By Gregory B. Hladky Capitol Bureau Chief HARTFORD -- Shortly before 8:30 a.m. on March 6, 1998, disgruntled Connecticut Lottery worker Matthew Beck plunged a knife into the chest of one of his superiors at the agency.
Shortly before 8:30 a.m. on March 6, 1998, disgruntled Connecticut Lottery worker Matthew Beck plunged a knife into the chest of one of his superiors at the agency. It was the beginning of a killing spree that would take the lives of four lottery executives before Beck, 35, shot himself to death barely 20 minutes later in the parking lot at the Lottery's Newington headquarters.
HARTFORD, Conn. - Lottery officials are asking players of Connecticut's "Cash 5" game to hold tickets from Friday night's drawing because of an unspecified problem. The lottery drew numbers 8, 10, 18, 19 and 23 for the daily game but called the results into question early Saturday.
The Connecticut Lottery has placed a $42 million bet that the rollout of a new technology at 3,000 lottery retailers around the state will hit a jackpot of sorts: increasing sales while reducing operating costs. That's the amount it cost the Lottery to replace the current terminal system - which is linked by traditional telephone lines - with a modern system from Scientific Games Corp. that uses a combination of satellite communications, digital wireless links and digital subscriber line or DSL technology.
THE UNSPEAKABLE, by Denise Brown, University of Delaware Press, 125 pages, $29.95 On March 6, 1998, a former employee of the Connecticut Lottery Corporation exacted revenge by killing executives who had fired him. He killed four -- then turned the gun on himself.
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. - Now that he's hit the $59 million Powerball jackpot, Christopher Ewen can do nearly anything he wants. But for now, he says he'll take his family on vacation - and buy a very big fishing boat. Ewen and his wife, Lucille, accepted an oversized check at the headquarters of the Connecticut Lottery Corp. Wednesday. The Seymour couple won the biggest jackpot in Connecticut's lottery history.
On the 10th anniversary of the most deadly workplace shooting in Connecticut history, those involved are pausing to remember the four Connecticut Lottery employees slain by a disgruntled co-worker in Newington, and still wondering why it happened. For Cheryl Blogoslawski, sister of lottery shooting victim and former New Britain Mayor Linda Blogoslawski Mlynarczyk, the pain of losing a sibling has never left. She learned of the shooting after being paged by a friend who worked at Hartford Hospital.
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