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Who Won the $267M Lottery?News Story
No one has yet to step forward to claim the biggest, single lottery ticket sold in Ohio worth $267 million in this tiny town near the Michigan state line, state lottery officials said on Wednesday. Lottery officials are encouraging the winner to contact a lawyer or financial planner before coming forward publicly to claim the ticket from Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing, spokeswoman Marie Kilbane said at a news conference at Lyons Main Stop, a convenience store in this northwest Ohio town
Mar 2, 2006, 7:57 am - Lottery News

Small Town Speculates On Lottery WinnerNews Story
Facing odds of 176-million-to-one, someone in the Buckeye state bought the winning ticket to Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing, worth more than a quarter of a billion dollars. That winner bought the ticket in the small town of Lyons, Ohio up in Fulton County. It is a farming community with just one stop light in town. Fewer than 600 people live there and now everybody's wondering if their neighbor has won $267 million dollars. The ticket was bought there around noon Tuesday, and al
Mar 2, 2006, 7:09 am - Lottery News

$267 million Mega Millions lottery ticket sold in OhioNews Story
The winning ticket from the $267 million Mega Millions drawing Tuesday night was sold in the northwest Ohio town of Lyons, an Ohio Lottery spokeswoman said. The ticket was purchased at Lyons Main Stop, lottery spokeswoman Marie Kilbane told The Associated Press. Store manager Linda Freeworth said she received the news from a radio station that called about 4:45 a.m. Wednesday. Radio and television reporters arrived soon after for interviews. I've never been a big time winner. People la
Mar 1, 2006, 6:25 am - Lottery News

Ohio couple hits lottery jackpotNews Story
Even before they won a $1 million prize in the Ohio Lottery, Gregory and Shelley West, of Marietta, were winners to their next door neighbor, Edee Starcher. I'm so excited for them. They are perfect neighbors, Starcher said. If Shelley makes a wonderful dessert, she'll bring some over and say, Finish this.' The couple visited Starcher, of 622 Seventh St., Sunday to relay the good news that they had just won one of the 20 prizes of $1 million in the lottery's $200 Million Cash Spectacular insta
Jan 26, 2006, 8:33 am - Lottery News

Ohio woman decides to drop appeal over lottery taxNews Story
An Ohio woman who thought she didn't owe city income tax on lottery money she and her ex-husband received has given up her appeals court case.Tina Marie Rodepouch, of Parkman Road Southwest, had filed an appeal with the 11th District Court of Appeals challenging a Warren Municipal Court decision Sept. 20, 2005, saying she had to pay city taxes on the money.But she has dropped that case and will continue to pay the taxes, said Gregory V. Hicks, Warren's law director. She didn't want to spend any
Jan 19, 2006, 9:30 am - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery's new game three months without jackpot winnerNews Story
The Ohio Lottery's newest game, which replaced Super Lotto Plus in October, has gone three months without a jackpot winner and some players and sellers think the 100-number, bingo-style Lot 'O Play game is too complicated. The game is mind-boggling, Alonzo Adams, 52, of Cleveland, said Friday outside a busy lottery outlet.That's the reaction Elizabeth Bost gets from lottery players from her vantage point at a gift shop in New Paris northwest of Dayton. There's too many numbers, she said.The L
Jan 9, 2006, 7:01 am - Lottery News

Breakfast buddies file suit over lottery ticketNews Story
A Howland, Ohio couple who won $250,000 playing Mega Millions discovered the hard way that money can come between friends.Michael Salcone and his wife, Theresa, of Gretchen Drive have been sued by 10 of Michael Salcone's former breakfast friends at the Elm Road McDonald's after a dispute arose over whose money bought a winning lottery ticket. I'm just astounded, Theresa Salcone said Wednesday when she learned of the suit, filed in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.According to the filing, the
Dec 29, 2005, 10:12 am - Lottery News

Final Ohio Super Lotto Plus drawing SaturdayNews Story
Super Lotto Plus, the Ohio Lottery Commission s in-state lotto game, will be retired after the Saturday, October 8 drawing.There's a twist: if the last jackpot isn't hit, winning players will share in the cash value of the advertised jackpot.Since its debut in 2000, players have shared almost $631 million in prizes, including 76 jackpot-winning tickets through Sept. 24. We've had a good run with Super Lotto Plus, says Ohio Lottery spokesperson Mardele Cohen. Since its beginning on July 15, 200
Oct 6, 2005, 11:18 am - Lottery News

$250,000 lottery prize to be split 11 waysNews Story
A group of 11 employees and customers of a country store on the shores of Lake Erie, Ohio, have won a pretax total of $250,000 playing Mega Millions.Six customers and five employees of Mutach's Food Market at 505 West Main St. at the tip of the Marblehead peninsula together chipped in to purchase 55 plays in the Mega Millions drawing Tuesday.John Klaehn, owner of the small grocery and butcher shop, didn't join in on the winning purchase made that morning at his store. I should have, I wish I w
Sep 15, 2005, 11:39 am - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery planning end for Super Lotto gameNews Story
It's a good bet that the Ohio Lottery's big-money jackpot game won't be around much longer.The lottery is planning to replace Super Lotto Plus, which has existed in various Super Lotto forms since 1987, with another game designed to be different than the 12-state Mega Millions game played in Ohio.The new game, to be called Lot 'O Play, will be available at online sales terminals starting Oct. 9, Tom Hayes, Ohio Lottery director, said Wednesday. Its minimum jackpot will be $1 million and can incr
Aug 18, 2005, 5:51 pm - Lottery News