https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A €3 scratchcard turned out to be an extremely good investment for one Italian, who scooped €163.5 million in a record jackpot on Thursday night. https://www.thelocal.it/20161028/lucky-italian-scoops-record-163-million-lottery-win Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:13:18 +0200 lucky-italian-scoops-record-163-million-lottery-win A 29-year-old Italian man has received a huge payout from Italy's National Lottery after he complained that despite buying 255 scratchcards, he had never got lucky. https://www.thelocal.it/20161006/scratchcard-company-reimburses-unlucky-italian-who-never-won Thu, 06 Oct 2016 16:44:40 +0200 scratchcard-company-reimburses-unlucky-italian-who-never-won Many Italians won't even say its name out loud in case it brings bad luck, but the town of Colobraro is hoping its attempt to win big in the lottery will help it shed its reputation as the country's 'most cursed' town. https://www.thelocal.it/20160613/italys-unluckiest-town-is-trying-to-win-the-lottery Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:12:57 +0200 italys-unluckiest-town-is-trying-to-win-the-lottery Italian lottery operator GTECH said on Wednesday it had agreed to buy US slot machine maker International Game Technology (IGT) for $4.7 billion (€3.5 billion) in a deal highlighting Italy's role in global gambling. https://www.thelocal.it/20140716/italian-lottery-operator-in-35bn-gambling-deal Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:05:00 +0200 italian-lottery-operator-in-35bn-gambling-deal Money can break even the closest of families. This is what happened in Pavia, when a grandmother got into a scrap with her granddaughter over a €500,000 scratch card win. https://www.thelocal.it/20140327/gran-robbed-granddaughters-lottery-winnings Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:49:00 +0100 gran-robbed-granddaughters-lottery-winnings For a moment, Caterina Gentile's world had changed. The unemployed mother-of-two from Salvaterra, a hamlet in Emilia-Romagna, thought she had become a millionaire when the lottery numbers read out by Italy's public broadcaster, RAI, matched her ticket. https://www.thelocal.it/20140324/jackpot-winner-sues-rai-for-botched-numbers Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:27:00 +0100 jackpot-winner-sues-rai-for-botched-numbers