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Jury awards jailed illegal alien $750,000 lottery ticketNews Story
After deliberating only 35 minutes Thursday, a Houston County jury awarded ownership of a $750,000 lottery ticket to an illegal alien who claimed he was taken advantage of by the man he had worked for as a day laborer. Jose Antonio Tony Cua-Toc, 27, a native of Guatemala who entered the country illegally in 2000, had filed a lawsuit against Erick Cervantes, a Fort Valley business owner who claimed the winning Jingle Jumbo Bucks lottery ticket from Georgia lottery officials. (See Illegal al
Mar 14, 2012, 8:27 am - Lottery News

Toddler picks out winning NY lottery ticketNews Story
This little girl has the Midas touch. Two-year-old Anaya Hussain picked the New York Poker ticket that made her mother an instant millionaire. She touched it, an excited Afsheen Ahsan said Tuesday as she and eight other Lottery winners collected their winnings. If she didn't touch it, I wouldn't have taken it. She's lucky. A stay-at-home mom from Bay Ridge, Ahsan said she had just popped into the Top Convenience store in Brooklyn on Jan. 30 when her daughter reached over and placed he
Mar 14, 2012, 7:40 am - Lottery News

Indiana man wins $5M on scratch-offNews Story
A Muncie, Indiana, man is the latest lucky Hoosier to win big money from the Hoosier Lottery. Ricky Wilber grew up in Muncie just blocks from the Village Pantry at 603 W. Jackson Street in Muncie where he won $5 million on a Hoosier Lottery Scratch-off. Great and unbelievable is the way Wilber described his win. Wilber won on a $100 Million Cash Extravaganza Scratch-off ticket. The Delaware County man took several days to get his affairs in order, to hire a lawyer and a tax advisor, be
Feb 23, 2012, 8:20 pm - Lottery News

CNN producer tells what it's like to win lottery twiceNews Story
I am a two-time lottery winner. I have claimed a $100,000 lottery ticket in November and a $1 million lottery ticket Monday. Both came from scratch off. Everyone has been asking me what it's like to win and so I'll tell you. A big win is an amazing blessing that I still can't believe is real. And then to be blessed more than once is just extraordinary. But nothing comes easy. We all go through rough times in our lives, and people don't know the road that one must walk to reach a happy dest
Feb 17, 2012, 9:04 am - Lottery News

CNN producer wins Ga. Lottery twiceNews Story
Latest win is $1 million scratch game jackpot She's another recent two-timer. After winning $100,000 in November, a CNN producer has won big again in the Georgia Lottery. This time Jennifer Hauser of Atlanta scratched her way to a $1 million win on the instant game 50X The Money. Hauser, 29, claimed her $1 million prize Monday. I was a little numb, Hauser said of her recent win. I didn't know what to think. She bought the ticket at the Roswell Food Mart, 5645 Roswell Road N.E
Feb 15, 2012, 5:39 pm - Lottery News

NY woman wins $1M a year for lifeNews Story
It was a Hanukkah miracle! Long Island mom Yuliya Lankri said her husband's holiday gift of a New York Lottery scratch-off ticket will pay $1 million a year for life with a guarantee of at least $20 million. Miracles happen, and they happen on Hanukkah, and I believe in that, beamed Lankri, 37, of Valley Stream, at a press conference called by the state Lottery Commission in late January. The stay-at-home housewife and mother of three said her husband, Gabriel, 46, bought the $30 Win $
Feb 8, 2012, 9:18 am - Lottery News

Three women vying for ownership of $1 million lottery ticketNews Story
Includes video report A winning $1 million lottery ticket picked out of a gas station trash can has become the subject of a three-way legal battle in Arkansas. Sharon Jones was at a Super One Stop in July 2011 in Bebee, Ark., when she went to a trash bin to pick up a handful of discarded lottery tickets, as she had done many times before, according to her attorneys. A program through the lottery commission website allows people to register non-winning tickets for points that they can
Jan 26, 2012, 9:20 pm - Lottery News

Missouri lottery winner wins againNews Story
Powerball player is also double-lucky Only twice in the history of the Missouri Lottery has a player won two prizes of $1 million or more. A Bonne Terre man won on two Scratchers tickets in 2010, and now a southwest Missouri man has won two multi-million dollar Scratchers prizes in 2011. Roger Hirshey, 66, claimed a $2 million top prize on a Mega MONOPOLY ticket on Dec. 19. The Carthage resident bought the winning ticket at Casey's General Store, 8084 E. Seventh St., in Duenweg. This is
Dec 23, 2011, 9:19 am - Lottery News

After spat, wife gets winning lottery ticketNews Story
A Massapequa Park, New York, woman is $3 million richer after winning the jackpot in the New York State Lottery's Triple Million scratch-off game. And it was a spat with her husband, Rudy, that made them millionaires, Theresa Holzknecht, 48, said at a news conference Thursday morning in Garden City. She said their daughter Jessie, 12, had been grounded for staying out too late, but her husband caved in and let her hang out with friends. To make amends to his wife, Rudy Holzknecht went to p
Dec 16, 2011, 6:56 am - Lottery News

Atlanta man wins $1 million lottery for second time in three yearsNews Story
There he goes again. An Atlanta man has won a $1 million prize for the second time in three years playing an instant lottery game, according to Georgia Lottery officials. Delma Kinney, who will celebrate his 51st birthday Dec. 5, won a $1 million prize playing the Georgia Lottery's instant game Super Millions. In 2008, Kinney won $1 million playing another instant game. The single father of three set aside a portion of his winnings to save for his children's college educations. Kinne
Nov 30, 2011, 8:01 am - Lottery News