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Lottery payout complicated by laser printer mishapNews Story
Sign ticket with pen: Good Use laser printer to 'type' endorsement: Bad While the identity of the man who won a $48.8 million lottery prize in Alvin remains unknown to the public, a report released Tuesday by the Texas Lottery Commission shows the steps the agency took to verify the ticket's authenticity after it was damaged in a mishap with a laser jet printer. The mystery man purchased his Texas Lottery ticket Oct. 18 from a self-service machine at the H-E-B Pantry grocery store in Al
May 14, 2010, 7:54 am - Lottery News

Man threw away $153,000 lottery ticketNews Story
A British postal worker said his marriage ended and he has become a laughing stock at work because he threw away a $153,000 scratch-off lottery ticket. Cemal Celikkanat, 38, a driver for the Royal Mail, said he thought the dollar amounts on the scratch-off card he purchased at Charnock News and Booze in Sheffield had to be in a row to win, but the card pays out for any three-of-a-kind dollar amounts, the Sheffield Telegraph reported Friday. When I found out I felt dizzy and dropped to my
Apr 23, 2010, 8:00 pm - Lottery News

Winner of airline lottery eats winning ticketNews Story
Yes, that's right, he ate the winning ticket A passenger flying on a Ryanair flight Thursday from Krakow, Poland, to the U.K.'s East Midlands airport ate a winning lottery ticket worth 10,000 euros ($15,000) when he was told he could not claim the prize mid-flight. The cabin crew advised the winner that he would have to redeem the winning ticket directly with the company that runs the lottery, as it was such a large sum. The passenger proceeded to become so irate that he ate the winning
Mar 1, 2010, 2:04 pm - Lottery News

Lottery hoax causes riot at Ohio coat storeNews Story
Updated with new video report Oct. 15, 2009, 1:27 p.m. A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay for everyone's purchases, police said, but she ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax. Angry customers threw merchandise around and looted, leaving the store looking as though a hurricane had passed through it, police said. Linda Brown was arrested Tuesday after an hours-long shoppin
Oct 15, 2009, 10:12 am - Lottery News

Bulgarian lottery repeat probedNews Story
The Bulgarian authorities have ordered an investigation after the same six numbers were drawn in two consecutive rounds of the national lottery. The numbers 4, 15, 23, 24, 35 and 42 were chosen by a machine live on television on 6 and 10 September. An official of the Bulgarian lottery said manipulation was impossible. A mathematician said the chance of the same six numbers coming up twice in a row was one in four million. But he said coincidences do happen. Minister of Physical Educa
Sep 16, 2009, 2:34 pm - Lottery News

States sell out 9s in Wed. lottery drawsNews Story
Lottery players around the United States hoping to win big by betting on all nines may have come up empty when they got to the lottery terminal. Several states reported that Pick 4 combinations 9-9-9-9 and 9-9-0-9, as well as Pick 3 combination 9-9-9, sold out due to heavy buying. The reason? Today's unique date numbers of 9/9/09 (September 9, 2009). Lottery officials say people who play daily lotto games such as Pick 3 and Pick 4 tend to make their number choices based on special numbe
Sep 9, 2009, 11:00 pm - Lottery News

Florida Lottery winner opens nude dude ranchNews Story
You've heard of nude beaches, but how about a nude dude ranch? A multi-million-dollar lottery winner in Florida is riling some by opening up his own. Tim Clements hit a $3.3 million jackpot in 2004, and wanted to return to the farm life he grew up in. Clements, 50, became fed up with strangers asking him for money in Ormond Beach, Florida, so he bought a secluded ranch on the other side of the state. He and David Jennings, co-owner of the ranch, say the farm is secluded enough to be in
Apr 19, 2009, 8:13 am - Lottery News

Man bowled-over by second lottery winNews Story
A Kansas man whose girlfriend was physically stuck to the toilet in their home won $20,000 in the state Lottery, for the second time this year. Kory McFarren cashed in his winning $2 Bonus Crossword ticket in Great Bend Monday. On July 29, the 37-year-old received six months of probation after pleading no contest to misdemeanor mistreatment of a dependent adult. McFarren called deputies in February to report that his girlfriend, Pam Babcock, had refused to come out of the bathroom for t
Oct 8, 2008, 4:43 pm - Lottery News

Lottery winners plea for a wife for their sonNews Story
After winning a 2.3 million (US$4.3 million) UK Lotto jackpot, Bob and Pat Green are hoping money CAN buy love for son Stewart. The couple made a plea to find a wife for the 33-year-old, who still lives at home. Bob, 64, joked, We've lived in the same house 20 years and Stewart still lives with us. He is not engaged or married, so if there is anybody who can help him out, he's looking for a rich lady with sporting interests. Motorbike-mad Bob, who owns and runs a garage with Pat, 6
Aug 13, 2008, 1:13 pm - Lottery News

Engineer plays fortune cookie lottery numbers and wins the jackpotNews Story
Played numbers for 4 years before they hit big To most of us, fortune cookies are just a charming detail at the end of a meal and their vague prophecies and snippets of folk wisdom are not to be taken seriously. But to Danny Williams, the numbers printed on a slip inside one cookie seemed to promise a real fortune and his hunch came true as they won him a Lottery jackpot. The 23-year-old engineer beat million-to-one odds to win a share of the top prize in the National Lottery. H
Jul 21, 2008, 8:47 am - Lottery News