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Man finds $50,000 lottery ticket, returns it to ownerNews Story
A deli owner in Newington found a winning lottery ticket in the trash and returned it to his customer. George Rusin has a loyal customer base at Your Store deli in Newington, Connecticut. He gets credit for his talent in the kitchen and his honesty behind the counter. George says he sees people buy scratch tickets and leave them behind all day. He knew one day he was bound to find a big winner in the trash. I thought it was a dinky $5 winner, then I'm seeing a five and four big zero
Sep 22, 2007, 7:30 am - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery takes back refund offerNews Story
Today the Tennessee Lottery rescinded its offer from last week to refund tickets purchased with the wrong jackpot amount listed. In a release issued on their web site, the Tennessee Lottery emphatically stated, The Tennessee Lottery is not offering refunds for Powerball tickets purchased last week. The Lottery regrets any confusion or inconvenience created by recent reports concerning some tickets sold on Sept. 6 and the morning of Sept. 7, 2007. The lottery stated that players have
Sep 14, 2007, 2:24 pm - Lottery News

Retired auto worker, 2 children claim $314M Powerball lottery jackpotNews Story
A retired auto worker and his two adult children claimed a $314 million Powerball jackpot Monday after waiting two weeks to step forward. I know the world is going to turn upside down, said David Coterel, 65, of Riverside, Ohio. Coterel's daughter, Lynn Hiles, 46, said she has quit her job as a postal worker in Dayton, Ohio. Her 42-year-old brother, David Coterel, recently took a buyout from his job at an auto parts plant. Neither has any children, and their mother, Dorothy, died of canc
Sep 12, 2007, 5:32 pm - Lottery News

Jackpot winner says business as usual at executive assistant jobNews Story
Mystery winner claimed huge SuperLotto Plus jackpot Judy Taylor won $93 million in the California Lottery, and said she was going to go back to work as an executive assistant. The Alameda resident told state lottery officials she would use the money to travel to Greek islands and Hong Kong, buy a new car, and, as a lifelong renter, finally break into the Bay Area housing market. Lottery officials said Monday that Taylor won the Sept. 1 jackpot for the Super Lotto Plus game, ending a
Sep 12, 2007, 2:43 pm - Lottery News

$93 million lottery winner has yet to claim her prizeNews Story
Gas station owner Simon Kim has looked at the photograph of the woman captured on security tape dozens of times since Friday night, when she came into the business and purchased a winning lottery ticket worth a staggering $93 million. Kim said he recognizes the woman, who visits his Bay Farm Island station at least once a week. He just doesn't know her name. Neither do California Lottery officials, who late Thursday afternoon were still waiting for her to come forward to claim the money
Sep 7, 2007, 9:11 pm - Lottery News

N.J. couple claims $82M lottery prizeNews Story
Villas, New Jersey, residents Sandra and John Belawsky today claimed their portion of the near-record $330 million jackpot from the Mega Millions drawing held on Aug, 31. They chose the cash option, to receive $48,615,187 before the 25 percent federal withholding tax. The Belawskys went to Lottery Headquarters to stake their claim to one of the largest lottery jackpots in North American history. Congratulations to the Belawskys, the winners of this incredible jackpot, said William T. Jou
Sep 7, 2007, 7:38 pm - Lottery News

NJ store waiting for lottery winner to claim jackpotNews Story
A Cape May County grocery sold one of four winning tickets that will divide Friday's near-record $330 million jackpot in the multistate Mega Millions Lottery, New Jersey lottery officials said. The owner of the ticket, expected to be worth $82.5 million in 26 annual installments, had not stepped forward by last evening, lottery spokesman Dominick DeMarco said. Folks take their time sometimes, he said. For the store, the brush with fortune turned an ordinary Labor Day weekend into an even
Sep 6, 2007, 7:40 am - Lottery News

Bunky the lottery winner claims his prizeNews Story
Bunky has officially claimed his bread. Maryland's latest jackpot winner, Ellwood August Bunky Bartlett, claimed his share of the $330 million Mega Millions winnings at lottery headquarters in Baltimore yesterday afternoon. The soon-to-be retired Dundalk accountant was greeted by Maryland Lottery Director Buddy W. Roogow. This is Bunky Bartlett, our new Mega Millions winner, Roogow announced to reporters. Bartlett was one of four jackpot winners. The other three winning tickets were pu
Sep 5, 2007, 7:45 am - Lottery News

4 tickets win $330 million lottery jackpotNews Story
The odds of winning the estimated $330 million Mega Millions jackpot were one in 176 million. But lottery officials said early Saturday that four people one each in Maryland, New Jersey, Texas and Virginia did just that. In addition to the grand prize winners from Friday night's drawing, 36 players matched all five numbers but not the Mega Ball number. They will receive second prizes of $250,000 each. Another 215 players matched four numbers, plus the Mega Ball number - good for thi
Sep 1, 2007, 10:28 am - Lottery News

Lucky couple wins second NY Lotto jackpotNews Story
A former Bronx, New York, couple has won the New York Lottery's 6-number Lotto game for the second time in 11 years, twice overcoming odds of more than 22 million to 1. It's a great feeling, said Eugene Angelo Sr., 81, after learning that he and his wife Adeline, 74, had the sole $5 million winner i the twice-weekly Lotto game. In December 1996, the family bought one of four winning jackpot tickets and received the lump-sum payout of $2.5 million after sharing a $10 million jackpot with
Aug 31, 2007, 6:58 pm - Lottery News