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Cape Cod fisherman reels in $10M lottery prizeNews Story
Includes video report William Chopper Young Jr., a shellfisherman and champion oyster shucker, has won the $10 million prize winner in the Massachusetts State Lottery's $10,000,000 Mega Fortune instant game. Young opted to receive the cash option on his prize and collected a one-time payment of $6,500,000 (before taxes), according to an official statement from lottery officials today announcing the win. He plans on using his winnings to help his family and invest, the statement said. Yo
Dec 9, 2015, 11:11 am - Lottery News

Colorado homeless man wins $500,000 in lotteryNews Story
A Colorado man who had been homeless for more than six years finally got a little bit of luck Friday when he won $500,000 on a scratch-off lottery ticket. Michael Engfors, 60, was born and raised in Aspen. After struggling with alcoholism, losing his business, and getting a divorce, he has been homeless for more than six years. Michael has seen a bottom that has pushed him right to the edge, Jeremy Kowalis with the Aspen Homeless Shelter said. But Michael never gave up. He knew that if he
Dec 8, 2015, 7:39 am - Lottery News

Faulty $50 Wisonsin lottery ticket causing a flapNews Story
Celeste Davis is haunted by a scratch-off lottery ticket. I played Joker's Wild, and now the joke is on me, she sighed. The Milwaukee woman spent $5 on a ticket that appears to be a $50 winner. So we're not talking about a lot of money here. But the ticket never paid out, despite extraordinary efforts by Wisconsin Lottery staff to validate it. It's just a mystery. We tried to re-create her ticket so we could pay her, lottery communications director Stephanie Marquis said. We be
Dec 4, 2015, 9:36 am - Lottery News

Calif. man wins $10M lottery prize right after winning $1KNews Story
Just moments after winning $1,000 on a California Lottery scratch-off ticket, a Modesto man learned that he was the winner of a $10 million prize. Rodney Meadows was out running errands Nov. 23 when he decided to pick up some $30 California Lottery 30th anniversary scratchers tickets from the Fast Mart at 3955 Coffee Road in Modesto, according to lottery officials. Meadows won $1,000 on the first ticket he bought, so he decided to let it ride. [Meadows] scratched $1,000 and he came ba
Dec 2, 2015, 9:04 am - Lottery News

Brooklyn man wins court battle to collect entire $10K lottery prize that he won in 2007News Story
It took a while and a decision by the state's highest court but a 69-year-old Vietnam vet from Brooklyn, New York, can finally enjoy all his 2007 lottery winnings. The Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that state officials were wrong to claim half of Walter Carver's $10,000 lottery jackpot as a reimbursement for public assistance benefits he received years before he bought the winning ticket. We are thrilled, said Carver's attorney Susan Antos. This has been a long battle. Because Carve
Nov 24, 2015, 12:37 pm - Lottery News

NJ man goes on 10-store, 900-ticket lotto theft spreeNews Story
An alleged lottery ticket thief was not lucky enough to get away with stealing 900 New Jersey Lottery tickets, let alone hit the potential $5 million jackpot, according to police. An investigation led police to arrest Andrew Miller, 20, of Scotch Plains, on Monday, and charge him with a slew of ticket thefts, said Springfield Township Det. Lt. Judd Levenson, the department's spokesman. Miller was found in Scotch Plains on Monday at 12:30 p.m. after Springfield police determined he had sto
Nov 17, 2015, 3:25 pm - Lottery News

$7 million lottery winner sees new opportunities on the horizonNews Story
An Indiana man says winning $7 million from the Hoosier Lottery brings a lot of opportunity. But that's not the first thing Arlen Brennaman of Syracuse said when he scratched off his winning Lottery ticket. Brennaman's initial reaction was more along the lines of NO WAY! No way did this just happen! Brennaman scratched the ticket, $7 Million Mega Cash, in the passenger seat of his brother's car as the two headed back to work at Forest River, Inc., an RV manufacturer in Goshen. They had ju
Nov 17, 2015, 10:53 am - Lottery News

Mass. grandmother wins second $1 million lottery prizeNews Story
A grandmother won $1 million on a scratch ticket at the very same Massachusetts grocery store where she won the same prize almost 20 years ago. I'm lucky, what can I say? Constance Carpenito said with a laugh. You've got to be lucky to win a million twice. Carpenito who struck it rich on a $20 Massachusetts State Lottery $10,000,000 Diamond Millionaire scratch ticket that also offers $1 million payouts is chalking up her improbable repeat win to her commitment to playing the lottery at h
Nov 15, 2015, 2:52 pm - Lottery News

Man surprises wife with $1 million lottery winNews Story
An Upton, Massachusetts, man who set aside a retirement nest egg to play the Massachusetts State Lottery won $1 million on a scratch ticket. It was good fortune that he briefly kept from his wife, the lottery said. For many years, Raymond Hazell put aside $10 to $15 from each paycheck to build a fund that he would use to play the lottery when he retired. Hazell purchased the winning ticket in the $4,000,000 Gold Bullion game at Hopkinton Wine Spirits. After claiming his prize, Hazell's
Oct 29, 2015, 1:48 pm - Lottery News

Daughter accused of stealing mom's lottery jackpot starts collecting winningsNews Story
The woman?? who's being sued by her? ?Brooklyn ???mother?, who says she stole her $1 million lottery jackpot?,? got a lucky break Thursday as? ?a judge? ?gave her back? ?access to some of the? ?loot. Mom Barbara Quiles, of Bath Beach, initially won a temporary restraining orderblocking her daughter Linza Ford, 22, from accessing the funds as well as a safety deposit box containing $50,000 in valuables. But Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Martin Solomon lifted that order, allowing Ford to co
Oct 23, 2015, 9:54 am - Lottery News