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NY man gets maximum sentence for stolen $5M lottery ticketNews Story
A former auto dealership manager convicted of possessing an apartment complex maintenance worker's winning $5 million New York lottery ticket was sentenced Tuesday to up to 25 years in prison by a judge who cited his rapacious greed. The Onondaga County District Attorney's Office said Andy Ashkar, 35, of Camillus, was sentenced Tuesday morning to the maximum sentence of 8 years, 4 months to 25 years for having the ticket that was stolen from his parents' convenience store in Syracuse in Octo
Jul 23, 2013, 5:09 pm - Lottery News

Former Arkansas Lottery official admits stealing ticketsNews Story
A former Arkansas Lottery security official pleaded guilty Friday to a long-running scheme in which he's accused of stealing and cashing nearly a half-million dollars' worth of scratch-off tickets. Lottery Director Bishop Woosley said the theft by Remmele Mazyck, 34, started in 2009 when the lottery launched. It wasn't discovered until October 2012, when a clerk at a Jonesboro retailer raised questions about lottery tickets Mazyck tried to cash that were registered to a store no longer in bus
Jul 13, 2013, 7:26 am - Lottery News

Moldy Sandy-damaged NJ Lottery tickets leads to workers' comp claimsNews Story
Two New Jersey Lottery employees allegedly sickened by moldy Superstorm Sandy-damaged scratch-off tickets are looking to be compensated for some unlucky circumstances. The employees, who filed worker's compensation claims, were exposed to approximately 400,000 stinky lottery tickets for more than six months in a warehouse at the state lottery headquarters in Lawrence and were asked to audit the tickets by their superiors. An account of the conditions from one warehouse employee was reporte
Jul 2, 2013, 10:48 am - Lottery News

Another lottery contract is under the D.C. Council's microscopeNews Story
For more than two hours Thursday, a D.C. Council committee discussed the merits of the lottery contract. No, not that lottery contract. Not the one for the city's electronic numbers games, which has been a pox on city politics for five years now, prompting numerous hearings, lawsuits, reports, investigations, newspaper articles, editorials, and much embarrassment. This lottery contact is a smaller one, worth $9.7 million over four years to produce and distribute scratch-off tickets, awarde
Jun 30, 2013, 2:11 pm - Lottery News

Virginia lawmaker wins car on $5 lottery ticketNews Story
When state Del. Riley E. Ingram scratched off the lottery tickets he bought a few weeks ago at the Virginia Pork Festival in Emporia, he didn't realize what he had won until his 10-year-old grandson, Parker, figured it out. He said, 'Grandaddy! You won a Jeep,'? Ingram, R-Hopewell, told a crowd that gathered Friday in the showroom of Crossroads Chrysler Jeep Dodge for a news conference held by the Virginia Lottery. The longtime lawmaker is the soon-to-be owner of a new Jeep Wrangler Rubic
Jun 29, 2013, 8:26 am - Lottery News

Winning lottery ticket pits Pa. brothers against each otherNews Story
Sometimes, a stack of lottery cash is thicker than blood. And two Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, brothers learned that the hard way. A winning lottery ticket has pitted Ira Sharp, and his half-brother, Charles Thomas Meehan, against each other in Cumberland County Court, fracturing a close familial kinship that may never exist again. Drinking luck The saga began at Johnny Joe's Sports Bar Grill in Hampden Township in late May, when Sharp and Meehan were knocking back a few drinks, and
Jun 26, 2013, 11:46 am - Lottery News

Washington man wins lottery twice in 24 hoursNews Story
Talk about having a lucky day. Cary Collings of Puyallup, Washington, had just such a day, when he won the lottery not once, but twice, within 24 hours. The 61-year-old first won $55,555 in the Red Hot 5 s scratch-off ticket lottery on June 14. Collings purchased his scratch card on Thursday as he filled up his car at the River Road Food Mart on River Road in Puyallup, Washington. He scratched it off at the traffic lights and realized it was worth $55,555. The next morning after c
Jun 19, 2013, 10:29 am - Lottery News

Washington man to fight state lottery; says new scratch card 'misleading'News Story
A Kennewick, Washington, man plans to fight the Washington State Lottery in court over a scratch card payoff that didn't pan out. Ken Goldsmith, 55, recently bought one of the newest scratch cards, Red Hot 5s, and thought he scored the top prize of $55,555 by matching one of the numbers. But when he scanned the card at a lottery kiosk, it came up a loser. I called the lottery office in Olympia to find out why it scanned a loser, but they knew what scratch card I was referring to before
Jun 17, 2013, 9:43 am - Lottery News

Indiana math teacher wins $100,000 from free lottery ticketNews Story
A Fort Wayne, Indiana, high school math teacher won $100,000 on a free Hoosier Lottery scratch-off ticket that she received at a Mad Ants game. Holly Vogel, who has season tickets to the Mad Ants games, was in the Hoosier Lottery Lucky Section during a game back in March. She, along with around 100 other fans, received a Hoosier Lottery prize pack with free scratch-offs. The Mad Ants are an NBA Development League team based in Fort Wayne. Vogel's prize pack contained a $100,000 taxes pa
May 31, 2013, 2:36 pm - Lottery News

Maryland Lottery teams up with Super Bowl champsNews Story
The Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency (MLGCA) and the Baltimore Ravens have joined forces for the fifth year in a row. The Board of Public Works yesterday approved the contract, which will include the Ravens Champions $2 scratch-off ticket. The contract gives the Lottery the rights to use the Ravens logo, marks and experiential prizes. As in previous years, Lottery players will have the chance to win cash and experiential Ravens' prizes through the scratch-off and other Ravens-themed
May 30, 2013, 7:30 am - Lottery News