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Yonkers accountant new lottery millionaireNews Story
This accountant's moving to a new tax bracket. Brian DiCicco, a single, 44-year-old Yonkers accountant, was named yesterday as one of the seven newest New York Lottery millionaires. DiCicco, a regular scratch-off player, won $3 million, the top prize in the $10 Jubilee game. DiCicco, who was presented his oversized check by lottery officials at Tavern on the Green in Manhattan yesterday, said he already was pretty happy on Aug. 18, when he bought the winning ticket at Dan's Tobacco on Yonk
Sep 1, 2006, 9:30 am - Lottery News

Winning lottery tickets unlucky for burglary ringNews Story
Winning lottery tickets turned out not to be so lucky for some burglary suspects. Thanks to an alert clerk who notified police that the winning scratch-off tickets she was asked to cash were stolen, three people have been arrested and two others are being sought in connection with a series of burglaries in Buffalo and Hamburg. One of the suspects has been charged with an Amherst burglary and additional charges are possible. The break-ins occurred in July, including five in one night in Ha
Sep 1, 2006, 8:42 am - Lottery News

Two dads become millionaires, send sons to collegeNews Story
Two new New York Lottery millionaires announced last week have a lot in common; both are from Dutchess County, both are fathers, and both plan to use some of their million to send their son's to college. Sylvester Cuomo of Poughkeepsie is a Union Laborer who buys a few New York Lottery scratch-off tickets every week. On Saturday, August 5th, Cuomo went to his local Getty Gas station bright and early at 6:30 am to pick up his weekly scratch-off tickets. When he started scratching the New York
Sep 1, 2006, 8:09 am - Lottery News

Six NYC residents win millions in New York LotteryNews Story
New York City has six new millionaires, thanks to the New York Lottery. The winners were introduced Thursday at Tavern on the Green in Central Park. Two of the winners are from Manhattan, and four are from Queens. One of the winners, Dae Sung Kang of Kew Gardens, is getting $10,000 a week for life, winning a minimum of $10 million. It was a surprise and I thank God and my family, said Kang. It's just an amazing opportunity right now. l don't think it will change the pers
Sep 1, 2006, 7:30 am - Lottery News

Lottery win is early wedding giftNews Story
New York woman gets scratch-off worth $5,000 a week for life. It was the best wedding gift Ginnie Bogaczyk could have asked for. The Elmira woman, who is engaged to be married Sept. 2, now has more than enough money to pay for the wedding, the honeymoon, a new home just about anything else she can think of. Bogaczyk is the latest winner in the New York Lottery Set For Life scratch-off game. She hit the big time the $5,000 a week top prize when she bought a $10 ticket recently at t
Aug 25, 2006, 9:48 am - Lottery News

Police Need Help Catching Man Who Stole Lottery TicketsNews Story
Detectives in the town of Hamburg, New York, are looking for help solving a burglary. A brazen bandit took off with a bundle of lottery tickets from a Hamburg convenience store. Surveillance video taken at the store may help identify the thief. The target was a corner convenience store in the Town of Hamburg. It happened early Tuesday morning while the Big Tree Road store was closed. Town of Hamburg Police Detective Scott Kashino said, He smashed the first pane of a two-pane glass win
Aug 11, 2006, 4:57 pm - Lottery News

$45M N.Y. Lotto winner bought ticket on impulseNews Story
After she was hit with a hot flash during a late June trip to Brooklyn, 49-year-old Mary Ann Hrywnak ducked into David's Check Cashing to beat the heat and buy a Quick Pick Lotto ticket. It turned out to be a multimillion-dollar decision. Hrywnak's Quick Pick turned out to be a $45 million winner, the New York Lottery announced Tuesday. It's the largest lottery purse ever won by a person from Broome County. The night of the drawing, the Johnson City woman recognized she had a few of the
Aug 2, 2006, 9:16 am - Lottery News

Winner of $45M N.Y. Lotto jackpot to be revealed todayNews Story
A Broome County woman who bought a Lotto ticket in Brooklyn won a $45 million jackpot a county record. The New York Lottery is scheduled to identify the winner this morning. Lottery spokeswoman Jennifer Mauer said the woman bought the ticket June 28 at David's Check Cashing in New York City. The winning numbers were announced the same night. The woman's winnings will eclipse the record $25 million won in 1998 by Binghamton resident William Yonkoski, a carpenter who bought his ticket a
Aug 1, 2006, 8:26 am - Lottery News

GTECH sale closer as more states approveNews Story
The sale of West Greenwich-based GTECH Holdings Corp. to Italian lottery giant Lottomatica SpA this week inched toward completion. Lottomatica said that the state lotteries would continue existing contracts with GTECH, which it plans to buy in a $5 billion deal that would create the world's biggest lottery operator. Lottomatica had asked various U.S. states to confirm that the deal would not hurt existing lottery concessions when it launched the takeover earlier this year. Most states
Jul 28, 2006, 9:48 am - Lottery News

N.Y. lottery jackpot raised to $45 millionNews Story
Biggest N.Y. Lotto jackpot in a year; third-largest in the world There was no first prize winner in Saturday night's New York Lotto drawing, causing the jackpot to rollover to $45 million for Wednesday evening's drawing. The jackpot is currently the third-largest lottery jackpot in the world, and the largest New York Lotto jackpot since a $56 million jackpot was won on July 30, 2005. The winning Lotto numbers for Saturday, June 24, 2006 were 16-20-30-31-35-45, and the Bonus number was 2
Jun 26, 2006, 2:12 pm - Lottery News