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Top House leader balks at plan to use Pa. lottery for tax reliefNews Story
A top Pennsylvania House leader has doubts about a key element of a property tax relief plan, threatening to complicate a legislative panel's efforts to produce an acceptable compromise. House Republican leader Sam Smith, of Punxsutawney, said yesterday he didn't like the idea of transferring about $240 million from the state lottery fund to provide property tax and rent rebates this year for senior citizens. I am not comfortable with borrowing money from the Lottery Fund this year, he t
Apr 25, 2006, 7:27 am - Lottery News

Man charged with forging lottery ticket claims it was a jokeNews Story
A Pennsylvania man charged with forging a winning lottery ticket in October was only playing a joke on a coworker, his defense attorney said today. That joke, attorney Stephen Ellwood said, was merely that (James A. Koons Jr.) wanted someone to find it and think it was real. And that someone Brian Scott Miller, 34, of Pheasant Drive South in North Middleton Township now faces charges after he allegedly found the ticket at the Middlesex Township trucking firm where he worked and tried
Apr 6, 2006, 11:42 am - Lottery News

Penn. woman sues for share of winning lottery ticketNews Story
A New Salem woman wants a Fayette County judge to stop her former roommate from cashing a $1 million winning instant lottery ticket because she believes the money should be shared. In a suit filed by attorney Samuel Davis, Yvonne Evans claimed it was her debit card used to pay for the $20 winning scratch-off ticket on which her roommate Mary Rechichar won the seven-figure prize. Rechichar called Evans from Dan's Marathon Gas Station in Republic, where Rechichar worked, to ask Evans for th
Mar 30, 2006, 2:24 pm - Lottery News

Penn. woman Loses $20,000 In Jamaican Lottery ScamNews Story
A Bethlehem woman was defrauded of nearly $20,000 throughout January after she was led to believe she'd won the Jamaican lottery.Sue Turnback, 68, said a woman calling herself Carrinne Campbell called her Jan. 4, police said. Campbell said Turnback won $2.2 million in the Jamaican lottery but had to mail $1,000 to Jamaica to process the winnings. Turnback sent the money in an international money order the same day. Turnback received another call later from a man calling himself Everett Montaque,
Jan 31, 2006, 7:03 am - Lottery News

Pennsylvania man loses thousands to lottery scamNews Story
Gary Young said he should have known better, but the promise of thousands of dollars clouded his judgment a bit.Now, the North Sewickley Township man is out more than $3,500, the victim of the latest scam to target the region.In a letter dated Dec. 15, from the purported Transmerica POS Prize Pool Lottery, Young was told that he had until Dec. 30 to claim a $50,000 prize. To claim the prize, he had to take a Transmerica check, worth $3,950, and cash it, so that he could wire money to the lottery
Jan 30, 2006, 7:30 am - Lottery News

Lottery millionaire Bud Post diesNews Story
William J. Bud Post, the Venango County man who won millions in the Pennsylvania Lottery and then endured a fortune's worth of troubles, has died.Post, 66, of 249 Grant St., Franklin, died Sunday morning at UPMC Northwest in Seneca.Post became a local celebrity and later gained nationwide notoriety after winning $16.2 million in the lottery in 1988. An extravagant spending spree followed, then Post's life began to unravel.His sixth wife moved out on him, his brother was convicted of trying to
Jan 17, 2006, 7:13 am - Lottery News

Penn. Lottery declares 1st raffle a successNews Story
State lotteries are beginning to learn from the success of El Gordo, a raffle-style game, which is one of the most popular lottery games in the world.The Pennsylvania Lottery had a Merry Christmas again.But this time, aside from the usual seasonal sales peak in instant tickets, thousands of players also took a $20 chance to get in the Lottery's first-ever raffle game: a one-time drawing for a declared set of prizes, with winning numbers drawn specifically from the field of tickets sold.Some $4
Jan 9, 2006, 7:30 am - Lottery News

Penn. Lottery's Raffle Drawing Creates Four New MillionairesNews Story
The Pennsylvania Lottery's Millionaire Raffle game has produced four new millionaires to begin the new year.The selection of four $1 million top-prize raffle tickets and five $100,000 second-prize raffle tickets was televised live on the Lottery's drawing show earlier this evening. Five hundred $1,000 winning raffle tickets also were selected, but were not displayed due to time constraints.The four top-prize winning tickets selected, worth $1 million cash each, were: 00143065, 00168249, 00260928
Jan 2, 2006, 6:24 am - Lottery News

Penn. man strikes it rich with $1M lottery ticketNews Story
Kevin Lutz's lucky number used to be 7 until Christmas Eve and a match of the number 31 made him the second resident near Sayre Borough, Pennsylvania, in two months to win $1 million on a scratch-off ticket.Lutz purchased the winning Merry Millionaire ticket from Carl's Newsstand in Sayre on Christmas Eve, just a short distance from the Dandy Mini Mart in Athens Borough where a Towanda woman purchased a winning $1 million ticket of the same game on Nov. 1.Lutz, owner of the Last Resort Hot
Dec 29, 2005, 8:57 am - Lottery News

Penn. woman wins lottery prize of $1,000 a week for lifeNews Story
Millions of people play the lottery. Some may have a lucky strike and win a couple dollars, or even a couple hundred dollars. But just a handful of scratch-off gamers hit that big prize, and Nancy Guiher can include herself among them.Guiher was recently the winner of the $1,000 a week for life game sponsored by the Pennsylvania Lottery.She is only the 74th person to win this prize since its inception in July 1995.Last Friday, a check presentation ceremony was held for Guiher at the Saltsburg Sh
Dec 9, 2005, 7:48 am - Lottery News