Casino Crime Roundup: Wisconsin Jackpot Winner Robbed

Casino Crime Roundup: Wisconsin Jackpot Winner Robbed

A woman who was carrying several thousand dollars in her pocketbook was robbed early Monday outside a Wisconsin gaming property.

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Ho-Chunk Gaming Madison, pictured above. The Wisconsin casino was the site of a robbery. (Image: Ho-Chunk Nation)

The sole bandit grabbed her bag as she and her husband returned to their car.

The couple had been inside Ho-Chunk Gaming Madison on New Year’s Eve, where she won an unspecified amount of cash. The couple left the property at about 2 a.m.

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VICI Properties Could Be 2024 Triple-Net Winner, Says Analyst

VICI Properties Could Be 2024 Triple-Net Winner, Says Analyst

 

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Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip. Owner VICI Properties could be a winner among triple-net REIT stocks this year. (Image: CNN)

Amid soaring Treasury yields, triple-net real estate investment trusts (REITs), including casino REITs, stumbled last year, but VICI Properties (NYSE: VICI) could emerge as a winner from the group in 2024.

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Powerball Players Hope to Ring in New Year With $760M Jackpot

Powerball Players Hope to Ring in New Year With $760M Jackpot

Powerball is going out in style this year, as the jackpot has climbed north of $700 million for a fourth time in 2023.

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A lottery retailer in Boston advertises the Powerball jackpot for the game’s Saturday drawing on Dec. 30, 2023. The estimated $760 million jackpot is the sixth-largest in the game’s history. (Image: Boston Herald)

The Powerball jackpot hasn’t been won since the Oct. 11 drawing, when a single ticket sold in California won a $1.765 billion prize — the second-richest Powerball jackpot ever won and the second-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.

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$620M Powerball Jackpot Ready to Deliver Christmas Miracle

$620M Powerball Jackpot Ready to Deliver Christmas Miracle

Powerball has an estimated $620 million top prize up for grabs during its next drawing set for Saturday, December 23. The drawing that comes just hours before Christmas Eve stands to deliver a lucky winner with the 19th largest lottery jackpot in US history.

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A Powerball ticket sold in Florida is displayed in front of a replica of the leg lamp made famous in “A Christmas Story.” The $620 million Powerball jackpot for Saturday’s drawing could make for a memorable Christmas for a lucky winner. (Image: Florida Lottery)

Powerball’s top prize, which is only won by a ticket overcoming the measly odds of one in 292.2 million to match all five drawn white ball numbers and the red Powerball, last hit on October 11. That jackpot was won by a ticket sold in California.

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Indiana Lottery Winner Paid $500K Prize After Store Clerk Ripped Up Ticket

Indiana Lottery Winner Paid $500K Prize After Store Clerk Ripped Up Ticket

An Indiana man who won $500K on the Hoosier Lottery will get his payday, even though his ticket was shredded in front of his eyes by an inattentive store clerk, as first reported by The Lottery Post.

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Paul Marshall will receive his $500K prize from the Indiana lottery after a clerk mistakenly tore up his winning ticket. (Image: WBAA)

At a meeting of the Hoosier Lottery Commission in Indianapolis earlier this month, officials voted to honor the prize for state resident Paul Marshall.

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