SF News Saturday Links: Flores’ Three Home Runs Lead Giants to 9-1 Win Over Athletics Georgia hiker Tiffany Slaton talks about her experience enduring a blizzard in a remote Sierra cabin; an SF fugitive was arrested at BevMo in an RBG t-shirt; Giants' Wilmer Flores hits three home runs, including a grand slam, in a big victory against the A's.
SF News Modest Glen Park Corner Store Sells Winning Powerball Ticket Worth Nearly $1 Million The hardly upscale corner store Buddies Market at Chenery and Diamond streets in Glen Park just produced a Powerball jackpot of nearly $1 million for a lucky customer, so it may be your corner store of choice for Saturday’s $171 million drawing.
SF News Formerly Homeless Pittsburg Woman Wins $5 Million On Lottery Scratcher Ticket Homeless in 2017, Lucia Forseth hit a $5 million jackpot Wednesday when she bought one lottery scratcher ticket at the Walmart Supercenter in Pittsburg.
SF News Winning $2B Powerball Ticket Sold In SoCal; Million-Dollar Winner In San Francisco This is sure to piss off the people in the 44 other states who bought up Powerball tickets and who think that everyone in California is already rich. But the winning $2 billion ticket was sold in the Los Angeles area, we are now learning, and there is one $1 million winner in San Francisco.
SF News You May Want to Answer Unknown Calls For a Couple Weeks As CA's Vaccine Lotto Kicks Off How will you know if you've won $50,000 or one of the $1.5 million grand prizes in California's vaccine lottery drawings? State health officials are going to try to call you on the phone, so you may want to answer unknown calls on your cell for the next couple of weeks.
SF News Forget Free Pizza — California Now Offering $116.5 Million In Cash and Prizes for People to Get Vaccines California is now offering the largest sum total in vaccine incentives of anywhere in the nation, in a bid to raise the percentage of state residents who are vaccinated against COVID-19.
SF News SF Woman Wins $2 Million On Scratcher Bought In Tenderloin A San Francisco woman who got a $20 scratcher for her birthday ended up with a way bigger gift, as the card ended up being worth $2 million. According to a press release
Arts & Entertainment Two Powerball Tickets Worth $818K Each Sold At Bay Area Stores Last night's historically huge Powerball jackpot is going to dramatically change the life of somebody in Chicopee, Massachusetts. But two Bay Area ticket-holders aren't doing too bad themselves after getting five of the
SF News SF Man Who Won Lottery Twice Should Probably Give Somebody Else A Chance Frank Derfield, 53, has hit the jackpot... and before that, he'd hit a pot that wasn't quite the jackpot but wasn't too bad either. Crediting "stupid luck" in speaking to CBS 5, the
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: If You Could, Where In SF Would You Buy A House? In these Troubled San Francisco Times, there is a lot of talk about who was here when, and what that does (or doesn't) mean. In an effort to both assist newcomers and take
SF News The 14 Luckiest Liquor Stores For Buying Your Powerball Tickets The $1.5 billion Powerball drawing is at 7:59 p.m. PT tonight, and you are unreasonably confident that you are going to win. (NOTE: You are not going to win.) But
Arts & Entertainment Woman Scores $1 Million Scratcher At One Of SF's Sketchiest Safeways The Safeway at 350 Bay Street has a pretty tarnished reputation, from incidents that got it named one of SF's "sketchiest" earlier this year to CW Nevius' report last month that shoplifters steal
SF News Unemployed Winner Of $70 Million Takes Month To Decide To Retire Eurico Chin had time to go for a meandering walk that ended up at the Safeway at Noriega and 30th Avenue: after all, he was unemployed. Perhaps his jobless state was what caused
SF News $425M Powerball Ticket Sold In Milpitas Well, wow do you like that? Some lucky soul is horrifyingly, longingly wealthy today. A winning Powerball ticket, one reaching toward $425M, was sold in Milpitas. This means that, once again, you didn't
SF News Delivery Driver Steps Forward As $324M Mega Millions Winner Steve Tran, a delivery driver from Northern California, came forward this week as the winning Mega Millions lottery ticket holder. And get this: he forgot that he even bought the lucky scrap of
SF News Meanwhile, At Your Liquor Store... You have a few hours to get a ticket (because you're totally going to win!) before tonight's massive Mega Millions drawing. Speaking of, here are 20 lottery winners who lost it all. Maybe
Arts & Entertainment You Can Still Get 'Book Of Mormon' Tickets Via Lottery Hoorah! Book of Mormon opens next week for its second run in San Francisco (see our review from last year's touring production), and if you hadn't heard, it's a hilarious and wonderful musical
SF News Did You Win The $2.6 Million Powerball Ticket Sold in S.F.? A Powerball ticket from Saturday night's drawing that matched five of the six winning numbers was sold at a Richmond district market. The ticket was sold at Cable Car Wine and Spirit at
SF News Do You Posses The WInning Lottery Ticket? A winning lotto tickets sold at Ali’s—located at 325 Mason Street—and it could nab you $75,475. The ticket is one of two winning tickets sold in Saturday’s "Fantasy
SF News California To Offer Powerball Lottery In 2013 Well, it's too late now. Anyway, just one day after lottery announced that winners in Arizona and Missouri nabbed a cool $580 million Powerball jackpot, California will join the lottery come 2013. Sacto
SF News Elusive Mega Millions Prize Deemed Largest 'In The History Of The World' While your SFist editor recoils in horror over somehow not winning Tuesday's prize (the Goddess works in mysterious ways, we suppose), tonight's drawing will be one for the history books. An estimated $640
SF News SFist Editor To Win 3rd Largest Mega Millions Lotto Tonight [Updated] The Mega Millions lottery now stands at a whopping $363 million. And your SFist editor feels certain, without a doubt to win the entire jackpot, now the third-largest ever, come Tuesday night's drawing.
SF News Lottery Ticket Bought In SF Scores Woman $1 Million On this inactive news day, we bring you word that a woman is $1 million richer after buying a winning lottery ticket in San Francisco's Financial District. "The lucky winner, who officials named
SF News Winning Lottery Ticket Purchased In Downtown SF Some lucky soul has a lottery ticket worth more than $150,000 in their pocket. The Daily Derby ticket was purchased at Star Convenience in downtown San Francisco. It's worth $154,088. Nice.
SF News Lottery Ticket Worth $291,031 Bought At 1 California Some lucky soul is $291,031 richer today. A Lottery ticket worth $291,031, purchased in downtown San Francisco, was just one number shy of winning it all. "The MEGA Millions ticket was
