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2 lottery tickets split $333M Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
There will be no worldwide lottery jackpot record this time. Two tickets have split last night's $333 million Mega Millions jackpot, one on each coast of the United States. The winning tickets, which are now worth an estimated $166.5 million each, were purchased in San Gabriel, Calif., and the Bronx, New York. The winning numbers were: 1, 17, 31, 37 and 54 with the Mega Ball 31. The Texas Megaplier was 4. Also, 34 lucky players came very close to winning it all, macthing the first 5
Aug 29, 2009, 8:46 am - Lottery News

Former Snow White wins lotteryNews Story
Natalie Marston's trips to the wishing well paid off this weekend. The Rancho Cucamonga resident was working as Snow White at Disneyland when she bought a lottery ticket on a whim in February. That ticket just made Marston a millionaire. Marston, 22, won the $5.2 million jackpot on the Make Me a Millionaire show by the California Lottery on Saturday. The show airs 7:30 p.m. Saturdays on KCAL-9. I know I played Snow White, but I feel more like Cinderella, Marston said in a prepared stat
Aug 27, 2009, 5:54 pm - Lottery News

California Mega Millions lottery ticket worth $200K to expire MondayNews Story
A lottery ticket worth more than $200,000 that was bought in Coronado, California, remains unclaimed, and lottery officials yesterday warned that the prize will expire in three days. The winning Mega Millions ticket was sold Feb. 4 at Avenue Liquor on Orange Avenue near Ninth Street, California Lottery officials said. It hit five winning numbers 1, 27, 28, 35 and 40 but missed the Mega number, 6. The ticket, which is worth $211,387, will expire at 5 p.m. Monday, officials said. If it is
Aug 21, 2009, 1:09 pm - Lottery News

Sharon Sharp, 1939-2009: Former lottery director of Illinois, CaliforniaNews Story
She was the GOP candidate for Illinois secretary of state in 1978 Sharon Sharp, whose accidental entry into politics started with a $10 loan from Donald Rumsfeld, ran for Illinois secretary of state in the late 1970s and was the state's lottery director under Gov. Jim Thompson. Mrs. Sharp, 69, died of lung cancer Sunday, July 5, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, said her son, Christopher Kip Sharp. She lived on the city's Gold Coast. Mrs. Sharp had held posts in the Elk Grove Township
Jul 7, 2009, 1:44 am - Lottery News

Calif. man with 3 jobs wins $39M lottery jackpotNews Story
49-year-old plans to take wife to Hawaii and hire financial adviser For 20 years, Clyde Persley of Santa Cruz worked more than 60 hours a week making candy, driving limousines and waiting by the phone to pick up extra hours at a restaurant. He bought lottery tickets and hoped for his big break. And he got it. Persley, 49, turned in his winning SuperLotto Plus ticket to the California Lottery office Tuesday night, said California Lottery spokeswoman Cathy Doyle Johnston, and will receive
Jun 29, 2009, 1:57 pm - Lottery News

$39M lottery ticket sold at Santa Cruz storeNews Story
One lucky Californian is holding a SuperLotto Plus lottery ticket worth $39 million. It was bought from the Santa Cruz Market on California Avenue in the Circles. No one has stepped forward yet to claim the prize. Store owner Bongkook Choi is beside himself with joy. I can't believe it, said the man who has owned the market for six years. We are so lucky. Lottery officials called him around 9 p.m. Saturday night to report that one person bought the winning ticket with all six Super
Jun 22, 2009, 9:29 am - Lottery News

Prop 1C would change the California LotteryNews Story
Voting 'Yes' will allow lottery to create larger prize payouts On May 19, California voters will have a chance to change the state lottery for the first time since it started in 1984. Proposition 1C would allow the state to borrow $5 billion from future lottery profits to help balance the state's 2009-10 budget. Lottery payment to educational institutions would end and the state general fund would increase its payments to schools to make up for the loss of lottery funds. Currently, t
May 8, 2009, 8:35 am - Lottery News

Lottery-winning deputies going to DisneylandNews Story
Two cohabiting Marin County sheriff's deputies are sporting ear-to-ear grins because they're California's newest multimillionaires. Brian Cabaud, 31, and 24-year-old Anneliese Hansen, who goes by Liese, aren't chasing crooks these days. They're taking some time off, contemplating what life will be like now that they are $75 million richer, thanks to the Mega Millions lottery. The California winning ticket is one of three tickets to split a $225 million Mega Millions jackpot drawn on May 1.
May 7, 2009, 9:00 am - Lottery News

3 lottery players share $225M Mega Millions jackpotNews Story
Three players, in California, Ohio and Virginia, will share the $225 million jackpot from the latest Mega Millions multi-state lottery drawing, taking about $75 million apiece. The next Mega Millions drawing, Tuesday night, will feature a jackpot of $12 million. In addition to the grand prize winners from Friday night's drawing, 21 players, won second prizes of $250,000 apiece: 2 from California, 4 from Illinois, 1 from Maryland, 3 from New Jersey, 9 from New York, and 2 from Texas. The se
May 2, 2009, 10:14 am - Lottery News

Proposition 1C changes how California Lottery funds are usedNews Story
Like the lottery games it promises to change, Proposition 1C looks to be a bit of a gamble. The measure could deliver $5 billion to help close the state's staggering $42 billion budget gap. At the same time, it would ease long-standing rules that some believe have held back the 25-year-old state lottery. Within a few years, however, Proposition 1C may only make the state's financial problems worse, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office has warned. The proposition, one of six budg
Apr 28, 2009, 8:20 am - Lottery News