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Jacksonville man wins lottery jackpot - againNews Story
A Jacksonville man bought a winning $1 million scratch-off lottery ticket Saturday six years after claiming a $250,000 prize from another game. Persistence pays off, Robert Myers, 51, said in a statement released Monday by the Florida Lottery. As to the obvious question: Oh yes, I will continue to play. In fact, lottery officials said he was back at it again Sunday, playing Billion Dollar Blockbuster, the $20-a-ticket game he had just won. Myers couldn't be reached by phone Monday.
Oct 13, 2009, 9:42 am - Lottery News

3 little numbers equal 1 big win for the N.C. lotteryNews Story
Three numbers are providing a hobby for lottery players and a big win for the North Carolina state lottery. The lottery's Pick 3 game, in which players buy chances at matching a three-digit number, offers the lowest payouts of any of the lottery's drawing games. The maximum win is $500. But the game has been a popular draw for players, who spent more than $200 million on those 50-cent and $1 tickets last year. Lotteries in most states recently reported a downturn in revenue, though North C
Oct 13, 2009, 7:48 am - Lottery News

Grocer, couple cash in on lotteryNews Story
Who says it's bad luck to be superstitious? Not Woon-Sook Chon of Flushing. The Korean-born owner of the Flushing-based Cherry Blossom food store stopped in at the Union Deli Grocery on 38th Street to buy a Korean newspaper and walked out not only with her paper, but also a $500,000,000 Extravaganza instant Lottery ticket worth $5 million. My niece told me of a dream she had the night before, said Chon, 49. In this dream, I was rich, she continued. I decided it was a good day to try my lu
Oct 8, 2009, 7:33 am - Lottery News

N.Y. family wins $3M top prize in lottery scratch-off gameNews Story
For the past year, Jemps St. Fleur and his uncle, Chrisnel Josaphat, have been collecting $100 a week from their relatives to play the lottery. There have been a few small scratch-off wins here and there, but on Sept. 22, the Spring Valley family won $3 million, becoming the first winners of the top prize in the $10 Money scratch-off game. Family members, who emigrated from Haiti over the years, became Rockland's second lottery millionaires of 2009. The Brucale family of Pearl River won $7
Oct 8, 2009, 6:45 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner gets help on plan to turn good fortune into lifelong prosperityNews Story
Richie Randazzo became New York's luckiest and most famous doorman last year when he scored a $5 million lottery prize. The wisecracking 45-year-old from Gravesend, Brooklyn, became an overnight sensation, hitting the media circuit to tell his rags-to-riches story and enjoying a sitdown on Howard Stern's radio show. But even after hitting the jackpot, Randazzo could not escape his troubled past. For nearly two decades the one-time Park Ave. doorman had been a drug addict and, at one poi
Oct 6, 2009, 2:45 pm - Lottery News

Convicted embezzler to forfeit Kansas Lottery prizeNews Story
Paul W. Lyle learned that he won the grand prize in a Kansas Lottery second-chance drawing at his preliminary hearing 11 days ago. Trouble was: The former radio executive was facing a charge of felony theft for embezzling a reported $87,750 from his employer, American Media Investments, which owns three radio stations in Pittsburg, five in Joplin, Mo., and five more in Texas. The supreme irony: Lyle, 63, the company's chief operating officer until the theft was discovered in May, confessed th
Oct 3, 2009, 11:36 am - Lottery News

First day of Arkansas lottery sales brisk, sellers sayNews Story
By midmorning Monday, Arkansas' new lottery had produced a $500 winner in Baxter County from a scratch-off ticket sold at Benny's Country Store, 6227 State Hwy. 5 N., and an unknown amount for college scholarships. Several retailers who sell lottery tickets here reported brisk and sometimes crazy ticket sales Monday the first day of the state's new lottery with proceeds dedicated for college scholarships. Drew Long, owner of Benny's Country Store, said a customer purchased the $500-winning
Sep 29, 2009, 7:49 am - Lottery News

Arkansas Lottery begins todayNews Story
Less than a year from voter approval to first ticket sales Includes video report Arkansas has officially become the 42nd state to operate a government lottery the 43rd jurisdiction, counting Washington, D.C. Arkansas Lottery scratch-off tickets are now on sale at nearly 1,500 retailers throughout the state with the proceeds going towards funding college scholarships. Retailers were allowed to begin selling scratch-off lottery tickets just after midnight today, and at least one lo
Sep 28, 2009, 7:14 am - Lottery News

Scratch-off lottery tickets arrive in ArkansasNews Story
It turns out $48 million in lottery tickets doesn't look as impressive as it sounds. Shrink-wrapped pallets arrived by tractor-trailer Monday to a warehouse in southwest Little Rock, a first shipment of about 30 million scratch-off tickets destined to inaugurate the start of Arkansas' state lottery. Lottery officials dolled up the event for reporters, with two police cruisers and a motorcycle blaring sirens as a semi-truck decorated with balloons and streamers, like a homecoming parade flo
Sep 14, 2009, 11:15 pm - Lottery News

Arkansas Lottery scratch tickets, logo revealedNews Story
This week was a busy one for the fledgling Arkansas Lottery. The first shipment of Arkansas Lottery tickets is being transported, and will arrive in the state Monday, Lottery Director Ernie Passailaigue said Friday, and the lottery revealed its new logo. The precious cargo will be transported by 18-wheeler to the Scientific Games (SGI) Distribution Center on the west side of town, arriving at 10:30 a.m., Passailaigue said at a meeting of the state Lottery Commission at the University of Ce
Sep 12, 2009, 8:04 am - Lottery News