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Ohio Lottery reports record salesNews Story
The Ohio Lottery says it's on a roll, with the introduction of Powerball helping the agency post another year of record sales. Officials say the lottery enjoyed $2.48 billion in sales during the fiscal year that ended Wednesday, up from $2.42 billion in the previous fiscal year. Sales grew for the ninth straight year. The lottery says it has poured $728.6 in annual profits into a state education fund. Officials say that's the second largest profit transfer in the lottery's 36-year hi
Jul 5, 2010, 6:16 am - Lottery News

Lottery winners get their checks, keep working at plantNews Story
A year ago, William Shanteau and his 13 co-workers at a Detroit auto plant were worried their jobs could be gone at any moment. Now they're all millionaires after winning a share of last week's $96.9 million Powerball drawing. Most of the group from the paint shop at a Chrysler plant that makes Jeep Grand Cherokees plans to keep working, Shanteau said Thursday after working a 12-hour shift. It's like family, he said, adding that at least two of the jackpot winners plan to retire, and h
Jul 2, 2010, 9:42 am - Lottery News

Michigan workers claim Mega Millions, Powerball lottery jackpotsNews Story
Call it a jackpot bonanza. Factory workers in Detroit and Kalamazoo are winners of multimillion-dollar lottery prizes. Fourteen workers called the Lucky 13 Plus One lottery club at the Chrysler plant in Detroit that makes the Dodge Viper will share in last week's $96.6 million Powerball pot, while five workers at a Kalamazoo factory will share $36 million in the Mega Millions drawing. Bells and whistles went off, said William Shanteau, when he took the winning ticket to Shirley's Carry
Jun 29, 2010, 8:39 am - Lottery News

Lottery mistake wins Ohio store clerk $250,000News Story
An Ohio store clerk's mistake when printing a Mega Millions lottery ticket has won her $250,000. Naomi Mauller, a clerk at Woolfe's Huff Puff on Main Street in New Lexington, Ohio, forgot to add an extra Kicker game to a customer's lottery ticket on Tuesday night, so she printed a new ticket and bought her $2 mistake. Both her ticket and its twin hit, raking in $250,000 for each winner. You can't cancel the Mega Millions ticket, said Mauller, 51, a resident of New Lexington in Perry Count
Jun 28, 2010, 7:41 am - Lottery News

After ripping up lottery ticket, Montana pair claim $48.5M share of Powerball jackpotNews Story
Six lucky numbers turned into a life-changing, eight-figure payout for a pair of Helenans who Thursday discovered their share of a Powerball lotto jackpot will be some $48.5 million. Kim Claassen, 55, and 23-year-old Joe Lamport Jr. have worked together at North West Home Health Care for several years, and over that time have intermittently purchased lottery tickets together with the understanding that they would split any winnings. Wednesday night, Claassen stopped at the Town Pump on North
Jun 25, 2010, 12:45 am - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery celebrates second Powerball jackpot in JuneNews Story
Another winning ticket from Montana will split jackpot On the heels of its first jackpot-winning Powerball draw, the Ohio Lottery has already sold its second jackpot-winning Powerball ticket. The winning ticket was sold at Shirley's Carryout in Curtice, near Toledo. Ohio Lottery officials traveled to the store location Thursday morning to present store owners with a $48,500 retailer bonus check for selling the winning ticket. The $97 million jackpot will be split with another winning ti
Jun 24, 2010, 10:12 am - Lottery News

Two big Penn. Lottery prizes due to expire July 4News Story
Unclaimed winning tickets were sold in Westmoreland and Montgomery counties Two Pennsylvania Lottery winning tickets a Powerball ticket worth $200,000 and a Quinto evening ticket worth $50,000 from the July 4, 2009, drawings have yet to be presented for payment. The tickets and prizes will expire on July 4, one year from the date of the drawings. The Lottery never likes to see large prizes like these expire, which is why we're reaching out and hoping someone steps forward to claim them
Jun 22, 2010, 3:58 pm - Lottery News

Kalamazoo mart customer holds $36M lottery ticketNews Story
A regular lottery customer of a gas station market in Kalamazoo, Mich., holds the winning Mega Millions ticket for a $36 million jackpot, the store owner said Monday. Citgo One Stop Mart owner Kaushik Patel said his southwest Michigan store sold the winning ticket last week in Friday night's multistate game drawing. Patel said the man, who hasn't been identified, came to the store Saturday to check his tickets but the machine didn't process. He went home, checked online and discovered his
Jun 16, 2010, 10:51 am - Lottery News

Error caused S.D. Lottery to suspend Wild Card validationsNews Story
The South Dakota Lottery temporarily halted validations for Wild Card 2 lotto tickets for the June 9 drawing to correct an error with the winning numbers. An incorrect Wild Card was inadvertently entered into the system after the draw. The winning numbers for that drawing were 4, 5, 9, 15 and 21 and the Wild Card King of Diamonds. The Wild Card was initially incorrectly entered as the Jack of Diamonds. The error was discovered Thursday afternoon by the Lottery, and all validations were sto
Jun 13, 2010, 8:54 am - Lottery News

$1 million Powerball winner arrestedNews Story
A Marshalltown, Iowa, man who won $1 million in the Powerball lottery last year has been charged with supplying alcohol to a minor and prescription drug possession. Marshalltown Police Assistant Chief Brian Batterson says Ricky Rushton was arrested early Tuesday after officers responded to a complaint about underage drinking at his business, Memories Banquet Hall. Batterson says Wednesday that officers found an underage employee at the business who was intoxicated. Rushton was arrested
Jun 9, 2010, 6:59 pm - Lottery News