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Massachusetts Lottery to launch $30 instant ticket in AprilNews Story
The Massachusetts State Lottery next month will launch a $30 instant ticket the highest priced ticket in the agency's history with a top prize of $15 million. Known as World Class Millions, the game's top prize will be the highest scratch-and-win payout ever offered by the agency, officials said at a meeting Tuesday. Overall, the game will pay out more than $600 million in cash prizes. Ticket sales will begin at the end of April. Massachusetts will become the 14th state to offer a $30 inst
Mar 26, 2014, 7:09 am - Lottery News

NC woman scratches off $1M winner on first lottery ticketNews Story
A Wilmington, North Carolina, woman is a lot richer after buying her first lottery ticket ever. Cindy Reeves, a stockroom clerk, said she has worked hard all her life, according to a news release from the North Carolina Education Lottery. Sunday morning, the Wilmington native bought a $20 scratch-off ticket at the Shop-N-Go on Market Street. The ticket for the $4,000,000 Multiplier Spectacular turned out to be a $1 million winner. As a new player Reeves was unsure whether or not she had wo
Mar 20, 2014, 3:11 am - Lottery News

Sick of traffic, man stops and buys lottery tickets... and wins $5 millionNews Story
Thank goodness for bad traffic. A Long Island, New York, electrician got sick of waiting in a traffic jam, so he pulled over at a gift shop to buy scratch-off tickets and won $5 million. Thomas Mainella, 62, was driving home from work in December when he hit a road detour in Plainview. Rather than suffer though the bumper-to-bumper headache, he pulled over at Sunny's Cards and Gifts to pass the time, he said. He bought six Get Set for Life scratch-offs, sat down and started to play, he
Mar 12, 2014, 8:17 am - Lottery News

Thieves stole California Lottery vending machineNews Story
Investigators from the California Lottery are asking for the public's help in locating suspects who broke into a Lucky grocery store in Fremont over the weekend and made off with a Scratchers vending machine. The thieves broke into the store, which is located on the 40000 block of Mission Boulevard, about 3 a.m. on Saturday. Police located the vending machine a few hours later just a couple blocks from the store location. Most of the cash had already been removed from the machine before th
Mar 5, 2014, 7:46 am - Lottery News

Winning lottery ticket gets Mass. man off the hook for speedingNews Story
A Rockland, Massachusetts, man not only won the lottery Thursday morning, but also used the winning ticket to help him avoid a speeding ticket in Hingham. According to Hingham police Sergeant Steven Dearth, a man was driving on Sharp Street around 11 a.m. when he was pulled over for going 49 miles per hour in a 35-mile-per-hour zone. [The officer] stopped the car, and when he walked up to the car he could see the driver was shaking ... at first he didn't know what was the issue, Dearth sa
Feb 28, 2014, 2:17 pm - Lottery News

Store clerk's mistake helps N.Y. man win $10 millionNews Story
On Saturday, Jan. 18, 53-year-old Jerry Kajfasz went to the Depew One Stop on Broadway, his normal day-off haunt, where he bought some cigars and his favorite scratch-off New York Lottery tickets. Nothing unusual there. But the clerk mistakenly started to hand Kajfasz a $20 Win for Life Spectacular ticket. Kajfasz corrected the clerk, got the tickets he wanted and left the store. That mistake set up a series of events that led Kajfasz, his wife, Anne, and their two children, Jackie and
Feb 27, 2014, 8:23 am - Lottery News

Georgia's new $30 lottery tickets selling 'like crazy'News Story
Lottery players are lining up to lay down some serious scratch in Georgia and Tennessee, which recently joined a number of states offering instant tickets that cost more than $25 apiece. People are buying them like crazy, Tessa Mize, a clerk at the Mega Star gas station in Rossville on Chickamauga Avenue, said of the $30 scratch-off ticket that the Georgia Lottery introduced last week. It has a $10 million grand prize. Meanwhile, Tennessee Lottery officials are happy with sales of a $25 i
Feb 5, 2014, 10:11 am - Lottery News

Newest Pa. lottery scratch-off sports $30 pricetagNews Story
The Pennsylvania Lottery earlier this week launched its most expensive instant lottery ticket, a $30 scratch-off that offers a top prize of $3 million. The game, appropriately called Three Million, is already in place at many of the places that sell instant tickets. It is the state's third $20 or more instant prize game offered at 9,100 retailers statewide. So far, local lottery players have been slow to try the new game. I think $30 might be a little expensive for a scratch-off, said
Feb 2, 2014, 9:54 am - Lottery News

6 South Floridians become lottery millionaires in JanuaryNews Story
By Nick Sortal Six of our fellow South Floridians got lucky in January they all became millionaires playing the lottery. And that's twice as many big wins as we usually have. Last year about 2.5 winners a month came from Palm Beach, Broward or Miami-Dade counties. January's newly minted millionaires were: a $12 million Lotto winner in Tamarac, a $3 million scratch-off winner in Miami Beach, a $2 million Mega Money winner in Miami and a $1 million scratch-off winner in Greenacres. Two ot
Jan 31, 2014, 8:48 am - Lottery News

$25K Ga. lottery ticket disputed, money could go to child supportNews Story
Winnings from a Georgia Lottery ticket are under dispute as two people and state child support officials have laid claim to the $25,000 prize. Through the state Attorney General's Office, Georgia Lottery Corp. officials have asked a Fulton County Superior Court judge to make a decision. In October 2013, Angel R. Tamayo Jr. presented a winning Loteria ticket to lottery officials only to be informed that he owed more than $17,250 the after-tax amount of the cash prize in child support back p
Jan 24, 2014, 7:54 am - Lottery News