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Deadline Passes For Unclaimed $100K Lottery TicketNews Story
Time, and luck, has run out for whoever bought a Powerball ticket worth $100,000 last summer at a northern Indiana gas station.Wednesday's deadline for redeeming the ticket passed with no one claiming their prize, which would have paid off around $75,000 after taxes, Hoosier Lottery officials said.The ticket, which matched five of six numbers in the drawing, was purchased at a D-Mart store in Lake County's Calumet Township for the June 18 Powerball drawing.Store manager Pali Singh said his custo
Dec 19, 2005, 7:18 am - Lottery News

Couple Claims $4.6 Million Lottery Prize With Hour To SpareNews Story
An Arvada, Colo., couple decided to check their unclaimed lottery tickets after hearing that a June 8 Lotto drawing had a $4.6 million unclaimed prize.Richard and Leslie Crosby went through their unchecked tickets and found the winning ticket. They verified the ticket at 11:17 p.m., less than an hour before the prize payout was set to expire. We are pretty dumbfounded, Leslie Crosby said Tuesday.The couple plays the lottery every Wednesday and Saturday, according to lottery officials.They chose
Dec 9, 2005, 12:45 pm - Lottery News

$100,000 lottery ticket to expire WednesdayNews Story
A Powerball ticket purchased in Gary, Indiana is worth $100,000 until Wednesday, Hoosier Lottery Officials said.A store here sold one of the 86 Match 5 winning tickets on June 18. But the Gary ticket is the only one that has yet to be claimed, said lottery spokesman Drew Griffis on Thursday.Winners have 180 days from the date of the drawing to claim their prize, but to collect this six-figure payout, the winner will have to travel to lottery headquarters in Indianapolis.The winner chose 5, 8, 10
Dec 9, 2005, 9:21 am - Lottery News

Lottery Ticket Sold in Virginia Beach Worth $175,000 Expires ThursdayNews Story
A winning Mega Million Lottery Ticket worth $175,000 is set to expire at 5:00pm Thursday unless the lucky owner comes forward to claim his or her prize.Official say the ticket was sold January 14th in Virginia Beach, at the Citgo located at 841 South Military Highway. The station is at the intersection of Military and Indian River Road.The winning ticket matched all the numbers except the Mega Ball number. The numbers for that drawing were 15, 19, 24, 40 and 47, with a Mega Ball number of 50. Th
Jul 13, 2005, 7:54 pm - Lottery News

Unclaimed lottery prizes fund Tennessee school programsNews Story
Struggling students in danger of failing will now have somewhere to go to get academic help after the last bell rings.The first crop of 20 Lottery Education After-school Programs, which include six in Middle Tennessee, were recently awarded and they will share $2 million in unclaimed lottery prizes. Starting this fall, they'll provide tutoring, teach computer literacy, offer sports, and help students in danger of failing gain the reading and math skills they need.About 140 school systems, faith-
Jul 11, 2005, 12:51 pm - Lottery News

NJ House rejects lottery appropriation for teachersNews Story
The New Jersey House of Representatives rejected yesterday the Senate amendment to appropriate $33,000 in unclaimed lottery funds to full-time Public School System teachers.House Education Committee chair Justo S. Quitugua said the bill now goes to the conference committee for resolution.He said there is a need to change some language in the bill. For instance, he said that, if the entire fund of $33,000 is distributed among the 500 PSS teachers, each recipient would only end up getting $66. I
Jul 6, 2005, 8:09 am - Lottery News

Unclaimed UK Lottery Prizes Soar to £100m RecordNews Story
Unclaimed UK National Lottery prize money rose to a record 100 million (US$182 million) last year, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport confirmed today.The figure the highest since the game was launched was up from 73 million (US$133 million) the previous year.After 180 days all unclaimed prize money plus the interest accrued goes to the National Lottery Distribution Fund, the DCMS said.The money is then allocated to good causes around the country.Lottery operator Camelot said the un
Jun 17, 2005, 2:03 pm - Lottery News

$10 Million Florida Lottery Jackpot Still UnclaimedNews Story
Look under the car seats and check the pockets on those pants that haven't been worn in weeks.Perhaps crumpled up somewhere is a discarded Florida Lottery Quick Pick ticket worth $10 million. It contains the winning numbers from a drawing on New Year's Day: 11-21-32-35-42-46.The Circle K store on Morris Bridge Road in Thonotosassa sold the winning ticket.But if the owner doesn't claim the winnings by midnight on June 30, the ticket won't be worth a nickel. This happens quite a bit, said Jacquel
May 6, 2005, 12:00 pm - Lottery News

$1.2 million Washington lottery jackpot goes unclaimedNews Story
Oh, what might have been. ...Would-be millionaires searched for stray Washington Lotto tickets in hopes that one held the winning combination for a $1.2 million jackpot that had to be claimed by 5 p.m. yesterday. As far as we know, it hasn't been redeemed yet, said Nick Waldbillig, night manager of the Bremerton Safeway where the ticket was bought Oct. 27. There has been a lot of buzz around it, though. Everybody who regularly buys tickets here, they all claim it's theirs. The $1.2 million jac
Apr 26, 2005, 12:48 pm - Lottery News

Delaware Lottery looking for $7.7 million winnerNews Story
There's a millionaire on the loose in Harrington, Delaware and lottery officials are pulling out all the stops to figure out who it is.And they've been looking since Jan. 27.That's when lottery officials learned that the $7.7 million winning Lotto ticket was sold at the Bridle Bit, a liquor store on U.S. 13 in Harrington. We haven't seen a winner up here yet, said Brian Peters, a spokesman for the Delaware Lottery. We try and beat the bushes after we have a winner, but sometimes it takes a whi
Feb 11, 2005, 1:58 pm - Lottery News