http://hamptonroads.com/taxonomy/term/64 Category: Lottery en-us Copyright 2008 PilotOnline.com / HamptonRoads.com. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:01:36 -0500 VIRGINIA BEACH Shortly after buying three Virginia Lottery scratcher tickets, John Costner returned to ask the clerk at the Malbon Brothers Corner Mart if one of his tickets was real. It was. The ticket won the Virginia Beach resident the top $1 million prize in the lottery’s “Tax Free Million Scratcher” game, a Virginia Lottery news release said. http://hamptonroads.com/2008/11/virginia-beach-man-wins-1-million-prize-virginia-lottery Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:40:38 -0500 A Chesapeake man went to Moyock, N.C., for a barbecue sandwich in June and walked away with a lottery ticket worth more than $500,000. But it took Willie Evans Jr. nearly four months to realize he had the winning Carolina Cash 5 ticket, according to a news release from the North Carolina Education Lottery.  http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/chesapeake-man-wins-575000-eventually-nc-lottery Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:56:51 -0400 A retired warehouse supervisor from Norfolk won one of 10 Harley-Davidson motorcycles in the Virginia Lottery’s “Live to Ride” game. Joe Gray scratched off his ticket inside the 7-Eleven at 6900 N. Military Hwy. and then asked a store clerk to check it for him, according to a news release from the Virginia Lottery. http://hamptonroads.com/2008/09/norfolk-man-wins-motorcycle-virginia-lottery-game Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:30:57 -0400 NORFOLK Someone is walking around with a lot of money in his or her pocket. A lottery ticket worth $1,000 a week for life was sold Wednesday at the Race Coast convenience store in the 2400 block of East Little Creek Road, according to a Virginia Lottery press release. The store will receive a $10,000 bonus from Virginia Lottery. http://hamptonroads.com/2008/09/winning-lottery-ticket-sold-norfolk-little-creek-road-store Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:30:16 -0400 VIRGINIA BEACH Luckiest. Guy. Ever. It's not an official title, but it will do for Ralph Stephens. The Virginia Beach man recently won the Virginia Lottery's Cash 5 drawing for the third time. Each time he matched all five numbers and walked away with the $100,000 top prize. http://hamptonroads.com/2008/08/virginia-beach-man-wins-100000-lottery-third-time Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:38:11 -0400 A Williamsburg man will receive a Harley-Davidson motorcycle from the Virginia Lottery today. The man was the winner of the lottery’s Harley-Davidson Scratcher game and has won a 105th Anniversary Fat Boy Motorcycle, according to a news release. http://hamptonroads.com/2008/08/williamsburg-man-wins-motorcycle-virginia-lottery Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:19:09 -0400 CHESAPEAKE If you were on the phone with someone and were handed a note saying you had just won $1 million, could you keep talking without giving it away? How about if the person on the other end of the line was your spouse? http://hamptonroads.com/2008/03/chesapeake-man-keeps-mum-he-wins-million Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:45:18 -0400 Jasper Ingram of Chesapeake delivers the mail for a living in Norfolk.  This morning, Virginia Lottery officials delivered to him the first of many checks he will receive the rest of his life. http://hamptonroads.com/2008/02/chesapeake-mail-carrier-wins-lottery-life Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:00:12 -0500 A Virginia Beach couple traveling in North Carolina stopped at a gas station and took home a lottery ticket worth $1 million. http://hamptonroads.com/2008/02/virginia-beach-couple-wins-1-million-nc-lottery-game Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:42:20 -0500 VIRGINIA BEACH Some people play the same lottery numbers every week. But a few have so much faith in their choice of numbers that they play them more than once - for the same game. And that strategy has paid off six times over for a retired Virginia Beach plumber who recently discovered that he had six winning Cash 5 tickets, each worth $100,000. http://hamptonroads.com/2008/02/retired-plumber-plays-cash-5-numbers-6-times-win-600000 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:22:32 -0500