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Georgia man wins lottery 3 timesNews Story
Figure the odds: Three winning lottery tickets one of them for $1 million all in the same day. Michael Warner, 61, of Grayson, Georgia, won the big prize playing the Georgia Lottery instant game World Class Millions, and topped off his winnings with $500 from another instant game, Extreme Green, and $20 from a third lottery ticket. I could hardly breathe, said the retired Lucent Technologies employee. I was just at the right place at the right time. On the afternoon of April 19, Warne
May 8, 2009, 9:57 am - Lottery News

Unemployed woman gets lotto winnings after 4 yearsNews Story
An unemployed woman who won $1 million in a Maine State Lottery game has collected her winnings four years after she bought the scratch ticket in a store that's since burned down. Brenda Ripton told the Central Maine Morning Sentinel that she had received her $700,000 check from the lottery on Thursday. Ripton had just learned two days earlier that she won the million-dollar prize in the Texas Hold 'em game. The government took the rest of her winnings for taxes. Ripton said both she an
Apr 19, 2009, 8:39 am - Lottery News

Million-dollar winner remains frugal after windfallNews Story
You often hear about money-crazed lottery winners going out and blowing their big wad of money on wild, over-the-top stuff. But not Tiffany Weightman, the lucky, level-headed Murfreesboro lady who won a cool million with a scratch-off lottery ticket at a Mapco Express just about a month ago. When you dream about winning a million dollars, you say I'm going to have a mansion and I'm going to get a BMW and all that, but when you win, it's reality,'' she said. You realize that all of tha
Mar 31, 2009, 8:52 pm - Lottery News

19-year-old from N.Y. wins $1M lottery prizeNews Story
Albion, New York, native Brittanie DeClerck dreams of owning her own pet shop someday; a dream she now wants to make real with part of the $1,000,000 top prize she won on an Emerald 8s scratch off ticket from the New York Lottery. The 19-year-old former dog groomer said she looks forward to seeing her dream come true. We all have our dream jobs, but not everyone gets to see that dream come true, said the future entrepreneur. This is my chance to make it happen. DeClerck credits her gr
Mar 18, 2009, 3:21 pm - Lottery News

Cable worker wins $50,000 a year for life from N.C. lotteryNews Story
For more than 30 years, Gilbert Steve Proctor has installed telephone cable. The Edgecombe County resident said he is not quitting his job at Lambert's Cable Splicing Co. any time soon after hitting the North Carolina lottery's first winning Lifetime Riches scratch-off ticket, which pays out $50,000 a year for life. I'll always be the same person, he said as he sat in the convenience store on Thursday where lottery officials recognized his win. On Monday, Proctor bought the ticket at t
Mar 13, 2009, 10:45 am - Lottery News

N.Y. man scratches way to lottery millionNews Story
Michael Levy will never forget the New York lottery tickets he purchased on Friday, February 13. A 46 year-old security guard, Levy, is no stranger to playing lottery scratch-off tickets, but he never had this kind of luck. He received a prize of $1 million at Tavern on the Green in Manhattan. I buy them to help me stay awake in the early morning hours; and I usually win something so it's worth it, Levy said. Levy was working his routine shift at a Bronx construction site when he got t
Mar 9, 2009, 8:35 am - Lottery News

More Calif. stores accused of stealing customers' lottery prizesNews Story
Perhaps you're not quite as unlucky in the lottery as you thought. That scratcher ticket you tossed? Well, it just might have been a winner with the cash prize going to none other than the store owner or clerk you passed it off to as garbage. Ten retailers and clerks are accused of trying to cash in customers' winning lottery tickets at three locations in San Jose, two in Milpitas and one in Santa Clara. Nine people were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of felony grand theft of lottery ticket
Mar 6, 2009, 7:59 am - Lottery News

Man accused of cashing stolen lottery ticketsNews Story
A Baltimore man's alleged attempts to cash lottery tickets stolen in a September armed robbery at a Hampstead gas station may have won him nothing but a trip to jail. Mark Arthur Perry, 44, of the 1300 block of Ensor Street in Baltimore, is charged with armed robbery, robbery, theft of more than $500, first-degree assault and use of a handgun in a violent crime. He was held without bail at a bail review hearing Friday, according to court records. Perry and two other men allegedly robbed
Feb 26, 2009, 7:41 am - Lottery News

N.Y. woman shares lottery jackpot with sisterNews Story
Always look out for your little sister. Even or especially when you've just won $3 million in the lottery. That's the approach Lia Gentile took after winning the top prize in the New York Lottery's Money, Money, Money game with a ticket she purchased last month in a B-Kwik Mart on Seneca Street. Gentile, 44, of Buffalo, will keep half the jackpot. An equal $1.5 million share is going to her sister, Franca Cavitt, who is a year younger and lives in Crescent, Pa., near Pittsburgh, with
Feb 10, 2009, 9:09 am - Lottery News

Texas woman says friend stole winning lottery ticketNews Story
A Fort Worth woman says her gamble in letting a friend take her winning $20,000 lottery ticket to a store to verify whether it was a winner apparently didn't pay off. Nancy Charlez, 34, filed a police report Tuesday, saying her friend returned empty-handed. Her friend said a man in a pickup took the unsigned Lucky Dice ticket from her and said it was no good, the report claims. Police are investigating the alleged scratch-off rip-off. Bobby Heith, a spokesman with the Texas Lottery Comm
Jan 21, 2009, 11:54 pm - Lottery News