A man’s luck went south after running into lottery con artists in Bernal Heights.The victim lost $1,000 after his unlucky encounter with the scammers at 30th and Dolores streets. The robbery was reported to police around 3:30 p.m. Thursday.
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During the past decade, applicants and units entered in the annual condo-conversion lottery have doubled, yet the maximum number of winners has remained the same.According to the Department of Public Works, 366 individuals applied to convert nearly 1,100 units in 2001. In 2011, 681 people applied to convert more than 2,300 units. But under The City’s rules, only 200 conversions were allowed each year.
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WHAT: Kecia Parker brought her winning $88,000 North Carolina lottery ticket into a Pop Mart convenience store to have the numbers scanned, but owner Sureshbha Patel allegedly said it wasn’t a winner and kept it — trying to claim the payout for himself.
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The California Lottery has teamed up for the first time with the San Francisco 49ers to offer football scratchers tickets. The new $3 game with a $20,000 top prize will be announced today at the 49ers’ headquarters in Santa Clara. Fans who purchase 49ers game scratchers can enter nonwinning tickets on the lottery’s replay website for a chance to win 49ers prizes, such as suites for games, autographed helmets, jerseys from current players and VIP ticket packages.
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There’s at least one good thing about our governor being a former film star: He apparently reads his reviews. And the news clippings for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plan to close 100 state parks as a way of saving California money were decidedly hostile.
So guess who’s calling in a rewrite?
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San Francisco resident Christos Mastrokyriakos, a construction management student, has won $100,000 from a Big Spin ticket.
He purchased the ticket when he stopped at a store to buy gum and turned in a winning “Big Spin Scratchers” ticket to get another Big Spin ticket.
When he scratched the new Big Spin ticket, he uncovered “Spin-Spin-Spin.”
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A 74-year-old San Francisco woman was bilked out $6,500 earlier this month by a bogus lottery scam that frequently targets the elderly, law enforcement authorities said.
The woman, a Mission Terrace resident, was contacted by a man who claimed she won $600,000 from a Canadian lottery, despite never entering the contest, said Capt. Dennis O’Leary of the Ingleside Police Station.
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