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8 people to split $429.6 million Powerball lottery jackpot in NJNews Story
The New Jersey Lottery has announced a press conference will be held at their headquarters Friday afternoon to introduce the winners of last week's Powerball. The press conference will be held at 3:00 p.m. The announcement comes a little less than a week after a winning Powerball ticket was sold at a 7-11 store in Trenton, New Jersey. Eight winners will be shareholders of that $429.6 million Powerball jackpot. Only one ticket matched all six Powerball numbers in Saturday night's drawing
May 13, 2016, 10:58 am - Lottery News

Which lottery games do N.J. residents spend the most money on?News Story
While Powerball and Mega Millions capture the public's attention when their jackpots soar into the hundreds of millions, it's other lottery games that pay the freight in New Jersey. During fiscal year 2015, the New Jersey Lottery sold more than $1.7 billion in scratch-off tickets, which accounted for about 57 percent of the roughly $3 billion the lottery generated last year. Mega Millions and Powerball, tickets for which are sold across the country, combined make up less than 11 percent of
May 13, 2016, 8:25 am - Lottery News

Police track down burglary suspects by tracing stolen lottery ticketsNews Story
Police identified two New Jersey men who they say were caught on surveillance video stealing lottery tickets and jewelry from a home in Upper Pittsgrove Township last month. The two suspects, identified as Joshua Robinson, 32, of Deptford, New Jersey and Eric Gilch, 28, of Blackwood, New Jersey broke into a home in Upper Pittsgrove back on April 12, according to investigators. The men encountered the family's dogs and started scouring the home until the homeowner noticed the men on surveillan
May 10, 2016, 10:56 am - Lottery News

One New Jersey lottery player wins $429.6 million Powerball jackpotNews Story
By Todd Northrop It will be a Mother's Day unlike any other for one lucky New Jersey household. One winning ticket purchased in New Jersey matched the numbers drawn on Saturday night for the multi-state Powerball jackpot for a payout estimated at $429.6 million, the eighth-largest U.S. lottery prize in history. The winning numbers selected at 10:59 p.m. EDT were 5, 25, 26, 44, and 66, with Powerball number 9. The Power Play multiplier was 2. According to New Jersey Lottery officials,
May 8, 2016, 8:58 am - Lottery News

NJ-based company exposed for making dubious claims about beating lotteryNews Story
Would you pay for lottery numbers from a stranger who claims they have a secret way to beat the lottery? If you answered yes to that question, maybe now you'll reconsider that position. A New Jersey man who claims to have a sure-fire way to beat the lottery couldn't back up those claims, and now he has refunded all his customers in Iowa and will no longer be conducting business in the state. Iowa Attorney General spokesperson, Geoff Greenwood, says they got a tip on the schemes pushed by S
Apr 8, 2016, 8:40 am - Lottery News

NJ Lottery holds annual second-chance drawingNews Story
The New Jersey Lottery held the Grand Prize Drawing of the 2015 Million Dollar Replay program with more than 100 semi-finalists and their guests in attendance at the War Memorial in Trenton. The Million Dollar Replay program is the final drawing event held each year to award huge prizes to holders of non-winning New Jersey Lottery tickets. The excitement and anticipation in the room was palpable as attendees hoped their name would be drawn as the next New Jersey Lottery millionaire or reci
Feb 12, 2016, 7:33 pm - Lottery News

Lucky NJ man wins third major lottery prizeNews Story
The start of the New Year appears to be a lucky time for Mike Ducker. In the last week of December 2013, the year he started playing the lottery, he won $20,000 on a 20X Cash scratch-off ticket. Then just a couple weeks later, in January 2014, he claimed another $20,000 playing the same game. But those cash prizes pale in comparison to the $200,000 he recently won playing the $500 Frenzy game. On Tuesday, Carole Hedinger, executive director of the New Jersey Lottery, presented Ducker, a Br
Jan 20, 2016, 8:09 am - Lottery News

NJ man goes on 10-store, 900-ticket lotto theft spreeNews Story
An alleged lottery ticket thief was not lucky enough to get away with stealing 900 New Jersey Lottery tickets, let alone hit the potential $5 million jackpot, according to police. An investigation led police to arrest Andrew Miller, 20, of Scotch Plains, on Monday, and charge him with a slew of ticket thefts, said Springfield Township Det. Lt. Judd Levenson, the department's spokesman. Miller was found in Scotch Plains on Monday at 12:30 p.m. after Springfield police determined he had sto
Nov 17, 2015, 3:25 pm - Lottery News

NJ Gov. vetoes bill that would allow lottery ticket home deliveryNews Story
New Jerseyans won't be able to have lottery tickets delivered to their door any time soon. Gov. Chris Christie on Monday vetoed a bill that would have allowed the operation of lottery courier services in the state. Under the measure, the services would have been able to collect a fee and redeem tickets for customers, but they would not have been allowed to take a portion of any winnings. (See Lottery tickets could soon be delivered to your home in N.J., Lottery Post, Mar. 3, 2015.) Sti
Nov 10, 2015, 8:27 am - Lottery News

Five friends win lottery after a decade of buying tickets togetherNews Story
Money won't be an issue for five friends from Yonkers anymore. A decade of buying lottery tickets together paid off big for the group of pals who hit the $106 million jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions game on Sept. 11. It was 52-year-old limo driver Edgar Lopez's turn to pick up the tickets so he stopped at Yonkers Grocery and Convenience to grab a Mega Millions quick pick. The following weekend, he got his friends together to share some big news they were all millionaires. I
Oct 29, 2015, 1:52 pm - Lottery News