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WOW, TALK ABOUT ADDICTION: Woman stole $2.3M to buy lottery ticketsNews Story
This is not the kind of jackpot one Long Island woman probably had in mind. The former bookkeeper for a doctors' office pleaded guilty Wednesday to second-degree grand larceny, admitting she stole more than $2.3 million that she used to buy lottery tickets. Prosecutors, who described the bookkeeper as having a gambling addiction, said the woman spent as much as $6,000 a day playing various lotto and scratch-off lottery games. She spent most of it to feed her pathological addiction, said
Aug 23, 2006, 3:35 pm - Lottery News

Transsexual lottery winner regrets paying for gender reassignmentNews Story
A transsexual who came to prominence in 2003 for funding her sex-change operation from a UK National Lottery win has revealed to her local newspaper that she now regrets paying 21,000 (US$40,000) for the procedure. Mick Parltrow, then a 52-year-old lorry driver, won 250,000 (US$480,000) and travelled to Thailand for the operation. Although she does not regret changing sex, Melanie feels the lottery win was no blessing. After the operation, Melanie returned to work, but problems at home
Aug 11, 2006, 3:06 pm - Lottery News

Woman, dad win lottery's three top prizes on same numbersNews Story
W.V. woman wins jackpot for record third time A Weirton, West Virginia, woman and her father won a total of $75,000 by claiming the three top prizes in the Cash 25 lottery game on July 4 but neither of them knew the other one was playing. Charity Guiddy claimed two $25,000 prizes, using a set of family birth dates. About five years ago, using a different set of numbers, she won the top prize as well. West Virginia Lottery spokeswoman Nancy Bulla says this is the first time the sam
Jul 13, 2006, 10:00 am - Lottery News

Granny's dream advice helps man win lotteryNews Story
A Malaysian won 42,500 ringgit ($11,580) in a lottery by playing a four-digit number his dead grandmother had given him in a dream, a newspaper reported Saturday. But luck soon ran out for mechanic Tan Tay Seck, who had bought two tickets with the 6064 combination he received from the apparition, the Star newspaper reported. A thief stole the wallet with the second winning ticket and the lottery company refused to pay up without it.
Jul 4, 2006, 7:20 am - Lottery News

"666" is hot with Maryland Lottery playersNews Story
Yesterday's date inspired a popular Pick 3 lottery combination: 666. But not for long. The Maryland State Lottery stopped selling midday and evening Pick 3 tickets with that combination late yesterday morning, according to Buddy W. Roogow, the lottery's director. The agency cuts off play when the state's liability on a payout reaches $7 million. Other sold-out combinations? 066, 660, 6666, 6606, 6066 for the evening drawings. All were variations of June 6, 2006 - a date that represen
Jun 7, 2006, 8:42 am - Lottery News

Kentucky Lottery's "666" numbers sell outNews Story
The number sequence 6-6-6 is seldom associated with luck, but Kentucky lottery players appear optimistic. Thousands of hopeful players quickly snatched up the 10,000 available Pick 3 tickets with the numbers 6-6-6 for today's midday drawing at 1:20 p.m., lottery spokesman Chip Polston said. The 10,000 available tickets for the 11 p.m. drawing were expected to be sold by early afternoon. Pick 4 tickets with the numbers 6-6-0-6 as many as 800 can be sold for both the midday and evening dra
Jun 6, 2006, 6:02 pm - Lottery News

S.C. Lottery Stops Selling Number "666"News Story
The South Carolina Educational Lottery has stopped selling tickets Tuesday with combiations with 666 in it. That means no more 6-6-6, 6-6-0-6, and 6-6-6-6. Tuesday is of course June 6, 2006 or 06/06/06, if you're so inclined. And apparently, a lot of people are. Lottery officials say they've reached their liability on selling the above numbers, meaning they wouldn't be able to pay out all the winners if those numbers should be drawn. The lottery says they have a $3.5 million cap on P
Jun 6, 2006, 5:59 pm - Lottery News

Iraq war veteran is a hero yet againNews Story
A U.S. soldier and his girlfriend found a winning lottery ticket on the ground at a convenience store Monday and turned it in to police, who were able to find its owner a $2,500 winner with no idea her lucky ticket was missing. Sgt. Edward Boniberger and Marnie Hall found the ticket in a plastic case at a store, Suffolk County Police said. They tried to find the woman who had signed it, but when they could not, they took it to a police station. Detectives then located Mary Ann Doerrbecke
May 31, 2006, 10:39 am - Lottery News

Incredible coincidence: Two Fort Drum reservists hit lottery jackpotsNews Story
Two families from the same upstate New York community and with ties to the U.S. Army's Fort Drum are the state's newest instant millionaires. The winners of the two $1 million scratch-off games are from Carthage in Jefferson County, lottery officials said Thursday. This is unprecedented, said Jennifer Mauer, a lottery spokeswoman. These are the first two Carthage winners we've ever had. It's completely random, so anything can happen. Wendy and Donald Childers bought the winning $
May 25, 2006, 7:21 pm - Lottery News

Protesters storm UK National Lottery setNews Story
Protesters from paternal rights group Fathers 4 Justice stormed BBC TV studios last night to hold up the UK National Lottery draw. The broadcast was interrupted for several minutes before the 17 million (US$32 million) Superdraw jackpot got underway. Protesters unfurled a banner proclaiming: 'Family Law Lotto. Next time it could be you.' Although the group officially disbanded in January after some members were accused of plotting to kidnap prime minister Tony Blair's youngest son, L
May 22, 2006, 6:50 am - Lottery News