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PositionSTATELINE - Lottery winners - Brief article

As counterintuitive as it may seem, lottery winners can have it rough. They often have to deal with a prying media, scare artists and others looking for a piece of their pie. Some become crime victims, like the $30-million winner in Florida who befriended a woman who later killed him for his money. Only five states--Delaware, Kansas, Maryland, North Dakota and Ohio--don't require the names of lottery winners to be disclosed. And a few states even stipulate that winners must appear at press conferences. Lawmakers in Michigan and New Jersey in 2012 debated, but did not pass, bills to give lottery...

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