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FOREST CITY, Fla. -- A $60 million lottery winner was shot by two Seminole County deputies. Robert Swofford, Jr. is in the hospital with four gunshot wounds. Swofford, 54, may have thought the deputies on his private property were intruders, but the officers who were looking for a burglar. Instead, they ran into the armed man. The Seminole County Sheriff's Office released video taken by their helicopter just moments after deputies shot Swofford at his home off 436 near Forest City. They said he had an semi-automatic weapon and refused to drop it. Swofford's close friend told Channel 9 on...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- A woman who won $1 million playing a Pennsylvania Lottery scratch-off ticket earlier this year won another million on the same game Thursday. Donna Goeppert, 55, of Bethlehem said it was "just unbelievable" after filing her claim Friday at lottery headquarters. "What are the odds of that?" she asked. The odds of winning just once are 1.44 million-to-1, according to the lottery. Lehigh University engineering professor Bob Storer placed the odds of winning twice after buying 100 tickets at 419 million-to-1. Goeppert's winning tickets both came in the lottery's $1 Million Blockbuster game. A lottery spokeswoman confirmed...

BOISE, Idaho - Someone donated a $30,000 winning lottery ticket to the Idaho Foodbank. The ticket was tucked inside an envelope without a return address Wednesday, Foodbank Director Roger Simon says. Idaho Lottery officials say it's first time they know of someone donating the entire amount of a winning ticket to a charitable organization. The Foodbank will use the money for its children's programs. The Stinker Station that sold the winning ticket also gave the food bank $300 from the money it got from the commission for selling the winning ticket.

PHILADELPHIA -- Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was so ill in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl that a teammate had to call a play in the huddle, center Hank Fraley said. "He fought to the end," Fraley told Comcast SportsNet on Monday. "He gave it his all. He was almost puking in the huddle. One play had to be called by (wideout) Freddie Mitchell because Donovan was mumbling because he was almost puking." Offensive lineman Jon Runyan also echoed Fraley's comments in the same interview aired on two local radio stations on Tuesday after the Comcast report. McNabb...

It looked like Donovan McNabb saved his jitters for the Super Bowl. McNabb spent the week telling jokes, being loose and insisting that he felt no pressure leading the Philidelphia Eagles versus the New England Patriots.But the five time pro bowl QB had a shaky performance in the most important game of his career Sunday, a 24-21 loss to the Patriots. McNabb turned the ball over three times, including crucial interceptions in the first and fourth quarters.McNabb misfired on several passes early, held the ball too long in other instance and made several poor decisions. One of the best scramblers...

INDIANAPOLIS - A former lottery security officer has been charged with helping two men buy a $1 million winning ticket by tipping them to where it would be sold. William C. Foreman, 59, was arrested Monday and charged with disclosing lottery information and theft, authorities said. He faces up to 50 years in prison. Foreman told an acquaintance, Chad Adkins, and Daniel Foltz in May that a winning scratch-off ticket had been sent to a store in Cross Plains in southeastern Indiana, said Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi. One of the men then spent about $700 to buy the store's...

A New York City-based group is calling on small business owners across the state to shut down their Quick Draw lottery games for a week to protest the state's smoking ban. NYC CLASH -- which stands for Citizens Lobby Against Smoker Harassment -- has called the shutdown for October 23rd to the 29th. "The move isn't so much a protest, but rather a display of collective power," said movement founder Audrey Silk, in a prepared statement. The group is asking taverns and restaurants, bowling alleys, inns and fraternal lodges to shut off their Quick Draw machines during that period...

In "The Wizard of Oz," Dorothy is told, "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain." Perhaps Dorothy should play the Pennsylvania Lottery. Things are not what they have seemed. That midday lottery drawing, which is advertised for the three- and four-digit numbers as occurring at 1:35 p.m., actually happens at about 1:10. Moreover, if you are a gambler who thinks that balls come down a tube -- as they do on the live TV broadcast in the evening -- then brace yourself for another surprise: The midday numbers are drawn randomly by a computer program, despite the impression...

BELFAST (Reuters) - A 58-year-old cancer sufferer from Northern Ireland was unveiled on Friday as the biggest single winner in the 10-year history of Britain's National Lottery with a 20.1 million pound ($37 million) jackpot. Iris Jeffrey, a mother-of-two from north Belfast, bought the winning ticket on July 14, but did not realize she was sitting on the massive windfall until lottery organizers made an appeal for the missing winner to come forward earlier this week. "I watched the news on television and it came out with the numbers on the screen. I wrote them down to check them later...

