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Store owner jailed one year for stealing $5.7M lottery ticketNews Story
A former convenience store owner who cheated a customer out of a $5.7 million lottery ticket has been sentenced to a year in jail. Hafiz Malik, 63, sat quietly as Ontario provincial court Justice Rebecca Shamai pronounced sentence Tuesday at Old City Hall courthouse in downtown Toronto. Dressed in a black T-shirt and grey slacks, the white-haired Malik listened intently to the judge's reasons. In December, Malik had pleaded to fraud. He admitted to tricking a customer, Lorraine Teich
Jun 16, 2010, 9:31 am - Lottery News

Nick of time: N.Z. man claims lottery prize 1 day before expirationNews Story
Talk about cutting it close. A man in Auckland, New Zealand claimed his lottery prize of $391,581 just 24 hours before the ticket would have expired. He had kept the ticket in a drawer a year ago and forgotten about it. The first division winning ticket was sold 12 months ago in Ponsonby. As far as we're aware this is the first time a major prize has been claimed the day before its expiry date. If the winner had waited another day he would have unfortunately received nothing, Fox Ne
Apr 20, 2010, 10:11 am - Lottery News

Masked Israeli lottery winners collect country's biggest jackpotNews Story
An Israeli couple finally picked up the country's biggest ever lottery jackpot three months after they won, and they wore masks to hide their faces from the public. The couple are determined to keep their identities protected, but they still agreed to take part in the prize-giving ceremony in front of television cameras and newspaper reporters. Before stepping into the glare, they donned big red cardboard masks. The disguise failed to hide the man's bald patch but the woman wore a huge bla
Apr 14, 2010, 8:47 am - Lottery News

Irish Lottery jackpot up to €15m for tonight's drawNews Story
Cash-strapped workers tired of the economic doom and gloom will be rushing to pick up their Ireland Lotto ticket today with tonight's jackpot approaching a cool 15 million (US$20 million). The life-changing jackpot has been rolling since March 10 and this draw will be the ninth since it began. The bumper pot includes 4m from the unclaimed prize fund, which holds on to money that was never picked up by winners. More than 2m from this fund was added into the jackpot on St Patrick's Day, a
Apr 10, 2010, 2:10 pm - Lottery News

Bus driver wins £2m lottery jackpot three months after divorceNews Story
It was an amicable divorce and Helen Halstead was happy to wish her former husband the very best of luck for the future. She couldn't have imagined how quickly that wish would be fulfilled. Just weeks after their split, bus driver Kevin Halstead won 2.3 million (US$3.5 million) playing the Lottery. His ex-wife is now coming to terms with the fact that, but for the divorce, Mr. Halstead might have been legally obliged to share his windfall with her. Instead, she is making do with her
Mar 18, 2010, 8:24 am - Lottery News

Tatts Group buys New South Wales lottery for A$850mNews Story
The state government of New South Wales has sold its lotteries business to Tatts Group for A$850m (US$764m) after an auction process that attracted both Australian and international bidders. The total proceeds of the sale will exceed A$1bn after A$160m of cash and other assets from NSW Lotteries are transferred to the government. Melbourne-based Tatts, which operates lottery businesses in three Australian states and two territories, faced competition from a consortium led by Ontario Teachers'
Mar 3, 2010, 9:15 am - Lottery News

Bad news for record S. African lottery "winner"News Story
A deaf South African cleaner besieged by begging relatives after a newspaper reported he had scooped a 91 million rand (US$12 million) lottery jackpot was not the winner, the draw's organizers said on Tuesday. National Lottery spokeswoman Thembi Tulwana said the real winner of Friday's South Africa PowerBall draw was an unnamed 43-year-old woman, and not 52-year-old Stanley Philander, a Cape Town hardware store cleaner reported to have carried off the record rollover prize. Tulwana said Ph
Feb 17, 2010, 8:32 am - Lottery News

Confucius lottery tickets draw ireNews Story
Confucius, the ancient Chinese philosopher who prodded his fellow countrymen to seek their fortunes in a decent manner, would now find his portraits and sermons printed on lottery tickets, the only form of gambling allowed by the Chinese government. Late last month, lottery stands in east China's Shandong province began selling Confucius-themed tickets that carry a top prize of 300,000 yuan ($44,000). But the tickets have drawn ire from netizens and columnists who claim that putting Confuc
Feb 3, 2010, 8:57 am - Lottery News

One winner in Israel's largest-ever lottery drawingNews Story
7 million tickets were purchased for the largest cash prize in Israel's lottery history but only one person won, taking the first prize of NIS 74 million (US$19.5 million). The jackpot was the result of 22 consecutive weeks without a winner. After taxes are cleared, the winner will go home with a cool NIS 55.5 million, getting into 2010 with a wide grin on his or her face. As of Monday morning, the prize winner had not come forward to collect the prize check. The previous high winner wa
Dec 28, 2009, 4:18 pm - Lottery News

El Gordo lottery awards more than $3 billionNews Story
Spain's Christmas lottery showered hundreds of thousand of euros in prize money on the country's capital Tuesday. The top prize of the lottery, ranked among the world's richest, went to holders of tickets bearing the number 78294. The number appears on 1,950 tickets, and each holder stood to win euro300,000 ($430,000). Organizers said the tickets bearing that number were sold in a lottery office in the central Madrid area of Cuatro Caminos. Two of the lucky ticket holders were immigrant
Dec 24, 2009, 2:51 pm - Lottery News