NY lottery biggest in '05, Ohio's cost most-agency
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The New York state lottery generated more cash and paid out more prize money in 2005 than any other U.S. state lottery, but Ohio's games were the most costly to administer, figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau showed on Wednesday.
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The odds of winning the 12-state Mega Millions jackpot, the largest ever, are about 1 in 176 million.
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One Miami-area medical equipment supplier managed to bill the U.S. government so often for a wheelchair it ended up costing $5 million.
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Best Buy Co., the biggest electronics retailer in the nation, was sued yesterday by Ohio&#39;s attorney general, who accused the company of deceptive sales practices such as repackaging used merchandise and selling it as new.
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Re-formed bands shelve differences to go on tourÂ· Police top list of biggest earners, taking $132m
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Canadian police charge a retailer with fraudulently claiming a C$5.7m lottery prize, which customers had won.
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NEW YORK  At least two people had winning tickets in Tuesday's $370 million Mega Millions lottery.
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WORLD GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS Event: NEC Invitational Site: Firestone Country Club, South Course (7,230 yards, par 70), Akron, Ohio. Schedule: Today-Sunday. Purse: $7 million. Winner's share: $1.2 million. Television: ESPN (today-tomorrow, 3-7 p.m.) and Channel 4 (Saturday, 2-6 p.m.; Sunday, 2:30-6:30 p.m.). Last year: Darren Clarke won his second WGC title, beating Jonathan Kaye by four strokes. Last week: Vijay Singh ...
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Tonight's the night if you want to win the world's biggest ever lottery prize of Â£95m
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NEW YORK - Bank of America Corp. has raised ATM fees to $3 for noncustomers to boost profit from its network of 17,000 cash machines, the largest in the United States.
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Description: Union and shipping company officials at the Port of Los Angeles held a lottery Thursday to fill 300,000 longshore jobs. More than 300,000 people applied for the dangerous but lucrative jobs. Results of the lottery will be posted on the Web ...
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The World Golf Championships offer some amazing perks. There's no cut, so everyone is guaranteed a check. The purse is $7.5 million, among the highest in golf, and even last place gets more than $30,000. If that sounds like a defeatist attitude to take at the American Express Championship, there's a reason. Tiger Woods has a five-shot lead.
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By MARTHA McKAY, The Record, Hackensack, N.J.  Dec. 10--Carmine Cacciavillani won the business equivalent of a  mega-bucks lottery a few weeks back.   He sold his company -- Palisades Technology Partners -- to mega-giant  IBM.
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With just 78 cents in his savings account and &#36;44,000 owed to creditors, parking attendant Juan Rodriguez plunked down &#36;1 on a lottery ticket. Good thing he wasn't pinching pennies: He won a &#36;149 million lottery jackpot.
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NEW YORK - Money - not even $149 million - can't buy you love. Juan Rodriguez, who collected the huge windfall in the Mega Millions lottery last month, is now on the outs with his wife, the New York Post reported Saturday.
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Oct. 4, 2004 (Dayton Daily News) Federal regulators have taken the nation&#39;s largest funder of home mortgage loans to task. The charge?
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Online gambling firms faced their  biggest-ever crisis on Monday after U.S. Congress passed  legislation to end Internet gaming there, threatening jobs and  wiping 3.5 billion pounds ($6.5 billion) off company values.