... can prevent the recent gaming expansion from creating an arms race for more and more tax subsidies," Pretlow, D-Mount Vernon, wrote in a letter Oct. 25 obtained by the USA Today Network's Albany Bureau. The three casinos are on pace to end up their ...
The $1 million winner of Saturday's Powerball jackpot who bought the ticket in Westchester has not come forward, but that person won't remain anonymous for long, according to the New York Lottery. The $2 Powerball ticket sold at the Estrella Minimarket in Mount Vernon was the second $1 million winner sold since the "roll-up" of the game began on June 14, said Lottery Spokeswoman Carolyn Hapeman.
A pair of Westchester County gas stations sold winning TAKE5 lottery tickets over the weekend, with total prizes of more than $100,000 to be awarded to five lucky players who matched all five choices. On Friday, one of four winning tickets in the state was sold at Rock Cut Deli and Gas on Albany Post Road in Cortlandt Manor, with a second winner sold the following day at the Wave gas station on West Lincoln Avenue in Mount Vernon.
For the second time in less than two weeks , a Mount Vernon retailer has sold a winning TAKE5 lottery ticket work nearly $30,000. After a winning ticket was sold out of a bodega on Mount Vernon Avenue on Saturday, Oct. 15, another lucky lotto player frequenting the local Stop and Shop on East Sandford Boulevard was victorious in the Monday, Oct. 24 drawing.
