Monday, March 29, 2010

Unclaimed $796,000 Winning Lottery Ticket Must Be Claimed


This Mega Millions winning lottery ticket must be claimed today! Check your tickets! Here's the story reported by ABC.

BENICIA, CA (KGO) -- A golden ticket is about to turn to dust, unless someone acts fast.

California lottery officials are urging every lottery player in Benicia to spend the day checking their old tickets because someone is still holding a Mega Millions ticket worth $796,000, but it must be turned in by 5 p.m. today.

The ticket was purchased at the CVS Pharmacy on 2100 Columbus Parkway in Benicia on Sep. 29 of last year.

The winning numbers are 45-21-50-25-2 and the Mega number is 21, the only number the ticket didn't have. Read the whole story...

Friday, March 26, 2010

Sisters Feud Over $500,000 Lottery Prize


A sad story of a sisterly bond being broken. The elderly women share over 80 years of history together and find themselves in court over a $500,000 lottery jackpot prize. Here's the story from the Hartford Courant.

Lottery Jackpot Testimony: 'She Said I Wasn't Going To Get a Dime'


NEW BRITAIN — The damage to the bond of two elderly sisters from a dispute over a $500,000 Powerball jackpot could be measured by how little love was on display in court Tuesday.

Rose Bakaysa, 87, and Theresa Sokaitis, 84, never seemed to lock eyes.

There were no smiles or waves.

Bakaysa referred to her sister as "Mrs. Sokaitis."

But even while testifying against each other, signs of a past sisterhood were evident.

Sokaitis recalled how Bakaysa paid the school tuition of one of Sokaitis' six children and gave her money when her car was repossessed. And when Bakaysa had heart surgery, Sokaitis visited her in the hospital every day.

"I love my sister," Sokaitis told the judge. "There was no reason for us not to be partners."

Superior Court Judge Cynthia K. Swienton told the sisters that their five-year wait to get the court to resolve their dispute could be over in the next few months when the judge would likely make a ruling in the case.

Despite a close relationship that testimony showed spanned nearly seven decades, the two sisters were unable to settle the dispute on their own. Read the whole article...

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Times up on a £3,681,197 prize...


What a shame. This lucky multi-millionaire is missing out. If he used LottoGopher, this would never happen. Here's the story reported by www.strathspey-herald.co.uk.

TIME - and luck - has run out for the holder of a winning Lottery ticket, which may well have been bought in the strath.

The search for the ticket holder, who had matched all six numbers, has been building in intensity in the past few weeks, with National Lottery players being urged to to check and double check their tickets.

Camelot Group, operator of The National Lottery, has announced that the £3,681,197 prize from the Lotto draw made back on Wednesday, September 23 last year, has remained unclaimed more than 180 days after the draw took place.

All the money, plus the interest it has earned, has now passed over to the Good Causes. The ticket-holder bought their Lotto ticket in the constituency of Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey and the deadline for claiming the prize was at 5.30pm on Monday this week.

A National Lottery spokesperson said: "Unfortunately, I can confirm that the ticket-holder did not come forward within the deadline to claim their prize and has now sadly missed out on this substantial amount of money. To avoid this unfortunate situation happening again, I would urge all National Lottery players to check their tickets on a regular basis. Read the whole story...