A Lucky Lady - 4 Time Lottery Winner

The lucky lady of Texas has won a total of over $20,000,000 on four lottery wins. In a combination of drawing game jackpots and scratchers the lottery has treated her very well since 1993 - especially in the last five years. For now, she's laying low. Here's the story reported by Online Casino Reports.

Four Time Lottery Winner Lies Low

In the sleepy, rural town of Bishop, Texas lady luck has shone upon one rapturous resident not once, not twice, not even three times. Jammy Joan Ginther has notched up a phenomenal four lottery wins.

Ginther, known for her reclusive nature, had her first win in the form of a shared $11 million lottery draw jackpot back in 1993. She followed this up with scratch card wins to a tidy $2 million in 2006 and a thrilling $3 million just two years later.

Her latest win came from a $50 scratch card and netted her a cool $10 million. The 63 year old hails from a small community of 3,300 and is known to be a very private person.

Pilgrimage to Times Market

The mysterious millionaire bought two of her winning tickets at Times Market, a highway gas station, which, understandably, is becoming a place of pilgrimage for those chasing some lottery loot.

Sue Bae, who owns the Time Market remembers selling Ginther her winning tickets and describes her as "generous" and having "helped so many people". Bae recalls her buying a car for someone down on their luck, getting a van for the local church and donating her old home to charity. Read the whole story...

4 Co-workers Sue Lottery Pool for Not Sharing 207M Lottery Jackpot

Tisk, tisk, tisk. An Ohio lottery pool of 19 that had been pooling money for 5 years won't share $207,000,000 lottery jackpot they won while 4 of the people were out of the office. With LottoGopher, we collect your prize and divvy up the winnings for you and it's all online, so no one in your lottery pool or lottery syndicate will ever miss a drawing. Here's the article from wowowow.com and video from CNN. Sounds like most agree, what do you think?

Co-Workers Sue Over $207M Lottery Win

Four city workers — who had been polling their money in the office pot for nearly five years under the verbal agreement that they’d all share the winnings — were out of the office and unavailable to contribute to the office pool for a drawing last month that resulted in a $207 million payoff.

The four planitiffs are suing 15 co-workers who are keeping the $207 million Mega Millions lottery winnings all to themselves. Read the whole article...

Really a sword?

This story is a bit strange. I also don't like it when I don't win the lottery, but I don't conceal weapons and threaten people. Here it is reported by Mercury News.

Watsonville man arrested for concealed sword after he complains his lottery tickets aren't winners

WATSONVILLE — A man arguing with a store clerk over lottery tickets was arrested on suspicion of carrying a concealed weapon Tuesday morning after he showed an officer a sword concealed in his trench coat, Watsonville police reported.

Watsonville resident Laurence Roscoe Gregory, 65, was fighting with the clerk because he believed his tickets were winners, when in fact they were not, according to Sgt. Saul Gonzalez. The officer talked with Gregory outside the store, located on the 100 block of East Lake Avenue, around 8 a.m. and explained that Gregory hadn't won.

Then the officer asked Gregory, who was wearing "bulky" clothing, if he had any weapons on him and Gregory revealed the 3- to 4-foot-long sword under his coat. He told the officer the sword was part of his attire, Gonzalez said. Read the whole story...

Virginia State Lottery Releases Redskins Scratch Tickets

Scratch the logo off DC's favorite (or most hated in Dallas) team, The Redskins. Today the Virginia lottery released Redskins scratch tickets. Scratch and win a lottery prize... hopefully! Here's the story from DC sports blog.

Redskins lottery tickets go nostalgia

So, what would they call their new Virginia Lottery scratcher? "Redskins Legacy," naturally, featuring little old-timey helmet logos right at the top. Pretty soon, they can just scrap the games altogether and show old glory-days highlights on the massive new HD screens. Or at last scrap the preseason games. Bet fans wouldn't mind. Read the whole story...

Retired Press Worker Scratches for $1,000,000

A man whom worked for 40 years in a Berlin, CT manufacturing firm retired pack to his native Puerto Rico. At a family reunion back in Connecticut he swung through the local gas station for a cup of joe and a scratcher - a scratcher worth A MILLION BUCKS! Congrats to the newest Connecticut scratch ticket lottery winning millionaire. Here's the story reported by the New Britain Herald.

Retired Press Operator Wins Lottery

When Wilman Bravo showed up at his son, Robert’s home in Plainville Wednesday afternoon the younger Bravo was concerned. His father was crying.

“These are good tears,” Bravo assured his son. “These are tears of joy.”

After working more than 40 years as a press operator for a Berlin manufacturing firm, former New Britain resident Wilman Bravo, 66, retired last year.

He returned to his native Sabana Hoyos, Puerto Rico. Then Wednesday, while back in New Britain for his annual family visit, Bravo stopped at a local convenience store to buy a cup of coffee and lottery tickets.

On a whim he peeled off an Andrew Jackson for two, “$100,000,000 Diamond Mine” instant games.

In moments Bravo was no longer simply a “retired factory worker;” he had donned a new mantle, “Connecticut’s Newest Lottery Millionaire.”

Revealing a matching pair of 16s, Bravo discovered he had won the $1,000,000 prize — a sum that far exceeded his expectations.

“I did a double take,” he told lottery officials and laughed. “I took off my glasses, turned the winning ticket around in my hand, cleaned my glasses, then took another look.”

Unable to reach his son by cell phone to share the news, clutching the ticket, he got back in his car and drove to his son’s house.

“I was in disbelief,” said Robert Bravo about his father’s good fortune.

However, father and son managed to drive to CT Lottery headquarters in Rocky Hill to verify the ticket and claim the elder Bravo’s $1,000,000 top prize. Read the full story...