Ohio
Judges Fined
The Ohio State Racing Commission has fined three Scioto
Downs judges after they posted an incorrect placing
and paid out incorrect mutuels in a recent race at
the Columbus, Ohio track.
Presiding judge Larry Richard and associate judges
Herman Brickel and Patrick Campana were each fined
$2,000,
£10m
win Lavery still buys ticket for Lottery
NATIONAL Lottery millionaire Peter Lavery has revealed
that he still buys a ticket every week, eight years
after scooping more than £10m.
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News
in brief
A mother died and two of her relatives were seriously
injured yesterday when a gunman burst in on a family
barbecue and opened fire.
The woman was shot in the head, and her mother and
aunt were wounded, while two young children cowered
in the back garden of the house in the village of
Highmoor Cross, south Oxfordshire.
Birthdays
key to $10.9M win
REGINA -- A lifetime of buying
lotto tickets has finally paid off for new millionaires
Ralph and Donna Ryhorchuk. "It is an emotional
thing," said Donna, fighting back tears. "It's
a dream come true and dreams do come true."
The Ryhorchuks of Regina used a system of family birthdays
and ages to win Saturday's $10.9-million Lotto 6-49
jackpot.
Pensioner's
big win
LOTTO'S big red ball bounced into Laurieton on the
weekend landing in the bank account of a 69-year-old
woman, making her a whopping $830,033 richer.
The delighted Laurieton resident is still coming to
terms with her win in the Saturday Lotto draw on May
29.
"I had the surprise of my life when I popped
into the newsagency on Sunday to check my tickets
and the man told me that I had won all of this money,"
the woman said.
FAVORITES PREVAIL AT VERNON DOWNS
Paul and Pauline Nower’s Rapphappy Kash became the
meet’s first four race winning trotter with a convincing,
1:592 triumph in Friday’s $11,700 final of the Lotto
S Collins Trotting Series, and Alan Schwartz’s Iroquoindiangiver
displayed his best form with a tight, 1:58 decision
in the week’s top contest for Open square-gaiters.
McEwen
scampers to Swiss win; Ullrich still leads Tour
Robbie McEwen (Lotto-Domo) outsprinted a large group
of finishers to win the second stage of the Tour of
Switzerland on Sunday.
Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) retained the overall lead after
finishing in the main pack in the flat, 170 kilometer
ride from D?rrenroth to Rheinfelden.
Cops
afraid of their wives
Pretoria - Some members of the Police and Prisons
Civil Rights Union (Popcru) are afraid that women
married to police officers could murder their husbands
to get access to government grants.
"We are afraid to get married," John Ledwaba
said outside the Pretoria magistrate's court on Tuesday.
He was one of about 50 Popcru members protesting outside
the court.
LOCAL
BRIEFS
Several Leon County students
received top honors at the National History Day Competition
last week at the University of Maryland. Fourteen
students from Deerlake Middle, Trinity Catholic, John
Paul II Catholic, Leon High and Lincoln High schools
were able to participate because they placed first
or second at the Florida History Fair in May.
Chairmen
to Blame
If the pace of the canvassing of the presidential
and vice-presidential votes in Congress has been slow,
blame it also on the chairmen of the canvass committee.
They are indecisive.
Definitely, by their questioning almost every certificate
of canvass, the opposition committee members and lawyers
have delayed the canvass. Most of the long questions
have come from them.
No
Megabucks winner; jackpot increases to $7.2 million
SALEM, ORE. - Nobody won the $7 million jackpot Wednesday
night in the Oregon Lottery's Megabucks lotto game,
pushing the estimated jackpot to $7.2 million for
Saturday's drawing.
Eight tickets bearing five of the six winning numbers
were sold, worth $1,406.70 apiece when redeemed at
the lottery's office in Salem in person or by mail.
RailCats
Trade LHP Eric White to Sioux Falls
White, 26, went 0-1 with a 4.61 ERA in 11 relief appearances
this season for the RailCats. The 6-2 lefty, who pitched
for Cook County of the Frontier League in 2003, struck
out 12 batters, but also allowed four home runs in
13.2 innings this year. White is the player to be
named later in the April 13 trade that brought catcher
Rich Rodrigues to the RailCats.
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