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N.C. store clerk charged in lottery scamNews Story
Police arrested a convenience store clerk Thursday after she allegedly told a customer his ticket wasn't a winner, then cashed the $50 winning ticket after the man left the store. Kathleen Patricia McClusky, 19, of Clayton, was charged with obtaining property by false pretenses. She was working as a clerk at the Kangaroo Station on U.S. 70 in Clayton. She was taken to the Johnston County jail under $15,000 bond. The incident occurred Dec. 23 when Luis Flores-Bautista of Clayton gave McC
Dec 31, 2012, 2:22 pm - Lottery News

Million-dollar lottery jackpot revives college dream for Brooklyn womanNews Story
Hard times forced Linza Ford to drop out of college, but a $1 million lottery jackpot has revived her educational dreams. The 19-year-old Brooklyn woman was one of 10 lucky New Yorkers who collected oversized checks Thursday totaling $13 million in lottery winnings. Ford had just completed her freshman year at Hofstra University when her dad had to go on disability and her family was forced to make sacrifices. With money tight, Ford put her goals of earning a degree in psychology or soc
Dec 21, 2012, 7:12 am - Lottery News

Father charged with helping sons steal $5 million lottery ticketNews Story
The owner of a Syracuse, New York, convenience store was arrested this week on charges of conspiring with his son to steal a $5 million lottery ticket from a man who'd bought it at the store. Nayef Ashkar, 56, was arrested Tuesday by an investigator with the Onondaga County District Attorney's Office on a charge of fourth-degree conspiracy. Ashkar agreed with and encouraged his son, Andy Ashkar, in the taking and withholding of the $5 million winning scratch-off ticket from Robert Miles, a
Dec 10, 2012, 7:37 am - Lottery News

NY brothers charged in plot to steal $5M New York Lottery ticketNews Story
They waited until shortly before the $5 million winning ticket in a scratch-off lottery game would have been worthless. Then, when two brothers from the Syracuse area went to claim the prize, they made an unusual offer: They told state lottery officials that they would be happy to take home less than the full amount if they could avoid a news conference. (See NY brothers claim $5M win from '06 lottery ticket, Lottery Post, Oct. 17, 2012.) The officials made them wait some more, saying a se
Nov 14, 2012, 8:07 am - Lottery News

Man who helped with post-Sandy cleanup in NJ wins $100,000News Story
While most people are frustrated by the problems created by Superstorm Sandy, one volunteer had an unexpected windfall. He hit the lottery jackpot because he came to serve in the storm. John Turner is now back home in the southern Chicago suburb of Chicago Heights, but he'll never forget what he saw on the East Coast. We saw houses moved down the streets, vehicles turned over, Turner told CBS 2's Kristine Johnson. The 38-year-old Turner runs a water removal business called National
Nov 13, 2012, 9:22 pm - Lottery News

Vermont family turns losing lottery tickets into cashNews Story
The game's got a new name and some new rules, but when it comes to competing for cash prizes in the Vermont Lottery's second-chance, scratch-off ticket drawing, the money keeps rolling in for the Leamy family of Wilder. Last week, when the $200 winners in the first drawing for the Play It Again game were announced, Joyce Leamy was on the list. It was the 52nd time in six years that someone in the Leamy family has won prizes or cash for submitting a losing scratch-off Vermont Lottery ticket
Nov 6, 2012, 7:30 am - Lottery News

91-year-old great grandmother wins lottery twice in three monthsNews Story
Lena Eaton, a 91-year-old great grandmother, is arguably the luckiest woman in Indiana. In the past three months, the Indianapolis resident has purchased not one, but two winning lottery tickets. In August, Eaton won a $300,000 prize with a Quick Draw ticket. On Thursday, she walked into the Hoosier Lottery headquarters with another winning ticket: a scratch-off worth $99,999. In doing so, she defied incredible odds. For her first win, she matched 10 of 20 Quick Draw numbers on a tic
Nov 3, 2012, 1:55 pm - Lottery News

Man has Tennessee Lottery tickets delivered to his doorstepNews Story
Mike West gets weekly deliveries to his home in Erin. Wednesday morning when he opened a box he was surprised to find thousands of dollars of Tennessee Lottery scratch off tickets. They package of tickets sat on top of several other items inside a large box that was left on his doorstep. I thought this here must be my games, I got some X Box games, West explained. But when he opened the plastic envelope he discovered the lottery tickets inside. I just started seeing game after game
Oct 25, 2012, 8:23 am - Lottery News

Homeless S.C. man hits it bigNews Story
A Greenville, South Carolina man living at a rescue mission after falling on hard times said he now has a chance at a new home after winning $200,000. South Carolina Education Lottery officials said the man bought a $10 scratch-off ticket that revealed he was a winner. The man told lottery officials he has lived in Greenville his entire life and used to work construction jobs but after hard times hit, he's been living at a rescue mission. He bought the winning ticket at Simons Liquors Inc.
Oct 21, 2012, 10:29 am - Lottery News

NY brothers claim $5M win from '06 lottery ticketNews Story
Two brothers kept quiet for six years about the $5 million winning lottery ticket they'd bought at their parents' store in Syracuse. Andy N. Ashkar, 34, of Camillus, and his brother, Nayel N. Ashkar, 36, of Cicero, came forward March 1 of this year to claim the $5 million top prize in the $500,000,000 Extravaganza scratch-off game, lottery officials said. That was 11 days before the prize would've expired. It's unusual, highly unusual, lottery spokeswoman Carolyn Hapeman said Tuesday o
Oct 17, 2012, 9:24 am - Lottery News