Hampton’s Assistant City Manager James A. “Pete” Peterson won $1.1 million in Cash 5 lottery tickets over the weekend. Peterson used the same winning numbers when he bought 13 tickets, each worth $100,000, for a drawing on Saturday, Dec. 13. Peterson said he gave a winning ticket to each of his two sons, leaving him with 11 winning tickets worth a total of $1.1 million.

There is a heap of unclaimed prize money waiting to be matched up with a pair of RI Lottery ticket holders. ABC 6 has the full story… Please post your full name and city on comments.

For Edward Robinson, the holidays started early this year. The Norwood Young America man won $10,000 through the lottery’s Big Bucks scratch game with a ticket purchased at the Holiday gas station on Faxon Road on Nov. 24.

HAMPTON (AP)—A Hampton man has won the Virginia Lottery’s Cash 5 top prize of $100,000—and won it, and won it and won it. Lottery officials say the man won $1.1 million after playing the same numbers on 11 tickets for the same drawing. Each winning ticket gives the man $100,000. Lottery officials haven’t identified the man, who was scheduled to claim his winnings this afternoon at the lottery …

The economic recession hasn’t meant increased lottery sales in Missouri and Kansas. While both states have reported increases in sales of instant or scratcher tickets, overall lottery sales in Missouri are flat after rising nearly every year for more than 20 years. In Kansas, lottery sales are down.

HAMPTON Hampton’s assistant city manager has a little more to manage today – $1.1 million. James Peterson bought 11 Cash 5 tickets at three different stores in Hampton on Dec. 13, each with the same numbers for the same drawing. The tickets matched all five numbers with each top prize worth $100,000.  “I just had a feeling,” Peterson told lottery officials.