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Unclaimed $110,000 Michigan lottery ticket expires MondayNews Story
If you play the Michigan lottery and pass through St. Johns, check your glove compartment, your old pants pockets, your dresser drawers. A Fantasy 5 ticket worth $110,000 expires at 4:45 p.m. Monday. Find it today and you get $78,210 after taxes. Find it Tuesday and you get zilch. The ticket, with numbers 3, 5, 16, 23 and 28, was sold July 29, 2005, at Beck's Country Market gas station, 7525 N. U.S. 27. We're telling all our regular players to look through their stuff, manager B
Jul 28, 2006, 7:05 am - Lottery News

Oklahoma lottery winners not in a hurry to claim prizesNews Story
Oklahoma retailers have sold winning lottery tickets totaling nearly $110 million, but ten winners have yet to claim more than $102 million in prizes. News on 6 anchor Tami Marler explains why they might be waiting to come forward. You're 33 times more likely to be killed by a bolt of lightening than win a Powerball jackpot, but just five months into Oklahoma's participation in the 31-state lottery, a Broken Arrow Quik Trip sold a winning ticket worth $101.8-million. It's not Oklahom
Jun 29, 2006, 12:00 pm - Lottery News

Unclaimed $800,000 Powerball Lottery Ticket Expires TodayNews Story
Today is the last day left in the life of an $800,000 Powerball ticket that was sold last December in Memphis, Tennessee. As with all of the Tennessee Lottery's numbers-pick games, players have 180 days from the date of the drawing to claim their prize. Since the ticket was purchased for the Dec. 10, 2005 drawing, the ticket expires on Friday. The Lottery encourages players who purchased a ticket for that drawing to check their pockets, keepsake boxes, mattresses, to be sure their tic
Jun 9, 2006, 9:15 am - Lottery News

$853,492 Powerball lottery ticket expiresNews Story
One of two second-place lottery tickets worth a combined $1.7 million expired Monday, 180 days after a record Powerball lottery jackpot was drawn. Sara Westerman, a spokeswoman for the Kentucky Lottery, said no one claimed the ticket sold in that state by the 5 p.m. deadline. The other ticket was sold in Colorado, where the holder had until midnight MT to claim the prize. All day people came to talk about the ticket where it had been sold at the Hebron BP in Hebron, Ky., said Rahul Pate
Apr 19, 2006, 8:24 am - Lottery News

Man claims Powerball lottery prize just before it was due to expireNews Story
With only two hours left, Jose Luis Martinez of Roswell walked into New Mexico Lottery headquarters and claimed a $200,000 Powerball prize that was about to expire. Martinez told lottery officials that he had carried the ticket in his wallet the entire 90 days, but never got around to checking it. The deadline, 90 days from the date of the January 7, 2006, drawing, would have been April 7, at 4:30 pm, when the Lottery's claim center closed for the weekend. Two days ago, Martinez and his
Apr 8, 2006, 10:21 am - Lottery News

$200,000 N.M. Powerball lottery ticket expiresNews Story
A $200,000 winning Powerball lottery ticket sold in New Mexico expired today, without anyone stepping forward to rightfully claim the prize. That is not to say that the New Mexico Lottery did not hear from several people claiming to be holding the winning ticket. The calls received by lottery headquarters included one person who said she was on her way. New Mexico Lottery officials explained that this type of fraudulent claim is the key reason that most U.S. lotteries won't confirm that
Mar 10, 2006, 10:46 pm - Lottery News

$200,000 N.M. Powerball lottery ticket expires FridayNews Story
Time is running out for the New Mexico Lottery player who may hold a Powerball second prize ticket worth $200,000. The deadline for presenting the winning ticket is tomorrow (Friday), 90 days after the drawing. The Lottery's claim center closes at 4:30 pm. An Albuquerque-area lottery retailer sold the ticket for the December 10, 2005, drawing. It is not known if the ticket purchaser lives in Albuquerque, elsewhere in New Mexico or another state. Powerball players win $200,000 by matchin
Mar 9, 2006, 3:36 pm - Lottery News

£9.4 million lottery jackpot expiresNews Story
A 9.4 million (US$16.2 million) UK National Lottery jackpot is going to good causes after the mystery winner failed to come forward by the deadline.The 180-day limit for claiming the 9,476,995 Lotto prize expired at 5:30 last night.It is the largest amount to go unclaimed since the National Lottery started over 11 years ago.The ticket was bought in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, and Lottery organizers Camelot have made a concerted effort to alert people in the area about the missing winner.Now, t
Jan 3, 2006, 6:37 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner has just 4 days left to claim $16 millionNews Story
A UK Lotto multi-millionaire has just four days left to claim 9.4 million (US$16 million).UK National Lottery Operator Camelot yesterday appealed to the unknown jackpot winner to come forward to join the 125 new lotto millionaires created this year.The winning ticket, bought in July, bears the numbers 3, 12, 17, 36, 44 and 49.But if it is not presented to Camelot by 5:30 pm on January 2, the prize and interest of 211,000 (US$363,100) will be passed on to the Lottery's good causes fund.It i
Dec 29, 2005, 8:24 am - Lottery News

$6 million in Illinois lottery prizes unclaimedNews Story
If you are a regular player of the Illinois Lottery's Mega Millions or Little Lotto games, your winning ticket may be right under your nose. Or in a coat pocket in the hall closet. Or being used as a bookmark in a novel.More than $6 million in prize money sits unclaimed the largest being a $900,000 Little Lotto jackpot drawn Oct. 2. The winning ticket was purchased at Dempster Mobil, 4002 Dempster in Skokie, with the numbers 3-14-22-24-34.While all of this year's Lotto and instant tickets have
Dec 26, 2005, 8:11 am - Lottery News