<p>NEW MILFORD, Conn. (AP)- Courtesy counts in dealing with customers, but it also has paid off for a supermarket cashier who says a rude customer turned out to be worth $25,000.</p> <p>A grumpy customer was the source of luck for Loretta Morris who works at the Northville Market.</p>

<p>ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man held two of three winning tickets for a $70 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot, good for a cash option prize of $26.6 million before taxes, lottery officials said. Stephen Cooke of Roswell said Wednesday that he didn't realize until he went to claim the prize that he had double-purchased the winning numbers for Tuesday's drawing.</p>

<p>Kenneth Parker says he and his wife, Connie, always dreamed of winning the lottery — but when the couple finally hit a $25 million jackpot, the 77-year-old Long Island man found out his wife's dreams didn't include him.</p> <p>Just months after their February lottery win, the 74-year-old woman booted him from their new condo in Melville, refused to give him any money, and cut off contact with him, he charged yesterday.</p>

<p>Maybe it was hyperbole; maybe it was just frustration. But at a recent town hall meeting at the Santa Clara County Office of Education, state schools chief Jack O'Connell uttered a surprisingly stark pronouncement. The California lottery, he said, ``has done more to hurt public education than almost anything.''</p>

EU LOTTO PLOT THREATENS 'MILLIONAIRE' May 3 2003 Exclusive: EU scheme to reverse sales slump by outlawing TV prizes over £70k By Tanith Carey, Consumer Editor THE ban on huge TV show cash prizes has been masterminded by the EU to boost state lotteries, it was revealed yesterday. Not only could Who Wants to be a Millionaire? face axing its jackpot, but Channel Four show Boys and Girls, which gives away £100,000, will be forced to cut its payouts. Big Brother will also have to cap its £70,000 prize. An Government insider said: "This law is being backed by a...

Lotto Texas winner charged with cocaine possession 01/22/2003 Associated Press BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Easy come, easy go. Jose Luis Betancourt had a stroke of luck just before Christmas when his Lotto Texas ticket matched all six numbers, netting him a $7.5 million prize. But his luck ran out less than a month later when U.S. Customs agents found 1.63 kilograms of cocaine hidden in the dishwasher and pantry of his apartment. Betancourt, 53, of Brownsville appeared in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Feliz Recio Tuesday and was ordered held without bond on charges of cocaine possession and conspiracy to distribute...

JUDGES, JURIES, AND PUNITIVE DAMAGES: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY - OR A TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT? By Victor E. Schwartz, Mark A. Behrens, and Leah Lorber A recently released study of state court trials claims that judges award punitive damages about as often as juries do - and generally in the same proportions.(1) The study, which is scheduled to be published in March 2002 in the Cornell Law Review, challenges widespread beliefs that jurors are more likely to award punitive damages than judges. The study's findings will undoubtedly be touted by opponents of punitive damages reform. Indeed, the New York Times...

One Ticket Wins $315 Million Lottery 24 minutes ago LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Somewhere in West Virginia, someone is about to celebrate a green Christmas. One winning ticket was sold in West Virginia for the nearly-$315 million Powerball lottery on Wednesday night, a spokesman for contest operator the Multi-State Lottery Association said. The winning numbers were 5, 14, 16, 29 and 53 and the "Powerball" was 7. The jackpot was the largest ever taken by a single winner, association spokesman Joe Mahony told Reuters. The Powerball is played in 23 states plus Washington D.C. and the Virgin Islands. Initially expected...

SAN JOSE, Calif. _ There's winning the Lottery. But winning two big jackpots? On the same day? Angelo Gallina beat the incredible odds, and on Wednesday the Belmont retiree claimed his payoff _ $6.6 million, after taxes, for holding the winning ticket from both the SuperLotto and the Fantasy 5 games on Nov. 20. It's the only time in the 17-year history of the California Lottery that's happened. And experts said the odds of doing it are mind-boggling. The odds of winning SuperLotto are 1-in-41 million. For Fantasy 5, 1-in-575,000. But for both? "This is just amazing, astronomical," said Stanford...

Did anyone else here this? On the radio this AM on my ride into work I swear I hear them say that the NY Lotto numbers yesterday were 9, 1 , 1