Quick Trip To The Market To Buy Gas Turns Into Life Changing Purchase For Windsor Retiree
New York - 11/13/2008
A quick trip to a Quick Check Minimart by a Broome County retiree to buy gas for his tractor paid off big dividends after he scratched off a million dollar prize on the Lottery’s “Win $1,000 a Week for Life” instant game. READ MORE

NY Lottery Instant Ticket Turns Newlywed's Dinner Surprise Into $1,000,000 Winner
New York - 11/12/2008
The bride of two years and recent $1,000,000 Lottery scratch off prize winner believes there may be more to it, noting, “A little luck doesn’t hurt either.” READ MORE

Two From Brooklyn, Queens Each Win $1,000,000 in Lottery Prizes
New York - 10/28/2008
Yolanda Vega today teamed up with New York Lottery Jackpot Announcer Ralph Buckley to introduce two of New York City’s newest Lottery Millionaires. READ MORE

Nassau County Painter Claims $50,000 Instant Lottery Prize
New York - 10/27/2008
Jose Gomez of Mineola, Nassau County, won $50,000 playing the New York Lottery’s WIN $1,000,000 A YEAR FOR LIFE Instant game. READ MORE

Brooklyn Paralegal Collects $369,234 Lotto Second Prize
New York - 10/27/2008
Nancy Jimenez of Brooklyn received her prize check totaling $369,234 for matching five of the six numbers, plus the bonus number in the 9/6/08 LOTTO drawing. READ MORE

Johnstown Construction Woker Receives $8,000,000 Lotto Prize Check
New York - 10/15/2008
Ron “Cookie” Cook of Johnstown made history today as he accepted his over-sized Lotto prize check valued at $8,000,000 from the Lottery’s Yolanda Vega; becoming Fulton County’s first-ever Lottery Millionaire. READ MORE

White Plains Man Is In The Money, Money, Money, After Scratching $3,000,000 Jackpot Prize
New York - 10/14/2008
The New York Lottery’s Yolanda Vega presented Westchester County’s newest Lottery Millionaire, Martin “Doddi” Ortiz of White Plains, NY, with his oversized check totaling $3,000,000 today at the Palisades Center Mall in West Nyack. READ MORE

Equipment Operator Hauls In $500,000 Pick 10 Prize
New York - 10/01/2008
Dennis J. Sheehan of Scottsville, Monroe County, won $500,000 playing the Lottery’s Pick 10 game. READ MORE

Queens, NY: The New Lotto Hot Spot?
New York - 09/25/2008
Forty-Four-year-old Kenneth Rosado of Astoria, Queens is New York’s newest Lotto Millionaire. READ MORE

Secretary Files Away $52,507 Take Five Prize
New York - 09/16/2008
Patricia Shults, 57, of Schenectady, received her prize check totaling $52,507 for matching all five numbers in the New York Lottery’s TAKE FIVE drawing on July 11, 2008. READ MORE

Stillwater Lottery Winner Collects $1,000,000 Prize Check On His 53rd Birthday
New York - 09/16/2008
Donald Birch of Stillwater, NY received a very special birthday present today, a $1,000,000 prize he won playing a $500,000,000 Extravaganza instant game ticket from the New York Lottery. READ MORE

Newark Valley Woman Claims $1,000,000 Lottery Prize
New York - 09/10/2008
The 54-year-old Binghamton Housing Authority clerk is the third New York Lottery player from Tioga County - population 52,000 - to win a Lottery top prize valued at $1,000,000 or more since 1996. READ MORE

Water Plant Operator Wins $300,000 Double Triple Cashword Prize
New York - 09/08/2008
Jeffrey W. Zebrowski of Plainview (Nassau County) won $300,000 playing the New York Lottery’s DOUBLE TRIPLE CASHWORD Instant game. READ MORE

$40,000,000.00 Awarded To Ethnic Mosaic Of Big Apple Millionaires
New York - 08/29/2008
Celebrating the diversity of New Yorkers and its players with roots from all over the world, the New York Lottery today visited the Tudor Hotel at the United Nations to award prize checks totaling some $40,000,000.00. READ MORE

Port Jefferson Church Pastor Collects $3,000,000 Lottery Prize
New York - 08/27/2008
The True North Community Church of Port Jefferson, Suffolk County, is the “unlikely beneficiary of a most unexpected gift.” READ MORE

Stillwater Racing Fan Celebrates Her $1,000,000 Lottery Jackpot Win
New York - 08/18/2008
Saratoga Race Course has always been the “August place to be” for Theresa Dibble of Stillwater, Saratoga County. READ MORE

NY Lottery Serves Up $3,000,000 In "Dough" To Two From Brooklyn, Queens
New York - 07/31/2008
$3,000,000 was the catch of the day at the Water’s Edge Restaurant in Long Island City where the New York Lottery served up a couple of oversized prize checks to two very lucky New York Lottery players during NYC Restaurant Week. READ MORE

Queens Man Wins For Life Thanks To Mom
New York - 07/23/2008
Thirty-three-year-old Payal Kamal of Jamaica, Queens, credits his mother with helping him win the $1,000,000 top prize on the New York Lottery’s Win For Life instant game. READ MORE

Financial Advisor Wins $55,307 Take Five Prize
New York - 07/21/2008
Cau Trang, 52, of East Elmhurst, received his prize check totaling $55,307 for matching all five numbers in the New York Lottery's TAKE FIVE drawing held June 3, 2008. READ MORE

Rockland County Couple Splits $17,000,000 Mega Millions Jackpot with Player from Illinois
New York - 07/17/2008
Edward and Bertha “Ellen” Hopper of Tompkins Cove, Rockland County, today collected their fifty-percent share of a $17,000,000 jackpot from the Mega Millions multi-state drawing held on May 23, 2008. READ MORE

Cassadaga Contractor Builds His Retirement Fund With $3,000,000 Lottery Scratch Off Prize Winner
New York - 07/02/2008
Building up a bigger bank account was not what Gail McChesney expected when he scratched the $3,000,000 top prize on the New York Lottery’s Money Money Money instant game. READ MORE

Baldwinsville Hair Dresser Celebrates 4th of July Holiday With Million Dollar Lottery Win!
New York - 07/01/2008
Charlene is Onondaga County’s latest millionaire, winning the top prize of $1,000,000 on the instant game scratch off ticket New York Poker. READ MORE

Lottery Luck Strikes Again In LaGrangeville, NY
New York - 06/17/2008
LaGrangeville, NY, already home to a pair of lucky Lottery Millionaires, is now home to one of Dutchess County’s luckiest Lottery retailers. READ MORE

Brooklyn Doorman Turned $5,000,000 Lottery Winner: "Now That's A Tip!"
New York - 06/12/2008
Forty-four-year-old Richard Randazzo of Graves End, Brooklyn, who counts on the tips he gets as a doorman at a Manhattan high-rise to help make ends meet, is the seventh New York Lottery millionaire from Brooklyn in six months. READ MORE

Luck Comes In Fives For Island's Newest Lottery Millionaire
New York - 06/12/2008
Five is a lucky number. Just ask Margaret “Peggy” Sfoglia of Shirley, Suffolk County. The 60-year-old retired bookkeeper and mother of five is the Island’s newest Lottery Millionaire. READ MORE