option and was in disbelief when she saw the winning numbers drawn on television. I thought it was a dream, she said. I kept saying, 'Yeah, right. This can't be
Oct 25, 2016, 6:18 pm - Lottery News

Georgia Lottery looking for $7.5M Mega Millions winnerNews Story
Georgia Lottery officials are trying to solve the case of the missing millionaire. Half of a $15 million jackpot won in Georgia remains unclaimed. The outstanding ticket, worth approximately $7.5 million, is one of two that split the July 22 Mega Millions jackpot prize. Kroger #0634, located at 8876 Dallas Acworth Highway in Dallas, sold the lucky ticket. The second ticket that shared the jackpot prize was purchased in Virginia. Georgia winners have 180 days from the draw date to claim
Oct 18, 2016, 11:41 am - Lottery News